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Spitzer Space Telescope Releases First Images
jkleint writes "The fourth and final of NASA's Great Observatories, the Spitzer Space Telescope, has just released its first images. Spitzer sees in infrared, allowing it to look through the dust clouds that obscure visible light images like those taken by the ill-fated Hubble. Spitzer has already found hydrocarbon spectra--precursors to carbon-based life--in a galaxy 3.2 billion light years away. The article has a very good writeup outlining the telescope's mission and why space-based infrared imaging is important."
If I want to see images of uranus and black holes, I'll check goatse, thank you.
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Basidium the Mushroom Planet?
Saddam's WMD's?
The Face on Mars
The Arse on Venus
That damn lost Beagle
The shell the Chirpsithra built around the solar system
V'ger
Cylon attack fleet approaching
B Ark leaving
Kzin attack fleet approaching
Enterprise on one of those silly time-travel adventures
No, I was thinking of Mallworld by Somtow Sucharitkul (S.P.Somtow). The barrier-builders are called Selespridar, not Chirpsithra.
Dear Grammer Nazi,
The plural of 'spectrum' is either 'spectra' or 'spectrums.'
Also, punctuation is correctly placed inside a quote.
You're welcome.
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> Dear Grammer Nazi,
"Grammer" is spelled "grammar".
> punctuation is correctly placed inside a quote.
Let's verify with gcc:
% cat nazi.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
printf("Hello world\n);"
}
% gcc nazi.c
nazi.c: In function `main':
nazi.c:6: parse error before '}' token
> "Grammer" is spelled "grammar".[sic]
Touche'.
However, English grammar rules do not apply to coding, nor vice versa.
So, you've wasted your time writing that silly little "program."
(Notice the correct use of punctuation and quotes)
Also, I'll have you note that orthography and grammar are distinctly different.
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