00:00 <packbart> yes, einstein@home searches for signals in the gravitational data (and also for binary-pulsars in old radio telescope data because those should also produce gravitational waves)

00:01 <packbart> "The search did not reveal any gravitational-wave signal. Based on this we draw conclusions about the population of neutron stars in our Galactic neighborhood. For example, within 100 parsecs (~330 light-years) around Earth there are no neutron stars rotating faster than 12,000 rpm with equatorial mountains larger than half a millimeter; otherwise we would have very likely detected their continuous

00:01 <packbart> gravitational waves."

00:01 <packbart> they did find all the test-signals inserted into the data, though

00:02 <raptop> all of the nearby white dwarfs are indeed fairly hot, though I'd want to check on cooling timescales vs how they're so small that cool ones are hard to see

00:03 <raptop> still an interesting result for the pulsars though!

00:05 <raptop> additional recent work on stellar colors: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asna.202113868 https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06254

00:12 <packbart> ah, thanks. for those not listed, I guess I'll just sample the star color in Elite Dangerous :)

00:12 <packbart> and my neutron stars _are_ blue-white

00:12 <packbart> no matter what reality thinks

02:19 <raptop> !mission

02:19 <LunchBot> You try to launch your Jool probe with an Inertial Upper Stage from your payload bay. The Windows 64-bit version morphs into skynet and incinerates humanity.

02:22 <raptop> well, what else am I going to use, a Kentaur? After what happened to KTS-51-L?

08:37 <Eddi|zuHause> !mission

08:37 <LunchBot> You "pspspsps" an SRB. You have been plagued with Null Reference Exceptions.

08:38 <Eddi|zuHause> <insert insults to the devs here>

10:08 <XXCoder> Eddi|zuHause: treat it like a cat, it'll act like a cat and bat around programs ;)

10:08 <XXCoder> ;mission

10:08 <LunchBot> You launch an unamused octopus into orbit to spy on everyone. AN entire town dies in the process.

10:09 <XXCoder> hmm many steps between those 2 lol

10:11 <Eddi|zuHause> that's effectively a mini kraken :p

10:11 <XXCoder> ah yes kraken revenge

10:11 <XXCoder> makes sense

10:52 <darsie> Where should I get KSP2 from? steam?

11:37 <packbart> that's where I got it from

11:37 <packbart> it probably doesn't matter much except for how you'd get updates

11:38 <packbart> "We’re proud to announce the official relaunch of player-submitted video advertisements in EVE Online" - yay, more spam! :)

12:36 <Mat2ch> !mission

12:36 <LunchBot> You order a shipment of asbestos-free snacks for your pilots. Jeb has changed the music to Gary Numan.

12:37 <sandbox> 1337

12:59 <darsie> since my graphics card fans were idle or low speed, was KSP cpu bound?

13:02 <darsie> orange means it can't keep up with graphics, IIRC. red means it can't keep up with physics simulation.

13:03 <darsie> I have an i7-3770 and 1660 Ti.

13:17 <Mat2ch> KSP was always CPU bond

13:17 <Mat2ch> *bound

13:19 <packbart> yeah, increasingly so with part count

13:19 <packbart> it's hard to say with KSP 2, yet

13:20 <ThatOneGuy> Long time, no see, guys! Whats up?

13:20 <packbart> a better graphics card means you can use shinier graphics mods, though

13:20 <packbart> ThatOneGuy: rockets?

13:21 <ThatOneGuy> nope, Eve

13:21 <packbart> hm. Eve's rather more "over there" than "up" but eh, who's pointing

13:22 <ThatOneGuy> Jeb, as he slowly floats by

13:23 <ThatOneGuy> So, whats been going on?

13:24 <packbart> let's see

13:24 <packbart> !mission

13:24 <LunchBot> To aid you with celestial navigation you try to use Stellarium, but you mistakenly start Stellaris instead. Asteroid B612 lands on KSC.

13:24 <ThatOneGuy> hehe

13:24 <packbart> Dragged and dropped it there, probably

13:25 <raptop> !8ball Should I try to turn KSP into programming challenges?

