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| Thread ID: 54583 | 2005-02-16 08:47:00 | Stonehenge in the Wairarapa | vinref (6194) | PC World Chat |
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| 325593 | 2005-02-16 08:47:00 | Just off Slashdot, the Stonehenge that was being built just out of Carterton by a New Zealand astronomical society, with a grant from the Royal Society of New Zealand, has been completed - website here (www.astronomynz.org.nz). It would be cool to be standing in that place lining up the stars, sun and the moon. Anyone live in Carterton? Why did they build it? I'm not entirely sure, though it does seem to be some sort of monument to ancient astronomical technology. Mentioned on the website are the old Near East and European contributions, and also a Polynesian aspect. It's amazing to think that the Polynesians colonised a massive area of ocean from Madagascar to Easter Island, and from Hawaii to New Zealand. |
vinref (6194) | ||
| 325594 | 2005-02-16 08:57:00 | Odd for slashdot to be that far behind the times. | ninja (1671) | ||
| 325595 | 2005-02-16 16:59:00 | Thanks for the website link. Unfortunately I got this error message from the site: Bandwidth Limit Exceeded The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later. I guess this means that heaps of people are accessing the site! I live in Masterton and we plan to visit the site soon. There are plans for additional educational items to be near the site. Along with the observatory, Carterton gets a well deserved place on the astronomical map. :D |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 325596 | 2005-02-16 19:22:00 | en.wikipedia.org The Slashdot effect is a particular example of how a popular website can cause a smaller site to slow down or even temporarily close after causing a great increase in the number of visitors going to the smaller site. The huge influx of web traffic is a result of it being mentioned on Slashdot, a popular technology news and information site. Typically, less robust sites are unable to cope with the huge increase in traffic and become unavailable – either their bandwidth is consumed or their servers are unable to cope with the high strain. |
ninja (1671) | ||
| 325597 | 2005-02-17 03:24:00 | Great to see that the Wairarapa has this icon of mans early devotion to the stars. We are a little more advanced in Southland - which is no suprise. The Unwin Tiger Radar was officially opened last Friday. See www.stuff.co.nz It might sound all very esoteric to study aurora, but space weather (from which aurora result) is important. For example, groundstations lose satellites from time to time which is a bummer if you are on Sky Digital. Studying space weather and aurora helps to predict satellite movement and solar events so as to avoid very difficult problems. |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 325598 | 2005-02-17 05:20:00 | Anyone live in Carterton? Yup... But I have no real interest in stargazing. |
pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 325599 | 2005-02-17 05:41:00 | While we are at it, could we have a show of hands for any Wairarapa people here? I'm in Masterton |
Sam I Am (1679) | ||
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