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Mount Wilson Observatory In Danger From L.A. Fire

Posted by timothy on from the not-the-whole-mountain-but-the-observatory dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mount Wilson is in danger from the Station fire burning near L.A. Their servers have gone offline, but there's a temporary mirror cam. It doesn't look good. Picture twenty-four on the L.A. Times photo gallery shows the observatory from the air. If anyone has any inside news on the condition of the facility, I'm sure there are lots of people on Slashdot who would love to hear it."

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  1. Good. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fuck 'em.

  2. LA is full of Jews by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nature is finally finishing what Hitler started.

  3. Re:Don't worry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    As the rapist, SUP?

  4. Re:Mod Parent Informative by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    In "The Trap" (or was is "The Century Of Self"?) BBC documentarian Adam Curtis mentions the phenomenon of John Q. Citizen groaning about taxes, electing a man like Reagan as president, then a couple of years later groaning about the decaying conditions of infrastructure, education, law enforcement, etc, not making the connection between his vote and the consequences.

    The Big Lie is the belief that the Federal government should have any responsibility on education, non-military law enforcement, and, with the exception of interstates, infrastructure.

    Maybe John Q. Citizen will soon realize that he and his fellow state citizen are sending (for example) $20 billion to the Feds in additional taxes just so they can get $12 billion back in Federal funding, along with a whole host of conditions and requirements. Maybe they would be better off if they just paid the locality and state that $12 billion directly?