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HUMOR: NASA Cancels Eclipse
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Wed May 11 16:09:58 1994
From: abennett@MIT.EDU
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 11 May 94 16:05:36 EDT
Actually, thanks to some last-minute negotiations, the eclipse went ahead
as scheduled. However, totality was restricted to only a small part of the US.
-Drew
Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 23:41:25 -0600
From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <matossian@aludra.colorado.edu>
From: Dwayne Day <wayneday@gwis.circ.gwu.edu>
NASA CANCELS SOLAR ECLIPSE
NASA announced today that due to recent budget cuts in the nation's space
program it was cancelling today's solar eclipse. "The money just ain't
there." said NASA Administrator Dan Goldin.
The action drew immediate criticism from Capitol Hill. Congressman George
Brown, Chairman of the House Space, Science and Technology Subcommittee
threatened to vote against the space station unless full funding for the
eclipse was reinstated. "Give us the money or the station cacks it!" he
said.
Meanwhile, the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization has proposed a new
"faster, cheaper, better" solar eclipse to be known as Beavis, for the
popular kids cartoon ("Heh, heh, eclipses are cool. . . ").
