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.
<soundnfury>
aaaand the First Test is begun.
<UmbralRaptor>
?
<soundnfury>
Cricket.
<soundnfury>
I'm being English, just nod and back away.
<UmbralRaptor>
Is this the reasonable format, or the one with 5 day games?
<soundnfury>
Yes. Also, s/or/and
<soundnfury>
:P
<UmbralRaptor>
Ꚙ_ꚙ
<FluffyFoxeh>
!u Ꚙ_ꚙ
<Qboid>
U+A698 CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER DOUBLE O (Ꚙ)
<Qboid>
U+005F LOW LINE (_)
<Qboid>
U+A699 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER DOUBLE O (ꚙ)
<UmbralRaptor>
Note to self: ls and ^d do not work in cmd.exe
<soundnfury>
ahhhh, the first shipping forecast of the ashes
<FluffyFoxeh>
what does ^d do in cmd.exe? nothing?
<UmbralRaptor>
Gives you a garbage character.
<soundnfury>
UmbralRaptor: ?
<UmbralRaptor>
soundnfury: ?
<FluffyFoxeh>
Qboid:
<soundnfury>
!wpn FluffyFoxeh
* Qboid
gives FluffyFoxeh a nefarious Kusanagi
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* soundnfury
? rain delays
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<kmath>
<jgerity> RT @PhysicsToday: Food physics: With a second‐order differential equation and a computer, the gastro‐physicist can challenge much of the co…
<SnoopJeDi>
huh TIL retweets can be encoded that way
<SnoopJeDi>
!wpn egg|work|egg, UmbralRaptor
* Qboid
gives egg|work|egg, UmbralRaptor a polarized jeffries tube which vaguely resembles a torus
* UmbralRaptor
reverses the polarity.
<UmbralRaptor>
egg|work|egg: But geese are evil.
<egg|work|egg>
?
<SnoopJeDi>
North Canada Geese?
<UmbralRaptor>
<egg|work|egg> also geese are the best large dinosaurs
<egg|work|egg>
UmbralRaptor: why are they evil though
<kmath>
<steinly0> @davidwhogg @Astro_Wright New favourite conjecture, from chat with Phil Armitage and Michael Meyer: #Oumuamua is e… https://t.co/CfjgDtLqod
<SnoopJeDi>
never had goose, but have had pheasant...close enough :p
<egg|work|egg>
!wpn -add:wpn goose
<Qboid>
egg|work|egg: Weapon already added!
<egg|work|egg>
of course
<SnoopJeDi>
!wpn -add:adj edible
<Qboid>
SnoopJeDi: Adjective added!
<SnoopJeDi>
Huh, sci-hub lost some of their domain names?
<kmath>
<innesmck> Everyone loves Godless, the new Netflix show about a town inhabited only by women Episode 1 Lines spoken by men: 7… https://t.co/cRkPN40os1
<Iskierka>
perfect cliffhanger, kmath
<SnoopJeDi>
ffs
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<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid
gives UmbralRaptor a haloalkane
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn Iskierka
* Qboid
gives Iskierka a Bose-Einstein maximum McBoatFace
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn Fiora
* Qboid
gives Fiora a Van Allen spiral cut wing
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn whitequark
* Qboid
gives whitequark a quartic variety
<SnoopJeDi>
what property does the adjective "Van Allen" imbue o.O
<egg|zzz|egg>
SnoopJeDi: "is to the unqualified version what the Van Allen belts are to belts"?
* Qboid
gives bofh a biologically active vanadium Ꙭ
<SnoopJeDi>
Never read any Pratchett (I know, I know) and not familiar with Baxter, but neat!
<APlayer>
SnoopJeDi: Nah, more like will kill you with radiation when you get inside
<SnoopJeDi>
bofh, I think I will begin Hidden Figures this weekend, only a chapter or two left in my SAC book
<bofh>
Approval.
<FluffyFoxeh>
котлин
<SnoopJeDi>
relatedly, when McNamara was briefed on SIOP-62, he apparently asked if the strategists had run their targeting procedures with Hiroshima as a selected target. 3 ground zeroes of 80 kT apiece, vs the single 15 kT detonation in 1945.
<SnoopJeDi>
(as if anyone needed convincing that "overkill" was an aptly coined term)