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RE: starship-design: Suspended animation.
> From owner-starship-design@lists.uoregon.edu Mon Jan 10 18:18:14 2000
> From: Steve VanDevender <stevev@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
>
> Zenon Kulpa writes:
> > > From owner-starship-design@lists.uoregon.edu Sat Jan 8 00:20:54 2000
> > > From: "L. Parker" <lparker@cacaphony.net>
> > [...]
> > >
> > > It has aroused the interest of space scientists investigating
> > > the possibility of interstellar travel, allowing human exploration
> > > of galaxies many light years away.
> > >
> > Is it true that in common parlance in English "galaxy"
> > means already simply a "star/planetary system"?
>
> No. At least not the English I'm used to.
>
I find that usage more and more often - in movies,
press news [like that quoted above], TV.
So I am starting to wonder...
-- Zenon Kulpa