egg|nomz|egg 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> egg|nomz|egg: generally if your eyes are dewing over, that's not the weather. | <ferram4> I shall beat my problems to death with an engineer.
<kmath> <mjuric> .@Lynne73 et al. "The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope as a NEO Machine" (https://t.co/pZbUqCXECV ) is out! Twitter… https://t.co/0CqzE13mbO
<egg> UmbralRaptor: also I guess I'd need a finder for the ANBOscope too (feels a bit silly given that I have a really fancy finder here in zurich)
<UmbralRaptor> Hah
<kmath> <Dragon8Blade> I woke up to eat and see this on the dining table. It took me a good 3 seconds of "???" to remember when and why I… https://t.co/jHBoyEZrFh
<kmath> <DrPhiltill> The glove box is saying “Come to me. I want to give you a hug...and pull you into the chemicals.” https://t.co/RKrUZxfhX1
<egg> okay why did kmath ping me here
<egg> ... oh, the shortlink starts with RK
<bofh> LOL
<UmbralRaptor> Hah
<kmath> <McNutcase> "My genitalia are not your concern. You're making clothes to my order, and I demand pockets."
<egg> UmbralRaptor: what disadvantages does a newt have compared to a kitty
<egg> UmbralRaptor: coma, what else
<egg> bulk?
<egg> shorter focal?
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<UmbralRaptor> Size, coma
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<UmbralRaptor> Diffraction spikes
<egg> yeah, but you get that with a plateless cat too
<egg> rqou: some cats have spiders
<UmbralRaptor> Somewhere is a very bitter Romulan captain https://twitter.com/PicardTips/status/936662179788546048
<kmath> <PicardTips> Picard management tip: Don't try to go at maximum speed all the time. You'll burn out your engines.
<UmbralRaptor> (Canonically, a warbird has to burn out its engines to keep up with the Enterprise D.
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* egg pokes the multiple dovetail standards with a cat
* UmbralRaptor stab stab stabbity stab stab.
<egg> UmbralRaptor: what are the tradeoffs of the various kinds of diagonals
<UmbralRaptor> Erector diagonals have an extra bounce that loses some light.
<UmbralRaptor> 90 vs 45 degree is a matter of preference.
<egg> I found the 31,75 ocular holder that might work with the existing anboscope! https://www.teleskop-express.de/shop/product_info.php/info/p1119_Vixen-adapter-M36-4-to-1-25---3720.html
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<egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor an aluminium polytope
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<UmbralRaptor> Yay?
<egg|z|egg> I think, yes (hopefully that's the right thread? D:)
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<kmath> <rygorous> @johnregehr @stephentyrone @Gankro @tsion @eevee lvalues relate to rvalues in much the same way that guinea pigs relate to regular pigs
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<kmath> <_Hysope> Quand ton chat se prépare pour un rituel de sorcellerie https://t.co/cRVko1wXQs
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a ligand-gated antebellum
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn bofh
* Qboid gives bofh a holmium stinging inductor
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn Fiora
* Qboid gives Fiora a stepper radius
<egg|zzz|egg> wpn rqou
<egg|zzz|egg> um
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn rqou
* Qboid gives rqou a preta
<rqou> !wpn egg|zzz|egg
* Qboid gives egg|zzz|egg a surface-mount mesolect
<rqou> plz 2 halp with project :P
<egg|zzz|egg> moo?
<egg|zzz|egg> it's 3:05, zzz
<UmbralRaptor> ☕☕☕
<bofh> https://mobile.twitter.com/mcclure111/status/936786424510025729 how hard would it be to get something into heliocentric orbit such that the perihelion intersects the outer solar corona?
<kmath> https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/936786424510025729 <mcclure111> RT ?: i only learned recently how hard it is to fire things into the sun
<bofh> intersection happening only after apsidal precession over a few orbits is obviously okay.
<UmbralRaptor> Part of the problem is defining the end points of the corona, I think.
* UmbralRaptor eyes Parker's multiple frybys of ♀ and ☿.
<bofh> That's Venus & Mercury, right? I'm bad at remembering my astrological symbols.
<UmbralRaptor> That is
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<Qboid> 0d 6h 0m 0s left to event #16: #2/Союз-2.1б [at 2017-12-02 10:30:00]. Say '!kountdown 16' for details
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<kmath> <cspan> Seen on C-SPAN2: U.S. Senate passes GOP #TaxReform bill, 51-49. https://t.co/CBfZWAWmtt #BREAKING https://t.co/xzg10LvpgU
<bofh> Fuck.
<rqou> yup, it's fucked
<bofh> At almost 2AM on a Saturday, a 479-page bill with corrections in the fucking margins; that nobody has properly read.
