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

[Michael W Blackman]

Oh well - it was a good read anyway lol

In a message dated Mon, 16 Sep 2002 09:32:48  AEDT, Jill Strobridge <jill at THETA-ORIONIS.FREESERVE.CO.UK> writes:

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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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