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    The night sky

    By Will 2 months ago, 1 Comment »

    I can still remember Mrs Turner teaching us, aged seven in class 1JT, the planets. On a greyish, cracked blackboard she drew vague representations of the planets. It was crude and completely inaccurate but definitely sparked something within me.

    Now, there’s no need for Mrs Turner and her blackboard - which is just as well since she’s dead. Instead, Microsoft have come up with the Worldwide Telescope - a Google Earth for the sky - and it’s completely, magically brilliant. In it, you can zoom around space like Neil Armstrong; visit Venus; dive in and out of the Milky Way and see how far it is from the Moon to Jupiter. 19 years ago, this kind of tool couldn’t have been imagined - and now we have it all to ourselves. Just imagine what the seven-year-olds of this generation are going to come up with in 19 years time having explored space from such an early age.

    Truly, bloody awesome. And no, this has nothing to do with cricket. Go get it now.

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