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To: Cincinatus' Wife
It took 100,000 years for humans to get inches off the ground.
He's leaving out the entire history of balloons.
7 posted on 01/09/2004 10:37:29 AM PST by samtheman
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To: samtheman; theFIRMbss
The Startracker imaged this spectacular shot of the sunrise, planets, and Moon. This color-enhanced image shows, from right to left, the Moon lit by the Earth, the terminator - or boundary between light and dark - into the dark side with the solar corona just rising over the limb, and the bright planets Saturn, Mars, and Mercury. Several dimmer stars can also be seen. The Startracker algorithm achieved a star match, realizing that the Sun and planets were not in the correct position to be stars, and ignored them.

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9 posted on 01/09/2004 10:40:30 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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