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.
<UmbralRaptor>
bofh: ?
<UmbralRaptor>
bofh: The moving and cost stuff?
<UmbralRaptor>
bofh: Assuming so, Fairfax, VA for the Physics PhD program at George Mason.
<bofh>
the flight, yea
<bofh>
also cool!
<UmbralRaptor>
The $800 flight is something else entirely. Family funeral =\
<bofh>
I'm sorry. :(
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* UmbralRaptor
keeps on feeling like some sort of robot; I'm being hit nowhere near as hard as other friends/family.
<FluffyFoxeh>
I know that feeling
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<egg|headache|egg>
!wpn
* Qboid
gives egg|headache|egg an unapologetic Qboid
<egg|headache|egg>
!wpn
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<kmath>
<FioraAeterna> I want to take you to the ħ I want to take you to the ħ I've got orbitals to share with you I've got orbitals to share with you At the ħ, ħ,
<UmbralRaptor>
!wpn egg|headache|egg
* Qboid
gives egg|headache|egg a Lévy–Прохоров bolt
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<egg>
seems tricky, nothing really distinctive
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<whitequark>
mmm
* UmbralRaptor
gives egg an Embrarer puddle hopper
<UmbralRaptor>
(with a passenger area <6 ns tall)
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: >_>
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: any idea about whitequark's sat?
<whitequark>
it's probably a US satellite active circa 1995
<UmbralRaptor>
Not really. Early NOAA?
<whitequark>
hmm
<UmbralRaptor>
Bah, panels are wrong.
<UmbralRaptor>
Also not GOES or LANDSAT
<UmbralRaptor>
Incidentally, is it normal for smaller jets to pull noticeable Gs during turns?
<UmbralRaptor>
I'm distantly reminded of Mars/Venus Express
<Iskierka>
would depend on your sensitivity, normally would be a maximum of 30 degree turn for 41% more g
<Iskierka>
... no, that wouldn't be 41%, but I'm too lazy to check
<Iskierka>
41% would be the operational limit though as modern aircraft typically have flight director limiter at 45, and normal operation limit of 30
<bofh>
whitequark: ahh. so doing the responsible thing instead of the UK thing?
<egg>
bofh: want to try the linux build of Cauchy?
<whitequark>
bofh: hm? no
<whitequark>
you don't get it
<whitequark>
the renovation is purely on the surface. put a new coat of paint. new rainwater drains.
<bofh>
whitequark: JASON-1 (or JASON-3, but the latter has a much larger antenna that should be slightly visible)
<whitequark>
and then they're going to demolish it anyway in half a year
<UmbralRaptor>
o_O
<whitequark>
bofh: ... huh
<egg>
bofh: hmmm, I don't think so
<bofh>
or possibly TOPEX/Poseidon
<egg>
AEHF? but wrong timeframe
<whitequark>
nah topex has only one panel
<whitequark>
jason-1 is ... really close
<bofh>
oh, good point.
<Iskierka>
The UK flats have been and are being renovated, it's just that Tories voted against legislation that rented accomodation should be fit for human habitation
<Iskierka>
(literal words of the legislation rejected)
<whitequark>
flats? no, that's not about flats
<whitequark>
they're just renovating shared spaces
<whitequark>
stairways etc
<bofh>
egg: like I'm fairly certain that if it's a civilian earthsat, it's ocean-targeting and not land-targeting based on where it's shown
<whitequark>
hm, jason-1 doesn't quite have the same panel mount
<whitequark>
but it's definitely a similar one
<Iskierka>
are you not presuming they paid more attention than they probably did?
<egg>
bofh: yeah, but it doesn't really look like JASON-1 to me
<whitequark>
Iskierka: the russian diaspora in JP is 6,000 people. the russian language in black lagoon is of such quality that I recognize speech the first time (done by the same voice actors as JP, natch), and the handwriting combined with spelling in one scene that stays on screen for three seconds...
<whitequark>
is of such quality that it could not have been done without a bilingual consultant
<whitequark>
I'm certain that it's a real satellite.
<Iskierka>
position of satellite may be too much detail, however
<whitequark>
oh, it's pointing at a plot point
<soundnfury>
!wpn egg
* Qboid
gives egg a Hamiltonian
<egg>
bofh: otoh it does have a bus that looks like it
<whitequark>
I imagine the real satellite is going to hang somewhere near
<bofh>
egg: like I'll put money on this being at least a joint project with CNES, since it looks very much like their standard buses (CALIPSO looks very similar too, but wrong timeframe)
<egg>
JASON 2?
<whitequark>
it might be slightly anachronistic, plus-minus five year
<egg>
hm
<bofh>
like for another point of reference, ASTRA 5A (Sirius 2)
<egg>
bofh: I'm not sure what to make of the shape at the back of the bus (towards the observer)
<kmath>
<mnxmnkmnd> @whitequark @eggleroy @bofh453 we need to establish a space industry just so there's economic incentive to make the… https://t.co/mvPc7AJyCX
<egg>
bofh: I have never seen an abbrevation for assuming the Rieman hypothesis
<egg>
other than that...
<egg>
(ok the last one too)
<egg>
also it's been too long since I've been in a math lecture, came across this which seems to scratch that itch https://youtu.be/xzVk56EKBUI (7 lectures total or so I think?)
<kmath>
YouTube - Cédric Villani - 1/7 La théorie synthétique de la courbure de Ricci
<egg>
will have to get back to it at a more civilized hour
<egg>
(in french though)
<egg>
!wpn bofh
* Qboid
gives bofh a war-surplus sturgeon-like crystal
<egg>
!wpn Iskierka
* Qboid
gives Iskierka a covariant superheterodyne bird
<egg>
(also, he also screws up what CAT stands for, read Gromov's paper! it's Comparison inequality of Alexandrov-Topogonov, not Cartan-Alexandrov-Topogonov)
* egg
did his BS thesis on that
<egg>
mostly had no idea what I was doing, but found out about this CAT mishap
<egg>
UmbralRaptor: CAT(k).
<egg>
From my BS thesis:
<egg>
A remark about the name of this inequality. The term “CAT (?)-inequality” first appears in Gromov’s 1987 paper [12, Remark 2.4.C, p. 106], where the name is explained as “comparison inequality of Alexandrov–Topogonov”. Some more recent works, e.g., [18] expand this to “Cartan–Alexandrov–Topogonov” instead. The confusion may be due to the subsequent section of Gromov’s paper, the Riemann–Cartan–