> Interstellar Technical Research is the Principal Subsidiary of ITR Systems, and was founded in 1980 to produce teaching-aids for the field of Astronomy. > In the years since, we have developed many other aerospace oriented items, and are currently doing R&D on a series of sports and games for use by the Micro-G Astronauts who will be spending many months aboard the International Space Station (ISS). > Two of Earth's favorite sports are now in the Proto-type Construction Phase, and three more are in the Concept Phase. > In addition to things Astronomical, our 4-D Lab Crew is well known for its physical and theoretical scale-models in the fields of Biology and World History. (...qv examples below.) > Should you care to learn more about Interstellar Tech, or any of the seven other subsidiaries of our parent company, please contact us by the e-mail hotlink below, or by snail-mail at the following address: ITR Systems POB 4464 Valley Village CA 91617-4464 ...0r by phone: 818/788-3579 (24/7) Welcome aboard ITR's research vessel "Lightning-One", and we hope you'll have fun while you're learning something. Evan Hayworth Dir./Res. ITR Systems ejh@itrs.org

	??? ...have you ever wondered why our Antibodies always have such a tough time fighting off Viruses? For one thing, it's because there's such a HUGE disparity in their sizes! !!! ...if our Antibody were played by a 6-foot human, the Virus would be a sphere half the size of Luna, our Moon, its diameter spanning the distance from Los Angeles to Ft. Worth!
	...from the notes on "The Human-Sized Solar System": > If the Earth-Model is the size of a kid's jaw-breaker, then your dining-room would fit *inside* the Solar Model, the Jupiter-Model would be your standard inflatable plastic beach-ball that's sitting some 6,000 feet from here, and the Pluto/Charon System Models are a pea, circled by a b-b! ...and they're also some *8.5 miles* that-a-way!
	IF the 4.6 billion years of World History could be collapsed into One Year - - - >> Simple blue-green algae appear in February. A bunch of tectonic-plates shift around, building mountains and creating seas for a while during the summer, and the former fresh-water algae finally adapt to the salty world-oceans in October; >> Even the Simple Fishes and Plants don't appear until the last week in November; >> The Dinosaurs appear, the Rockies are born, and the Dinosaurs disappear, all during the first two weeks in December; >> Humanity's *very* remote ancestor, "Lucy", lived in the Olduvai Gorge of Africa over 3 million years ago, but she doesn't set her small muddy foot upon Life's Stage until dinner-time on the Last Day of The Year, 18:30 on Dec. 31st.; >> Our "Immediate Progenitors", the artistic Cro-Magnon, don't sit around the log-fire while they sew their skins and grind their pigments in some long-forgotten French cave, until just a scant *four minutes* before Midnight; >> And from Einstein to the Space Station, all of Modern Science takes place during the last *half-second* of The Year. (...and if you think that we're alone in this Universe, see pg. 2 for some quick doses of 'anti-hubris'.)

Ad Astra	Q-rio-sae	Cogito, ergo sum.

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