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Re: (meteorobs) Fwd: Help us to stop the Znamya mission!
Dear Meteorobs,
I guess many of you may have notices that the Zbnamya mirror is aboard the
Prospect suppy spacecraft that was recently launched to restock the Mir
space station.
TRR
>[The following is forwarded to this list for informational purposes
>only. No endorsement express or implied is attached to it. Not that
>I'm in favor of the INSANE Znamya mission, mind you! -Legalese Lew]
>
>
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>Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 19:57:25 +0200
>From: Luca Boschini <boschini@mediacomdot it>
>Reply-To: boschini@mediacomdot it
>To: vsnet-chat <vsnet-chat@kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp>,
> ISN-Alert <isn_alert@mbox.queendot it>
>Subject: [vsnet-chat 1366] Help us to stop the Znamya mission
>
>
>Dear friends,
>
>Do you know the Znamya project? If no, read the following pages:
>
> http://www.energialtd.com/home.shtml
> http://www.energialtd.com/znamya.htm
> http://www.mygale.org/02/quiz/Znamya.htm
>
>Some italian amateur astronomers have thought to protest against the
>society Energia Ltd. in order to prevent the launch. If you want to
>help us, send a copy of the following message to the address:
> energia@energialtd.com
>and tell to your friends to do the same thing. Thanks to everybody!
>
>Stop Znamya Mission !
>
>Night is a right of everybody and dark and starry Sky is a cultural
>gift of all the people. If you light the Sky at night you will
>irreparably damage astronomic research, harm all animals and plants,
>deprive human beings of the contemplation of the Universe and of
>darkness to sleep.
>
>Moreover, if you want to powerfully light a precise location on
>Earth for a very long time, you should use a huge number of low
>rounding satellites; so this is why we believe that in the next
>future Znamya will just be for commercial purposes: but the Sky
>should not be used for trade.
>
>This in why Znamya should never fly!
>
><Name , Surname>
><Association you belong to>
>
>--
>________________________________________________________________________
>Luca Boschini boschini@mediacomdot it
>via Keplero, 4 "F.Zwicky" Group
>24126 Bergamo Supernovae Hunter
>ITALY http://www.uninetcomdot it/astro/supernovae/superno.htm
>
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