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Subject: SPACE Digest V13 #303
SPACE Digest Volume 13 : Issue 303
Today's Topics:
Re: JPL spacecraft
railguns,superguns
Re: railguns and electro-magnetic launchers
Pioneer 11 Update - 03/22/91
Free CRAY time to SISAL users
Re: Space Station 'Fred' Restructuring
Re: "Follies"
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In article <9103220043.AA00349@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov>, roberts@CMR.NCSL.NIST.GOV (John Roberts) writes:
|> Before we really get going on this latest round of historical analogies
|> (much like the one last year and the one the year before that), might I
|> point out that trying to make historical comparisons between two situations
|> in which the individual parameters are almost all different is very unlikely
|> to produce any useful conclusions? :-)
I liken it to the first proto-fish packing up its belongings and deciding to leave the sea behind forever. That's the only truly useful analogy I can think of.