Writing on the Casa wall

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Radio Astronomers ou pas ?

There is a heavy discussion, forwarded to me, going on in the Americas about whether Radio Astronomers are
Astronomers using radiometres or Radionomers picking astronomical signals.

First of all my American cousins don't seem to remember that to have a good philosophical discussion you need your beret, pipe, good wine and a cafe. As they have none of this their discussions are just a joke !
Why the fuss you may say....it seems in the Americas they think if they can call themselves astronomers using radiometres then they can claim money from a larger pot.

But what they don't understand ...is that you cannot change your spots... Radio Astronomy has to be done the way we have done it all the time...Its like champagne ...you cannot make champagne in California...it has to be done in Champagne and using the right process.

That is why the whole of the aips++ mess...if they respected the traditions ...life would have been good.
Let the tradition stay and stand proud: We are Radio Astronomers and fiere de l'etre ...Les faibles and miserables call themselves astronomers. Tigers don't call themselves cats, nom de Dieu!

Sunday, March 05, 2006

Unleashed!

This weekend I have unleashed an early product - a version of AIPS++ designed to appear very similar to the previous version but with some hidden features. This tests the forward and reverse transformations that I have developed. To alert the quite often dozy AIPS++ developers, I have reset the VERSION number. Let us see what happens.....

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