21) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Arthur Miller (1915-2005) (Message 78516) Posted 11 Feb 2005 by Robert Sullivan, MD Post: Thanks, NA. A passing worth noting.

22) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin (Message 78509) Posted 11 Feb 2005 by Robert Sullivan, MD Post: Thanks, Sir Ulli. A good reminder. My birthday falls between Darwin's birthday and Valentine's Day. I like to think I got a little osmotic benefit from both. As you probably know, Darwin also made an important contribution to the understanding of the formation of coral atolls. During his voyage as Naturalist aboard HMS Beagle, he observed these puzzling formations, which were not at all understood in that era, and reasoned out the mechanism by observation alone. He postulated the process of sea-floor subsidence coupled with the upward, shallow-water growth of coral organisms, an insight that has required very little modification in its details over the 150 years since he published on this topic. What a beautiful example of a great intelligence at work synthesizing knowledge from raw, observational data.

23) Message boards : Number crunching : Congratulations!! :) (Message 78303) Posted 11 Feb 2005 by Robert Sullivan, MD Post: Me, too. As always. Thanks, SETI team.

24) Message boards : Number crunching : Started converting back to classic (Message 77970) Posted 10 Feb 2005 by Robert Sullivan, MD Post: "Give me work units or give me death." Patrick Henry, I think.

25) Message boards : SETI@home Science : Space & Science Trivia (Message 77961) Posted 10 Feb 2005 by Robert Sullivan, MD Post: John Glenn made three orbits, I believe. Was the booster the Saturn-B? Good questions, Sir Ulli.

26) Message boards : Cafe SETI : Bumpoid. Click for the forest. (Message 77573) Posted 8 Feb 2005 by Robert Sullivan, MD Post: Kind of a bump for those interested. Are folks still clicking for the forest? Here's the link. http://www.ettklickforskogen.se/engelska/ettKlickeng.asp

27) Message boards : Number crunching : Started converting back to classic (Message 77332) Posted 7 Feb 2005 by Robert Sullivan, MD Post: "These are the days that try men's souls. The sunshine soldier and the summer patriot..."

28) Message boards : SETI@home Science : What's your telescope? (Message 75737) Posted 1 Feb 2005 by Robert Sullivan, MD Post: Hi Mike, Welcome to the thread. And welcome back to astronomy. Hope your scope comes in soon. I hope more folks contribute to this thread. I'd have thought SETI-minded people would have telescopes. Let's stand by and see. If you have any problems or questions when your scope comes in, post 'em. Clear skies.

29) Message boards : SETI@home Science : What's your telescope? (Message 74943) Posted 28 Jan 2005 by Robert Sullivan, MD Post: Thanks for the discussion, HP. You make a good case for considering the TAL scopes. I neglected to list my own equipment when I opened this thread. 1) Teleview NP101 refractor at F/5.4 for viewing and astrophotography. 2) Celestron 100mm achromatic refractor used as a guide scope. 3) Celestron 9.25" Schmidt-Cassegrain for viewing and for astrophotography. 4) 24" Starmaster F/4.1 Newtonian reflector on a Dobsonian mount equipped with a go-to, tracking drive. This thing's a light bucket. 5) Losmondy G-11 mount with the Gemini tracking and go-to system. Rock steady. 6) Various Nagler eyepieces 7) Fujinon 16x70 FMT-SX binoculars on a steady parallelogram mount. 8) Canon EOS Rebel digital camera (6.3megapixel) Needless to say, I'm strung out like a research monkey. :-P

30) Message boards : Cafe SETI : NeoAmsterdam---- PLONKED? (Message 74869) Posted 28 Jan 2005 by Robert Sullivan, MD Post: > doc, > > I think you're referring to a: > > duck fart~n, Noise made when a stone is thrown from height into water. > splash-back guard~NEW~euph. To fashion a 'toilet tissue hammock' by creating a > layer of Andrex's finest arse-wipe tissue on the top of the water, thus > protecting your sheriff's badge from the inevitable 'shloooooop' cold shot up > the ring. > plonker~n. An actor who relies entirely on one crap put-down line and a three > wheeler car to maintain an entire situation comedy for years and years and > &^% years. > "Roger's Profanisaurus" at Amazon.co.uk. > Paul, it is my opinion that you're startin' to fit in here quite nicely. :-P

31) Message boards : SETI@home Science : What's your telescope? (Message 74865) Posted 28 Jan 2005 by Robert Sullivan, MD Post: Damn. Mine's only 24'

32) Message boards : Cafe SETI : who's your favorite sci-fi writer? (Message 74705) Posted 27 Jan 2005 by Robert Sullivan, MD Post: > Re Starship Troopers, did you see the movie? What a bunch of trash that was! > On topic, my favorite has always been Heinlein, my favorite of his The Moon is > a Harsh Mistress. I'd like to see a movie made of it Yes. One of Heinlein's best. Really sad when Mannie punches in Mike's number and gets NULL response. Several of RAH's novels could be great movies, done right.

