All your basepair are belong to us » Cockles, for the warming of http://rg-d.com/BioLOG Biologging for fun and profit since 1994 Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:56:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 On the telly! http://rg-d.com/BioLOG/2010/10/19/on-the-telly/ http://rg-d.com/BioLOG/2010/10/19/on-the-telly/#comments Tue, 19 Oct 2010 19:13:20 +0000 rpg http://rg-d.com/BioLOG/?p=304 Once you get past the ad and the gloating Canadians, fast forward to 5:12 in this video:

http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/TV_Shows/The_National/1233408557/ID=1618838637

]]> http://rg-d.com/BioLOG/2010/10/19/on-the-telly/feed/ 1 Stuffing it to the shackle-draggers http://rg-d.com/BioLOG/2008/08/19/stuffing-it-to-the-shackle-draggers/ http://rg-d.com/BioLOG/2008/08/19/stuffing-it-to-the-shackle-draggers/#comments Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:07:16 +0000 rpg http://rg-d.com/BioLOG/?p=139 Funny, there’s been buggerall news about the rowing and cycling down here.

Yay team!

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It has long fascinated me, the thought that light actually travels. That we observe the moon, the sun, and especially the other stars as they once were, not as they are now. 

John Halton is similarly fascinated by light that is seven and a half billion years old:
most distant gamma ray burst, from APOD

John’s wife drew his attention to this wonderful and apposite poem by Elizabeth Jennings:

Delay

The radiance of that star that leans on me
Was shining years ago. The light that now
Glitters up there my eye may never see,
And so the time lag teases me with how

Love that loves now may not reach me until
Its first desire is spent. The star’s impulse
Must wait for eyes to claim it beautiful
And love arrived may find us somewhere else.

 
That is all.

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