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> Diapsid website wants me to be informed, and to vote. But I'm already adequately informed about the candidates and there seems to be virtually no info about the 2 issues on the ballot.
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<B787_300> wait why are we not putting camels on rockets?
<UmbralRaptop> Because rockets are like straws
<B787_300> UmbralRaptop: when is first light for LSST?
<B787_300> 2019 supossedly
<UmbralRaptop> Yeah, I haven't heard anything different. But science operations aren't scheduled until 2021.
<B787_300> naturally
<B787_300> but you know there will be some science done before then
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<UmbralRaptop> "From the comparison between the observed and theoretically constructed transmission spectra, the lowest altitude at which the sunlight actually passed through the atmosphere [of the Earth] is estimated to be about 10 km from the ground, which suggests the existence of sunlight blocking clouds below that altitude."
<B787_300> oO
<B787_300> there should be a ignoble prize for the most no-shit sherlock statement in peer reviewed papers
<UmbralRaptop> To be fair, it's more of "do our techniques work for a planet we actually understand the atmosphere of?"
<UmbralRaptop> ie: where we can test them, do they describe reality accurately?
<SnoopJeDi> B787_300, that's basically what the Golden Fleece Awards were (are?) and it's been a Very Bad Thing for science in America
<UmbralRaptop> Were. I think Proxmire has been dead for a while.
<SnoopJeDi> I chose the wording partly because it did a lot of damage to public opinion, so in a way we have the Golden Fleece Awards everywhere
<SnoopJeDi> local radio station is particularly bad about this :(
<SnoopJeDi> "now why the heck are they studying X"
<SnoopJeDi> I DUNNO MAN WHY DON'T YOU CALL OR EMAIL THEM AND ASK
<UmbralRaptop> Left the senate in 89, died in 05.
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<SilverFox> have meme
<SnoopJeDi> oh I get it, the joke is suggesting a physicist would be angry about notational abuse
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<SnoopJeDi> aaaaAAAAA there's a new Laundry Files novel this month?! I haven't even started The Nightmare Stacks yet
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<egg> !wpn whitequark
<egg> !wpn whitequark
* Qboid gives whitequark an udev-named Saturnian wyvern
<egg> !wpn bofh^28
* Qboid gives bofh^28 a stochastic cuil
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<kmath> <JimPropp> @mathshistory @stevenstrogatz It’s fitting that the mathematician who unleashed the horrifying plague of continuous… https://t.co/mWNrkNwZua
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* UmbralRaptop is confused by this phishing attempt https://photos.app.goo.gl/jakUDbKMigbHKe9R7
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<Raptop> Note to self: it's much easier to test software if it's actually installed.
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<bofh^28> https://twitter.com/carlyraejepsen/status/1057727106933608448 I am *unreasonably* excited about the new Carly Rae album tomorrow btw.
<kmath> <✔carlyraejepsen> Cause you don’t care about me 🖤#PartyForOne https://t.co/GLlLdydfx1
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* Raptop 🔪 whoever decided that Dawn didn't need a laser altimeter.
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<bofh^28> Raptop: wait, it DOESN'T have a laser altimeter?!
<Raptop> bofh^28: Nope =(
<bofh^28> that seems like a fairly critical design flaw...
* Raptop guesses it got lost in the initial cancellation.
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<bofh^28> egg: Raptop: ^
<B787_300> bofh^28: just that title makes me cringe
<bofh^28> B787_300: I mean the title is cringeworthy but the reply is pretty great.
<B787_300> it is
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