#robert farquhar

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Robert Farquhar, Terrestrial and celestial globe on a stand, 1963,

Printed plexiglas, plastic and painted metal,

Dated and inscribed © 1963 FARQUHAR TRANSPARENT GLOBES PHILADELPHIA, PA. U.S.A. on the globe,

Height : 200 cm ; 78 ¾ in ; diameter : 90 cm ; 35 ½ in

From the Palais Maeterlinck apartment of François and Betty Catroux.

Courtesy: Sotheby’s

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The Neon Demon Nicolas Winding Refn. 2016

Swimming Pool 1923 Micheltorena St, Los Angeles, CA 90039, USA See in map

See in imdb

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Spending my day coffee staining paper for The Trail of Josef K (LIPA: 23rd-25th March)

[uconndrama]

Dead Heavy Fantastic By Robert Farquhar October 24 - November 3, 2013 Tickets [phone] or http://crt.uconn.edu/ It's always been mad in Liverpool, England on a Friday night -- you leave the house feeling like a million dollars and return your own poor relation. And that's how it is for the motley crew in Robert Farquhar's contemporary comedy Dead Heavy Fantastic as they lurch their way from tentative first drinks to an apocalyptic sunrise, sure in the knowledge that they're pretty likely to do it all again next week. Critic Laura Davis observed, "A thoroughly entertaining piece of theatre populated by memorable characters, Dead Heavy Fantastic encapsulates the energy and eager anticipation of a Friday night out without the disappointment of the morning after." Mature Content.

[dduane]

More than 30 years ago, Robert Farquhar stole a spacecraft.

Now he's trying to give it back.

The green satellite, covered with solar panels, is hurtling back toward the general vicinity of Earth, after nearly three decades of traveling in a large, looping orbit around the sun.

If Farquhar, a former mission design specialist for NASA, gets his way, the agency will command the spacecraft to fire its thrusters, veer close to the moon, and slip back into the spot where it was intended to be when it was launched in 1978 — and where it was when Farquhar and his accomplices "borrowed" it.

Back in the 1980s, space agencies were racing to Halley's Comet. But NASA wasn't going — officials said a comet mission was too expensive. That did not sit well with Farquhar, who had dreamed of achieving the first comet encounter ever.

So he figured out how to divert an existing satellite, called the International Sun-Earth Explorer (ISEE-3), that was stationed between the Earth and the sun in an innovative halo orbit that he had pioneered.

Farquhar came up with a complicated trajectory that would let this spacecraft intercept a different comet called in September of 1985, months before the armada of other space probes would arrive at Halley's.

"We beat all the other countries of the world," recalls Farquhar. "The European Space Agency. The Russians. The Japanese."

President Reagan even sent him a congratulatory letter.

But some of the scientists who'd been using ISEE-3 to study things like solar wind were not amused by the comet caper.

"They thought that — it was in the newspapers, even — that we stole their spacecraft," says Farquhar. "We didn't steal it; we just borrowed it for a while! That's what I tried to tell them."

Read more: "Space Thief Or Hero? One Man's Quest To Reawaken An Old Friend"