for 90+ years some of the best telescopes in the world were made in Dublin Ireland

With our cloudy skies Ireland is renowned for astronomy. odd that isn’t it. Ireland can boast the oldest observatory in the world, 5000 years observing sunrises at Newgrange! The largest telescope in the world for 70 years was built at Birr Castle, and of course we had William Rowan Hamilton, and in Dublin we built…

very strange radio occurrence hit Irish air space on Saturday – have a listen

On Saturday June 10th 2012 you might have noticed your FM radio turned into what normally happens on Shortwave Radio. Science bit: The E layer of the atmosphere became ionized and reflected back FM signals that normally travel out to the moon and into outer space. This is known as Sporadic E. coz its rare…

i just used @quedtv to subtitle Jean Luc Mélenchon MEP video to English on YouTube – this is the HowTo

import video to http://qued.tv like http://qued.tv/29132add your cuepoints and English translationat the bottom of the online editor click SBV to download a SBV file of the captions / subtitlessample http://qued.tv/subs/29132.sbv.txt (txt ext. so server will display to you as readable text) Then go to YouTube video / edit / captions and add the SBV file.…