SETI is an easy target, of course, since it has a small constituency: a few scientists, some space buffs and an unknown number of extremely undocumented aliens.

For the exact times when the synthesiser is switched on (normally this will be only at weekends) space buffs can telephone 0483 61202.

You and Shorty and Acayib are the real space buffs.

Jammed in with them were dozens of tourists, curiosity seekers, and space buffs who ranged in age from eight to eighty.

I'm not a real space buff, but I found this book totally absorbing.

The event, which drew an overflow crowd of 1,400, among them infants and the elderly, travel agents and engineers, seemed to appeal to a broader audience than the usual space buffs.

That is, unless you are Don Sheff, a science and space buff, and your dream is one of the few stymied by circumstances beyond normal control.

The missions have become so routine that I suspect only space buffs could call off many names, or any names, of the astronauts of the past few years.

But a special treat is planned this winter for the capital's outer space buffs.

You're a space buff: if anybody gets it, you do.