For one heady moment I thought you had got into watching old episodes of Babylon 5

Sorry to miss you - again! Maybe at WOMAD when it returns….

Unless … that’s not the moon, it’s the remains of the Death Star? ;-)

nice picture, I must use your photographer ;-)

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Oh, we know! Greetings from Lancaster

Just gave a short talk on the Data release Processing for the Vera C Rubin Observatory in our Lancaster ‘First Look’ event. Lancaster&RAL will process 25% of the data over 10 years

🇬🇧 The United Kingdom's UK Data Facility and IRIS network will process about a quarter of Rubin’s data.

With this global data coordination, Rubin will not only #CaptureTheCosmos...it will fuel discoveries around the globe! 🔭🧪

There’s a lot of Pinot noire, Gamaret and gamay produced around Geneva - but not much sign of it in the U.K. The quality is good though it is relatively pricey even locally.

My immediate reaction is “what, London Heathrow, London Gatwick and London Luton? What about the rest of the U.K.? And when do we take measures to break this crazy hub-and-spoke model that has pulled all the long-hauls to hubs and *decreased* connectivity for most.

Exactly - even those who can pay cannot get them around here, there are no stocks to be found

Sorry we will not be back there in 2025 - you were good neighbours to the World of Physics! Maybe 2026 when the dust settles…