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.
<egg|df|egg>
UmbralRaptor: D: the eldest son of the goblin baroness of ancientbird was one of the visiting hammerers who were killed in the last invasion
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<UmbralRaptor>
Oh no
<egg|df|egg>
UmbralRaptor: Nomal's father, a speargoblin, fell asleep while going to dodging training
<egg|df|egg>
(holding a book about sundials of course)
<egg|df|egg>
he's a great milker apparently
<UmbralRaptor>
o_O
egg|df|egg is now known as egg|zzz|egg
<egg|zzz|egg>
craftsdwarfship training tomorrow, should zzz
* UmbralRaptor
assumes that this means that egg|zzz|egg is becoming a craftsdwarf.
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: eggsactly!
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: well, a craftsegg
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: (it's that training for that workshop with the fancy tools at the office)
<Iskierka>
are all df npcs wannabe polymaths?
<Iskierka>
or just have ADHD?
<egg|zzz|egg>
Iskierka: why can't we have both :-p
<Iskierka>
possibly with the exception of nomal who it sounds like does nothing but research on her own in the one room. Or has she branched out?
<egg|zzz|egg>
I ordered her to build mechanisms
<egg|zzz|egg>
and on occasion she does go to the tavern, watches a few performances she likes, then gets into an argument
<egg|zzz|egg>
Iskierka: she doesn't really research on her own, she discusses research with other scholars
<UmbralRaptor>
Apparently drinking and building stabby things are the only activities that don't make her anxious?
<egg|zzz|egg>
pretty much
<Iskierka>
... does df need mental health doctors?
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: also watching performances
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: I mean, she'd be fine if she just took a break from her research more often
<UmbralRaptor>
Hah
<Iskierka>
how often does she take a break?
<egg|zzz|egg>
I should try to log that
<egg|zzz|egg>
also I should zzz
<UmbralRaptor>
<_<
<egg|zzz|egg>
otherwise I'll stab myself with a laser tomorrow or something
<egg|zzz|egg>
that's how lasers works right
<egg|zzz|egg>
s/ks/k
<Qboid>
egg|zzz|egg meant to say: that's how lasers work right
<Iskierka>
according to star wars, yes
<UmbralRaptor>
Well, laser scalpels are totally things.
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<whitequark>
though that's not the one in the OP1...
* UmbralRaptor
was thinking that it used a first stage with 2 nozzles, but the only rocke that launches (well, launched) from a platform like that had 4. >_>
<whitequark>
it's not necessarily a real launch vehicle
* UmbralRaptor
was half expecting something real since apparently there's absurd accuracy on the guns and aircraft?
<UmbralRaptor>
Hm. Zenit maybe.
<whitequark>
jormungand isn't as heavy on that as some of the other works
<whitequark>
it doesn't look like anyone identified this LV yet
<whitequark>
you could probably hunt it down in the manga if you really wanted!
<UmbralRaptor>
Hah.
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<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid
gives UmbralRaptor a Черенков Лидов [REDACTED]
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn whitequark
* Qboid
gives whitequark a reversed space
<egg|zzz|egg>
I'm not sure what Черенков and Лидов are doing together here
Thomas|AWAY is now known as Thomas
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<SnoopJeDi>
My labmate has been doing superconductor theory review for his prelim proposal, and had our Uzbek researcher help him read some historical documents given in Russian...they found the order for immediate execution of one of the notable researches in that field (and later reference to his "rehabilitation" some 20 years later)
<SnoopJeDi>
"Didn't we execute that guy?" "He got *better*"
<SnoopJeDi>
I also discovered that the immediate predecessor to the integrator I'm currently using was written in 1963!
<SnoopJeDi>
Unfortunately, CERN does not have a digitized copy, and I don't have the permission (or the desire, really) to ask someone to go yank it off the shelf and scan it.
<kmath>
<DrLucyJones> Having done both, I'd say Ph.D. exam is worse than Congressional testimony - thesis committee has more control over… https://t.co/tvHXE7UOEH
<UmbralRaptor>
egg|zzz|egg: Perturbing objects to FTL speeds using coorbiting wormholes,
<SnoopJeDi>
I read that as "contributing wormholes" at first and thought it'd make a nice acknowledgement section for an astro paper
<SnoopJeDi>
I.e. "The authors would like to thank [celestial body] for [doing the thing]"
* UmbralRaptor
looks for something to set on fire.
<Iskierka>
powerful torch?
<UmbralRaptor>
Torch implies one end is burning in US english, so...
* egg|zzz|egg
wonders whether Iskierka gets pinged by fire
<Iskierka>
I don't remember setting it but that one was pinged by "Iskierka"
<egg|zzz|egg>
Iskierka: I meant * UmbralRaptor looks for something to set on fire.
<Iskierka>
it did not, no
<regex>
egg|zzz|egg: I saw that the other day, looks good!
* egg|zzz|egg
tries tweetmashup with whitequark and whitequark, yielding "TIL science fiction is long and tangled enough to appreciably thicken pleural mucus"
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn regex
* Qboid
gives regex a plane ytterbium wing
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn Iskierka
* Qboid
gives Iskierka a hard group
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<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn Norgg
* Qboid
gives Norgg an astronomer
<UmbralRaptor>
...why am I in the UK now?
* UmbralRaptor
stares at Qboid .
<whitequark>
!wpn egg
* Qboid
gives egg a bromine ?
<egg|zzz|egg>
o/ whitequark
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn whitequark
* Qboid
gives whitequark a descriptive turnstile
<egg|zzz|egg>
PSA, there's a principia trajectory optimization challenge by maccollo http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/161390-principia-challenge-munar-retrograde-rendezvous-122/
* egg|zzz|egg
should try that one out this week-end
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn
* Qboid
gives egg|zzz|egg a BS 6008 deviant error
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn Iskierka
* Qboid
gives Iskierka a tagged guillotine
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptor: did the workshop training today, they have a 3d printer
<egg|zzz|egg>
I wonder whether I should 3d print bolts
<egg|zzz|egg>
(but then again I don't have a cat)
<UmbralRaptor>
That seems like an oversight
<soundnfury>
!wpn egg|zzz|egg
* Qboid
gives egg|zzz|egg a fluorine bundle-like
<UmbralRaptor>
!wpn soundnfury
* Qboid
gives soundnfury an asymmetric traversal which strongly resembles a photothyristor