The Observatory is under threat?

Did I miss it, the news, the fact? Did you miss it? Someone for­got to post it on the office notice board at Wel­ling­tonista Towers (off-line and very cork‑y) … or did I miss it by being else­where?

Any­who … it’s not gonna shut because “they” have decided it’s worth keep­ing open … but it’s not forever:

The gov­ern­ment will give it $2.2 mil­lion, but says that will be the last pay­ment it will receive.

The coun­cil will con­trib­ute $300,000 a year for 10 years, after which the obser­vat­ory is expec­ted to oper­ate on its own.

Source: Radio NZ: Carter Obser­vat­ory to stay open

And that’s fine. Now we know.

And what do we (the intel­li­gent people of Wel­ling­ton) need to do? What do we need to do to move bey­ond this 10 year bound­ary.

VISIT!

Ensure the kid­dlie-wink­lies of today and next Tues­day have the same oppor­tun­ity to step out of “Tues­day” and go, “Wholly fuck!” (or the kid­dlie-winkle equi­val­ent)

VISIT!