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Comet Hunting For The Masses

Posted by chrisd on Monday May 6, 2002 @07:56PM from the scientific-progress-via-idle-hands dept.

khendron writes "In this article in Wired the most awesome past time is described. Comet Hunting. On you computer. No more cold nights outside with the telescope. Sit back with a cola, fire up the broadband, and start looking." From the article: "Amateurs looking at the SOHO images on the Web have found 76 percent of the 428 new comets that have turned up in SOHO images. Of the 31 people who have discovered comets, 21 of them are amateurs. They come from 10 different countries, including Australia, Great Britain, Germany and China. "

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Re:A bit pointless by slothq · 2002-05-06 20:31 · Score: 0, Offtopic

what? did some of the big kid comet hunters knock over your tripod when you were six years old or something?
wah wah wah 28 hops to the new Whambulnix release...
i got your bandwidth right here buddy.

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_____ by AristotleX · 2002-05-06 21:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Iv Got Karma to waste.

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Re:A bit pointless by gazbo · 2002-05-06 22:14 · Score: 0, Offtopic

stopping you from downloading ISO images of your favourite distrobution
I am confused. I went to my favorite operating system's website but couldn't seem to find a 'download free trial' link.
Do you have a mirror?