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Comet Hunting For The Masses

Posted by chrisd on from the scientific-progress-via-idle-hands dept.

khendron writes "In this article in Wired the most awesome past time is described. Comet Hunting. On you computer. No more cold nights outside with the telescope. Sit back with a cola, fire up the broadband, and start looking." From the article: "Amateurs looking at the SOHO images on the Web have found 76 percent of the 428 new comets that have turned up in SOHO images. Of the 31 people who have discovered comets, 21 of them are amateurs. They come from 10 different countries, including Australia, Great Britain, Germany and China. "

6 of 118 comments (clear)

  1. Hey khendron! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thanks for slashdotting the universe.

  2. Re:The most awesome pastime by slothq · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    but my telescope has 3 different settings... most of the girls i've known only have two.

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  3. Re:A bit pointless by slothq · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    what? did some of the big kid comet hunters knock over your tripod when you were six years old or something?

    wah wah wah 28 hops to the new Whambulnix release...

    i got your bandwidth right here buddy.

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  4. _____ by AristotleX · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Iv Got Karma to waste.

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  5. Re:A bit pointless by gazbo · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    stopping you from downloading ISO images of your favourite distrobution
    I am confused. I went to my favorite operating system's website but couldn't seem to find a 'download free trial' link.

    Do you have a mirror?

  6. PIM FORTUYN FOUND DEAD AT 54! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Pim Fortuyn, the renowned far right politician of Holland who was up for election in a fortnight, was found dead outside his limousine on Monday.

    Fortuyn, who believed immigrants were a threat to liberal Dutch life, and stated that Islam (unlike Christianity or Judaism) was "backward", already had several seats in government.

    A rich, overtly homosexual skinhead who believed that diversity causes intolerance and wanted a constitutional amendment to repeal the paragraph forbidding discrimination, Fortuyn was a hypocrite on a scale surpassed not even by Slashdot editors and karma whores.

    Truly, therefore, a Slashdot icon, he will be sorely missed.

    (Moderators, this is not a troll).