Science tidbits .....

[popeyespappy]

Brindabella?

If that's the old Honeysuckle Creek tracking station then no. It was closed nearly 20 years before I was there. I was at the complex at Tidbinbilla.



As far as coming back we just picked up a pretty big contract in Okinawa and I am probably going to be making several trips there over the next couple of years. If I can manage a couple of weeks off at one time I may do Australia again and try to see New Zealand. I prefer to spend my vacation time in places where I can almost understand the language.

[KichigaiNeko]

Brindabella?

If that's the old Honeysuckle Creek tracking station then no. It was closed nearly 20 years before I was there. I was at the complex at Tidbinbilla.



As far as coming back we just picked up a pretty big contract in Okinawa and I am probably going to be making several trips there over the next couple of years. If I can manage a couple of weeks off at one time I may do Australia again and try to see New Zealand. I prefer to spend my vacation time in places where I can almost understand the language.

Yep Tidbinbilla is in the Brindabella ranges outside of Canberra. Got itself burnt out by fire a few years back. Nice place.

[popeyespappy]

Yep Tidbinbilla is in the Brindabella ranges outside of Canberra. Got itself burnt out by fire a few years back. Nice place.

Yes it is. I got to make the rounds of some of the tracking stations NASA uses that year. Canberra, Madrid, Poker Flats in Alaska and Longyearbyen, Norway. A couple of trips each to Poker Flats and Longyearbyen. The latter being by far the most remote place I've ever been. That's been more than a decade ago and I still haven't used all the sky miles.

[Jackie]

When my mom was in the hospital for pnumonia she had a roomate whose friends had the religious channel on constantly and they prayed every 5 seconds. What annoyed me was the irony of the prayer with the reality of the beep of the nurses hand held medical tracking device every time she walked in to give her medicine(the other lady)

All I could think was how useless that prayer was compaired to the real medicine that was keeping her alive. Of course I wished no ill will to that lady, but damn man, humans are so gullible and desperate to believe that life is magic no matter how much reality smacks them in the face.

The pictures of the telescopes are the reality. My mom having pnumonia unfortunately at the time, is the reality. There is no bearded magic man out to save us or a man with a pitchfork battling over the nuerons in or brains. Whatever good we do as a species or whatever bad happens to us is a result of nature.

It is sad in an age of explosion of technology and discovery that can potentially improve the lives of more people, that we still cling to comic books and myth.

[KichigaiNeko]

It's only "magic" if you can't understand it.

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[jonb]

Nice, loved the animation thanks

[KichigaiNeko]

I would hope that anyone who comes across any science-tidbits that really don't deserve their own thread will dump said tidbits here

Glad you liked them jonb.