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    • August 4, 2015 at 1:29 pm #81222
      Alexandra Browne avatarAlexandra Browne
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      I’m sorry about this, but I have an alter ego: as an amateur astronomer! :D

      http://www.firstlightoptics.com/misc/zarkov-cloud-gun.html

      Alex

    • August 4, 2015 at 11:44 pm #81245
      Howard Brown avatarHoward Brown
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      Alex, you have an expensive other hobby – did you already shoot your second ‘x’ off?
      Was this offer dated 1 April (the Ming dynasty ended 1644)?
      How many can not drink the rainwater and how do you tell them?
      How high the moon? (Or at least the cloud beneath).
      Not near an airport? You can not be serious, it perfectly complements the laser gun.

      ‘H’ (for Ho, Ho, Ho)

    • August 7, 2015 at 8:34 pm #81319
      Alexandra Browne avatarAlexandra Browne
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      I had to read this a few times – still don’t get it! Yep, an expensive hobby, and getting more and more expensive!

    • August 7, 2015 at 11:51 pm #81320
      Howard Brown avatarHoward Brown
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      Ah, so. Well not to worry Alex, I talk in riddles at times. But it also occurs to me that the hole in the cloud perhaps moves with the cloud? Could go some way in an hour, and with the moon moving as well…

      So I am not impressed with the cloud-gun for astronomy; though I could see it working for moongazing on a still night for a few minutes. It might be nice for cloudspotting a higher etage on that still night – but I wonder how you might control the height of the hole; you would not want to shoot through the lower cloud and have a nice but invisible hole in the higher cloud.

      Zarkov is probably a great lateral thinker.

    • August 9, 2015 at 8:58 pm #81349
      Alexandra Browne avatarAlexandra Browne
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      Ha, ha, now you’re speaking my language. I suspect the gun could be waved around to clear a much larger hole!

    • August 15, 2015 at 11:28 pm #81482
      Howard Brown avatarHoward Brown
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      Another Old Goggle Eyes?

      In The ST Culture Mag 09.08.15 page 18, Waldemar Januszczak has a picture (which I can not find on-line) which is attributed to Emma Finn and presumably is from her film Double Mountain at the Edinburgh Festival. The picture is of spectacles on a face reflecting mountains (with clouds!).

      http://www.edinburghartfestival.com/commissions/emma_finn/

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