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Re: Attachments, HTML, and Some Digest Replies

From: Indy <kochte@s...>
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 10:53:38 -0400
Subject: Re: Attachments, HTML, and Some Digest Replies


> The proper way to handle attachments is the way Indy did with
> SpaceshipOne pics: post them to a web site and point a URL there. A
> number of us on the list have space that we would happily allow
mailing
> list folks to use on a temporary basis, and there are a number of free
> web hosting companies out there.
> 
> While on the subject of Indy's pictures, I'd like to say "Thank you!"
I
> missed seeing SpaceshipOne's flight on CNN at lunch by about a half an
> hour. It was great to see the shots from the flight.

I can't take credit for posting the pics; that was all Noam. He was
all over the event. You'll have to thank him, not I. I was being a
slacker doing work stuff (and also missed watching the event).

> Just out of curiosity, I looked up the biographies of the deceased
> astronauts. Except for those who died in NASA service (the two shuttle
> crews, Apollo 1, and several in trainer accidents), 17 former
astronauts
> have died. Six of them died from cancer, four in aircraft accidents,
four
> from heart failure, one in an automobile accident, one in a motorcycle
> accident (Pete Conrad, one of my favorite Apollo astronauts), one from
> complications due to pancreatitis, and one due to heart and
respiratory
> failure during a climb of Mt. Everest. I don't know why, but I thought
> I'd pass on that bit of morbid information.

Which one attempted Everest?

Mk

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