Re: JPL Open House: An Invitation to the Solar System and Beyond

Only recently have I realised that you are indeed just kids playing in
a wading pool rather than being out on the stormy seas of astronomy
where the great minds ventured.

When Albert adopted the 'Time Machine' as a working model it certainly
should have signalled an outrageous end to an era that began with
Newton.Maybe it is too late as celestial cataloguing descends into a
consumerist plaything full of gizmos while still retaining the name of
astronomy.

The nightmare of sounding perfectly reasonable while being perfectly
wrong must seem like a great advantage in an era when people do not
care about their astronomical heritage however the consequences will be
passed as a growing weakness from one generation to the next.Like
Narcissus gazing at her own image in a pool and being unable to be
drawn away from it,the cataloguer can no longer see the treasures that
were cast aside to make way for their precious telescopes.

You disgust me.

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