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Bid Your Way into the Keck Control Room

Posted by michael on from the space-is-wide-and-space-is-deep dept.

mopuxak writes "There's an article featured over at space.com about an ongoing EBay auction to spend a night in Hawaii's Keck Observatory with Astronomer Geoff Marcy. The money is set to go to the non-profit Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP). Looks like they're billing this as Astronomy's version of Lance Bass and the Space Station. How much would YOU pay?"

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  1. Re:Well.... by CanSpice · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Free tours of Keck are offered daily.

    True, but last time I was up there the free tours available to the public don't really show you very much. The closest you get to seeing one of their telescopes is inside a cage on the dome floor. To really get a tour you need to either work there or know someone who does. That tour's much more interesting. =)

    Plus, public tours are only available during the day when nothing exciting is going on. Well, unless you consider engineering exciting. It's only after twilight when things start getting exciting. And then when they start sitting on a source things get boring again, and that's when you start hoping things will break so there's something for you to do at 3 in the morning so you don't fall asleep.

  2. Who spends $13k to hang out at Keck? by Exocet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...someone that gets a lot of pr0n off've ebay, I guess. rlcsljo, the current high bidder at $13,050 has made quite a few interesting purchases recently!

    I guess it's just a bit odd. His buying record is going to be: pr0n, pr0n, pr0n, $13k on a night at Keck, pr0n, pr0n...

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