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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.

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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?

yo caek what's the fuckin craic where's the warnings of all these asteroids that are nearly hitting us man? what we payin you for?

(caek can't check ilx as he's beeing steering the entire planet on manual control the past two days)

yah phd been pretty much under control for a month so i've been moonlighting by steering asteroids and posting on ilx. it's been pretty chill.

still in germany? what are your living plans for the foreseeable?

in munich until the end of the year. submit in december, viva in jan, after that is tbc. i'm finishing out of sync with the academic year (which is how the job market works too), so worst case scenario is back in with the 'rents until the summer, although that wouldn't be so bad. dad + wife have kids who are 4 and 1. best case scenario is a ~6 month contract in one of a couple of places in the US, which i have been supposed to get news about "later this week" for the last two months.

what about you? i thought you dropped out of your masters and then you were all like "i have an exam tomorrow". i guess you have finished now?

where is gbx does anyone know? i miss him so.

ah nice - well I hope you teach the kids the value of playing to the whistle, if you do end up shacked with 'em - godspeed the American applications though

I have finished now, yes, although I only find out later this month whether I've passed my resits! I have it on my CV that I spent a year working on the Masters, and obviously while I'd really like to have passed, if one piffling module fails me I'll still have completed a large and comprehensive course of work. Pretty confident though. I came very close to tapping out a few times but I ain't a quitter - finish their MA and get out of there tbh

gbx is *coming to London* pretty soon - his sister is studying here! I am so so psyched to meet the guy, all-time ILX dude