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[miguel_montes]

Hi, my name is Miguel Montes. I'm from Portugal. I'm 24. I started to be interested in Astronomy when I was very young (5 or 6), but really got into it in the 11.º grade, in my school's astronomy club. Since then, I've worked in "Centro Ciência Viva do Algarve" (http://www.ccvalg.pt), a science museum here in Faro, Portugal, as an astronomy monitor. I've been making astronomic sessions almost every night of the summer since '98.

I'm also the webmaster of two portuguese astronomy websites: http://www.ga-esec-pinheiro-rosa.rcts.pt (since last year, neglected... ) and http://www.ualg.pt/ccviva/astronomia. I'm the admin of an astronomy discussion forum in portuguese: http://astronomia.ultimate.pt/forum. I'm also co-writer of an astronomy bi-weekly e-newsletter (in portuguese, check our archives in http://www.ualg.pt/ccviva/astronomia...er/arquivo.htm. If you want to join us, PM me!)

I like doing astrophotography with a buddy of mine.
We also calculated the distance to the Sun in the Venus transit of 2004 (with an error of just 0.011%!!!). And joined the PARTNeR project: http://laeff.inta.es/partner/index.php.

Basically that's it. Glad to be here!

Greetings!

[Hazzard]

Hope that this "fusion" will be as cool as we all hope it will be.

There are few places on the net that I have learned so much about astronomy as the "old" BA site.

Anyway,just whanted to say hi.

[Jules]

Hi All,

I'm Jules from South Africa. I am 31yrs old and am currently a software developer for the emergency services, and formerly an air traffic controller (4 yrs Air Force, 4 yrs civilian).

Intrests include: amateur astronomy, aviation, general science.

I tend to lurk a lot and post little - hope to change that now!

[Heid the Ba']

Hi All! Another ex-BABBler.

43 year old Scottish solicitor, cycling bore and Glasgow Rangers fan.

I lurk a lot on the various technical fora as I don't know enough to contribute, and will post mainly on Off-Topic Babbling.

The Board is dead, long live the Board!

[enginelessjohn]

Another ex from BABB. My name is John and I'm 34. Prior to getting married, moving house and job I was really into gliding, hence the "engineless" bit. These days I spend most of my weekends renovating my house. Alternatively I've got an old VW campervan that usually requires some fettling, as does my wife's Triumph Spitfire.

To pay for this lot I'm an Electronic Engineer with a speciality in RF and mobile comms (mobile phones and what have you....)

Cheers
John

[SciFi Chick]

Originally Posted by Paul Beardsley

I'm delighted by the new merger, and glad to see people like Sci Fi Chick back.

Thanks Paul. It's good to be back.

[Bob B.]

Originally Posted by umop ap!sdn

... where I was born, on JD2444728.2.

You didn't think this was going to fool a bunch of astronomy nuts, did you? At the time you were born I was getting ready to graduate college ... University of Cincinnati, class of 1981.

[MrObvious]

Originally Posted by enginelessjohn

Another ex from BABB. My name is John and I'm 34. Prior to getting married, moving house and job I was really into gliding, hence the "engineless" bit. These days I spend most of my weekends renovating my house. Alternatively I've got an old VW campervan that usually requires some fettling, as does my wife's Triumph Spitfire.

To pay for this lot I'm an Electronic Engineer with a speciality in RF and mobile comms (mobile phones and what have you....)

Cheers
John

RF...... thats black magic voodoo stuff LOL
Thats what my lecturer told us when I was studying many years ago

[Champion_Munch]

Originally Posted by Bob B.

You didn't think this was going to fool a bunch of astronomy nuts, did you? At the time you were born I was getting ready to graduate college ... University of Cincinnati, class of 1981.

Haha, I remember reading over that post by upside down. I was gonna reply but forgot all about it.

Good job on the pickup, Bob B! :P

with regards

[parallaxicality]

I'm Parallaxicality; an ex-BABBer, though I'm not a scientist or anything like that, in fact I'm about to start a Master's degree in early modern textual scholarship. I've had an outsider's interest in science since childhood, however.

[Arena]

Hi all good people at BAUT.

I'm Arena, a 35 year old engineer from Sweden. I got a bachelor degree in space technology but I'm sad to say, have not worked with anything space related. Currently I'm developing test systems for a medical company.

I've mostly been a lurker around BABB, but this may be a good opportunity to change that.

My free time is mainly focused on music [Arena was the name of a band in which I played the keyboard a couple of years ago], programming - mostly related to music software and of course everything related to space science and astronomy.

Regards.

