Post Eclipse Pre-“Beeston Blue Moon Beers”

Folks,

In these exciting times of astronomical happenings and even more astronomical politics, we interrupt our normal sequence to sneak in with an extra-regular excuse for food, beer, conviviality, and all and everything Linux and everything else! Phew! 🙂

For just one giggle, we have the comparison of:

• Forbes: How A Solar Eclipse First Proved Einstein Right
• See also arXiv: Einstein, Eddington and the 1919 Eclipse for the social/political context for that undertaking
• The Register: NASA flies plane through Earthly shadow of Kuiper Belt object – From one of the comments: “The footprint of the shadow was about the same size as the object itself, somewhere between 18 and 45 km. The shadow would have travelled at something like the Earth’s orbital speed, which is maybe 50x faster than [the SOFIA] jet. Probably the ‘occultation’ (the official word) lasted only a few seconds.”
• The Register: Clear August 21 in your diary: It’s a total solar eclipse for the smart

And then we get:

• The Mary Sue: Trump Gazes Directly Into Solar Eclipse Without Glasses…

Is this a blind, deaf, dumb Trump reinvented combined embodiment of the Three wise monkeys?! Eeek!!

Meanwhile, enjoy another world away 7:30pm Thursday 24/08/2017 at The Star Inn, Beeston!

Food is served until just before 8pm.

We are likely to be found in the Whiskey room. Look out for some four pawed furry fiends also.

All Welcome 🙂

Cheers,
Martin