UmbralRaptor changed the topic of #kspacademia to: https://gist.github.com/pdn4kd/164b9b85435d87afbec0c3a7e69d3e6d | Dogs are cats. Spiders are cat interferometers. | Космизм сегодня! | Document well, for tomorrow you may get mauled by a ネコバス. | <UmbralRaptor> … one of the other grad students just compared me to nomal O_o | <ferram4> I shall beat my problems to death with an engineer.
<kmath>
<cgranade> I love the idea that in order to get grants and promotions, we must define ourselves in terms of how much profit we make for arms dealers.
<egg>
ERFA?
<egg>
SOFA?
<Qboid>
egg: [SOFA] => Standards Of Fundamental Astronomy
<egg>
!acr -add:ERFA Essential Routines for Fundamental Astronomy
<Qboid>
egg: I added the explanation for this acronym.
<UmbralRaptor>
Todo: sell myself to a mixture of strangers and distant associates, figure out how to say interesting things about brown dwarfs for 15 minutes, crush dreams^W^Wgrade labs
<UmbralRaptor>
Profound: A statement that analysis and facts (not alt facts) matter, aimed primarily at the general public. But very much in reaction to the current government's rejection of evidence based thinking, let alone policy.
<kmath>
<JackSmithIV> Uh, Nicki Minaj is offering to pay tuition for dozens of her followers on Twitter right now, as long as they have g… https://t.co/69lyCgWDw7
<UmbralRaptor>
Well, it's something.
Thomas is now known as Thomas|AWAY
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<egg>
!u ¯
<Qboid>
U+00AF MACRON (¯)
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<egg>
!wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid
gives UmbralRaptor a cutting tardigrade
<egg>
!wpn Iskierka
* Qboid
gives Iskierka a sectoral gun
<egg>
!wpn Sarbian
* Qboid
gives Sarbian a cesium photomultiplier tube
<UmbralRaptor>
!wpn egg
* Qboid
gives egg a float graph
* UmbralRaptor
cuts the floats up with a tardigrade.
* Qboid
gives UmbralRaptor an abstract automorphism
<egg>
!wpn Iskierka
* Qboid
gives Iskierka a tantalum raptor
<Profound>
UmbralRaptor, so global warming?
* Ellied
steals the tantalum raptor from Iskierka to make capacitors
<Iskierka>
you'd disassemble a poor defenseless elementary animal to make electronics components? ):
<whitequark>
yes
<whitequark>
that's more useful than food at any rate
<Ellied>
an entire velociraptor's volume of solid elemental tantalum is probably enough to hold over the electronics industry for a few minutes while people in the countries where it's usually mined get back on their feet I guess
<Iskierka>
it didn't say velociraptor, though
<Iskierka>
it might be a pygmy owl
<Ellied>
true
<whitequark>
tantalum world production is like 700 tons per year
<whitequark>
its density is 16.7t/m^3
<whitequark>
how much volume is in a single velociraptor?
<Ellied>
not really sure
<whitequark>
"up to 13kg" wait what
<Ellied>
;wa velociraptor mass
<kmath>
Ellied: Velociraptor (dinosaur)->weight: (16 to 18) kg (kilograms)
<Ellied>
say what?
<whitequark>
the fuck?
<Ellied>
I always thought they were like, large
<whitequark>
same
<Ellied>
knowing WA that's the mass of its 13th vertebra or something
<Ellied>
"In real life, however, Velociraptor was roughly the size of a turkey, considerably smaller than the approximately 2 m (7 ft) tall 80 kg (180 lb) reptiles seen in the films."
<Ellied>
;c ((16.7*0.018)/700)*365*24
<kmath>
Ellied: 3.761794285714285
<Ellied>
so about 3 hours and 45 minutes of tantalum usage, roughly
<whitequark>
your initial guess was unexpectedly precise
<Ellied>
not bad for a half joke
<Iskierka>
I figured velociraptor probably implied utahraptor but I'm amused neither of you had any idea about that misrepresentation
<Iskierka>
;wa utahraptor mass
<kmath>
Iskierka: Utahraptor (dinosaur)->weight: (700 to 850) kg (kilograms)
<Iskierka>
not sure where they get an assumption of 80 kg for JP velociraptors; based on their size I'd be comparing them to large cats, not a person of similar height
<UmbralRaptor>
For the record, an UmbralRaptor masses 66.2 kg
<Iskierka>
;wa deinonychus mass
<kmath>
Iskierka: Deinonychus (dinosaur)->weight: (80 to 100) kg (kilograms)
<UmbralRaptor>
Profound: Most notably, but the admin has vaguely wandered towards antivax stuff.
* UmbralRaptor
didn't think that deinonychus got that heavy.
<Iskierka>
that's probably where but deinonychus is considerably smaller than 2m
<Iskierka>
;wa cassowary mass
<kmath>
Iskierka: Casuarius->weight: (data not available)
* egg
pets UmbralRaptor with a Deinonychus
<Iskierka>
how do we have low-margin-error data for extinct dinosaur masses but not for a living one
* UmbralRaptor
squawks?
<Profound>
Vaccinations aren't real. All that stuff in biology class is fake. God cured polio.
<UmbralRaptor>
Iskierka: the extinct ones don't run away.
<UmbralRaptor>
Or in the case of cassowaries disembowl you.
<Iskierka>
apparently they're 58.5 kg
<Iskierka>
so deinonychus' family were built as fuck, I guess?
<Iskierka>
even wiki's lower estimate of 73 kg is a lot of muscle for a .87m hip height
<egg>
!wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid
gives UmbralRaptor a nutating fish
<Ellied>
nutating? When was the last time you changed your filter on that tank?!
<Iskierka>
https://i.imgur.com/nSfQZC9.jpg I like how jpeg compression makes her look like a slightly different person in each one, wearing the same clothes in the same pose
* whitequark
squawks?
* whitequark
looks at Profound
* Profound
looks at whitequark
* egg
pets whitequark
* Profound
slides into whitequark's DMs
* egg
assumes whitequark is a diapsid
<UmbralRaptor>
!wpn Ellied
* Qboid
gives Ellied a quiet moo
<UmbralRaptor>
er, tabjacking
<UmbralRaptor>
!wpn egg
* Qboid
gives egg a tesseral checksum which strongly resembles an emitter
<Ellied>
!wpn egg and UmbralRaptor and Profound and whitequark and Iskierka
* Qboid
gives egg and UmbralRaptor and Profound and whitequark and Iskierka a bombe
<UmbralRaptor>
Profound: Also, uh, many other policy things seem to have a confusing (jobs) or non-existant (crime, especially violent) connection to reality.