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A special report by Katie Barnard on her work experience at Narrabri . ... I have been interested in astronomy for some time, and so I thought work experience would be a good idea to see what it was really like. ... In my time at the ATCA, I worked with Naomi McClure-Griffiths, a PhD student from the university of Minnesota. ... Naomi gave me some `cubes' (seen as movies) of different sections of the sky, from observations at Parkes, to look through and identify possible shells. ...

Szyzyg, yep that's my internet alter ego, I use this name on any systems outside of where I work, Bulletin Boards, Muds, anything where I need a username. ... How do I pronounce Szyzyg? ... Hey I've just seen an episode of the X-Files called Szyzyg! ... Are the descriptions of Szyzyg accurate descriptions of yourself? ... Just click on Back at the bottom of this page and find out about Scott Manley. ... Sigue-Sigue Sputnik - I've never actually been called this but I've always loved the name. ...

September, 2008 The root of the problem is that people are morons, more particularly, developers are morons, very particularly, xterm developers are morons. ... In fairness, it's not really the xterm that's incompatible, it's the xterm descriptions that ship with modern operating systems that are incompatible with older xterms. ... The developers had to know that people would actually USE the cool new features they put into xterms. ... A modern xterm! ... Line 'em up along with the xterm developers. ...

... Re : Need easy way to download whole KHG . ... For now, you can use web mirroring packages to create your own local mirror and read from there. Several such packages are available, and since I don't use any of them, I don't have details like names: can someone else who knows please post details? For the future, it would be nice if someone is interested enough in mirroring to write scripts for the KHG that allow you to read it off-line, but also allow you to respond. ...

... Yes, alligators do like to eat Canadians, yes we have them as pets in the back, here. ... Well, the two kids just got put in the back of the patrol jeep and another one just pulled up. ... Just how many police officers does it take to put some bikes into a jeep? ... Also, you shouldn't try to park on the upper deck when it is snowing-- the facilities guys `really feel bad when we hit' cars up there." ... I am really sick of it. ... Al just said that the stapler put his pages in the wrong order. ...

... We have been upgrading the software front-end to WASP (Wideband Autocorrelating SPectrometer, operating from 800 to 4000 MHz) from Lynx-OS to Real-Time Linux and will discuss Real-Time software aspects. We are using a standard parallel ``PIO'' card to receive data from the spectrometer and standard GPIB interfaces that drive a frequency synthesizer for bandpass calibration. WASP and its front-end computer are fully mobile and can be taken to any suitable radio telescope. ...

not-minutes' for Fourth E-ALFA LOC meeting Thursday 29th April Present: Chris S., Bob B., Steven T., A. Deshpande, Jose A., Eva R., Myrna G., Mikael L., Erik M. Telecon: Karen O. Items from last minutes: Phone cards: Visitor Center is out of cards. Option: people can get them from the control room Jose' thinks that people should get the cards from the Control Room and it not really the VC place to figure these out. ... Done by Eva. ... Collection box: ACTION: Erik M - create collection box. ...

... I enrolled in his "zero-hour" research class early in the morning [see Black Holes to Blackboards, September/October 1995, p. 8]. Peering at a sheet of vellum over a map of the martian surface, circling and measuring craters for hours, I learned that science isn't all fun and games. ... It was a dream come true: to be surrounded by other young people who were interested in astronomy, to be taught by professional astronomers, and best of all, to use large telescopes. ...

Next: Proposed Facility Up: You are the Institute Previous: You are the Institute . Your main research interests lie in the very first stars and galaxies to form. Ever since those chaps at Caltech started finding large numbers of galaxies at redshifts up to about 6, the astronomical world has been in a frenzy of theoretical and observational activity. ... You, therefore, have turned your interest where nobody else has dared look: to really high redshifts. ...

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216 colors. ... And yuck, what ugly colors they are! I suppose there's a certain mathmatical consistency to the sequence of colors, but it seems that out of 16 million+ colors to choose from, they could have chosen a few more subtle tones. ... If your target audience is using Windows or Unix boxes with 256 color graphics cards, these are the only colors their Netscape browsers are capable of. ... I created this file for a friend who needed the 216 colors of Netscape in an Adobe Illustrator file. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Earth Satellites . ... Continue Reading.. ... 2 Comments The space programmes of the USA and USSR began in a spirit of bitter Cold War rivalry but by the early 1970s internation tensions had eased a little into a [ ] . ... Posted on June 20, 2014 | ... 2 Comments The year 2014 could see the first 3D printer brought into space, the first fare-paying passengers leave Planet Earth on the Virgin Galactic and the first test mission of a [ ] . ...

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Computers become more and more popular nowadays. That means that the amount of people who are able to work with computer programmes and play computer games has increased. In many cases computer games are the only thing that a person is accustomed to. ... As a result of this epidemic "homo playing" may put on the isoreality helmet which makes a person, crazy about games, forget about food, slumber and all other components of real life: "homo playing" becomes isolated from community. ...

Astronomy Discussion Forums . ... Not Really . ... Posted by Harvey on October 28, 2002 05:34:32 UTC . ... Trudging through murky waters - harvey1 - October 30, 2002 - 15:30 UTC . What are you afraid of? - doctordick - November 1, 2002 - 02:34 UTC . Nothing psychological here - harvey1 - November 1, 2002 - 19:32 UTC . ... Chuckle (nt) - harvey1 - November 1, 2002 - 21:59 UTC . Dick is in serious need of rewording - harvey1 - November 1, 2002 - 22:03 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . ...

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