33) Message boards : Cafe SETI : thread closed (Message 74700) Posted 27 Jan 2005 by Robert Sullivan, MD Post: > > Wee fish ewe a mare egrets moose, panda happy gnu deer. :-D > > > > I'll take Doc's on Caffiene for $400. Alex!!! > > :-DDD

34) Message boards : Cafe SETI : NeoAmsterdam---- PLONKED? (Message 74698) Posted 27 Jan 2005 by Robert Sullivan, MD Post: Plonk is the sound of something NA finds malodorous and useless impacting the bottom of a poorly maintained outdoor, um, restroom. I think. I can't be certain. :->

35) Message boards : SETI@home Science : I bet it's cheaper to launch a NEW hubble than fix the old one. (Message 74694) Posted 27 Jan 2005 by Robert Sullivan, MD Post: > > NASA are working on a new space telescope. > Yes, but the JWST will look at only the infrared part of the spectrum and not > do the same type of work that the Hubble currently does. In this day and age > of pork-barrel projects, I would think the Government would spend money on > something that, you know, actually WORKS and HAS BEEN WORKING for the past > decade? > You said it, brother! BTW, off topic, sorry all, but how do you like living in Hawaii? Been up the hill to the big scopes? I've never been to Hawaii. Should go. Love to see Keck. Read your profile. Good stuff. A Duck in the Islands. Seems like a good thing. :-> Regards from 818, Robert

36) Message boards : SETI@home Science : What's your telescope? (Message 74688) Posted 27 Jan 2005 by Robert Sullivan, MD Post: > > What kind of telescope do you have? Mount? Filters? Camera? > > > I own severall but still one of the best price/quality is Russian. > If you happen to be intrested a description can be found in the following > link. > Greetings from Belgium ;-) > Hi Belgium, Thanks for the link and the look at one of your scopes. Nice website, too. I saved the link so I can go back and look at the science stuff. Fractals, chemistry, physics, and more. Chocolate for the brain! How are the optics on your Russian-made scope? Regards from California, USA.

37) Message boards : SETI@home Science : What's your telescope? (Message 74580) Posted 27 Jan 2005 by Robert Sullivan, MD Post: Gotcha.

38) Message boards : Cafe SETI : thread closed (Message 74578) Posted 27 Jan 2005 by Robert Sullivan, MD Post: Wee fish ewe a mare egrets moose, panda happy gnu deer. :-D

39) Message boards : SETI@home Science : What's your telescope? (Message 74571) Posted 27 Jan 2005 by Robert Sullivan, MD Post: Freehand's tough. Hard to keep steady enough to use the manual shutter setting for exposures long enough to show detail in nebulae and such. My shot of the Horsehead was a 47.4-minute continuous exposure. As you know, it takes that long to get some of the dim stuff. Really helps to have a mount that tracks in Right Ascension while I do the arcsecond fine tracking using a second guidescope. The rich guys have CCD cameras that have a second onboard guiding CCD chip that takes all the standing in the cold out of the shot. 'Course, if I ever buy or rig an equitorial platform for my 24-inch reflector scope, I'll be able to get shots with short exposure times that should blow your socks off. That'd be something. Hope some other folks who have scopes see this thread and share what kinds of rigs they have. Something I'm pretty interested in. Robert

40) Message boards : SETI@home Science : karl sullivan (Message 74510) Posted 27 Jan 2005 by Robert Sullivan, MD Post: > boinc is pathetic, does not work well, and this is supposed to be supirior to > seti classic, i gave up my 300 classic work units to become part of this > pathetic program.....why doesnt it work, Hmmmm...Interesting first post. Next time you post, don't hold back. Tell us what you REALLY think. Welcome. No relation I hope.

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