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From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Frozen Stars
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Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 18:57:24 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 19 18:57:24 1985
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> 	Another reason the Soviets call them Frozen Stars is that "Black
> 	Hole" is a gross obscenity in Russian.  If it wasn't they would
> 	probably call them Black Holes like the rest of the world.
> 
> 		-John A. Wasser

Back when I was in college someone gave a talk entitled "A Black Look At
Black Holes."  Came the talk we found the lecture hall filled with about
30% scientific types and 70% humanities.  The humanities types began to
filter out when they realized the nature of the topic.  Presumably they
assumed the talk had something to do with race, although in any context
other than physics the expression is obviously offensive.
-- 
D Gary Grady
Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC  27706
(919) 684-3695
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