13:25 <LunchBot> If we're lucky, yes.

13:25 <raptop> hmm

13:26 <ThatOneGuy> Englis

13:26 <packbart> raptop: you do know about https://www.twitch.tv/jonnyothan ? ;) program kOS via Twitch chat

13:27 <raptop> twitch plays KSP seems like it would end in a silly way

13:28 <raptop> packbart: admittedly no. A lot of this was from finding that kRPC 0.5.2 might work with KSP 1.12.5

13:32 <darsie> Ah, ok, so getting a 1660 Ti may still help with KSP2.

15:24 <Eddi|zuHause> !mission

15:24 <LunchBot> You encounter the Knights who say NI₃. Even the Kraken is on fire.

15:24 <Eddi|zuHause> that sounds about right :p

15:25 <Althego> hehe

15:25 <Eddi|zuHause> at least they didn't say FOOF

17:41 <raptop> !mission

17:41 <LunchBot> You build a huge contraception instead of a contraption to escape Eves atmosphere and reality. The Shivans destroy your Mun base.

17:41 <raptop> I'm blaming sasamj for this mission

17:42 <Althego> hehe

17:42 <Althego> i think the outcome was me

17:43 <Eddi|zuHause> !mission

17:43 <LunchBot> You spray-paint the Mystery Goo gray. Your plans are foiled by the Great White Shirt.

17:43 <Eddi|zuHause> and white wins once again...

17:44 <raptop> that mission is most likely my fault, no idea of the outcome

17:53 <darsie> so, steam?

18:00 <raptop> probably

18:06 <darsie> k

18:27 <darsie> Can we have a black hole, please?

18:27 <darsie> orbiting a neutron star

18:33 <darsie> 50 EUR? Wasn't it 40 USD?

18:33 <darsie> Hmm, that was KSP1 price.

18:34 <darsie> How much is it in USD?

18:39 <raptop> KSP1 is 40 USD, and KSP2 is 50 USD last I checked

18:39 <raptop> anyway, black holes and neutron stars seem pretty boring unless you also simulate a bunch of weird stuff that KSP doesn't

18:46 <packbart> over in my other space game, black holes are rather boring optical distortions in space. neutron stars are unrealistically pretty, swirling jets and all

18:49 <Althego> which other

18:51 <packbart> Elite Dangerous, where the speed of light is just a unit of measurement

18:52 <packbart> not to be confused with the space-themed Tradewars with optional background graphics (EVE) ;)

18:53 <darsie> How can I pay 50 USD instead of 50 EUR?

18:53 <packbart> buy it in the US

18:53 <darsie> thx

18:53 <darsie> How much is it in India?

19:15 <darsie> I have an offer to buy it for 1.599 Ukrainian hryvnia equals 39,47 Euro

19:21 <Mat2ch> https://isthereanydeal.com/game/kerbalspaceprogramii/info/

19:21 <Mat2ch> with exchange rates this might be equal

19:22 <darsie> I'm not receiving my email verification code ...

19:25 <darsie> Maybe it's stuck in a tarpit.

20:27 <darsie> now says 499,00 kr, but idk which country.

20:31 <packbart> and then you'll get your download stuck in customs ;)

21:05 <Mat2ch> darsie: should be Denmark.

21:06 <darsie> I thikn it's nok.

21:07 <darsie> 43.03 EUR

21:10 <Mat2ch> Then it's Norwegian Krona

21:35 <darsie> An unexpected error has occurred. Your purchase has not been completed.

21:35 <darsie> Maybe my bank doesn't like me to shop fro Ukraine.

21:54 <Mat2ch> That's possible

21:56 <umaxtu> I know there are issues getting money out of ukraine and I've had issues sending packages there

22:15 <darsie> how about steam gift cards?

23:18 <Eddi|zuHause> !mission

23:18 <LunchBot> You attempt to fly a spaceplane with FAR. There is a relevant xkcd made tomorrow.

23:19 <Eddi|zuHause> i've noticed there were an above average fraction of space-themed xkcds recently