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Quick links to various main topics in my blog
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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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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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Discovered a 'spaceship' mode in my planetarium software...
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Francis Pryor investigates drowned lands around the UK coast, culminating with Doggerland and the discovery of a mesolithic roundhouse near Howick, Northumberland.
BBC Radio4 27/1/2009 11:00am.
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... condensed into one minute, based on large civil aircraft transponder data. You won't believe your eyes.
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All you ever needed to know about precession, how to calculate it, why the analogy of the Earth precessing like a gyroscope is wrong and where the energy to start the process off comes from.
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The Army/MoD/Defence Estates has a statutory duty to run conservation groups which monitor, report and advise on the condition of military training areas, and the Salisbury Plain Training Area is no exception.
The successful Imber and Bulford Conservations Groups cover SPTA(West) and SPTA(East) respectively, and after two years being moribund the Larkhill and Westdown Conservation Group was resurrected last night to cover SPTA(Central).
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New Scientist
Those of you who've suffered in person from listening to some of my more outlandish hypotheses might recognise this one :-)
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Keep an eye out for the latest Thompson Holidays advert, where they assemble a beach scene from scratch.
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For all the good it'll do...
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Freezing fog put paid to my plans to take photos of the Plain under full moonlight this week, but one spectacularly clear night allowed me to snap the following.
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Thought I'd go and try and find a couple more milestones along the Old Marlborough Road, having recently used a collection of old maps to plot their locations onto modern terrain (good old Google Earth!)
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...Dr Rupert Till, an expert in acoustics and music technology at Huddersfield University who believes the standing stones of Stonehenge had the ideal acoustics to amplify a "repetitive trance rhythm" not dissimilar to some kinds of modern trance music.
The original Stonehenge probably had a "very pleasant, almost concert-like acoustic" that our ancestors slowly perfected over many generations
Because Stonehenge itself is partially collapsed, Dr Till used a computer model to conduct experiments in sound.
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ARCHAEOLOGICAL director Mike Emery believes new evidence shows a direct link between his dig south of Chester and Stonehenge.
His team has uncovered a 4,500 year-old limestone plaque at the Poulton excavation, bearing a mysterious crisscross pattern.
The closest parallel is a chalk plaque found in 1969 on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, just 1km from Stonehenge. The markings were made with a flint tool and flint from Salisbury Plain has previously been found on site.
“There has obviously been contact between the two areas,” said Mike. "There has got to have been trading of some kind."
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(For some reason, I had this saved as draft and never got around to publishing it - it was originally written at 16:50 on 02/01/2007. Anyway, here it is...)
It's all Johnny T's fault - mentioning Mithras has got me thinking about calendars again.
It's actually something that I've wondered about for many years - just whereabouts exactly is the original First Point of Aries? Or put another way, when did each of the World Ages (eg the Ages of Taurus/Aries/Pisces etc) start?
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It's all about knowing exactly where to stand...
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NT have objected to using Fargo as the location of the proposed new visitor centre.
Story from BD Online
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Just received an invite to attend the first meeting of the reconstituted Larkhill and Westdown Conservation Group.
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