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This is one of my favorite bits of scientific misinformation, and a great example for pointing out the need to be skeptical about authoritative-sounding claims. In my experience, there's one surefire way disprove it in a sentence or so. Just observe that, if glass flowed quick enough to distort by millimeters over the course of centuries, those who make glass telescope lenses, which must be smooth and accurate to the scale of tens of nanometers, would find their work sagging into uselessness almost before it could be installed.

Drat. Spent thirty minutes investigating that two-frame logo flash at the end, only to discover it's the processing and color house. Not nearly as interesting as I'd hoped. Doggone it, if they're gonna be all sneaky they could at least hide goodies!

Thanks for the kind words, Tom. Points to Kip and jennie, though the _Book_of_Armaments_ sounds like something I need to find. I should have considered the spoiler risk.

I'm glad I'm not alone in loving that ending out of all proportion to the rest of Chandler. Marlowe and Dalmas are always shadows of the perfect knight, but I think that in those last two scenes we're taught a lesson in masculine honor that Galahad would never have learned.

OK, in this company I can only embarrass myself, but this is too nifty not to make an attempt:

Nurse not the memory of another four-flusher, neither flip ye her pearls before gulls, lest they rise off the water and swoop at the splashes…

Elese, you have more control over your emotions than I can even aspire to. I'm no professional, just one of the oddballs with the 'scope in the park on public night, and I thought I'd heard it all about those vile thieves. Your story is even worse. How dare they make others choose between lying for their benefit, or wounding the afflicted, troubling the joyful, and embarrassing the innocent. I know it's the actions I should despise, and not the actor, but when they treat people like that it's hard to control the spillover.

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