Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At least no one has bid on it yet. -dan c. At 12:13 AM 31-07-05 -0700, Peter Klein wrote: >Q: How is Ansel Adams like grilled cheese?: > >A: >http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Virgin-Mary-appeared-in-my-Ansel-Adams-Picture_W0QQ itemZ6197096044QQcategoryZ1447QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem > >My first reaction was, "very funny." But. . . > >. . . a couple of weeks ago some folks from the local astronomical society >set up a telescope in the park where we often walk. For the first time in >my life, I saw with my own eyes the four Galilean moons of Jupiter >simultaneously, along with cloud bands on the big planet itself. > >I went online and read the statement that Galileo had to sign in order to >save himself from torture and possible burning at the stake. He was given >the lesser punishment of house arrest for the rest of his life. It took >the Church 400 years to apologize for the injustice. As always happens >when I think about that sorry incident, it made me very angry. > >A day or two later, I heard on NPR a retrospective on the Scopes >trial. Some of the townspeople interviewed gave the impression that not >much has changed since then. As do a number of people in high places today. > >Which brings me back to the grilled cheese sandwich and the $15,000 Ansel >Adams repro, and why such things are possible. Even today, four centuries >after the great Italian scientist saw those little bright dots moving about >Jupiter, and in the second decade of genome mapping. > >Unfortunately, I was not equipped to photograph Jupiter and its moons with >a Leica. > >--Peter > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >