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Seeing as all smokers are now exiled to the icy wastes, we could at least try and boost British astronomy...waves small Union Jack flag...
So, pubs with telescopes outside, ideal for spotting new celestial objects, with a hotline to Jodrell Banks for confirmations..
London Monument Telescope
http://en.wikipedia...reat_Fire_of_London
[bs0u0155, Nov 25 2014]
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"No sir, those are the fairy lights. Again." |
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"Have you by any chance recently been struck on the head? Maybe fallen over?" |
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"So, we have corroboration that it's pink?" |
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Well, there are bound to be a few false positives, but that's scinece for you...your my beshtest ever pal, you are (hic) |
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Is it just me or did the HB server go down for a bit? |
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But , but, you , if you look, here, this end, look down the wide end, its weeny, can you see, scieni, sientiffic, the littlend is smaller, islt like a microphone, I mean oscope, in reverse. |
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" ... and we have received confirmation from Project Spaceguard that
the NEO object reported last night by Mr. A Hancock, using the
150mm Newtonian reflector in the beer garden of The Hand and
Raquet, East Cheam, is not in fact a gigantic mass of nickel-iron
destined to destroy all life on the planet within hours, but is in fact is a
spurious reflection from an illuminated Christmas decoration placed
on Mr. Hancock's own house by his friend Mr Sid James as part of an
unauthorized advertising scheme ..." |
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I'm not British nor a smoker, but still like this idea! + |
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Probably safer to serve alcohol at observatories...
Hmm, what would be worse (or better, depending on your point of view), drunk experts or drunk amateurs? |
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Arguments between drunk experts and drunk amateurs. |
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"schnoball? umm... lemme talk to a reeeal 'schtronomur" -
Carl Sagan |
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Oh, and I'd really love to see the security cam pics of a
drunk & a Dobson. |
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Telescopes with pubes outside? |
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That would be Essex, most likely. |
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I like very much the idea of telescope as public sculpture. It would need to be big and bronze. Durable, so people could hang on it. All of the glass bits would need to be carefully esconced deep inside. The skyward end would need to be out of reach. The landward bit would need to be above urinal height. I wonder if the landward optic were set in far enough so as to be ungreasyfingerable whether the scope would still work? |
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// telescope as public sculpture // |
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Would you envision this being in a fixed position
so you just hope to be lucky that something
passes in front of the lens, or will it be movable? |
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You'll need to have someone clean the lens
occasionally. So maybe rather than attempting o
make it indestructible, simply make it very robust,
and include instructions for users to clean the
lenses, etc. Then mount a security camera next
to it to discourage vandalism. |
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Oh, and be sure not to install it in a park that is
closed after dusk... |
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//in a fixed position so you just hope to be lucky that
something passes in front of the lens,// |
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Robert Hooke baked this way back <link> |
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Interesting idea by Hooke to use public funds meant
for building a monument to build a giant scientific
instrument at the same time, but was the telescope
ever actually open for the public to use? |
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To use as what, exactly ? |
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What about a large sculpture of Sir Isaac Newton, standing next
to a model of his reflecting telescope that actulally works ? |
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Or a statue of Gallileo ? For extra irony, maybe that couldbbe set
up where it's clearly visible from the Vatican. |
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Dang. I thought the word was "Pubes." Nevermind. |
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