SSO News

Published in the RSAA Lunations
Vol1 Issue4 1–31 May 2020

 

Science operations at SSO stopped on March 26, and apart from a small team doing essential maintenance and checks, we are working from home. In these unusual and challenging times, the 7:55am SSO briefing is as important as ever, serving the dual purpose of keeping everyone informed and allowing some lighter moments. Here is a contribution from Daniel Cotton and SSO.  Many of you who were growing up in the 70s may recognise some of the words. For those that did not, here is a hint.

 

Here's the story

Of group of people

Who were busy working underneath a dome

Each day,

They maintained a telescope 

Something none of them could do alone

 

It's the story

Of a Corona virus

That decided to take humans as its host

Some of them, 

Travelled to Australia

And the virus began to spread from the coast

 

Until the one day when the ANU went into lockdown

And the politicians had the same hunch

So now we're isolated from friends and family

and having these Zoom meetings a whole bunch

 

A whole bunch, a whole bunch

And we're having these Zoom meetings far too much 

That's the way we became the SSO Bunch