<bofh> I really want each of these fuckers to get all their assets seized with no recourse, then to subsequently go bankrupt and have their houses foreclosed upon.
<bofh> Oh and have their incomes be reduced to zero & never get a position above minimum wage.
<bofh> That's the tiniest bit of what they deserve, but I honestly can't find myself advocating murder even for the deserving.
<bofh> That being said, if their heads just so *happened* to find their way into a guillotine, I suspect that would be a net benefit for the world by far.
<bofh> End rant, I don't want to think about this anymore atm.
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<kmath> <St_Rev> @0xdeadbabe This is why I introduced the "locally sandwich" criterion, which describes spaces that can be covered b… https://t.co/YTO9AYith6
<kmath> <0xdeadbabe> @St_Rev If I understand this correctly, presandwiches are decomposable into disjoint sets, one which is minimally s… https://t.co/ETmjRWeQsP
<egg|zzz|egg> but tramezzini don't satisfy 2...
<egg|zzz|egg> well depends how you make them, but assuming they're the sort where the filling is mostly in the middle
<kmath> <ellerodeo> UPDATE ON THIS PART OF MY BEDROOM CEILING CAVED IN AND A KITTEN FELL OUT OF IT AND WE’RE KEEPING HIM WE’VE NAMED… https://t.co/noTosTtN0a
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<egg|zzz|egg> does Ellied design mount controllers, http://gemini-2.com/front_panel_pinouts_mini-gemini-2.php
<bofh> rofl, "locally sandwich"
<bofh> egg|zzz|egg: reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogbone_space
<kmath> <St_Rev> @0xdeadbabe If one uses my minimal definition of sandwich, then I conjecture that generalized sandwiches (spaces co… https://t.co/nEkmMKTO8Y
<egg|zzz|egg> "generalized sandwiches (spaces constructed by surgery on minimal sandwiches) are equivalent presandwiches (spaces meeting the locally sandwich criterion)."
<bofh> I feel like I'm in real analysis/topology class again. :P
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: the problem here is that I see a real risk of being nerd-sniped into investigating the equivalence
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: somebody needs to find an application for presandwich spaces so this becomes standard terminology
<bofh> Hm
* egg|zzz|egg stares at Voyager 1 Ꙩ_ꙩ
<bofh> egg|zzz|egg: what, nothing like firing 37-year-inactive mouse fart motors :P
<bofh> (yes that's what JPL tends to call attitude control/trajectory correction thrusters)
<bofh> it really is kinda incredible that V1's last planetary flyby was 1980, only 3 years after launch.
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* UmbralRaptor is going to stick with Sierra for a while longer.
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a stochastic Renesas eidolon
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn bofh
* Qboid gives bofh a Schläfli serpentine tadpole
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<egg> !wpn Ellied
* Qboid gives Ellied an affine periwinkle
<UmbralRaptor> !ddg renesas
<UmbralRaptor> An electronics company?
<kmath> <whitequark> the semiconductor company has always been called ⯄⯃▟◼█◘✥▟
<kmath> <whitequark> the semiconductor company has existed for as long as we remember and it shall exist forever
<egg> UmbralRaptor: how do they deal with field rotation in stupidly large telescopes
<bofh> !u ▟◼█◘✥▟
<Qboid> U+259F QUADRANT UPPER RIGHT AND LOWER LEFT AND LOWER RIGHT (▟)
<Qboid> U+25FC BLACK MEDIUM SQUARE (◼)
<Qboid> U+2588 FULL BLOCK (█)
<Qboid> U+25D8 INVERSE BULLET (◘)
<Qboid> U+2725 FOUR CLUB-SPOKED ASTERISK (✥)
<Qboid> U+259F QUADRANT UPPER RIGHT AND LOWER LEFT AND LOWER RIGHT (▟)
<egg> !u ⯄⯃
<Qboid> U+2BC4 BLACK OCTAGON (⯄)
<Qboid> U+2BC3 HORIZONTAL BLACK OCTAGON (⯃)
<egg> !wpn whitequark
* Qboid gives whitequark an achromatic paywall
<UmbralRaptor> egg: I want to say extra optics.
<egg> UmbralRaptor: very large field rotators
<APlayer> Arrgh: https://xkcd.com/1923/
<UmbralRaptor> APlayer: obviously we should use meV instead.
<SnoopJeDi> Lamda-Cold Dark Memes
<bofh> Honestly I do think the Rankine scale isn't a bad choice for a lot of day-to-day activities.
<bofh> well, scaled to the freezing point of water
<UmbralRaptor> Hm
<kmath> <Alex_Parker> Now that Voyager 1 knows its thrusters still work, I assume it will use them to get away from us just that tiny bit faster.
