Making an astronomy stool

[Uchtungbaby]

I just made myself a stool to sit on when viewing the stars and planets. I call it the Starbutt Stool. It is made entirely out of cardboard, paper and water based glue.

The stool should be able to carry a grown adult of at least 95kilograms.

If the Dungeon Master offered to send me a free beanie, then I would be willing to create a thread or article which will show everyone how they can make their own astronomy stool for peanuts.

A picture of me sitting on the stool has been attached less a picture of my face.

As a digression, if I am sent a beanie, I will also write a few facts about who actually discovered the principle behind mirror physics. And I don't mean Isaac Newton. I actually am referring to none other than Professor Robert Hooke, a reluctant friend of the eccentric Newton.:)

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/5663/mesittingonstoolari4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[matt]

Good luck with that:lol:

You are aware that all the 'How To' and DIY articles at this site are submitted voluntarily, without expectation of payment?

I'm not sure a cardboard chair is going to get you over the line!:rofl:

Good try, but...:thumbsup:

[acropolite]

If the Dungeon Master sends you a beanie he will be setting a very dangerous precedent. It is usual for the subjects to send the dungeon master gifts of cash, not the opposite. I suggest that you send the dungeon master $20 (better still make it $25) and the beanie will be forthcoming, and the results of your paper mache endeavours may be indellibly etched in to the IIS psyche. :P

[ving]

lol, good luck!

[Dennis]

Hmm, interesting choice of words. I looked them up and found the following examples:

Dungeon:
1. a strong, dark prison or cell, usually underground, as in a medieval castle.
2. the keep or stronghold of a castle.

Master:
1. an owner of a slave, animal, etc.
2. an employer of workers or servants.
3. a person whose teachings others accept or follow: a Zen master.
4. a person who commands a merchant ship; captain.

I don’t think we have either around here?

Cheers

Dennis

[Gargoyle_Steve]

Dennis in this case the sum of the parts is greater than the whole.......
(wink)

"dungeon" and "master" are exactly as you say, but used as "Dungeon Master" that way is originally a reference back to the heady days of playing "sword and sorcery" type games, eg Dungeons & Dragons and later many other similar type games.

"In the Dungeons & Dragons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons) (D&D) role-playing game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-playing_game), the Dungeon Master (abbreviated as DM) is a selected player who describes the game to the other players. In effect, the Dungeon Master creates the entire world and allows the players (the DM is usually not described as a player) to interact with that world."

Ucht ... if you want the beanie just pay the bucks like the rest of us did, or the DM may decree that you've been hit with a High Accelerator spell!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_Master

[Dennis]

Ahh - many thanks for that Steve, I'm showing my complete ignorance of gaming here! I must be one of the very few people who have never yet played a computer game. I’m a game Luddite I guess!

Cheers

Dennis

[Uchtungbaby]

'Be knee' not 'beanie'. That should reverse the spell.:)

[mill]

Please dont ask for gifts in return for a writup on a stool.
This is an amateur astronomy forum.
Sharing is caring :)
That reminds me to do a writeup on some very cheap dsc's.
And that ccd cam if the weather would get better.

[Orion]

Gee mate, in the DIY section there is a wealth of information on how to build observing chairs, telescopes and what have you.

You want a beanie for a cardboard stool!..:doh:

[h0ughy]

its a Special Height Indespensable Tier!!!!!!

[CoombellKid]

Dennis



My old man was one of those, does that count :D :rofl:

regards,CS

[Dennis]

Hey Rob

Did you inherit his sea legs? I got miserably sea sick going out whale watching on Hervey Bay – no sea legs for me? Mind you, there was a 2m swell and a howling gale at the time.

Cheers

Dennis

[duncan]

Cardboard and paper eh! Looks like one of them fire place bricks.:lol: :lol: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :D :whistle:

[CoombellKid]

Dennis,



Sure did/do, I remember as a young lad when my father would do 6 months
on 6 months off, during the off period he would work as a pilot on the the
pilot launch. That is he would go out and bring in ships if the Masters on
board were either unfamilar with the port or weren't ticketed for that port. I
would go out on the pilot launch with him and drop the pilot or him to the
ships at sea. Sometmes in masive swells that would tower up each side of
the little pilot launch. I loved it :D watching the pilot or my old man waiting
for the top of the swell to jump onto the ladder and climb up the side of the
ship.

regards,CS

[Uchtungbaby]

Oh goodness me, all this sea(c) talk reminds me of the truth about the inventor of mirror physics, and I don't mean Isaac Newton. I am of course referring to his contemporary the Professor Robert Hooke.

