Craig Sawyers
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The main feature the foreground galaxy cluster, so massive (with visible and dark matter) that the light from more distant galaxies are gravitationally lensed into curved arcs. If you look deeply into the image you can find faint red dots - primordial galaxies that formed 600 million years after then big bang (so ~13.5 billion years ago)
But you are looking at them as the were, 13 billion years ago But of course since then, they have receded further due to expansion of space. Somewhat paradoxically those far distant galaxies are now 32 billion light years distant, as a result of physics I used to remotely understand, but now rely on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe#Measuring_distances_in_expanding_space
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My sincere condolences - how awful. As you rightly say, fuck dementia.
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Hope you have a great one Birgir! Happy birthday!!
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The mind boggles
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Couldn't resist it....
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That turntable was a real beast. Apart from pneumatic suspension, it had a vacuum hold down for the record (with the pump in another room) and an air bearing linear tracking arm.
The ultimate deck IMNSHO.
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One of the finest speakers I heard were the Rockport Arrakis, in non-ideal conditions at an audio show. Using a pair of Upsilon power amps.
Heaven knows how they got the speakers into the hotel room used for the demo at 900lbs each. At least it was on the ground floor!
Like these
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A good friend who runs an audio accessories company (one of the good guys - not a snake oiler) visited the Wilson room when David Wilson was still alive and at the helm. After listening for a short while, he said quietly to Wilson "I think one of the midrange drivers is connected with the wrong phase"
Wilson went into a major rant, that it was impossible a driver was wired incorrectly - yak yak yak.
My mate shrugged his shoulders and went back to his own room. After a while one of the Wilson techs came and apologized for Wilson's rant, and told him that he was absolutely right - the left hand speaker has one of the mids antiphase.
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Well, expensive though that Sony device is, it undoubtedly is a thing of beauty.
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Stripped pine audio?
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We went to see an absolutely hilarious new comedy at Chichester, in the tiny 300 seat Minerva theatre. Called "The Unfriend" https://www.cft.org.uk/whats-on/event/the-unfriend
This was directed my Mark Gatiss (Mycroft Holmes in the series Sherlock), and had a cast of 7. Including Amanda Abbington (Dr Watson's assassin wife in Sherlock) and Reese Shearsmith (Inside no 9). It was belly laugh funny.
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The infamous Telarc 1812 with cannons that can push even a good cartridge into leaping out of the groove was a digital recording.
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I have all my super random passwords in a Dashlane data vault.
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Like the doggy. And I have to say you look very slim and fit looking these days, sir!
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This hit the BBC news last night. Just awful. So difficult to understand. RIP the 14 small children and one teacher.
How will the parents of the 14 cope?
Arming the teachers will do diddly squat to deter atrocities like this.
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The place to go for open baffle theory and practice is https://www.linkwitzlab.com/
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Coffee is NATO plot to indoctrinate Russian people with Western ideology. We reject this "coffee". Big Brother Putin will instead supply Victory Vodka.
With apologies to George Orwell.
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The guy in the video runs this outfit https://www.lathamtimber.co.uk/products , and sells a whole lot of interesting decorative products including Valchromat. Different thicknesses and panel sizes.
Wonder what the acoustic properties are like? How dead etc.
Just seen this on his site "Please note: due to the nature of our business and our delivery vehicles, we are unable to supply to the general public."
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Have a spectacular one Brent!
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Happy Birthday Antonio!
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Happy birthday Antonio! Hope you had a great (and hopefully cooler!) day.