FYI, if you are utilizing a goto telescope and you have noticed that the goto performance of your scope has degraded. I can give you one possible answer as to...
When and Where are your meetings? I have been working weird hours, on call at night, sometimes 24 hours, and so I haven't had much of a life. But when I have...
Hi Debbie, Our current meeting place is at the North Valley Regional Library, 40410 North Gavilan Peak Parkway, Anthem, AZ 85086. Meeting time is 6:30-8:30pm....
Most of the mornings I forget I have a list and spend time making a new one. I came across one the other day and had actually completed everything on it. ... ...
... Not knowing the current funding status of the observatory since I first relayed Steve Ostro's message here, I made a short visit today to the Arecibo...
Oh, I am very interested... I am on call that night, but will come anyway and if I get buzzed and have to leave, so be it. There was a show on Stephen Hawking...
Yeah , I caught that too. "A Brief History of time". It was based on a book by Hawking. Oddly enough, I was about half way through that very book but lost it....
It's about time I post something here. Thanks for holding down the fort, Scott & Ron, and WELCOME Debbie to our group. Regarding the question: Why does there...
Thank you for the welcome! Maybe the Hadron supercollider will shed some light on these things. I heard they had some problems with it but I haven't been...
It's funny we don't usually get a turnout that large; add a little metaphysics and everyone shows up. It was an enjoyable talk. I will say though that the...
Yes, it was indeed a great talk. Very profound, I thought, about how humans fit into the logarithmic scale of size vs. time. Of course, on a log-log scale, a...
... If you'd like a little more of Fr. Coyne's philosophy, you can do that right here. FYI, I have posted two files to the file section of this forum. They ...
... Personally, I don't like string theory. The complexity it introduces flies in the face of the whole "simplicity" idea. The extra dimensions (beyond 4)...
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If I had the time, I would. They all go into Quid Novi (the newsletter) anyway. If I had an Editor ... In the meantime, the link to DFAC will have to...
Ron, I never got to hear the rest of your report on your observatory construction. Let's see, you said that there will be two domes, one ten and thirty feet in...
Well, if you had come to "Legends" after the meeting (like you said you would)(we heart people have to stick together) we could have talked about it. Any...
Well just finish the story pal. Yeah the legends, sorry about that. I had remembered that I was taking some medication so the beer thing was out. No way was I...
Ok, well maybe there wasn't much more to tell.. Well then let me tell you about a project that I'm currently considering. Actually, I just came up with this...
Sounds interesting Scott. I have a laptop with an Internet connection that works anywhere there is a Verizon tower close by. I got it so I could be "on-line"...
Also, it's an eight foot dome for the observatory and a thirty foot dome for the planetarium. Ron ... I ... being ... will ... that ... much ... to ... is ... ...
... Hey that will work..! I will look into configuring my setup for internet access and will let you know when we can run a test. in the meantime you may want...
I have XP home on the laptop and thus it can't be the host computer but it doesn't have to be. I can't find it on the machine right now but the web site says...