What a great mind and great soul. And since this lecture we now know of many many “dwarf planets” the size of the 9th planet he mentioned in our system and thousands of exoplanets.
What's frustrating is that no matter how many videos about science I watch, almost nothing sticks to my stupid brain. Like, say I read or watch a video about why the sky is blue. I can explain it well enough a few hours later. Fast forward 3 days, and I can't even remember the overall explanation, let alone the details :|
Why is every other comment about ‘how it was better in the old days and how you don’t get tv like this anymore? Don’t watch tv today. Go on RU-vid and watch this all day
Listening to this when we've reestablished contact with the Voyagers, I think Carl would have been proud that they are still going and there is a small dedicated team just to stay in contact with them
To speak with cathartic eloquence of the sort which arouses interest in most, while defusing chauvinism of kinds one did not know to be extant. Carl's oration is presumably the best marriage by far, of science communication and poetic linguistics, ever known to life on earth.
It is a privilege to have lived in the same time period Carl Sagan, he was passionate about science and sharing that passion with others. We will never see his like again. Even if there are highly intelligent people who are just as passionate about knowledge they will lack his stoic nature and objective honesty.
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Many thanks for your reply! Yes, I have tried a few things... The mount DOES always seem to know where Home Position is, and once a target has been found, seems to track perfectly. But the good news for me is that I think I might have sorted it this weekend. I just need a couple of clear nights to confirm - cloud-solving right now! I suspected the hand controller so took that apart and gave it a good clean, especially the contacts and rubber actuators. What (I think) made the biggest difference is removing the caps off the motors and cleaning behind the optical encoder wheels(?) and optical sensor with a fine cotton bud and Isopropyl. I am somewhat amazed that any level of accuracy can be achieved with these tiny plastic wheels mounted on these small motors, but there we are!
You may have already tried this but.....Have you disengaged the clutches on both the RA and DEC, and send the command to park the mount? Then manual placed the mount into the parked position and then reengaged the clutches, then attempted to slew to a target? If that fails of failed, use ascom drivers and a program like NINA to try to control the mount directly bypassing the hand controller. Have you done any plate solving and compared the results to the hand controllers reported position? My initial reaction is the mount doesn't know where it's orientated to begin with.
What a man, what a mind , moves me to tears to think of what would have been , if he was still around. How sorely the world misses this renaissance man.
Classic that Sharon ,i can actually remember that ,seems like yesterday.great viewing.its a pity they dont make shows like that any more. Kind regards.
I do remember seeing some episodes like this and liked them a lot. It was the bleeps that they used in the show that always make me laugh with any show that uses them.
