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Bid Your Way into the Keck Control Room

Posted by michael on from the space-is-wide-and-space-is-deep dept.

mopuxak writes "There's an article featured over at space.com about an ongoing EBay auction to spend a night in Hawaii's Keck Observatory with Astronomer Geoff Marcy. The money is set to go to the non-profit Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP). Looks like they're billing this as Astronomy's version of Lance Bass and the Space Station. How much would YOU pay?"

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  1. Re:Nemesis is dying! by Spock+the+Baptist · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "This is going to be the end of Star Trek! Maybe some of you will 'Get a Life' and try to persue (sp.) something meaningful!"

    You mean "something meaningful" as in learning how to use a spellchecker?

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