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Immortality bio from Cosmos

Cosmos magazine have printed this up for the Science on Tap Immortality talk Thursday night. I worked at the Culgoora Solar Observatory which is on the same grounds as the Paul Wilde Observatory, and I see they are finally putting their images on the web in real time. I still can't find the beautiful colour image of the Type II solar event I observed in 1992 that IPS used as the image for their advertising poster that year. Culgoora is the observatory where my back was permanently injured in one of those astronomy accidents. I met Paul Wilde's niece, who expressed surprize that they've named the Observatory after him, as he's still alive. Immortality by name before you're dead? No traditions are sacred.

About the author: Ian Woolf lives in Sydney, has a degree in Applied Science, worked as a solar astronomer, software engineer, systems programmer, webmaster, research assistant, Cisco CCNA tutor, Physics laboratory demonstrator, Computational Theory lecturer, and subject coordinator; while changing his career to freelance writing and broadcasting. Listen to Ian on the Diffusion radio science show on radio 2SER 107.3FM Monday at 6:30pm in Sydney or streaming audio on www.2ser.com, or listen to the Diffusion podcasts. You should follow me on twitter, here

Posted by iwoolf at July 6, 2005 12:34 PM