It was the first day of the International Year of Astronomy opening ceremony. Pretty standard seminar now I've been to a few - some very impressive speakers: Julieta Fierro talking about Mayan Astronomy (very artistic), André Brahic's The New Frontier: The Exploration of the Solar System, (very charismatic), Echoes of Creation: Discovery of the Big-Bang fossil radiation, Bob Wilson (USA, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1978) and From a 'simple' beginning to our complex cosmos: Lord Martin Rees (Cambridge, UK).
These last ones were ruined by the first session massively overrunning earlier. The first session had been a totally boring: "This is a very special year blah blah blah", cutting the rest of the presentations short to catch up time and we therefore did not learn about the end of the Cosmic Microwave Background discovery. Criminal!
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