Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!floyd!whuxlb!pyuxll!eisx!npoiv!npois!hogpc!houxm!mhuxa!mhuxi!mhuxt!eagle!karn From: karn@eagle.UUCP Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Re: Shuttle"s Night Landing Status (FYI) Message-ID: <1046@eagle.UUCP> Date: Wed, 20-Jul-83 15:12:09 EDT Article-I.D.: eagle.1046 Posted: Wed Jul 20 15:12:09 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jul-83 02:45:02 EDT References: <3177@sri-arpa.UUCP> hou5d.572 Lines: 11 I think the real reason is that they don't want large numbers of people wandering around the desert in the dark. My favorite occasion in which a person tried to use a flash camera to take a picture of a faraway object was on Feb 26, 1979. A friend and I were setting up our telescopes in Oregon to watch the total solar eclipse that occurred that day, and some lady walked by with a flash camera. One of us asked her why she had a flash, and she said "It'll get dark, won't it?" Neither of us had the time to explain it to her. Phil