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MICROSATELLITES; how small? How cheap?
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Rand Simberg wrote:
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:07:25 +0100, in a place far, far away, "John Thingstad" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: Stop insulting Kurt Vonnegut by quoting in yor posts. Given the vapid stupidity of many of the things that he says, quoting him *anywhere* is a form of insulting him (and a well deserved one). But I did like Vonnegut's suggestion that we should require the Eight Beatitudes to be posted in courtrooms, instead of the Ten Commandments. -- "Since you belong to the company of wise men, | Bill Higgins and apparently do not kill anyone for money, | for money, tell me, pray, how you occupy yourselves." | Fermilab | "We dissect flies," said the same philosopher, | "we measure distances, we calculate numbers, | Internet: we are agreed upon two or three points | which we understand, and we dispute about | two or three thousand of which we know nothing." | --Voltaire, "Micromegas" (1752) | |
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