<kmath> <astroengine> @Alex_Parker "Hey, spaceship, slow down!" "Screw you guys, there's less bullshit out here."
<SnoopJeDi> godspeed
<egg> bofh: okay did you just invent a new kind of degree
<egg> °b
<bofh> *glare*
<bofh> I s'pose I did.
<bofh> like it's just an affine shift of Fahrenheit so the 0 point is at the triple point of water.
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<SnoopJeDi> !wpn -add:adj frigorific
<Qboid> SnoopJeDi: Adjective added!
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<UmbralRaptor> egg: the black octogons are tofu on Oreo.
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<kmath> https://twitter.com/DrAndrewThaler/status/936770124614287360 <DrAndrewThaler> Universities: Please consider classifying tuition payments as "aircraft maintenance" from now on. Thank you.
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<egg> !wpn bofh
* Qboid gives bofh a rotary pointer
<egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor a scary vial of Y-909
<egg> !wpn whitequark
* Qboid gives whitequark a composite bundle
<egg> !wpn Fiora
* Qboid gives Fiora a lenticular botfly
* UmbralRaptor ? triangles
<UmbralRaptor> (moments of inertia about a 45-45-90 triangle)
<kmath> <QuinnDunki> Sprocket’s native camouflage is weirdly specific. She must be from an arid region rife with novelty slippers. https://t.co/6F9GmzyjfI
<egg> UmbralRaptor: moo?
* UmbralRaptor suspects that assuming a small finite height was a mistake.
<egg> moo
<UmbralRaptor> egg: ERROR: TRIANGLES ARE NOT SPHERICAL.
<egg> UmbralRaptor: what's the advantage of a computerized parallactic mount over one with a clock drive
<UmbralRaptor> egg: goto functionality
<egg> anything else? aiui the motors are somewhat different
<egg> (looking at the gm-8 in particular)
<egg> !wpn Ellied
* Qboid gives Ellied a static varistor
<egg> !wpn -add:wpn mount
<Qboid> egg: Weapon added!
<egg> !wpn -add:adj German
<Qboid> egg: Adjective added!
<egg> !wpn -add:adj equatorial
<Qboid> egg: Adjective already added!
<UmbralRaptor> I'm unaware of any other differences.
<egg> hm, good to know
<kmath> <PlanetaryGao> My feed right now: Outrage about tax bill Outrage about tax bill Flynn pleads guilty Outrage about tax bill Outra… https://t.co/eWbeztTEz1
<SnoopJeDi> at least the senate version doesn't have the tuition waiver tax but...blagh.
* egg remains confused by Fiora's parity inversion
* egg should try reversing the timeline to see if it looks right
<kmath> <ManishEarth> @ra [expanding brain meme] https://t.co/p5JZLxV0Sa
<kmath> <ManishEarth> @ra oh no https://t.co/NQUIroejsA
<kmath> <Rainmaker1973b> #Today in 2001, the NEAR spacecraft spiraled in to a touchdown on asteroid Eros. It took and transmitted photos thr… https://t.co/qUUpbc2c6k
<SnoopJeDi> egg, right or wrong, reversing the timeline sounds pretty good to me
* egg pokes SnoopJeDi in the CPT symmetry
* SnoopJeDi fluctuates
* UmbralRaptor explodes in a cloud of neutrinos, gammas, and pions.
<kmath> <whitequark> "An Analysis of the Forces Required to Drag Sheep over Various Surfaces" https://t.co/9fy9hVgi39
<egg> !wpn whitequark
* Qboid gives whitequark a pink grin with a Principia attachment
<egg> !wpn -add:wpn sheep
<Qboid> egg: Weapon added!
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn egg
* Qboid gives egg a 5-choosable lead interregnum
<egg> UmbralRaptor: so uh "what are the principal axes" is obvious by symmetry right?
* UmbralRaptor pokes symmetry with a stick.
<egg> the stick now has the opposite charge, is mirrored, and goes backward in time
<UmbralRaptor> Ow
<SnoopJeDi> egg, whitequark that one won an Ig Nobel a few years ago right?
<whitequark> haven't heard of it
<SnoopJeDi> from this year: "On the Rheology of Cats" http://www.rheology.org/sor/publications/rheology_b/RB2014Jul.pdf
<UmbralRaptor> o_O
<UmbralRaptor> Please do not melt the cats.
<bofh> ^
<SnoopJeDi> the authors find that such a phase distinction is not meaningful for feline forms
<UmbralRaptor> Hah
<UmbralRaptor> ;8ball Look for academic options outside the US/UK?
<kmath> UmbralRaptor: Yes definitely
<UmbralRaptor> Also, apparently AU is winding down their astronomy programs?