[LRflex] One last Ecllipse story...

  • From: Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 01:50:38 -0700

David:   Hahaha!!!  Good skies and good regularity to us both!
--Peter


> Before I leave you and head for Montana, I want to leave you with a famous (and
> supposedly true) story of the May 18th, 1901 Eclipse; in Papua, New Guinea
>
> One of the major observatories in the US (and here is where my memory fails me)
> had sent a team to the remote jungle of New Guinea, to observe the eclipse.
>
> Back at the observatory, they anxiously awaited news of the event.  Finally, a
> telegram arrived, which simply  read:
>
> "Delay eclipse 7 days.  Send more Kaopectate."

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