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Friday, August 24, 2007

How High the Moon?

NMSU's daily e-mail of press releases contained the following notice.

Archaeologist gives keynote address
Beth O’Leary, a space heritage archaeologist, recently gave the keynote address on the Heritage of Space at the International Council on Monuments and Sites in Cairns, Australia.
An article about the talk from the Australian Broadcasting Corp. can be found at
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/07/25/moontourism_spa.html?category=space.

I'm puzzled how an archaeologist can talk about the moon at a conference for monuments, let alone how items less than 40 years old qualify as ancient. I read the article, and it was quite informative, even entertaining.

Dr. O'Leary is quoted as asking, "How do you vomit in space?" I would guess pretty much the same as on Earth, the difference being how quickly and where it lands...

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