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Simon's Blog - Hot news from the future!
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When you've run out of space in your brain, it's handy to be able to store thoughts somewhere else.
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The majority of the follow-up postings I've seen about the solstice at Stonehenge have been talking about the amount of litter left behind by the so-called "Neo-Pagans" and "Earth-Lovers".
Hmmm - I suspect the majority were plain old partygoers with not much concept of paganism or earth-loving. Even the "official" druid contingent had a hard time getting into the circle for the dawn ceremony, as it was packed with people. Next year, flaming swords wielded by Arthur's Loyal War Band might be the answer...
However, one link I've seen leads to a set of pictures of other solstice celebrations around the world, where things are handled rather better it seems.
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*Assuming* that my dad's out of hospital (or at least is stable and comfortable) I plan to be going to Stonehenge for the solstice.
Open access starts at 7pm on Saturday night, so I'll be heading off around 6pm. Anyone else planning to go?
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Interesting snippet in the latest SPA bulletin - it seems that Betelgeuse's angular size has shrunk 15% since 1993 and that the rate of change is increasing.
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I made reference to this book in an earlier post, and 7 weeks after ordering it directly from Canada it's finally arrived.
At last, a book on archaeoastronomy from someone who actually knows something about astronomy!
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Notes from this year's conference.
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I found the instructions on how to assemble the necessary structure for the support of Quantum GIS to be somewhat daunting at first sight.
I'm used to installing Mac apps by simply opening up a .dmg file and either running an installer or dragging the app from the mounted disk image.
Once I'd got my head around the concept that all the talk of "frameworks" was about a set of support facilities that were prerequisites (info from the qgis-user list) that had to be installed first, I felt more confident.
Here are the exact steps I took, in case similarly nervous folks need some reassurance :-)
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One month in following the reorganisation of Wiltshire into a Unitary Council, what have we got to show for it?
Complete paralysis, that's what.
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Wandered up to Avebury this morning for the Beltane/MayDay celebration.
About 100 or so people there - unfortunately no sign of the Sun.
Photos...
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Very sad news that John Michell, pioneering thinker and architect of the renaissance in the appreciation of the achievements of our remote ancestors, has died.
Author of "The View over Atlantis" in 1969 which essentially started the "New Age" of earth mysteries and his collaborations with other authors on the concept of a unified ancient metrology based on a knowledge of the Earth's dimensions, his contribution to the enlightenment of the late 20th C is unparalleled.
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Göbekli Tepe stone circles.
Photos of the monuments of southern Turkey, which predate the earliest structures at Stonehenge by five or six millennia.
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Some serious study is now going on into this theory, with some interesting results.
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This was FOAM's 4th year working in and around Lake Woods to clear the scrub from what Stukeley referred to as the "Eleven Barrows".
Here are some pics of this year's efforts.
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Out walking the dog at about 6:45 this evening, I saw a very bright fireball appear from behind the clouds above and to the east of Venus, descending towards the southwest and growing into an enormous brilliant white object almost as large as the moon before fading out about 6° above the horizon.
Anyone else notice it?
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This is interesting - Hugo, are you aware of this?
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The CWU (Communication Workers Union) have a public petition you can sign if you're against the proposed sell off of 30% of the Royal Mail.
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Lovely 3D flythrough animation by Wessex Archaeology's Tom Goskar using the Environment Agency's LIDAR dataset of the Stonehenge World Heritage Site.
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An interesting story here about an equinotial lighting effect in a Suffolk church that has recently been noticed.
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Sad to relate that Horus passed away on Friday at the grand old age of 18.
A most excellent cat, we'll miss him.
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1100 miles from the Straits of Gibraltar, on the Atlantic's Madeira Abyssal Plain, this astonishing image was discovered by a chap from Chester checking out Google Earth's new bathometry data.
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Latest rumour about this saga is that lack of government funds may mean it won't go ahead at all.
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The Architect's Journal claims that the winning bid for the visitor centre is by Denton Corker Marshall and likely to be sited at Fargo after all.
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Google Earth 5 will have bathymetric data.
Excellent!
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