Buzz Aldrin and Alexei Leonov share a few thoughts at the Starmus Festival, Tenerife, June 2011.
Another magic Starmus Festival moment and my last post for today 🙂
This is the first time that Buzz Aldrin and Alexei Leonov met in the Starmus Festival main hall. What a photo opportunity! There was a mad dash for the stage to get “the shot” and a little bit of jostling … Continue reading
Board showing key players at the Starmus Festival – the whole thing was put together by Garik Israelian. Must admit – never been referred to as a leg end before 🙂
Am now suffering from major Starmus withdrawal symptoms. Is it really coming up to a week since I experienced the truly amazing Tangerine Dream concert?
Jack Szostak presented a talk titled “The origin of life on Earth” which I personally found one of the best of the whole conference. It was a bit unsettling for me though as for the first time I actually felt … Continue reading
Richard Dawkins presented a very enjoyable talk titled “Exobiology and Religion” at the Starmus Festival on Tenerife.
This month’s deep sky object is a Globular Cluster, this time M56 in Lyra. Why? Because I really like Globular Clusters with a Milky Way background – and this is what the M56 region offers us 🙂 M56 lies at … Continue reading
Managed to get the deck treated without the threatening rain actually coming down. Plastic over the all Aluminium pier as it is threatening to rain again, and this time it looks like it means it. Gary is due to deliver … Continue reading
Nobel Laureate and astrophysicist George Smoot gave a talk titled “Signals from the beginning” at the Starmus Festival, Tenerife. Garik – how on Earth did you get all these megastars to come along?
