“I have one consistency, which is [being] against the totalitarian – on the left and on the right. The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes. And the origins of that are theocratic, obviously. The beginning of that is the idea that there is a supreme leader, or infallible pope, or a chief rabbi, or whatever, who can ventriloquise the divine and tell us what to do.”
Published in New Statesman
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Santa's Contrail (Comet Lovejoy 23 December 2011)
Got a good look at Lovejoy from our paddock 250Km NE of Melbourne this morning. Got the whole family up at 4.30 am and 15yo daughter Grace (now taking interest after her younger sister Lara won a prize with her lunar eclipse series earlier in 2011) took a nice pic using mum's DSLR (50mm lens) and my bulb/shutter release. She bracketed a few exposures and 30sec looks best.
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- Amateur Radio Telescope tragic
- Building a radio astronomy facility as we rehab a 40acre block with a shearing shed on it. First, some baby steps: 1. I do not know much about EM radiation 2. how can radio waves from space be ‘seen” 3. how do antennas work? 4. there is a Mobile Phone Tower only 700 metres away. but hey, learning all that shit could be a heap of fun. Helpful advice accepted.