It's been a busy year for astronomy and space travel - appropriately in this International Year of Astronomy.
The latest gadget to get off the blocks is the amazing Widefield Infrared Survey Explorer - the name tortured into shape so it could be known in brief as WISE.
This all-seeing eye can look at and look out for objects in the furthest reaches of inter-galactic space. The last infrared scope offered only four pixels (can you imagine such a thing?) while WISE has four million, so the quality of the images is expected to be outstanding.
As always at such times we hope the objects detected will not include candid snaps of yours truly at leisure with a group of willing nymphs; we must remind ourselves at those private moments to draw closed the curtains of invisibility.
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This blog was inspired by news of an answerphone line to god set up as a Dutch art installation. Messages were left by members of the public (though the artist declined to listen to them) and it seemed only fair to arrange a facility for communication back in this direction. No offence is intended.
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- king of the gods? In this incarnation maybe just a jovial oldster with some outspoken views. You will surely not mistake the moments in which the true bearer of this mighty name appears, for by his words you will know him and wish to pay him heed.
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