Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.8 $; site convexs Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!convex!convexs!ayers From: ayers@convexs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.astro Subject: Re: Astronomers vs. astrology (long Message-ID: <5600007@convexs> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 09:44:00 EDT Article-I.D.: convexs.5600007 Posted: Thu Aug 15 09:44:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 04:14:23 EDT References: <494@brl-tgr.ARPA> Lines: 21 Nf-ID: #R:brl-tgr.ARPA:-49400:convexs:5600007:000:746 Nf-From: convexs.UUCP!ayers Aug 15 08:44:00 1985 /* Written 12:34 pm Aug 7, 1985 by wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA in convexs:net.astro */ /* ---------- "Re: Astronomers vs. astrology (long" ---------- */ Interesting thought -- if and when we get out there, and actually directly observe...will it really be "astronomy" any more? That is, ...it won't be "astronomy" as we now know it, any more than "geography" is the same as "surveying". After interstellar spaceflight becomes common, will "astronomy" as a science exist any more? Or will it be subsumed into some form of practical engineering or the like? /* End of text from convexs:net.astro */ Now that we have "surveying" has "geography" disappeared? blues, II world's leading exopsychologist (If Carl can do it, I can do it)