I thought I’d go for a slightly different top 10 this week. Zoo users are distributed all over the world – in more than 170 countries, in fact – but some places have more than others. I present, therefore, this week’s top 10 most zooite filled cities :
1. London – No surprise here given where the launch of both Zoo 1 and Zoo 2 took place
2. Manchester – Are the good folk at Jodrell Bank spending all their time on the Zoo?
3. Birmingham - Long running astronomy program the Sky at Night is based up here, so perhaps this is what they do the rest of the month.
4. New York - Now we know why the city never sleeps
5. Bristol - A sudden rush up the charts in recent weeks; I’m taking the credit as I talked there a few weeks ago. (Edit : Of course I should have mentioned the sterling efforts by Alice and Rick who gave talks there this year too.)
6. Portland - Why Oregon? I’m struggling here, because all I know about Portland is that it has a football team. According to Wikipedia, its nicknames include Stumptown.
7. Sydney - Our friends from Down Under are obviously taking a break from being unfeasibly good at sport
8. Glasgow - Being an astronomer in Glasgow must be tough with that climate. No wonder they turn to Galaxy Zoo
9. Orlando - Shouldn’t they be concentrating on building and launching spacecraft?
10. Colchester – Is this the place with the highest population of Zooites per capita? A town in Essex, Colchester was the capital of Roman Britain. They grow good oysters, too.
Thank you Alice for the info…I was a bit conserned that I was alone and adrift in space, but now I know I was just not following the rules. Anyway, hellow everyone, from maybe the only zoo,er from Ogden ,Utah. Frank Rueff Sr.
Hi, I’m zooing from Leipzig, Germany.
Glad to see that there are so many different nations helping this project.
Greetings,
Turin
Whenever I mention Galaxy Zoo 2 to friends (or anyone willing to listen) in Chicago, I get a blank look. It’s not surprising that we’re not on the list. *grin*
hi moonrock is living in malaga spain
About the only night sky visible* in New Orleans** where I zoo is within the Zoo
Cheers everyone!
*(due to being below sea level, usually high humidity, massive light pollution)
**(uptown, Irish Channel to be exact)
Chris is right about the weather in Glasgow (Scotland) being very poor for astronomers. I only get about 40 observing/imaging nights between September and May, with there being no astronomical darkness for the rest of the year (56 degrees North). Still, the beer is good here in Scotland. Hope you enjoyed your couple of pints with us last Saturday Chris : )
Tom
I’m so glad that I’m not the only one from Germany… Hallo, Turin
I’m clicking in Tuebingen, Southern Germany.
Have fun,
Christine
from a small village called Lake (between Sandown and Shanklin) on the Isle of wight in the south of England.
G’day from Adelaide, South Oz.
Congrats to all on success of GZ and now GZ2.
Particular compliments to the folk who keep the site so well organized.
I get a real buzz out of every aspect of GZ from the lottery of the initial glance to a small sense of participatory satisfaction when I hear of new science flowing from GZ data.
Out of curiosity, has anyone bothered to calculate the processing power and hours of work involved? Could/has a (dollar/social) value be placed on this form of info processing?
Goodonyasall.
Alan S….Cambs fens.
Although I am resident in France, I know the Cambs fens very well. I will be staying in Cambridge for the next few days – A visit to Wicken Fen is on the agenda.
I will no doubt be zooing from there.
Margo.
I zoo from the Chicago, Illinois, USA suburb of Chicago Ridge.
I zoo from Linda-a-Velha, a suburb of Lisbon, Portugal! I wonder how many more zooites are from Portugal!
I zoo from Kibbutz Sheluhot, in Israel’s Beit Shean Valley. It’s about 130 meters below sea level here – does that make me the world’s lowest Zoo user?
Mr. Lerner,
Before you claim to be the world’s lowest Zooicon, you should see Bakersfield,CA.
Oh, you meant elevation…
any others in Lincoln
Nice Top 10,
Idea for next time: Countries!
I zoo from Charlotte, North Carolina USA
I truely enjoy the site and the science, and making my small contribution to all the zookeepers research. Thanks All
Dan
I zoo from a beautiful hillside in Wales overlooking the River Severn and Dolforwyn Castle
From little village of Akeley in North Buckinghamshire,England
50 miles from Birmingham.
Glad to see my home town of Glasgow is there. Glasgows climate isn’t very different at all from Southern England as some would have you believe. ( It sits in a valley and so is protected from the extremes )
I zoo from the home of the blues and deep fried everything-Memphis, TN in the southern USA! Any other zooites hail from M’town?
I zoo from a village in the south of the Corrèze, Limousine, France but only 2 miles from the Lot. Nice to see I’ve a fellow zoo-ite in the Pyrenees. One recruit so-far, but plenty of blank looks! I’m hoping to attend the Alumni weekend in Oxford where astronomy will feature including the zoo
I’d just like to put on record that not only staff at Jodrell Bank and “say-no-to-id-card”ers, live in Manchester,England, and that even though we have lots to do in the friendliest city in the world, we still find lots of time to zoo 2 ! (So much that it’s taken until now for me to get to read this blog )
Arizona? Scottsdale?