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.
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<egg> !wpn NomalRaptop
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<egg> !wpn bofh
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<NomalRaptop> egg: on the plane
<egg> flying theropod!
<egg> are you flying inside the cabin or next to the plane,
<NomalRaptop> egg: inside. Keeping up with a 757-200 is nontrivial.
<egg> fast metal friend
<NomalRaptop> B787_300 friend?
<B787_300> wat
<NomalRaptop> But yes, fast aluminum friend.
<B787_300> oh you are flying today?
<NomalRaptop> B787_300: yeah. IAD ✈ KEF ✈ LHR
<B787_300> KEF?
<B787_300> actually a 757 means IcelandAir?
<NomalRaptop> Kevlavic!
<NomalRaptop> Yeah
* B787_300 gives himself a high five
<NomalRaptop> *Keflavic
* NomalRaptop is amused at how many materials in the aircraft are pushing for tourism.
<B787_300> you are on a LR LCC... what did you expect
<NomalRaptop> LR LCC?
<B787_300> Long Range Low Cost Carrier
<NomalRaptop> Also, the menu lets you spend EVE money! (not really, but it's also abbreviated ISK)
<NomalRaptop> Ah
<egg> have you tried offering EVE ISK
<SnoopJeDi> LR CCP
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<kmath> <scanlime> https://t.co/t9L6I906TO
<B787_300> i want a cat
<B787_300> but dont want to get it soon because of a couple long-ish trips
<egg> !pet B787_300
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<B787_300> egg: i want a nice russian blue
<B787_300> named Korolev of course
<kmath> <lorentzframe> overheard in the cigar lounge: "Ptolemy approximated orbits of the planets with enough tiny circles to meet the pre… https://t.co/B2fWdd5LAO
<egg> erric ferrocyanide
<egg> !wpn bofh
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<egg> !wpn B787_300
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<B787_300> egg: do you have a pet?
<egg> there's ANBOcat
<B787_300> what is that
<egg> ANBO?
<Qboid> egg: [ANBO] => Anglo-Norman Bovine Observatory
<B787_300> is that where you do work/research?
<egg> nah, that's a house in normandy
<egg> that's where I observe cows with a telescope
<B787_300> oO
<B787_300> why though?
<egg> because during daytime there's not much else to look at
<B787_300> you can look at sats
<egg> yes, but, cows
<egg> (at night I do look at non-cows)
<B787_300> also are you just holding up a camera to the eye piece?
<egg> a phone yeah :-p
<B787_300> ...
<B787_300> ugh that bothers me
<egg> I mean, I could invest in a proper ccd for bovine imaging at prime focus, but,
<egg> (also a big issue here is atmospheric distortion, I'd need adaptive opticks and a laser guide cow)
<B787_300> or someone with a 3d printer and information about your phone could make a mount
<B787_300> and why couldnt you use a normal ccd? i eamn i assume you have one for your nighttime work
<B787_300> s/eamn/mean
<Qboid> B787_300 meant to say: and why couldnt you use a normal ccd? i mean i assume you have one for your nighttime work
<B787_300> and so what you are looking at monochrome cows
<egg> I don't, I just have eyepieces
<B787_300> ...
<egg> at the moment I only have an old 60 mm refractor anyway
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<B787_300> dude get a cheap newtonian
<egg> B787_300: I do have better eyepieces on that 60 mm now though https://photos.app.goo.gl/5RYgKnbZP4XqQFgC7
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<egg> B787_300: planning on getting a cat in the coming weeks
<B787_300> a cat in this case being a feline or a catadioptic telescope?
<egg> a catadioptric telescope, there's already a cat in ANBO
<B787_300> celestron or meade or?
<egg> VC200L
<egg> currently the 60 mm is on a Losmandy GM8, with no counterweight >_>
<egg> smol scope
<B787_300> if i got a telescope i think i would want a faster telescope like a f/3 or f/2
<egg> so I will be getting a very fast 80 mm refractor as a finder
<B787_300> granted that cost a very pretty penny
<B787_300> the smallest in that series is a 12" and is ~20k USD
<egg> B787_300: 80 mm f/4 should cover the "fast wide field" usages
<B787_300> it is so SHORT
<egg> (it's a finder but with non-crosshaired eyepieces is perfectly usable as a wide field scope)
<egg> okay 200 mm f/3 is *fast* Ꙩ_ꙩ
<B787_300> are you looking at the RiFast or RH Veloce?
