OFF: New 'moon' found around Earth - DO NOT PANIC

[Jill Strobridge]

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From: Michael W Blackman <Michaelangelo68 at AOL.COM>

> The Vogons?

This is a serious question?!   Actually I don't care  -  any question
that allows me an opportunity to interrogate The Book deserves to be
answered in full!    "They are one of the most umpleasant races in the
Galaxy - not actually evil, but bad tempered, bureaucratic, officious
and callous.   They wouldn't even lift a finger to save their own
grandmothers from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal without orders
signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found,
subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat
for three months and recycled as firelighters"
Thank you Mr. Adams 8-)

> Are they at all related to the Dogons?  Tribe of African(?)
> peoples who were only disovered in the turn of this century
> who possessed star maps (simple drawings) of the Cirius
> star cluster, in very accurate detail, which we only discovered
> thru high powered telescoped many decades later?

Sadly this is not quite the true situation.    These rather astute
African people were already well aware that strangers were asking around
about astronomical observations and star clusters and the like so when
questioned they were more than happy to "discover" an appropriate star
map for such credulous Westerners.   This explanation didn't surface
though until after the TV documentary was made!

jill

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