@fizzixrat Nice to meet you. The X was like giving us the bird, me thinks. Babylon 5 was awesome. Also like DoctorWho and Star Trek. Did you like Torchwood?
I volunteer at an observatory most summers. Did you ever work at one?
@mpax Torchwood, of course. :) Also Sarah Jane Adventures and even Class.
I did some volunteer work at the uni planetarium and observatory end of undergrad and a few more years. Mrs and I got married in that planetarium, in front of a Zeiss VI. I spent a lot of time there watching the Voyager press conferences and JPL feeds as a lad. (A selling point when I asked about volunteering a few months after the Neptune encounter - they remembered me hanging around answering science questions.)
@fizzixrat Cool. I got to meet the guy that wrote up the material on Neptune. I volunteer at Pine Mountain Observatory, which is part of the Univ. of Oregon. Central Oregon has grown a lot, which is ruining the dark skies.
@mpax Alan Stern was a grad student and postdoc near me when I was an undergrad. He had his eyes on Pluto then. It was fun to see New Horizons come together.
Co-discoverer of the F ring of Saturn was one of my profs and I first met him when I was in high school. Discoverer of the first discovered T rex footprint was also one of my profs too. (Had class with him the day of the press conference.)
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