Jodrell Bank
About Jodrell Bank
Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, England, hosts a number of radio telescopes as part of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester. The observatory was established in 1945 by Bernard Lovell, a radio astronomer at the university, to investigate cosmic rays after his work on radar in the Second World War. It has since played an important role in the research of meteoroids, quasars, pulsars, masers, and gravitational lenses, and was heavily involved with the tracking of space probes at the start of the Space Age.
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I went in there and kind of searched for fantasy football, which I was into at the time, and it kind of just picked up the word fantasy and gave me lots of things that as a young teenage boy, I'd never really seen before. Whoa! A Jodrell Bank, yeah. That's ironic, considering the rhyming slang that Jodrell Bank is. Guys, we need to move on in a sec. I think we ought to, yeah.
from 120: No Such Thing As HMS Kevin, 2016-07-01 at 00:15:03 · read transcript
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They test their drink by dipping a telescope into it. It's called the Dipping Refractometer. It's a tiny telescope. Okay. It's not like Jodrell Bank. You dip a tiny one and it goes into each hole in the Horlicks because it's quite bubbly and it sees how much the light is refracted and that tells you whether you've got a good Horlicks on that. Cool. Is there a perfect refraction level, sort of 38 degrees or something?
305: No Such Thing As A Sentient Jelly, 2020-01-24 · listen
They test their drink by dipping a telescope into it. What? It's called the dipping refractometer. It's a tiny telescope. Okay. It's not like Jodrell Bank. You dip a tiny one and it goes into each hole in the hallets because it's quite bubbly. It sees how much the light is refracted. That tells you whether you've got good horlicks or not. Cool. Is there a perfect refraction level, sort of 38 degrees or something?
No Such Thing As A Sentient Jelly, 2020-01-24 · listen
They got 100 journalists in to report on this. How many people had the internet by then? I reckon it was about then that I went to Jodrell Bank, which is a big telescope in the north of England. That was the only place that had the internet.
No Such Thing As Debreadtion, 2026-01-22 · listen
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- Sutton · United Kingdom
Coordinates: 53.2362, -2.3071