(November 19, 2010 at 9:56 am)thesummerqueen Wrote: I actually have a great uncle in Louisville. If we ever get over there (my family apparently hates visiting each other) I'll push for hitting you up. Last time I got to look through a powerful scope, I was 8 or 9 at the LA observatory.
We have some good scopes at the observatory. Only one is truly observatory class, but it hasn't been set up yet. It will be used at our Urban astronomy center for use by students doing certain kinds of research (we haven't decided what kind yet, but it'll probably exoplanetary research). It was donated to us by the U of L physics department wehen they installed a new one at their facility. Stop on by sometime.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero