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My favourite is still spinning mercury to make a perfectly parabolic liquid mirror.

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Nov 25th, 2009 at 05:37:51 PM EST
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Today we no more want perfect paraboles: we want adaptive optics.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Thu Nov 26th, 2009 at 02:26:13 AM EST
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