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Jodrell Bank named UK's greatest unsung landmark
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post Sep 5 2006, 07:12 PM
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BBC 9/5/06:

"Aye to the telescope"

"The [BBC] Magazine's search for Britain's greatest unsung landmark is over.
The thousands of votes have been counted and Jodrell Bank in Cheshire is the
winner."

[snip]

"[T]he telescope was one of the first scientific sites in the world to truly
engage with the general public. It is currently waiting for funding so it
can build a new multimillion pound visitors' centre. "

Much more info:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/5314172.stm


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"After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance.
I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard,
and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does
not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is
indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have
no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft."

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post Sep 5 2006, 07:21 PM
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disclaimer : I was born in Chester, a few miles from Jodrell Bank

I voted for this - the other's on offer were all well and good - but JB is an astonishing place - bigger even than the large DSN assets smile.gif

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post Sep 5 2006, 09:50 PM
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I hope you have all read Sven Grahn's classic work, Jodrell Bank's role in early space tracking activities: link
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post Sep 13 2006, 03:13 PM
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I remember the first time I visited the VLA in New Mexico. The wide-open spaces
and long driving distances warped perspectives a bit, so when we first saw the VLA
in the distance, they actually seemed much closer and therefore smaller and less
impressive than I thought.

But as we got closer, I realized just how wrong that first impression was. 27 huge
white radio antennae spread out across the desert. No wonder Hollywood goes to
the VLA when they want those “cool” astronomers at work shots ala 2010 and Contact.

http://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/sto.../21/focus2.html


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"After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance.
I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard,
and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does
not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is
indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have
no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft."

- Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

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post Sep 15 2006, 09:22 AM
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Is their new visitor complex ready ?
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post Sep 23 2006, 08:00 PM
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Here's the website:
http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/

And some weblinks:

http://cam.derringer.co.uk/JodrellBank/
http://www.garfnet.org.uk/coppermine/thumb...s.php?album=277

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