Daniel SuarezJun 15
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Hot new job: telescope ranching. "People from all around the world send their telescopes here to observe the night sky from this place with no light pollution. We set them up and they can all access their stuff through a computer remotely." https://kottke.org/26/06/telescope-ranchers
Telescope Ranchers

Rockwood, Texas is home to a unique business, Starfront Observatories. Owner/operator Bray Falls hosts hundreds of other people’s telescopes in perfect cond

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Show threadSSFC KDT 💚💙⚽🌹💻🍺✌Jun 15
@kottke sounds like a bowie song title
Show threadBaziArtJun 15
@kottke very interesting, I have a telescope
Show threadColin WildingJun 15
@kottke There's something oddly comforting about this.
Show threadSam Jun 15
@sundogplanets
Show threadglasspshrJun 15
@kottke jfc. If my telescope’s out some place dark, you can bet I’ll be with it.
Show threadWillJun 15

@kottke

"A storm is on the way, boys! We need to get those telescopes under cover! So..."

Show threadDarwin WoodkaJun 15

@kottke

Add this to the list of things we can pay rural people to do instead of destroying the land!

Show threadNazoJun 16

@kottke Actually... seems like a pretty cool idea?

Though if someone really wants to beat the competition, they need to set this up in Antarctica or something. 😆

Show threadPSoul•US 🏳️‍🌈Jun 16
@kottke I wonder what they could achieve if they all image the same object at the same time.
Show threadDavi OttenheimerJun 16
@kottke fun! I built the first robotic telescope on the Web in 1995. took me a week to compile the slackware kernel