Picked up a hobby I quit about 25 years ago Yes, old.
Gots me a sweet, sweet 8" Newton on an Ikea-like cheap Dobson mount. Optics are first class though, as is the small collection of eyepieces I've collected over the last year, including a wide FOV beauty: the William Optics 40 mm UWAN.
Right outside my house, overlooking The Hague, Holland, it's absolutely terrible, light polution wise. Still: planets (Saturn, beautiful), the moon (always beautiful at less than full moon), sunspots (the handful we get treated to at the moment, with the sun activity at a record low). Checked out comet Lulin a couple months back, and even though the light polution limited that to the main coma, it was breathtaking. Orion Nebula: dramaticaly better than I expected. Some other nebulas, while just 'browsing' with the UWAN, a bottle of Havana Club and that curious green tobacco the man sold me instead of the advertised "coffee".
My point? It's terrible having to deal with the light polution, but even under the baddest of circumstances, it's possible to have breathtaking view on the universe outside Earth. If you have the least interest in that, get yourself a nice 'scope and show your kids and neighbours that there's actually stars out there.
I have and I didn't.
So it isn't easy, and why should it? There's hordes of crap musicians out there. Filesharing just gives them a bigger pond to thrive or drown in.
That's a good thing.
The whole discussion on filesharing has seemed moot to me for a few years now. The simple fact is that people can and will be able to freely and easily share any digital content they wish. This means that the value inherent in copies of content has become zero.
Want to make money? Play live.
Fuller had his shot on Voyager. 'Nuff said.
Give us trek set in a post-Federation setting, where "the Borg ripped the Federoni's a new one, leaving small pockets of survivors to fight both the hive and other survivors for resources". Or something.
At least give us trek set passed TNG, not more awful rewriting a la Enterprise.
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Picked up a hobby I quit about 25 years ago Yes, old. Gots me a sweet, sweet 8" Newton on an Ikea-like cheap Dobson mount. Optics are first class though, as is the small collection of eyepieces I've collected over the last year, including a wide FOV beauty: the William Optics 40 mm UWAN. Right outside my house, overlooking The Hague, Holland, it's absolutely terrible, light polution wise. Still: planets (Saturn, beautiful), the moon (always beautiful at less than full moon), sunspots (the handful we get treated to at the moment, with the sun activity at a record low). Checked out comet Lulin a couple months back, and even though the light polution limited that to the main coma, it was breathtaking. Orion Nebula: dramaticaly better than I expected. Some other nebulas, while just 'browsing' with the UWAN, a bottle of Havana Club and that curious green tobacco the man sold me instead of the advertised "coffee". My point? It's terrible having to deal with the light polution, but even under the baddest of circumstances, it's possible to have breathtaking view on the universe outside Earth. If you have the least interest in that, get yourself a nice 'scope and show your kids and neighbours that there's actually stars out there.
I have and I didn't. So it isn't easy, and why should it? There's hordes of crap musicians out there. Filesharing just gives them a bigger pond to thrive or drown in. That's a good thing.
The whole discussion on filesharing has seemed moot to me for a few years now. The simple fact is that people can and will be able to freely and easily share any digital content they wish. This means that the value inherent in copies of content has become zero. Want to make money? Play live.
Fuller had his shot on Voyager. 'Nuff said. Give us trek set in a post-Federation setting, where "the Borg ripped the Federoni's a new one, leaving small pockets of survivors to fight both the hive and other survivors for resources". Or something. At least give us trek set passed TNG, not more awful rewriting a la Enterprise.