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To: Telepathic Intruder
Not to pick nits but....there's no such species as a seagull.

There are at least twenty-eight types of gull species seen in North America...none are called seagulls. There are Herring Gulls, Black-headed Gulls, Glaucous Gulls, etc, etc.

A scientist ought to know better when naming a nebula.

Awesome photo though.

5 posted on 08/29/2015 11:30:17 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

“Not to pick nits but....”

But being the key word here. ;^)


6 posted on 08/29/2015 11:34:04 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
You can't be an astronomer and a biologist. Unless of course, you're an astrobiologist. There is only one type of space gull I'm aware of, but it's spelled "Gul" (and capitalized or you end up in a Cardassian labor camp):



Probably my favorite Star Trek bad guy.
7 posted on 08/29/2015 11:48:13 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

The Seagull nebula was first photographed by Isaac Roberts, a Welsh engineer and businessman, back in the 19th century.

He was no scientist.


8 posted on 08/29/2015 12:03:26 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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