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[hazelnut]

The people here are asking for help. Thousands are doing so now, schoolkids, housewives and people who want to do something just that bit different.

https://www.galaxyzo...ow_to_take_part

[Corona]

Sort of like "work for free" day.

[hazelnut]

It's not every day you get the responsibilty of mapping a part of the galaxy though.

I would have thought with your name you would want to

[Corona]

My name has more to do with an adult beverage than with a star.

And it would take too much time away from my lifelong project of personally naming every grain of sand at Jones Beach.

[Andavari]

I'd actually just rather see the artistic interpetation of galaxies on those science shows. Asking the public to name features and we may end up with a classification of pizza shaped galaxies with pepperoni.

Corona, on Feb 17 2009, 02:24 PM, said:

My name has more to do with an adult beverage than with a star.

Have enough of those beverages and the stars will be closer than you can imagine. Although they did find a nebula or gas cloud that's filled with the type of alcohol consumed by humans.

[Corona]

Andavari, on Feb 17 2009, 03:36 PM, said:

Although they did find a nebula or gas cloud that's filled with the type of alcohol consumed by humans.

.......must........colonize........nebula.

[Shaine]

I would wanna be an astronomer provided there's WIFI in the outer space and I can bring a Dell mini the least. Talk about leveraging!