<egg> the rhveloce
<B787_300> yeah i was looking at them for a possible Thesis topic back when...
<B787_300> egg: agh that price is hurtful to read using a period as the thousands separator then a comma for the cents separator?! what the hell is wrong with them
<egg> what is wrong with you for using a comma as a thousand separator :-p
<egg> (I would use a space for thousand separation though, but what can I say it's a german site)
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<B787_300> what software do you use to control the scope (if any)
<B787_300> or is the GM8 even a GoTo Mount?
<egg> I got the non-goto version, though you can plonk a computer on it if you want
<B787_300> ever thought to grabbing TheSky?
<kmath> <whitequark> Help. Everything I touch becomes programming
<egg> otherwise I'll end up writing some monstrosity based on the principia libraries :-p
<B787_300> lol
<B787_300> i mean i assume the GM8 is ASCOM compliant
<egg> and then you'll be able to track your RSS spacecraft with a telescope
<egg> you need the computerized version to do ASCOM things to it
<egg> (though you can purchase a kit to upgrade a mount)
<egg> that involves replacing the steppers by servos among other things
<egg> also the moon and mars are staring at me
<B787_300> take a look at 4 Vesta
<egg> in an 80 mm f/4 with a 32 mm reticle eyepiece on a full moon?
<egg> well, not quite full but bright enough
<egg> also, through the ground
<egg> and a wall
<B787_300> ...
<B787_300> oh
<egg> I'm in zurich right now
<B787_300> i mean you should be able to see it with the moon up
<B787_300> if it wasnt below the horizon
<egg> I don't have the ANBOscope, just the big finder that I use as a scope here
<egg> and I brought the non-reticulated eyepiece to ANBO and I have yet to buy some for here
<egg> B787_300: it's technically 2 deg above the horizon
<egg> however, switzerland is not flat
<B787_300> yeah i use horizon including any necessary ground masks and >10 deg
<egg> also right now I'm inside, so the ground masks have a strange shape
<B787_300> very rectangular to go through a window?
<egg> well I'm observing through a window, yes
<egg> I'm not observing at wavelengths that would go through the walls
<B787_300> i mean radio astronomy has its place
<egg> yes but visual radioastronomy is more limited
<egg> clearly we should have an eyepiece at arecibo,
<B787_300> egg: did i ever show you the paper that wanted to do some UV, VIS, NIR, and Radio astronomy all in one scope?
<egg> Ꙩ_ꙩ
<B787_300> let me see if i cant dig it up again
<egg> also it's 4:48 somehow
<egg> I should consider the possibility of sleep
<B787_300> so it was SAR, VIS, NIR
<B787_300> and for a UAV... but just point it up instead of down
<egg> I haven't started sleeping yet
<egg> I am considering the possibility though :-p
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<kmath> <Astro_Wright> It's official! ⏎ The *fourth* workshop on extremely precise radial velocities will be 18–21 March 2019, in Grindelwal… https://t.co/rNNi8HtsBv
<UmbralRaptop> Anyway, hi from KEF.
<bofh> *waves*
<UmbralRaptop> Incidentally, this works in the other direction. To the disappointment of post-meopausal women. https://twitter.com/TransEthics/status/1013112693991960576
<kmath> <TransEthics> #Confession I never really got the whole 'women & chocolate' thing until I started transition. ⏎ ⏎ I mean, I /liked/ c… https://t.co/bHYMAbkBJB
<UmbralRaptop> … I think out plane is blocked by a bus.
<UmbralRaptop> Unless we're taking a bus?
<bofh> are you perchance taking a ネコバス?
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<egg|zzz|egg> "this also causes issues where disappearing kerbals collide with themselves."
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<UmbralRaptop> Yay, UK data plan.
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptop
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn whitequark
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<egg|zzz|egg> um.
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn bofh
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<UmbralRaptop> Apparently London subways are as bad as DC ones about bandwidth. Also, it's 302 out. Why is the AC off?
