TI OY AGN ter "TYPICAL RESULTS ARE SHOWN", The EyOm The News eter aT ne. RESEARCH DEFINITIONS Remote: Sensing Commitee of the Assa- of American oe a a 3 fov December, (774. The following piianes, fraquentiy found In technical writings, are defined here for your -edification and enlightment, This Fist.was plag- larized from some unknown genlus who evidently had read one t eek F., scientific papers. tt was found circulating In the Welder WiiditfaJGLAS COLLEGE Foundation study. ' Be "IT HAS LONG BEEN KNOWN. 6". | haven't bothered to look up th reference. : : "IT 1S COMMON KNOWLEDGE." 1 heard this through the grapevine. "OF GREAT THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE”. Interesting to me. "WHILE IT HAS NOT BEEN POSSIBLE TO PROVIDE DEFNINITE ANSWERS TO THESE - QUESTIONS..." The experiments didn’t work, but | figured |! could get publicity out of It. "EXTREMELY HIGH PURITY, SUPERPURITY", Composition unknown except for the exaggerated claims of the supplier. "THREE OF THE SAMPLES WERE CHOSEN FOR DETAILED STUDY.” The results of the others didn't make sense and were Ignored. "ACCIDENTALLY STAINED DURING MOUNTING", Aceldental ty dropped on floor. - “HANDLED WITH EXTREME CARE DURING i EXPERIMENTS", Not dropped on floor. est results are shown. "PRESUMABLY AT LONGER TIMES..." | didn't take the time to find out. "THESE RESULTS WILL BE REPORTED AT A LATER DATE". | might get around to this sometime. ' "Nit MOST RELIABLE VALUES ARE THOSE OF JONES." He was a student of mine. au 1S BELIEVED THAT..." J| think. "IT 1S GENERALLY BELIEVED THAT..." A couple of other guys think so too. "IT MIGHT BE ARGUED THAT..." 1 have such a good answer for this objection that 1 shall now ralse It. "IT 1S CLEAR THAT MUCH ADDITIONAL WORK WILL BE REQUIRED BEFORE A COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING..." | don't understand It. "CORRECT. WITHIN AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE" Wrong. a. | "iT 1S TO BE HOPED THAT THIS WORK ‘WILL STIMULATE FURTHER WORK IN THE FIELD" | This paper Is not very good, but ne! ther are any of the others on this miserable subject. | "THANKS ARE QUE TO JOE GLOTZ FOR ASSISTANCE WITH THE EXPERIMENT AND TO JOHN DOE FOR VALUABLE DISCUSSIONS", Glotz did the work and Doe explained what It meant to me, ee ide 2 : ate aaa, -. ¢ se ib