finite_elephant (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} finite_elephant) wrote,@ 2008-02-12 14:55:00 |
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| Current mood: | sad |
| Current music: | They Might Be Giants: Why does the sun shine? |
| Entry tags: | photography, science, travel |
The summer home observatory
If I had an observatory at my house, I would be out there all the time. If I had big telescopes at my house, you would have to pry me away with a crowbar. People would be sick of hearing me talk about the stars and planets, and they would run and hide every time I got out the pictures.
But alas, it is not so for everyone.
As reported in the Independent, Pope Benedict XVI is moving the observatory off the grounds of his summer residence.
Science is to make way for diplomacy at the Pope's summer residence, with the dismantling of the astronomical observatory that has been part of Castel Gandolfo, south of Rome, for more than 75 years. The Pope needs more room to receive diplomats so the telescopes have to go.
Moving it to make more room to receive diplomats? I think the stars would be more interesting, but nobody died and made me Pope.
