100 Hours of Astronomy Webcast Underway 48
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"
Re:Year of Astronomy... (Score:3, Interesting)
If I had to choose I would still go for astronomy. I bet you that astronomy has spurred many more people into taking up an interest in science more than evolution could ever imagine. Why do you think the vast majority of all science fiction is based on space? The rallying points for science set out there for the public needs to get a hold of people's imagination. Astronomy does that in spades.
Re:Year of Astronomy... (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
365 days of Astronomy Podcast (Score:3, Interesting)
Enjoying the video stream, never realised there were so many observatories doing cool stuff. Also try the excellent podcast stream, one per day for the rest of the year.
http://365daysofastronomy.org/ [365daysofastronomy.org]
(Yes I bought the tee shirt)