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To: lurqer who wrote (28243)	8/20/2003 4:34:07 AM
From: Clappy	Respond to of 104216

Anything that improves our knowledge of what in the hell is going on in the center of our galaxy would be welcome. Very cool. We should be getting some very interesting images soon. So this one uses IR. They say that the Hubble scope is merely a spy satellite turned around in the opposite direction. I imagine that is the case with this. It's good to see when we actually begin using our minds to look out rather than at our neighbors with these sophisticated tools. Speaking of t-scopes, the other night it was very clear out so I went outside with the boy's scope to have a look at Mars. Unfortunately I wasn't able to see much more than a slightly larger dot that continued to avoid my lenses. The darn scope is so touchy that it kept moving out of target and I'd spend so much time trying to adjust it while the mosquitos feasted on me like piranhas. To add insult to injury, every day I pass by this science related shop inside Grand Central Station. Inside they sell these way-to-cool scopes that have mini computers and servos attached where they automatically can find where they are and point themselves at the targets you chose. Amazing. So far I'm still waiting for them to enter my price range of $200 or so. I suppose it's going to require a bit of patience on my part until they fall that far... <g> <ng> -Clapernicus