Professor worked tirelessly for years trying to develop sensible town planning London which would avert overcrowding. He had to contend with trying to make up for the knowledge lag present in the work of none other than Issaac Newton, believe it or not.

It is to Hooke that we owe the invention of the magnifying reflecting mirror and not Newton. However, it is the case that records show that Professor Hooke gave credit for the invention of the reflecting telescope to Issaac Newton. In return Newton promised to keep out of the way while he worked on a set of sensible town planning regulations to avert overcrowding in slums and byways teaming with prostitutes and dandy's.

Newton himself was not averse to the idea of the good life, and could often be seen talking with a soft skinned boy or an effeminate castrarsi. Professor Hooke did what he could to salvage the reputation of Professor Newton. Some wonder why?

Would it not have been better to let Newton be seen for what he was- a reckless dandy? Of course not, Hooke's work load was too heavy, and having a lazy dandy filling the spaces was bad enough. If he summoned Oxford to have Newton removed, then years of academic neglect would have to be remedied.

Professor Hooke simply did not have the time. So the story that Newton invented the reflecting telescope was allowed to permeate in Oxford circles, while Hooke went about trying to mend an incredible looming problem in London.

Marco Polo had returned from China a number centuries before, and London was a wash with incredible examples of papier mache. Houses completely furnished in paper lined every street. It was an accident waiting to happen.

As I say, Newton was completely reckless and had the mind of a child. He was completely jealous of Professor Robert Hooke. Some say he was so jealous that it was he who was the Jack O' Lantern who set fire to thatch roofes in central London during the great fires. It is said that Professor Newton watched whimsically from a Balustrade at the university while London burned. A piece of pineapple pilphered off a ship headed for Paris, firmly wedged in his tawny mouth.:)

[matt]

Prof Hooke a mate of yours?:lol:

[Uchtungbaby]

"Good Question Matt". Said the table.

Well, it is to the sea that one must turn to discover the reckoning of Hooke and his momentous discovery of magnification through eliptical concave surfaces.

Hooke was on the English Kings ship returning from treaty talks with the King of France, one of the Louis' no less. He spied a strange pot of soup and noted how it was as clear and tasteless as water. Later, he would find that it was in fact water.

Looking into the bowl as it shifted up and down with the waves, yielded varying intensities of magnification. Hooke reversed his thinking and imagined an inverted plate. On that very day, a set of rough sketches were developed in a cabin boys locker room for what would become the reflecting mirror, that you all so enjoy.:)

[matt]

That'll teach me.

No more questions here.

Say hello to the table for me:shrug:

[fringe_dweller]

Dear Table,
Sir, I think you are nothing but a Hooke stooge!

btw I have another suggestion in addition to Houghies wonderful suggestion, for an alternative name for your reinvention of the wheel/box

Collapsible Rectumangular Arse Prop-er-up-er-rer

- hope you like it!

P.S Are you Tonia Todman lovechild? it's uncanny! except that you have a greenish featureless globe for a noggin' - what that about?
P.P.S I wouldnt be talkin too much bout the sea around these parts - we have trouble with pirates (well people talkin like pirates neways) arrrr

[Lex]

i`d liketo see the chair for peanuts

[matt]

:lol:

Apparently... it's just a 'shell' of a chair:rofl:

[Ric]

What happens to the chair if it is a dewy night?
Does the moisture get into it?

Cheers

[Uchtungbaby]

All fireflies have to remain anonymous now luv.

I could tell you how Professor Hooke created the concave mirror which Newton received as a gift for keeping out of the way, if it pleases you luv.

I've decided not to reveal my face anymore. Someone tried to auction me on ebay the other day.

Quite honestly, the world is composed of a pack of carnies.:)

[h0ughy]

me thinks your one mirror short of a full hooke newtonian!

[matt]

:rofl:

I'm wondering whether these are random sentences generated by a pooter???

[fringe_dweller]

..and thought it was cos you were a dentist!



Life is a carnivale' ol' chum?

[matt]

Or ol' 'luv', as the case may be:lol::lol:

[iceman]

Well it's been fun while it lasted.. :whistle: