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To: Bogtrotter52

I think you will enjoy this mocking YouTube — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e71apabmtY4

Other News: The two Voyager missions marked their 20th anniversaries in late August and early September. Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1997 and Voyager 2 on August 20 (Voyager 1 was launched on a faster trajectory, hence the earlier designation). The two spacecraft provided detailed looks at the four gas giant worlds, and the RTG-powered spacecraft continue to return data on the sun’s magnetic field and particle environment, especially important as the two craft approach the heliopause, the boundary between interplanetary and interstellar place... The Congressional bonehead award goes to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) who, on a visit to JPL, asked if Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong! Quipped Rep. Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) to the Washington Times: “We just don’t teach enough science.” Worse, Jackson Lee, who represents Houston, is a member of the House Science Committee’s space subcommittee. Perhaps some committee reassignments are in order...


9 posted on 07/22/2007 10:55:25 PM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: doug from upland
Congresswoman Jackson Hyphen Lee also took to task the NOAA -- I think that's the correct beauracracy -- over the naming of hurricanes and tropical depressions.

She said there should be more "African-American" names. Like Jamal and Shamequa, presumably.

17 posted on 07/22/2007 11:26:16 PM PDT by Gurn (Remember Mountain Meadows.)
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