Interesting project

[Patrick C.]

> From: Andrew A. Apold <mordru at FLITE.NET>
> Date: Friday, April 23, 1999 5:39 AM
>
> >On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, M Holmes wrote:
> >
> >> > Apparently NASA have decided to
> >> > send their next `interferometry mission' (a project aimed at finding
> >> > Earth-sized planets revolving around nearby suns) to this
Andromedae.
>
>
> Always doubt any e-mail claim that starts with "Apparently".
>
> Interferometry involves studying the way light (and other EM)
> interferes with itself.  It does
> not currently involve sending stuff anywhere, other than in orbit
> to avoid the normal atmospheric interference, I think they were
> trying to set up a grid of orbiting radio telescopes...
>
> I think this is being used to combine observations from a number
> of them to effectively simulate as if we had a much larger
> telescope.

Well, to all those people who responded to this email all I can say is that
I typed the information directly from the newspaper, and have no formal
training in astro-physics. Teaches me for reading this newspaper I guess.
(Especially after the Courier-Mail the main newspaper in Brisbane,
Australia where I got the story today did an interview with an old gothic
associate of mine who claimed that the recent school shootings were
`nothing to do with being a goth.' I still can't believe that Marilyn
Manson is geting so much hype for being so crap. The only good thing I will
say about him is that he always appears intelligent in interviews, pity I
can't say the same about his music.

`Stone's Ginger Wine' induced rant end here.

-P