Great moments in pulp science

[Andrew Plotkin]

Not exactly pulp science *fiction*, but the setting is deeply tied to
SF in my mind. That setting being: a SCIENCE LABORATORY in 1967!

(Look, it was before I was born. I apologize to those of you who were
there.)

Link: <http://tinyurl.com/y9jslnr> -- full URL is
<http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?bibcode=1967PASP...79..351W&db_key=AST&page_ind=0&plate_select=NO&data_type=GIF&type=SCREEN_GIF&classic=YES>

The story in brief: an observatory had detected very peculiar
potassium emission lines in IR spectrographs of three stars.
Subsequent observations did not find them. Potassium flares as a new
stellar phenomenon? Or was there some other source? But what kind of
infrared emission could contaminate an OBSERVATORY OF SCIENCE without
attracting anyone's (conscious) attention? ...in 1967?

--Z

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"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves..."
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[Mike Dworetsky]

"Andrew Plotkin" <erky...@eblong.com> wrote in message
news:hdc67d$8ql$2...@reader1.panix.com...

One of my favourite quotes (in this paper) from science literature:

"There appear to be no significant differences between French and American
matches..."

--
Mike Dworetsky

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