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Subject: Re: Shuttle"s Night Landing Status (FYI)
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Date: Wed, 20-Jul-83 15:12:09 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 20 15:12:09 1983
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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