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<kmath> <ticiaverveer> Happy #NationalWritingDay A Deventer scribe, writing around 1420, found his manuscript ruined by a urine stain left… https://t.co/yzc6uXLM2t
<egg|zzz|egg> TIL TLD OOO
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* UmbralRaptop 🔪 the lack of water fountains.
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptop: come to zurich
<UmbralRaptop> Also literally no places seem to sell water, etc.
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptop: are you going to that march 2019 RV thing?
<UmbralRaptop> Iskierka: pls explain
<UmbralRaptop> egg|zzz|egg: if possible.
<egg|zzz|egg> yay
<UmbralRaptop> 303 K, 32% humidity.
<egg|zzz|egg> D:
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn Iskierka
* Qboid gives Iskierka a radio NFPA 704 icosahedron-like photon
<UmbralRaptop> On a random note, is bofh's computer also named after a dragon?
<B787_300> UmbralRaptop: now in LHR?
<UmbralRaptop> B787_300: got through LHR and part of the subway system, now waiting for a train to Cambridge.
<B787_300> ah
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptop: but it's not a subway, it's an underground
<UmbralRaptop> Customs had sine scary signs. https://photos.app.goo.gl/Tac8yb3R52CpV9hi8
<B787_300> ugh come on spain score another goal
<UmbralRaptop> egg|zzz|egg: Underground being 3/4 scale and lacking A/C?
<UmbralRaptop> s/sine//
<Qboid> UmbralRaptop meant to say: Customs had scary signs. https://photos.app.goo.gl/Tac8yb3R52CpV9hi8
<B787_300> yeah why does europe not believe in AC
<egg|zzz|egg> yeah the size and shape of the railcars is weird
<UmbralRaptop> Also, there was a cobus at KEF https://photos.app.goo.gl/X7xUpFsAw7gcqcer6
<egg|zzz|egg> is that the dual of a bus
<UmbralRaptop> (Is a cobus like a cocat?)
<egg|zzz|egg> is a kittenbus the dual of a catbus
<UmbralRaptop> Maybe.
<UmbralRaptop> The dual of an airbus is a boeing.
<B787_300> UmbralRaptop: what plane were you on from KEF to LHR
<UmbralRaptop> B787_300: some 767-300
<B787_300> Iceland Air still?
<UmbralRaptop> Yeah.
<UmbralRaptop> Okay, this train has A/C.
<kmath> <Bodegacats_> https://t.co/2x4SVahTkB
* UmbralRaptop had questions about this https://photos.app.goo.gl/FHGqiCSgH7vadTM37
<B787_300> the IFE or the ad
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<kmath> <hikari_no_yume> #wikifinds https://t.co/nUlKqWM7cI
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<APlayer> Gah, presentation is coming up tomorrow and I don't want to :/
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<UmbralRaptor> Present on space robots?
<UmbralRaptor> Unrelated, it took entirely too much effort to find a place to stay.
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<APlayer> UmbralRaptor: I shall tell my teacher that space robots ate my computer with the presentation on it. Yes. Yes, sounds plausible. That's what I will do.
<UmbralRaptor> APlayer: consider: harpoon (Philae), anti tank round (Hayabusa2), just plain bombing it (Deep Impact, LCROSS)
<UmbralRaptor> I mean for what the space robot did to your homework.
<APlayer> What about HAMMER?
<APlayer> "My homework was nuked by NASA"
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<UmbralRaptor> … I swear that there's a kid across the street wearing a Russian flag.
<UmbralRaptor> Another one waving a flag. Did Russia win big in soccer?
<APlayer> Apparently they did
<APlayer> Threw Spain out of the championship
* UmbralRaptor 🔪 things. Apparently I can't get my adaptor to fit into UK sockets?
<e_14159> UmbralRaptor: That's because their current moves on the left side.
<UmbralRaptor> e_14159: so if I went to an EU country…?
<e_14159> It would definitely* work. *not really
<e_14159> Wait, the UK still is an EU country.
<UmbralRaptor> Well, yes.