[Fram]

I'm Fram. Coming from BABB as well, with an allround interest in science an a lack of knowledge to match it. I know a bit about art, history, archaeology, and related areas, and I try to use logic and rationalism in judging other topics. If those fail, irony, puns and lame jokes take their place.
Oh, and I like (in no particular order) reading (European comics, SF, ...) music (listening), my girlfriend, my daughter, and collecting stuff.

[Sticks]

Where is JayUtah

[Togusa]

Hi. I'm Togusa, a space exploration buff, neophyte skeptic, and anime/SF fan coming from the former BABB. Nice to meet everyone here.

[Wolverine]

Originally Posted by Sticks

Where is JayUtah

My guess would be that he's off enjoying the holiday weekend.

[enginelessjohn]

Originally Posted by MrObvious

RF...... thats black magic voodoo stuff LOL
Thats what my lecturer told us when I was studying many years ago

Well, many a morning I've come into work, donned my ceremonial robes and talismans, and got stuck into sacrificing a goat to get an amplifier working properly.

It's not really that bad, but sometimes it does require a bit of lateral thought, which I admit will appear somewhat...... non-linear.....

Cheers
John

[MrObvious]

Yup, I luckily don't do that much in RF, however, my last design involved 433MHz front end and the range was woeful. Turned out to be a noisy zener on the other side of the board combined with the phase of the moon at the time and the position of Jupiter and...... Needless to say it took some time to find with test equipment that goes only to 150MHz, well its fun looking back now.

I bow in honor of your patience and strong magic

[N C More]

Well, I guess I represent the non-technical viewpoint. I currently teach English as a second language and do a bit of training humans on how to get along with their dogs. I have a background in Biology as well. Just a skeptical person who likes to look at the night sky!

[Donnie B.]

You know, I'm learning more about my fellow former BABBers in this one thread than I ever managed to do on the old board. I'm thinkin', that alone makes the merger worthwhile!

Oh, and it's nice to get an introduction to you former UTers, too.

[mickal555]

I was just thinking that!

We never had an intro thread....

[jrkeller]

Originally Posted by Sticks

Where is JayUtah

He's back. He's made a post on the Conspiracies forum.

[Moose]

Originally Posted by enginelessjohn

Well, many a morning I've come into work, donned my ceremonial robes and talismans, and got stuck into sacrificing a goat to get an amplifier working properly.

I've always favored Jobu's Sacrifice* for persistent software bugs.

[* That's KFC and rum ala Major League. Candles are optional.]

[umop ap!sdn]

Originally Posted by Bob B.

You didn't think this was going to fool a bunch of astronomy nuts, did you?

Oh, goodness no - I just thought it would be cool to give my birthdate in JD.

[Bob B.]

Originally Posted by umop ap!sdn

Oh, goodness no - I just thought it would be cool to give my birthdate in JD.

Yeah, I thought it was pretty cleaver on your part. It just happens you and I were both born the same month. My birthday is JD 2436345.84.

[antoniseb]

That is cool. Mine is 2435258.19

[Sticks]

Originally Posted by jrkeller

He's back. He's made a post on the Conspiracies forum.

Can someone get him to post here, so those not from BA or AH can know who he is.

JayUtah, if you read this, I would suggest you use for your avatar the one you used to use on the old Apollo Hoax site, of you with the cool wig

[Damburger]

I'm Damburger

CS/AI Graduate. Training to be a Maths teacher. Live in UK.

Into Babylon 5 and Stargate with a slight preference for the latter. Gone off Star Trek in the past few years.

I'm of the opinion that most of humanity are insane, but hopeful that it won't always be so.

[Pete Tattum]

Hello guys. I'm pete...And I'm almost as old as all you lot put together...I've been on BA for about eighteen months and net-weather for nearly three years...Weather, science, astronomy and scepticism just about sum-up my interests in a nutshell!

PS: It'll take me a'while before I can use the smilies...

Nice to meet y'all!!!

PPS: Not that it really matters, but can anyone tell me where my BA post-count has gone??? And, still haven't sussed the smilies...lol

[Argos]

Hello all!

I am (was?) a BABBer since 2001. I´m a software developer in the city of Bauru, state of São Paulo, Brazil. I´m also a musician.

Now I´ll swallow (without ketchup) my criticism about vBulletin. Man, it´s a great board! We´ll surely have a lot of fun in the years to come. :-)

Cheers!

[hhEb09'1]

I was a BABBer even before the phpBB incarnation of it, which started towards the end of October of 2001. At that time, I used my real name. This current nick is in homage to an old BABBer from those times, HUb', whose posts do not seem to have made the transition complete. It also means (upside down) A Mile (exactly 1.609344 km), or A Thousand Paces, which is Latinese for peace.

Pace.