Should I do SILICON, man, should I?

“"Should I do SILICON, man, should I?" he asked his friends.

"That degenerate stuff? Are you crazy? I wouldn't touch that stuff. No way. Uh-uh, "they all said. "Just cool out, OK?"

The above is from here.

Just love this astronomy stuff. Thanks to all the TTers who steered me into some of the sites in this field.”

“Quite the nifty story. I am into astronomy, too.”

“I used to be really into it.. probably still would be if I hadn't moved near a huge city and light pollution makes it hard to even see the moon at night. Great hobby, have you guys seen the new Hubble pics? Really cool!”

“"The answer was blowing in the wind"??? Boooo! Hissss! LOLOL

Oh... SiliCON, <G>...

Once I got *that* straight, I thought you meant that you were departing the world of photographic emulsions for that of Charge Coupled Devices.”

“Tilt - Thanks for the link. I clicked on it and found more material in the links and references than I can read in a lifetime. Good stuff, though! (And I will be reading some of it.)
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In the introduction I learned:
The CCD-IPCS is available only at the WHT, where it is an option on the UES, the blue arm of ISIS and on TAURUS. I hate to leave this unfinished, but it is time for some one-pocket pool games. I pretent that the balls are stars that I'm shooting into a black hole. LOL”

“pocket pool!

too much info, man!”

“Dad-blame Internet!! More links leading to more links leading to more links! LOL

The only thing to do now is to check out The Acronym Database!”

“Cool story!

8)”