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Re: [ATM] Misundedrstanding- language (grammar)

The 100-inch telescope at Palomar still rides on
mercury bearings. And it leaks, too.

There is considerable info. about Hale and Ritchey in
'The Perfect Machine'.

Guy
--- David Harbour <scarab2@cox.net> wrote:
> To all:
> 
> Hale, not Ritchey, was the philanderer, according to
> Osterbrock. ..........(snip) they'd
> not replaced Ritchey's
> original quicksilver (Mercury) polar floatatinon
> bearing though bitching
> about what the EPA made them do to make it safe;
> they said it leaked,
> before.  (They enclosed it completely in a silly
> wooden coffin- it sill
> leaked; but here it was: 1996, anfdthey still
> thought it worth using).
> 
> Dave
> 

Guy  Brandenburg
Washington, DC
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