[sci.space] space news from Dec 7 AW&ST + space-station editorial part 1

tnemeth@augean.OZ (Tom Nemeth) (01/29/88)

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In article <1988Jan19.004700.4033@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>[I'm back.  I've had a couple of letters asking "what's this I hear about..."
>      ...                                                      I have been
>on vacation in Australia, completely out of touch, for a month.  All I
>know is:

I think I resent the implication above; we are not THAT out of touch "down
here"... after all, we get this newsgroup, don't we?

(But then, maybe he didn't come to the right places, because I didn't see
him :-)  Anyway, I hope he had a good time.

henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (02/05/88)

> I think I resent the implication above; we are not THAT out of touch "down
> here"... after all, we get this newsgroup, don't we?

The house where I was staying didn't get it... :-)

More seriously, being out of touch was a matter of choice rather than
necessity.  In retrospect, actually, I regret not having set up something
to meet some of the Aussie net people.

> ... Anyway, I hope he had a good time.

Yup.  Nice place.  Now if they would only build the Cape York spaceport...
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