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> To: atm@shore.net
> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 18:29:56 -0800 (PST)
>
> When I was a student at CalTech I had ocassion to be a research assistant
> to an astronomer who took me observing on the 60" and 200" telescopes at
> Palomar Mountain.
>
> The astronomers made relentless fun of my electric socks.
>
> The socks were medium-wieght wool socks with a wire under the toes sewn into
> a cloth sheath.  Each sock took 1 D battery.  They didn't get that hot but
> were just warm enough to stay comfy on a cold night.
>
> I wore them proudly.
>
> I decided to become an astronomer and went to caltech after years as an ATM
> when I was a kid.  But I was very suprised to find that very few of the
> professors had ever been atm's and none of them made a hobby of amateur
> observing.  The usual reason for becoming an astronomer for them was that they
> had gotten an undergrad degree in physics and found astronomical phenomena an
> interesting topic of research - not that they had ever actually spent any
> time looking at the stars.  I was very disappointed by this.
>
> Mike

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Clear skies, Mel Bartels
http://www.efn.org/~mbartels

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When I was a student at CalTech I had ocassion to be a research assistant
to an astronomer who took me observing on the 60" and 200" telescopes at
Palomar Mountain.

The astronomers made relentless fun of my electric socks.

The socks were medium-wieght wool socks with a wire under the toes sewn into
a cloth sheath.  Each sock took 1 D battery.  They didn't get that hot but
were just warm enough to stay comfy on a cold night.

I wore them proudly.

I decided to become an astronomer and went to caltech after years as an ATM
when I was a kid.  But I was very suprised to find that very few of the
professors had ever been atm's and none of them made a hobby of amateur
observing.  The usual reason for becoming an astronomer for them was that they
had gotten an undergrad degree in physics and found astronomical phenomena an
interesting topic of research - not that they had ever actually spent any
time looking at the stars.  I was very disappointed by this.

Mike

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