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Old 07-February-2008, 02:31 PM
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Hi Everyone,

I just 'bumped' into this board after listening to the Astronomy Cast podcast on iTunes, which I'm finding very interesting.
I've recently started an Open University degree course in Cosmology. This is the first OU course I have attempted and it certainly is very different to studying at University which I spent many years at completing a BSc and MSc in Geology and Climatology.

I was hoping that this would be a good place to pose questions relating to the Cosmos and from browsing at the boards, so far, it seems that I've come to the right place. There appear to be many experts here, I hope you don't mind me picking your brains!

Oh and as you can tell from my 'handle' I like a beer!

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I was wondering about your handle. Good beer, nice bottle (I'm channeling Worf today).

Maybe your background in Geology and Climatology will be a help with discussions we have about such topics (particularly Global Warming) in the General Science forum.

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Old 08-February-2008, 05:37 PM
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Hello all from north central New Mexico. I moved out here last April from the light polluted skies of New England, where I was born and grew up. I've been into stargazing since i was 10 (watching Sputnick passing overhead hooked me!) and with practically no information sources back in the late 50s, I taught myself and learned the hobby the hard way through the "school of hard knocks". All of my observations are done visually with a Mead 10" newt and a pair of 10x50 and 11x70 binoculars. The sky out here is so dark and clear compared to N.E., it's renewed my observing intrests to the max! If I have any questions, I'll ask and answer any I can. Looks like a great forum and I'm loking forward to enjoying it.

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Old 08-February-2008, 05:40 PM
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Old 08-February-2008, 07:18 PM
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welcome Mr.Q and a belated one for you Jack Roach!
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originally came to BAUT looking for scientific evidence to refute a couple of moon hoaxers at work (how does a 1 hr program of pseudo-science / misrepresentation / downright fakery outweigh 40+ years of hard scientific evidence?) and found the site right up my street.
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Since i joined two years ago i don't post much i just read. My name is Charlie, im 21 atm. I'm originally from North Bergen, New Jersey and moved to Pembroke Pines, Florida when i was 16. I wasn't into astronomy too much,
(being from Northern Jersey you don't see many stars) up until three years ago. On a drive to Key west i looked out side my window at the sky and WHAM! I pulled over and sat on top of my car for two hours. Been hooked ever since. Joined the Airforce a year ago and work at Buckley AFB, CO.

Not much else. Although i hope when i die i come back later when we have resorts on other planets as vacation spots. (AHH Starship Troopers)
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Old 13-February-2008, 09:36 PM
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Hi and welcome to the forum. When I moved out here to north central NM, I too was amazed at the very dark skies compared to back in new england with all its ligtht polution and haze. Mr Q
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Been reading the BA blog for quite some time(i check the bookmark for it compulsively) and never really bothered to register or anything until now. I'm Joe, a first year ph.d student at RPI in electrical engineering doing research in optoelectronics. I've been a fan of astronomy and astrophysics for a long time and my love for space rivals my love for shooting lasers at things.
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Hi Planar WaveSherpa. Good look with carrying all those photons.
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I'm a freshman at University of Wisconsin, Madison, planning to major in either physics or engineering physics. I've been looking around here on and off over the last couple years, but finally decided its time to participate (looks to make a good hobby). Right now, I'm really into chess, table tennis, and movies, but I'm always looking for new things to try.
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