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you don't use your eyes, no. the detector is a CCD, just like in a digital SLR camera.

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/04jun_swef/

caek on a scale of 1-10 how worried should I be?

This happens every 11 years, doesn't it? I don't think we should be to worr

stanm how were you able to click the 'submit post' button?!?!

DAMN! busted ;-)

yeah, i think that refers to the regular 11 year solar cycle. next peak is 2013. you should be worried 2/10 : )

Patrick Moore's "The Sky At Night" was on last night. It was surreal - I don't think I've seen him on telly since Gamesmaster. What a strange guy.

he is a very old man

right wing mentalist too, but I do enjoy The Sky at Night.

what a pro:

On 26 April 1957, at 10:30 pm, in an event that was to be a landmark of his career, Moore presented the first episode of The Sky at Night, a BBC television programme for astronomy enthusiasts. Since then, he has presented every episode each month, excepting July 2004, because of a near-fatal bout of food poisoning caused by eating a contaminated goose egg.

yeah, he is mental, xp

i usually tear up at the end credits of sky at night tbh

even is he is a racist paleoconservative

I was also watching Sky at Night last night and pleased that it's been going all this time with no horrible flashy re-boots, just some peeps discussing new discoveries in unpatronising layman's language. Hope it can continue like that when Moore eventually has to pack it in.

xpost

Yeah he is a guy who I can separate his politics from his other fine attributes.

He writes books with Brian May from Queen and a very astronomy looking young dude.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100607/sc_space/strangediscoveryontitanleadstospeculationofalienlife

caek should we be interested/concerned/frightened about this strangediscoveryontitan that has apparently led tospeculationofalienlife?

what's this shit?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hole

some fucking space shit iirc. dunno!

xp, you should take note of this discovery, for the beings are certainly taking note of you.

EVERYBODY PANIC (*)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7819201/Nasa-warns-solar-flares-from-huge-space-storm-will-cause-devastation.html

(*) again. Stupid newspapers.

How do I set up a mailman list to which non-members can post questions, comments, and problems to which members can respond without non-members posts getting bounced and with non-members receiving and auto-reply acknowledgment? This is administered within my institution. I don't know if that affects things. I tried to do this through Privacy Options -> Sender Filters -> generic_nonmember_something-or-the-other set to Accept, but this did not seem to work. No auto-replies. No posts. Thanks in advance for any help that you can provide that is probably unrelated to your known area of expertise.

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I know you can set it up to accept posts from non-members. Presumably it's just a switch in the admin interface? Not sure about autoreplies though. Worst comes to the worst, you could set up a dummy gmail account to receive all posts and acknowledge them using an autoreply (in a way that appears to come from the list admin).

this is an unsatisfactory situation: http://observatories.hodar.com/mcdonald/index.html

four fully clear nights in a row on a 60% site though, so i'm not complaining.

it is very cloudy here so we are goofing off with a seriously fancy teleescope. we just discovered saturn.

congrats 2 u

thanks. discovering a planet was a big moment in my career. high on coffee right now.

you guys are gonna go far off this- have you though of a manager/agent?

are you offering?

earlier today by the little telescope we will be using tomorrow night

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs488.ash1/26696_10150220656075305_673235304_12898372_1925929_n.jpg

if you can convince me that there's a commercial future for saturn exploitation then i'll take youse on, sure

caek, imo, has the life

failing to take a photo of myself on the side of the mountain

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/caek/IMG_3374.jpg

(not shown in this picture: terrible, terrible sunburnt bald spot from all day drinking england/usa match the day before)

fuuuck you get bald and sunburnt from drinking?

too late to quit now, but at least i know what happened to me.

yeah, drinking and watching football:baldness::morbid obesity:diabetes : (

caek's corner is a depressing place lately, we should party and fun times up in here

http://www.theme-party-palace.com/images/space-party-invite.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/caek/lhs-scout-parade-band-1.jpg

thesis time. wish me luck.

-- caek out.

luck.

courage!

upwards

per aspera ad astra

audere est facere

Carthago delenda est

mi casa su casa

go n-eiri and bothar leat

Rock on.

ou sont les neiges autrefois?