Today, Dec. 16 is: Arthur C. Clarke's 90th Birthday (1917) E.E. Barnard's 150th Birthday (1857) First transitor was invented in 1947. Some web surfing for a cloudy night - Arthur Clarke's Oct. 1945 article in Wireless World first proposing geosynchronous "stations" - three manned stations that would act as repeaters for instaneous world communications. http://lakdiva.org/clarke/1945ww/ E.E. Barnards, Atlas of the Milky Way http://www.library.gatech.edu/barnard/ - Kurt _______________________________________________ Sent via CSolutions - http://www.csolutions.net