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when i get around to watching this, if i find it to my satisfaction, i will be happy to send it to anyone who wants to see it. we're probably going to screen it in a lecture theatre somewhere here in münchen.

"thousands of women of a certain age have developed a sudden and burning interest in particle physics"

More than just a pretty face: Brian Cox gained a physics degree at Manchester University when he was 23

WOW PRECOCIOUS

lol dailymail.co.uk

pretty sure kate has professed love for him on this board btw

He is honestly the spit of my friend Michael.

Things Can Only Get Wetter

Hi dere.

I was interested in physics *way* before I discovered Brian Cox. I think I might have found out about him asking on ILX "who was that DDB on Horizon last night?" several years ago. Humph. (I have already had the "I knew about him before you did!" conversation with a fellow electronic musician who was being all Losing My Edge about him because he liked the film Sunshine.)

Though, if you want to point the blame at a TV science hotty, you might want to ask a prepubescent Kate about Carl Sagan.

My illustrations on Flickr have picked up a sudden surge of interest since this programme began, though.

I was interested in physics *way* before I discovered Brian Cox.

i know, the mail thing just reminded me you had already identified him at talent. i remember talking to you about him here in 2006ish.

going to do a bunch of not reading ilx for a few weeks. will be back for the world cup. i wish you all nothing but the very best in all things.

rip you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISVZ3GrMJk8

come back soon dude

lucky you, wish I could do that

r.i. piece of caek

I've started re-watching Wonders Of The Solar System now Kate's WDYLL picture reminded me that I've ordered it on blu-ray - its glorious and breathtaking HD quality is another reason to be happy I took the blu-ray plunge. I've seen a couple of earlier Brian Cox things (about time and CERN and stuff) and I'm a fan of his contagious enthusiasm, but I find I always have to adjust to his accent a little bit. "... about everythink. But you'd be wrongue." :-)

dear caek

what is this I am hearing about Betelgeuse

*awaits ten tons of real-talk*

hiyo!

where you been at?

my desk for a month. it sucked. back for world cup madness/12 hour nights shifts at an observatory in texas.

In an observatory, do you actually do any looking through telescopes, or is that old hat?

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.

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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.

non-members'
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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?