Whats Next

Me with my physics face on.

Now that I've arrived at the GMRT, my place of residence for the next two months, the average reader may not wish to read about my day to day life. Where previously it was adventurous and risky now I spend most of my days at a computer observing the pulsar B2045-16 in hopes of understanding the infant universe. There is much more to it than that and I will share it all but there is definitely not two months worth of material for me to write on. I'm to have to dig deep as it is.

So in order to keep your attention I will let you in on a few things that are to come. Perhaps I am too presumptuous thinking you will be interested at all and so I will leave a few surprises off the list, hoping that curiosity will draw you back at a later date to see what they are.

Mark trying to understand the universe.

- There is a grand mountain that pokes up from the ground. The distance to it is hard to judge but I think it is easily safe to say that it is larger than the one in Jaipur. There are no stairs on this mountain that I can see. There are no roads leading up to it that I know of. And every night we see a fire burning at the second highest peak at what appears to be a temple. Me and Mark will leave early one morning and travel by foot to the mountain and scale it to the top. I'm looking forward to these pictures. I'll take a GPS so I can let you know the altitude at the top.

The shielding door on the Terminal Room. We spend most
of our time behind this door computing. The door is
supposed to be for stopping radio interference but
it's really for keeping leopards and tigers out.

- There are at least four different kinds of reptiles (not including the snakes), and a plethora of large bugs. I would like to document them all in a long post full of pictures and descriptions of their behaviors.

- Hopefully we can track down a leopard. This one would be a challenge.

- All four venomous snakes. They are known as The Big Four. I'll be sure to bring along the polyvalance antivenin just in case.

I have had a week to the day (upon writing this entry) at the GMRT and I have been trying to clean up my backlog of blogs. Soon I will run out of old material and I'll be fully up-to-date. Keep checking back.