Space and stuff

[roydo]

And Kylie.

 

[bizzaro]

Any astro nuts give me advice on a good first telescope around £300 mark?

@bizzaro maybe

If you want some advice email one of the astronomy groups here

http://www.astronomyclubs.co.uk/Clubs/Default.aspx?CountyId=15

http://www.astronomyclubs.co.uk/Clubs/Default.aspx?CountyId=51

They'll no doubt have some helpful advice for beginners.

Being out all night they like an odd beer or hot tea/coffee too.

 

[bizzaro]

Well considering space is infinite (even though it is still expanding) and it is mostly full of dark matter, the fact it is infinite means there will be infinite number of stars. Even though there aren't.

Read this.

It'll wreck your head.


http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_(cosmology)

 

[Tramps_mate]

This is a good one too...

http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/08/putting-time-in-perspective.html

 

[rascal]

On the subject of 'Space and stuff' I watched '2001: A Space Odyssey' for the first time last night. I particularly enjoyed how Kubrick and Clarke got ridiculously high mid-way through writing the plot.

 

[rascal]

Here be some exciting 'Space and stuff'

http://new.livestream.com/esa/cometlanding

Rosetta #CometLanding webcast

WE SHOULD KNOW IF IT HAS LANDED AT APPROXIMATELY 16:00

 

[rascal]

Touchdown expected at 16:02

 

[roydo]

Touchdown expected at 16:02

Well if they cant get that link working, dont hold out much hope.

Just joking. Incredible how they can get a tiny box of tricks to land on a lump of rock millions of miles away. With technology that is 10 years old!

 

[rascal]

VICTORY

 

[roydo]

It bolts itself on now! Mental.

 

[rascal]

God bless these United States of Europe.

 

[roydo]

God bless these United States of Europe.

Hope that drill works now. Be a bit annoying if they fly all that way and it cant bot itself on.

 

[rascal]

 

[rascal]

25 years from beginning of Rosetta program until today when Philae landed on Comet 67P

 

[Dharma]

Always an anti-climax with these shenanigans.