Starlink - An online computing facility for UK astronomers. Consists of a network of computers at UK universities, a collection of software to reduce and analyse astronomical data, and a team giving hardware, software, and administrative support.
The Joint Astronomy Centre - Services and support to enable astronomers to undertake research using the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope.
UK Planetary Forum - Contains pages for 24 research groups in the UK, with details of their research topics and contact details for experts in planetary science.
AstroGrid - Research and development project to produce a virtual observatory based on grid technologies. Site has news, forum and wiki areas allowing free and open collaboration on project.
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-- Mary Pettibone Poole "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Astronomy
Change before you have to.
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-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
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-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
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-- Oscar Wilde Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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-- Rose Kennedy Astronomy
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During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Astronomy "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
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- Elbert Hubbard Astronomy
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
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-- Billie Holliday Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Astronomy
A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
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looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
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mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Astronomy "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
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-- Jim Backus Astronomy
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-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Astronomy Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Astronomy
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Astronomy "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Astronomy
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Astronomy Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Astronomy
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Astronomy Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Astronomy
