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100 Hours of Astronomy Webcast Underway

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the unabashed-eye-candy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As part of the International Year of Astronomy, the live video webcast Around the World in 80 Telescopes is taking place now, with fascinating live linkups with the world's leading observatories. The schedule for the webcast is available as a PDF and the recorded videos are available via the 100 hours of astronomy page"

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  1. Re:Year of Astronomy... by ajs · · Score: 3, Informative

    150 years since the publication of OoS just doesn't seem all that interesting to me. 400 years is a much rounder number.

    In the year 2009, the world will celebrate the International Year of Astronomy as it commemorates the 400th anniversary of Galileoâ(TM)s use of a telescope to study the skies, and Keplerâ(TM)s publication of Astronomia Nova. 2009 is also the anniversary of many other historic events in science, including Huygenâ(TM)s 1659 publication of Systema Saturnium.This will be modern astronomyâ(TM)s quadricentennial, and the 2009 Year of Astronomy will be an international celebration of numerous astronomical and scientific milestones.

    -- http://astronomy2009.us/

  2. Re:ISS by LordSnooty · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you've got no imagination then yes, I suppose you'd find it disappointing. Me, I found it awe-inspiring, to think that this is a craft with up to six people on it, shooting across the sky at an incredible rate (30 minutes before it was on the other side of the world). Seeing the Shuttle just ahead of it, moving at the same speed on the same plane was the icing on the cake.

    What were you expecting, dancing girls and a cool laser show?

  3. Re:Year of Astronomy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why do you think the vast majority of all science fiction is based on space?

    Because alien chicks can have any arbitrary number of boobs.

  4. Re:Year of Astronomy... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yeah, 150 years since OoS.
    64 years since the first computer,
    62 years since transistors were invented,
    51 years since integrated circuits were invented,
    38 years since Intel invented the 4004,
    31 years since the first Apple ][s,
    28 years since the first IBM PC,
    25 years since the first Mac,
    17 years since Bill and Lynne Jolitz released 386bsd,
    And 17 years since Ken Thompson invented UTF-8.
    But in the 21st Century, Slashdot still uses fricken ASCII