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ESOcast 05: An Astronomical Success Story – ESO’s First Observatory Celebrates 40th Anniversary.
ESO’s La Silla Observatory, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary, became the largest astronomical observatory of its time. It led Europe to the frontline of astronomical research, and is still one of the most scientifically productive in ground-based astronomy.
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La Silla is a 2400-m mountain, bordering the southern extremity of the Atacama desert in Chile. It is located about 160 Km north of La Serena.
Originally known as Cinchado, the mountain was renamed La Silla (the saddle) after its shape. It rises quite isolated and remote from any artificial light and dust sources (astronomy’s worst enemies). La Silla was the first ESO observatory built in Chile. Its history is full of optimism and disappointments, ups and downs, since its beginnings in the 50′s until the middle of the 70′s when the observatory became a reality.
http://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/lasilla/site/aboutls.html
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La Silla Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Chile with eighteen telescopes. Nine of these telescopes were built by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) organisation, and several of the others are partly maintained by ESO. The observatory is one of the largest in the Southern Hemisphere.
La Silla is a 2400 m high mountain, bordering the southern extremity of the Atacama Desert in Chile. It is located about 160 km north of La Serena, 27 km south of Las Campanas Observatory, and 100 km north of Cerro Tololo Observatory. It rises quite isolated and remote from any artificial light and dust sources. La Silla was the first observatory in Chile used by ESO.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Silla_Observatory
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@TheRationalizer …
@TheRationalizer not in southamerica and even in Chile but in Africa it can be a European project
@b29349 lol unless …
@b29349 lol unless you dont beleive than your a worthless piece of right? and he is so great he can use evil for good? WTF!!! if hes that great then why the couldnt he just uhhhh lets say use good to make more good. you, sir, are a complete incompotent jackass
@b29349 lol so he …
@b29349 lol so he made rapist with there own purpose and atheist right? if so then why do we have to repent if it was our purpose
what a load of …
what a load of shite! God does not exist or he is a assole. Its one or the other. No loving god would create a world like this.
@ b29349…. then …
@ b29349…. then why does god kill babies?
No. All people die …
No. All people die at some time.
The Lord has made …
The Lord has made everything for its own purpose, even the wicked for the day of evil.
God’s strategy in history, then, involves maneuvering unwanted evil to his good ends. “This is not to say that he wills evil himself, or even that he willingly allows it, but such is his greatness that he can use it for good. God does not directly determine everything that happens and his glory lies partly in the fact that he triumphs in spite of this.
@b29349 man made …
@b29349 man made artificial limbs not god… thats so lame. We have to do that god can’t. Which is everything because there is no god and is why your answer is so incredibly weak. We cure cancer, we fix hearts, we save people under the rubble of an earthquake, we send aid to victims of natural catastrophes, we stop criminals, we fix teeth, we cure diseases, we put out forest fires, we save ourselves whenever possible while God stands by and does absolutely nothing! Not a single thing does he do.
@b29349 so a baby …
@b29349 so a baby is bad when god kills it in an earthquake?
You are not bad …
You are not bad unless you do bad things.
open the program …
open the program and click 3D it’s next to 2D
he has just not in …
he has just not in the way your thinking, through artificial limbs.
While that’s a nice …
While that’s a nice prospect, I think it works the other way.
It’s the christians and muslims who continue to tell us that if we don’t believe in their sky-man, we’re going to hell. You have no idea how insulting it is to hear that we’re bad people, even while we continue to live more fulfilling, more pious lives than many christians or muslims.
@jpsousa4 I am just …
@jpsousa4 I am just saying that respect is mutual. If you give it, it is often reciprocated (but not by 9/11 conspiracy theorists). If this person was more respectful, religious types would be more respectful towards the Atheist movement.
But I digress,
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But I digress,
Everyone has the right to talk however they want. It does not need to be constructively and you just like anyone else is not the boss of me. Especially not online where I can talk about what I want how I want it and when I want too.
It does not matter what you want in the end. Your ideas however are welcome and I would consider them, but not with TFC. Sorry no dice.
Nasher, I tried …
Nasher, I tried talking constructive to him it did not work. Stopping to swear does nothing and changes not. Anyone minding any swears just seem silly these days. TFC stereotype does not go away even if you have a long rational discussion with him. I wish you could change him I tried without swearing or anything else. Sadly it does nothing he goes on spouting his BS over and over without fail.
Don’t you see that …
Don’t you see that you’re just reinforcing TruthfulChristian’s negative stereotypes of atheists?
Talk constructively or not at all.
How do you get …
How do you get google earth in 3D ???
@TruthfulChristian …
@TruthfulChristian Why has God never cured someone who has a severed limb?
Look! I’m posting …
Look! I’m posting on the internet and trying to be better than others!
@NathanWubs You are …
@NathanWubs You are a disgrace to atheists everywhere. Do not let this person fool you.
I was thinking the …
I was thinking the same thing.
I wonder if it’s possible to visit the actual observatory. It would definitely be a great experience.
This is great but …
This is great but were they damaged during the earth quake ?
Goddammit, you …
Goddammit, you christian, I do not care if you do not want people to swear, you little piece of god fearing shit. Go suck God cock.
If you cannot withstand swears then put the option to filter it out on .
where did it go
where did it go