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Re: RE: starship-design: Suspended animation.
In a message dated 1/10/00 11:28:56 AM, zkulpa@zmit1.ippt.gov.pl writes:
>> 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
No just more and more ignorant folks writing about space.
Kelly