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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