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by concurrentsquar 770 days ago
Great visualization, though (ironically, as one of the first Chrome experiments) the music no longer works on Chrome by default (go to site settings > sound and set it to "Allow" to hear it), and it is somewhat outdated now (for example, it states that no exoplanets have been discovered orbiting Proxima Centauri (and that the 'proposed' JWST is required to find these planets)).
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When I first went to Josemar bank as a kid there was a display talking about how exploits may theoretically exist. This would have been early 1990s.

I went a few years ago with my kids, about the same age I was, and they had a counter which was in the thousands.

Did you mean "exoplanets" not "exploits"? That's my best guess, but I have no idea what "Josemar bank" is (another typo? Did you mean to name some kind of science museum, maybe?) which makes it hard to tell.
I think they meant Jodrell Bank,a radio telescope with an astronomy based visitors centre in Cheshire in the uk

https://www.jodrellbank.net/

Thanks!. Figured it was something like that, but Google and Wikipedia were no help.

It's an interesting name for a telescope. What does "Bank" mean in this context? The Wikipedia article links to another telescope, the "Green Bank", but that one just appears to be named after the town it's in, which doesn't seem to be the case for Jodrell Bank.

Edit: Nevermind, the Wikipedia page does have the answer. "It is named from a nearby rise in the ground, Jodrell Bank, which was named after William Jauderell, an archer whose descendants lived at the mansion that is now Terra Nova School.

Yes, post Eurovision posting from a phone leads to devastating typos