Posted on 12/06/2006 12:30:29 PM PST by Young Werther
ARECIBO, Puerto Rico - At the world's largest radio telescope, astronomers searching for asteroids on a collision course with Earth are bracing for a more worldly threat: The steepest budget cuts and first layoffs since the observatory opened in 1963.
Managers are warning staff and outside astronomers to prepare for a leaner future, with fewer research projects and less telescope time available as they finish a costly repainting job amid a looming cut in U.S. government funding
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This post screams for a ping to you.
I think we need Commander Bond on this.
The franchise is as dead as the bad guy who was impaled by the Aricebo antenna spike.
Surely he must mean a three-way with two Bond girls.
When you see it in person, as I have, it truly is awe-inspiring.
A GULP homosexual encounter doesn't sound like two girls...
Something tells me Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson would never allow that to happen.
Then again this might be a break out role for Elton John!
The Announcements sidebar is reserved for FR business.
Not this.
Please quit abusing the FR sidebars.
AM
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