Multi-wavelength astronomy fun

[fivemack]

http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/multiwavelength_astronomy/multiwavelength_museum/

Some pretty pictures, and really rather good didactic commentary.

Also, to do for geography what Jane Austin and the Flying Moose of Nargothrond do for literary criticism, consider the following map

http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/2464/bob2fe.png

Comments

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[ellarien]

I wonder when the point of divergence is for the map. My guess would be somewhere in the second half of the nineteenth century, but I'm not enough of an alt-history buff to narrow it down any more than that.

Re: Boggle

[scottscidmore.livejournal.com]

Think you are correct. US-Mexican war, Turkey fit. Venezuela separated from Columbia in 1830. Germania looks a lot like the German Empire of 1871 to 1918.

Bokhara/Buhkhara/Sogdiana existed as a Khanate in the 16th to mid-18th centuries, and as an Emirate from then until 1920; around 1860 or 1870 it became a protectorate of Rassia and was absorbed into the USSR in 1920. Given the Russian Synarchist label, it suggests a change of government there in the to later 19th century, leaving Bokhara independent.

Re: Boggle

[mobbsy.livejournal.com]

Given the apparent choices, I'm not sure I believe the similarities in the extent of decolonialisation to those in the real world.