Autonomous Astronauts watch the Solar Eclipse, 1999

The total eclipse of the sun in 1999 coincided with a high point of activity for the Association of Autonomous Astronauts. On its email discussion list (AAA-list@onelist.com), various AAA operatives posted their reports of the action.Did Parasol AAA really launch an umbrella-shaped spacecraft under cover of the eclipse in Leicester? Perhaps it's still too soon to say...From AAA Kernow:Total Eclipse of the Sun, 11.8.199. AAA Kernow claim responsibilty.From Steve Ash (Dionysian AAA):Thank you. A job well done. But you should have held it a few minutes longer than the official two minutes to make the bourgeois experts shit The DAAA sent agents to Roumania and France, as well as drifting through the streets of London (having no ties to the vulgar world of work) . In London we were impressed by the eerie blue quality of the light produced by the partial eclipse and laughed heartily at the foolish birds who thought it: was evening. Strange ritualistic behaviour was observed amongst many who…