JWST Online RAS Public Lecture

[Graeme]

Anyone fancy this:

https://ras.ac.uk/events-and-meetings/r ... -telescope

[ChrisGreaves]

https://ras.ac.uk/events-and-meetings/r ... -telescope

It's only an hour, right? Thursday afternoon 1300-1400 UK time, so 11:39-12:30 local time.
I would feel bad if I booked a seat and then couldn't show up, though.
Thanks, Chris

[Jay Freedman]

It's only an hour, right? Thursday afternoon 1300-1400 UK time, so 11:39-12:30 local time.
I would feel bad if I booked a seat and then couldn't show up, though.
Thanks, Chris

Chris, I think your calculation is off by a little.

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[ChrisGreaves]

Chris, I think your calculation is off by a little.

Thank you, Jay. And off by more than the nine-minute typo in my post.
Sigh!
I made the same mistake on Monday, September 29, 2014.

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Back then our gallant hero arrived at CDG around 9:30 for a flight billed as “dep 1500”, known as three o’clock in the afternoon.
Sigh!
I think I need a care-giver ...
Cheers, Chris

[HansV]

And that while you could have had a cup of coffee with me in Paris...

[GeoffW]

I made the same mistake on Monday, September 29, 2014.
Paris_HPIM8979.JPGBack then our gallant hero arrived at CDG around 9:30 for a flight billed as “dep 1500”, known as three o’clock in the afternoon.
Sigh!

That's far better than doing it the other way around.

I had friends who went to Korea, who had a flight booked back for 15:00, so arrived 2 hours before their 5pm flight. They had to buy new tickets.

In their defence, they went to Korea to bury their father, so were perhaps not in the clearest state.

[ChrisGreaves]

And that while you could have had a cup of coffee with me in Paris...

that's right1
It's all coming back to me now.
Then it got worse: I met you two years later in Amsterdam, I experienced the first of two TGV rides (they always seem to come in pairs) and thinking that the spurs of the RER-A lines were closed for maintenance on the weekend (Sat-Sun) I arrived back at Châtelet-Les Halles and watched several trains rumble in and then out to La Defense and St Germain-en-Laye until it dawned on me that the spurs closed down early evening Friday.


At this point I must have panicked because I hopped aboard a train for La Defense, then paid 80 Euros for a cab to Poissy.

I promised myself that never again would I meet with you on my third trip to the Île de France, and I appear to have learned my lesson.

Cheers, Chris

[ChrisGreaves]

In their defence, they went to Korea to bury their father, so were perhaps not in the clearest state.

A good argument for taking with you someone not related to the deceased at all. An impromptu tour-guide, as it were.
Cheers, Chris