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.
<UmbralRaptop>
hrm
<UmbralRaptop>
;8ball Is this a reason to take a GR class?
<bofh>
Yes :P
<bofh>
uuuuuuuuuugh Levi-Civita symbols
* egg|zzz|egg
pets bofh
<egg|zzz|egg>
why are you not asleep yet
<bofh>
what is sleep? :P
<egg|zzz|egg>
you have a train in five hours and twenty minutes
<bofh>
(also I was observing Perseids)
<bofh>
yes, so if I fall asleep I'd be worried of sleeping thru it :P
<bofh>
(why are *you* not asleep yet? :P)
<egg|zzz|egg>
yeah ok but when wake up you'll be in the train :-p
<egg|zzz|egg>
s/wa/I wa/
<Qboid>
egg|zzz|egg meant to say: yeah ok but when I wake up you'll be in the train :-p
<bofh>
Which sums up the silliness of FITS, since magnetic tape has no immediate layout forced onto you :P
<awang>
UmbralRaptop: Is snek's csv library horribly broken or something?
<UmbralRaptop>
awang: possibly. It seems to have problems writing more than 1 row at a time
<awang>
Like writing multiple rows at a time to a file?
<awang>
...I thought file I/O would be done sequentially in most cases, right?
<awang>
I guess unless you mmap'd the file, but that's starting to get out of my area of familiarity
<egg|zzz|egg>
!u ∷
<Qboid>
U+2237 PROPORTION (∷)
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn UmbralRaptop and bofh
* Qboid
gives UmbralRaptop and bofh a variadic ABI
* UmbralRaptop
stares at practice exams
* egg|zzz|egg
meows at UmbralRaptop
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: hmm, lemme find eggsamples of adding entries
* UmbralRaptop
pets egg with a partition function
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: eggsample: <egg> !kd -add:北斗三号Ｍ３，Ｍ４／長征三号乙|A 長征三号乙 will launch 北斗三号M3 and 北斗三号M4 (http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/bd-3m.htm) from 西昌 into a 773.2 min orbit with a 55° inclination.|2018-02-12T05:10Z
<UmbralRaptop>
so, we're moving 3 old computers from the observatory to our lab for reuse and/or disposal
* UmbralRaptop
upgrades their external monitor from 1280x1024 to 1920x1080
<bofh>
nice.
<awang>
UmbralRaptop: You've been working on a 1280x1024 monitor?
<awang>
My condolences
<UmbralRaptop>
awang: external. The macbook's main monitor is 1440x900.
<awang>
UmbralRaptop: Working on a small monitor like that still doesn't sound fun :(
<bofh>
!kd -add:Aeolus/Vega VV12|An Arianespace Vega rocket, designation VV12 will launch the Aeolus satellite for ESA from Kourou. ADM-Aeolus will be the first ever satellite to deliver wind profiles on a global scale and on a daily basis.|2018-08-21T20:09Z
<Qboid>
bofh: Added event #26
<bofh>
!kd -add:Falcon 9/Telstar 18|A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Telstar 18 VANTAGE communications satellite for Telesat from SLC-40, Cape Canaveral.|2018-08-24T03:33Z
<Qboid>
bofh: Added event #27
<bofh>
(actually that one's a launch window between 03:33Z and 07:33Z on that day, but I'm not sure how Qboid handles those)
<bofh>
!kd -add:Horizons 3e&Azerspace 2/Intelsat 38, VA243|Arianespace will use an Ariane 5 ECA rocket, designated VA243, to launch the Horizons 3e and Azerspace 2/Intelsat 38 communications satellites.|2018-09-07T21:56Z
<Qboid>
bofh: Added event #28
<bofh>
!kd -add:IceSat 2/Delta 2|A United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket will launch NASA ICESat 2 satellite to continue the important observations of ice-sheet elevation change, from SLC-2W, Vandenberg AFB.|2018-09-15T12:46Z
<Qboid>
bofh: Added event #29
<bofh>
!kd -add:BEPICOLOMBO|Arianespace will use an Ariane 5 ECA rocket to launch the BepiColombo mission for ESA/JAXA from Kourou. BepiColombo will begin a seven-year journey to Mercury, where two spacecraft built in Europe and Japan will survey the solar system’s innermost planet’s geology, evolution and magnetic field.|2018-10-19T01:45Z
<Qboid>
bofh: Added event #30
<bofh>
egg|zzz|egg: there, added the main ones off spaceflightnow that have actual times attached to them :P
<bofh>
also holy crap the BepiColombo launch isn't far away.
<egg|zzz|egg>
!Wun bofh
<egg|zzz|egg>
um
<egg|zzz|egg>
!wpn bofh
* Qboid
gives bofh a contravariant apocalypse/fountain pen hybrid
<bofh>
oh good, I need one of those.
<awang>
How frequently does Falcon not launch at the start of a launch window, anyways?
<awang>
Over time I've gotten the impression that it's either launch at the start of the window or just scrub
<Qboid>
egg|zzz|egg: I added the explanation for this acronym.
<egg|zzz|egg>
icefire: kmath
<awang>
!pet Qboid
* Qboid
pets Qboid
<awang>
Er wait
<awang>
Or was it kmath that did the Twitter thing
<egg|zzz|egg>
UmbralRaptop: bofh: wtf is the difference between the ICRS and the ICRS-oriented BCRS
<UmbralRaptop>
unsure
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<egg|zzz|egg>
random SYRTE presentation with titles in comic sans says "The ICRS and the BCRS appear at different levels of abstraction. In principle the spatial BCRS-axes could be fixed by different techniques. Presently they are determined by the ICRS but the nomenclature should be such that the BCRS is defined principally without reference to the ICRS"
<egg|zzz|egg>
that's not helpful, random SYRTE presentation with titles in comic sans