<APlayer> Perhaps you need an UmbralRadaptor
<UmbralRaptor> UmbralDegdaptor, UmbralGradaptor,…
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<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: UmbralGrayaptor,
<UmbralRaptor> Ow
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralErgaptor
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn bofh
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<UmbralRaptor> That is, ah, extremely bofh
<UmbralRaptor> !wpn egg|zzz|egg
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<iximeow> powerful wpn
<APlayer> !wpm UmbralRaptor
<APlayer> !wpn iximeow
* Qboid gives iximeow a liquid-cooled asura
<APlayer> !wpn UmbralRaptor
* Qboid gives UmbralRaptor an argon purpose
<APlayer> UmbralRargon, I guess
* UmbralRaptor keeps on thinking the exchange rate is 1.8-2 $ = 1 £, but apparently it's only 1.32?
<pthag> forever 2008
<UmbralRaptor> Ironic brexit result: 1 £ ≈ 1 €
<kmath> <RichFelker> @stephentyrone @shafikyaghmour @ArvidGerstmann @colmmacc MT isn't even "stone age". It's "kool-aid". It was *always… https://t.co/zCeXJ8xpZJ
<UmbralRaptor> If LCG is better, we need to yell at some snek people.
<bofh> I mean LCGs are crap, just better than MT if used correctly.
<kmath> <StephanTLavavej> @stephentyrone @shafikyaghmour @ArvidGerstmann @colmmacc <random> provides too many engines, like how <regex> provi… https://t.co/XTwwIxILyd
<egg|zzz|egg> unordered_meow
<kmath> <Fylwind> std::unordered_meow #cpp ⏎ http://t.co/NsdkxIa7cp http://t.co/DWwumFydHM
<egg|zzz|egg> "throughout the STL, we’re still supporting std::tr1::MEOW as an alias of std::MEOW"
<UmbralRaptor> C++ will randomly meow at you?
<UmbralRaptor> hah
* UmbralRaptor stares at an ephemeris app. Looks like Cambridge doesn't get past astronomical twilight right now. (Though KEF barely got civil twilight, so…)
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: what about ANBO on the 12th
<UmbralRaptor> you get just under 2 hours of dark.
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: otoh, that's more time to observe cows
<UmbralRaptor> Not that far north of Seattle.
<UmbralRaptor> egg|zzz|egg: unordered_moo
* egg|zzz|egg moos
<UmbralRaptor> Need more variables? Add more 'o's!
<egg|zzz|egg> mooooooooooooooo
<APlayer> Baaahhh
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: have you found some water
<APlayer> (Let's start a farm animal gathering!)
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<egg|zzz|egg> Thomas: internal server error?
<egg|zzz|egg> !tell Thomas internal server error
<Qboid> egg|zzz|egg: I'll redirect this as soon as they are around.
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn UmbralRaptor
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<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn bofh
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<egg|zzz|egg> !pet котю
* Qboid pets котю
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<UmbralRaptor> Unrelated, is it normal to dissociate when attempting big things? Especially if you succeed?
* UmbralRaptor has found some water.
<iximeow> unsure but congrats on success
<kmath> <LeahSEsq> We’re going to land on ש, aren’t we? https://t.co/JQs3Q4CIz3
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: was the big thing finding water,
* UmbralRaptor waves an APXS at egg|zzz|egg in a threatening manner.
<UmbralRaptor> bofh: Hah!
<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptor: did the cover of the APXS come off or are you seeing Ti and Cu everywhere
<UmbralRaptor> heh
<kmath> <jamesdnicoll> @Robotbeat @ToughSf @cstross @HopDavid41 @elonmusk @JeffBezos Highly reusable chemical rocket systems do not at thi… https://t.co/fiSqgtPTWN
<kmath> <diodelass> so I tried writing every single character in Unicode (minus surrogates, which Python refuses to write) into a text… https://t.co/zHp8qa1Q0X
<egg|zzz|egg> !wpn Ellied
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<egg|zzz|egg> Ellied: solid advice from FakeUnicode here https://twitter.com/FakeUnicode/status/1013236582453673985
<kmath> <FakeUnicode> @diodelass some mega coverage: ⏎ https://t.co/3m0oNs6LFC HanaMinB.ttf: 60,317 kanji chars (only complete coverage of… https://t.co/xTwG24kfrQ
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