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Ms Janice McClean.
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23 September 2020 at 6:59 pm #574737
Mr Jack Martin
Participant23 September 2020 at 7:37 pm #583155Jeremy Shears
ParticipantThat’s about as much use as a chocolate teapot, Jack!
23 September 2020 at 9:05 pm #583156Peter Carson
ParticipantI like chocolate and I like telescopes! I reckon I could eat that in one observing session.
23 September 2020 at 9:15 pm #583157David Swan
ParticipantNot good for solar, but at least – after a time – you’d be left with a Milky Way leading up to the observatory.
24 September 2020 at 10:01 am #583159Pauline Phillips
ParticipantNow make a real one…
24 September 2020 at 11:06 am #583161Ray Emery
ParticipantIt’s amazing how people go on finding creative ways to waste their time and resources. The “glue” should taste better than Araldite, mind. Not so sure about the paint job. As a diabetic, I could probably only manage the eyepiece.
24 September 2020 at 11:52 am #583163Dr Paul Leyland
ParticipantA few years ago I was given a chocolate teapot as a Xmas present. It worked entirely according to spec.
It was designed to melt when boiling water was added, the liquid then to be used as a fondue-like coating for other edibles such as pieces of fruit, biccies, etc.
25 September 2020 at 2:20 am #583165David Arditti
ParticipantThanks Jack, I’ll put it in the next E&T News. But I’ll keep it separate from the cats, as it would poison them.
25 September 2020 at 6:45 pm #583173Mr Jack Martin
ParticipantDavid,
Just a bit of fun and its different, thanks for including in E&T News.
Jack
25 September 2020 at 7:01 pm #583174Mr Jack Martin
ParticipantRay,
I don’t think Alain Ducasse, Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver, Heston Blumenthal, Rachael Ray, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Paul Hollywood, Anne-Sophie Pic, Clare Smyth, Lisa Goodwin-Allen, Emma Bengtsson, Ainsley Harriot, John Trode, Marcus Wareing, some of whom are Michelin star chefs would agree with your comments, me included.
Jack
26 September 2020 at 1:46 pm #583175Robin Leadbeater
Participant“It’s amazing how people go on finding creative ways to waste their time and resources”
I have to say I’ve done my fair share of that in astronomy too 🙂
26 September 2020 at 9:22 pm #583181Alan Thomas
ParticipantA brilliant idea! Spend hours waiting (unsuccessfully) for clear skies and then cheer yourself up by eating your telescope. I like it!
1 October 2020 at 12:05 pm #583195Dr Richard John McKim
ParticipantDie-hard chocaholics might like to visit the Museum of Chocolate in Prague. It has no telescopes, chocolate ones or otherwise, but it does have many impressive wall paintings done in chocolate. (Liquid chocolate is not very different to thick oil paint, though more unforgiving to the artist as it cools.) When visiting, though probably not during a global pandemic, you are served some melted chocolate, and then you can produce your own chocolate painting on the spot (or drink it). When I went with my family, several years ago, I painted a chocolate portrait. There is scope (pun intended) for an artist to paint something astronomical in chocolate……
1 October 2020 at 3:50 pm #583197Ms Janice McClean
ParticipantI presume chocolate telescopes are generally made of dark chocolate unless you want to observe the milky way..
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