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  Sep 15 2006, 09:35 AM
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O.K. here we go, separate topic for a possible 2007 UMSF 'Real World' meeting...
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Sep 18 2006, 04:55 PM
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Well as we're going to restart this topic, I personally would prefer G or G ( that is Germany or Great Britain )... Any progress on the visitor center of the Jodrell Bank radio tracking station in the Cheshire plains ?
Any other interesting British sites to visit ( in summer ! ) ? 
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Sep 18 2006, 05:30 PM
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Jodrell Bank would be good - I'll try and visit it this winter to see what it's like now ( I visited last year at some point )
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Sep 18 2006, 06:01 PM
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QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Sep 18 2006, 05:55 PM)  Any other interesting British sites to visit ( in summer ! ) ? Stonehenge for the solstice... |
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Sep 18 2006, 06:31 PM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14445 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
I'm not getting my white druid robes out the loft again - they're all moth-eaten
 Actually - it's WAY smaller than you think it is. Jodrell Bank is good - National Space Centre in Leicester's good - Science Museum in London's good. |
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Sep 18 2006, 06:47 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
Also, unless they've changed the rules recently, you can't get to within more than a couple of hundred yards of the stones at Stonehenge at any time of the year, let alone at solstice. It seems that everyone who used to visit the stone circle just had to chip a piece of stone off as a souvenir. At the rate the stones were being vandalized, there wouldn't have been much left of them in another few decades...
 -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Sep 18 2006, 06:58 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2922 Joined: 14-February 06 From: Very close to the Pyrénées Mountains (France) Member No.: 682 |
One of the most essential thing will be to set up a date a few month before so we can organise ourself. England is fine, any country in fact! Just stay on Earth for this meeting
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Sep 18 2006, 10:57 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Sep 18 2006, 08:55 AM) Any other interesting British sites to visit ( in summer ! ) ? I hear they have a few pubs over there. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Sep 18 2006, 11:26 PM
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QUOTE (dvandorn @ Sep 18 2006, 07:47 PM) Also, unless they've changed the rules recently, you can't get to within more than a couple of hundred yards of the stones at Stonehenge at any time of the year, let alone at solstice. -the other Doug Actually the rules have been relaxed and the 15 year ban on parties was lifted in 2000 they now let people gather and clamber all over the stones on the solstice. I'll be there in 2007. |
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Sep 22 2006, 04:36 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 72 Joined: 22-December 05 Member No.: 616 |
Jodrell bank must be an amazing sight I guess
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Sep 23 2006, 04:43 PM
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So is Goldstone, I'm sure. As a cash-strapped UMSFer living in LA, might I humbly suggest Palm Springs?
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Sep 23 2006, 05:37 PM
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 Chief Assistant Group: Admin Posts: 1409 Joined: 5-January 05 From: Ierapetra, Greece Member No.: 136 |
Palm Springs?? Man I'll come to Hawaï if you pay for my ticket
 Nico -------------------- photographer, space imagery enthusiast, proud father and partner, and geek.
http://500px.com/sacred-photons & |
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| Guest_PhilCo126_* |
Sep 23 2006, 05:41 PM
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Don't know if a trans-atlantic trip was feasible for a first meeting...
Talking about Jodrell bank, can we get a tour of the facilities and is there some kind of visitor center ? Found some photos online: http://www.garfnet.org.uk/coppermine/thumb...s.php?album=277 http://cam.derringer.co.uk/JodrellBank/ |
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Oct 4 2006, 08:39 PM
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If there's going to be a 2007 meeting shouldn't it be held on October 4 ?
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| Guest_PhilCo126_* |
Oct 6 2006, 05:19 PM
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It might be too cold around Jodrell bank in October
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