Hobbies that are slowly dying due to apathetic millenials

On Monday, October 17, 2016 at 3:54:52 PM UTC+1, Mike Collins wrote:
Gerald Kelleher wrote:
On Monday, October 17, 2016 at 1:22:56 PM UTC+1, wrote:
On Monday, October 17, 2016 at 7:39:04 AM UTC-4, Gerald Kelleher wrote:

'astronomy' is a hobby as it is for many others here

What exactly is it for you, birdman?


As a Christian, the worse condition of humanity was not disbelief but mediocrity -

“I know your works; I know that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you
were either cold or hot.So, because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor
cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. For you say, ‘I am rich and
affluent and have no need of anything,’ and yet do not realize that you
are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked" Christian truth

For Christ the rich were to be pitied more than the poor for the same
reason you think astronomy is an expensive hobby -

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are some one else's
opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Christ was
not merely the supreme individualist, but he was the first individualist
in history. People have tried to make him out an ordinary philanthropist,
or ranked him as an altruist with the scientific and sentimental. But he
was really neither one nor the other. Pity he has, of course, for the
poor, for those who are shut up in prisons, for the lowly, for the
wretched; but he has far more pity for the rich, for the hard hedonists,
for those who waste their freedom in becoming slaves to things, for those
who wear soft raiment and live in kings' houses. Riches and pleasure
seemed to him to be really greater tragedies than poverty or sorrow. And
as for altruism, who knew better than he that it is vocation not volition
that determines us, and that one cannot gather grapes of thorns or figs
from thistles? " Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

You can get nothing from your posts unless goading others into uttering
inanities passes off as a discussion. Hopefully things work out for you
in your new expensive hobby.






You've got a long way to ride before you can aspire to mediocrity.

Well,well, well ,if it isn't another one of my slaves.

Have you figured out Newton was trying to express the Equation of Time which uses two sticks, a shadow case as a location turns to noon and a watch -

"Draw a Meridian line upon a floor and then hang two plummets, each
by a small thred or wire, directly over the said Meridian, at the
distance of some 2. feet or more one from the other, as the smalness
of the thred will admit. When the middle of the Sun (the Eye being
placed so, as to bring both the threds into one line) appears to be in
the same line exactly you are then immediately to set the Watch, not
precisely to the hour of 12. but by so much less, as is the Aequation
of the day by the Table." Huygens

Tell me all about relativity and I will show you a hapless bunch who couldn't and still can't manage to deal with Newton however I can . It is junk but at least understandable junk -

"Absolute time, in astronomy, is distinguished from relative, by the equation of time. For the natural days are truly unequal, though they are commonly considered as equal and used for a measure of time; astronomers correct this inequality for their more accurate deducing of the celestial motions...The necessity of which equation, for determining the times of a phænomenon, is evinced as well from the experiments of the pendulum clock, as by eclipses of the satellites of Jupiter." Principia

It must be something else to witness the whole thing come apart at the seams regardless of who looks on .

The last time you pair got into correspondence with me you believed the Irish were British and that is not insulting as I greatly admire many facets of British heritage but it is intentionally funny. Of course the British like their eccentrics as Brexit has shown and Sir Isaac was one of them, pity the whole world followed him into catastrophe.