Fascinating

Well, almost everyone has heard that there was a rather expensive tool bag that was lost during a spacewalk by a NASA astronaut. Well, it looks like an astronomer actually videoed Earth's newest artificial satellite. He said it was easily an 8th magnitude or brighter object as he filmed it passing by the 4th magnitude star eta Pisces. An object that bright would show up quite easily in my Newtonian reflector which is 4.5 inches in diameter.

Well, reading Slashdot there was one comment that made me laugh as much for it's wit as for the Star Trek reference that it made:

...in the future it'll come back as an alien intelligence named T'lbg.

Truly a classic comment and I am not one who was as down as most on the first Star Trek movie. I thought it was more than a decent bit of science fiction.

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