raptop 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. | We can haz pdf
<iximeow> UmbralRaptop: do you know of any work modeling atmospheric distortion as experienced by, say, an observatory, over a wide field? (like ~0.1deg by ~0.1deg)
* iximeow learned today speckle imaging is typically used in regions closer to.. single digit arcsec square
<UmbralRaptop> iximeow: short term turbulence, as opposed to just generic refraction?
<iximeow> yeah
<UmbralRaptop> iximeow: multiple star adaptive optics would be a guess, but I don't know many details.
<iximeow> i'm loosely wondering if turbulence across the field could be generalized from what's measured from individual stars, but i don't know enough to know how workable that is
<iximeow> ah hm
<UmbralRaptop> Hrm. I'm boy sure in general what the FOV limitations are with actual or laser guide stars.
<iximeow> s/boy/not/?
<UmbralRaptop> correct
* UmbralRaptop 🔪 📱
<UmbralRaptop> I guess my phone has decided my gender?
<iximeow> gender reveal party 2k18
<UmbralRaptop> please don't ask why the party needs so much lithium deuteride.
<iximeow> fusing the genders would make you incomparably powerful.... 🤔
<UmbralRaptop> egg|zzz|egg: does anbocat now understand double precision floating point?
<egg|zzz|egg> possibly
<egg|zzz|egg> it should probably read Dekker too
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<bofh> egg|cell|egg: bonne année 2019 and all that
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: you should zzz
<bofh> egg|zzz|egg: with the New Horizons flyby in 6 hours and also people in EST I want to wish a happy new year? hell no, not yet.
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: well precisely, you want to be awake by the time the data comes back, not when it flies by in the BCRS
<egg|zzz|egg> and you really need to zzz
<bofh> I did earlier for a bit, at this point I don't think I even can given the stimulant cocktail I took.
<bofh> Plus, like, let me enjoy my new year damnit, I've had a stressful past few days and I'm hoping tomorrow isn't going to be a repeat.
<iximeow> why not be awake during flyby *and* when the data comes back?
* iximeow good influence
<bofh> iximeow: that was already my plan lmao
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<kmath> <elakdawalla> Bennu has a center-of-mass, center-of-figure offset. That means it's not homogeneous inside -- its mass is distribu… https://t.co/mozmbvKho7
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<kmath> <jeff_foust> After that singalong, Walter Alvarez, of K-T boundary fame, is speaking about impact science. This is quite the New… https://t.co/ldnMLJBsup
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<UmbralRaptop> (via Ellied)
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<UmbralRaptop> 🎆🎉🎇
<kmath> <jtuttlekeane> #UltimaFlyby accomplished! @NewHorizons2015 just flew past #UltimaThule to ring in 2019! New images will arrive tod… https://t.co/hPyuxok720
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<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: UmbralRaptop: so how is new horizons doing
<egg|zzz|egg> and when do we get signal
<UmbralRaptop> egg|zzz|egg: I think the first data (in some form) is in ~90 minutes?
<egg|zzz|egg> hm
<egg|zzz|egg> cat is purring
<kmath> <✔PlanetDr> You can always tell if a spacecraft is up to something important by how many DSN antennas it is using... 😮… https://t.co/roB0oyRcPT
<bofh> egg|zzz|egg: we do get signal indeed!
<kmath> YouTube - Brian May - New Horizons (Ultima Thule Mix) [Official Music Video]
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: do we have failsafe 2 yet?
<egg|zzz|egg> failsafe 1 is ELONGATED BLOB, right
<kmath> <✔Alex_Parker> “Space chonk” and “absolute unit” were taken.
<kmath> <✔Alex_Parker> well ok where to next?
<bofh> egg|zzz|egg: failsafe 1 is ELONGATED BLOB, failsafe 2 is downlinking right now.
<bofh> also wait, what was "space chonk" taken by?
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: uh, failsafe 2 downlink was supposed to end yesterday at 20:55 UTC?
<bofh> oh right I mis-decremented things, you're right
<bofh> also rofl I will never stop laughing when one of the New Horizons PIs makes a reference to 'PEPSSI'
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: ESPRESSO SSERVI is weird
<bofh> Yeah, I was mixing up failsafe 2 and NYT 1, but NYT 1 data isn't set to downlink for another few hours anyhow.
<egg|zzz|egg> yeah we haven't had phone home yet
<bofh> also huh, Val-de-Grâce is a military hospital.
<bofh> that eggsplains the barbed wire
<bofh> (no I did not try to wander into the grounds, just walked along Blvd. de Port-Royal this morning and was baffled as to why I saw barbed wire at what I understood to be a hospital)
<egg|zzz|egg> with references even http://www.cosmic-origins.org/PAGES/ptable4.html
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: also, catpics?
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<egg|zzz|egg> UmbralRaptop: randomly came across https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BDLEC_v5MU, did they fuck up wheels recently?
<kmath> YouTube - KSP: Reinventing the Wheel
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<bofh> https://www.ustream.tv/embed/6540154?html5ui JHU New Horizons livestream!
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* egg|anbo|egg meows at bofh
* egg|anbo|egg meows at whitequark
<egg|anbo|egg> whitequark: what happened to _whitenotifier?
<egg|anbo|egg> whitequark: ah, whitequark is down?
<egg|anbo|egg> but _whitelogger is fine
* egg|anbo|egg pets _whitelogger
* egg|zzz|egg meows at bofh
* egg|zzz|egg pets a cat
* bofh fills out calendar for January
<bofh> scheduling!
<SnoopJeDi> I am timidly trying the same
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: yay
<bofh> also: re: this year: I'm going to be in FR for VDD and for Fête des Lumières, and in DE for Congress. That's the most I can promise, and quite possibly the first of those only if I can get JB to pay for flights (exceedingly likely)
<bofh> Otherwise there's sadly going to be much less running around everywhere.
<bofh> I'll get back to it, don't worry.
<bofh> Just not yet.
<UmbralRaptop> "keep on asking, and I'll find a more distant one" https://twitter.com/AcademicsSay/status/1079827640494764033
<kmath> <AcademicsSay> That feeling when trying to explain to family why you can’t just find work at a university closer to home.
<bofh> UmbralRaptop: mood
<egg|zzz|egg> tfw ☋ is not allowed in identifiers
<UmbralRaptop> is ☊?
<egg|zzz|egg> no
<egg|zzz|egg> i could use ℧ but that's silly
<UmbralRaptop> if not, annoy people with 🐲🐉?
<egg|zzz|egg> ;choose ℧|descending_node
<kmath> egg|zzz|egg: descending_node
<egg|zzz|egg> blarg
<bofh> 17:49:14 < egg|zzz|egg> i could use ℧ but that's silly
<bofh> do it :p
<bofh> !u ℧
<bofh> goddamnit where is Qboid
<bofh> huh there's an inverted Omega unicode char?
<kmath> <PKtje> After seeing the first #NewHorizons photos of #NASA MU69 'Ultima Thule' it was time for a pancake version (also; I… https://t.co/HdL0m8UVae
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: mho!
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: old-style Siemens
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh fills out calendar for January << uh it looks to be filled with periodic paris stuff
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<bofh> egg|anbo|egg: yeah I first went to go eat
<bofh> I've turned off the periodics
<bofh> and am adding things now
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<egg|anbo|egg> bofh: also, catpics,
<bofh> point
<bofh> also let me pet the furry house demons
<egg|anbo|egg> bofh: also your calendar still looks the same? /me is confused
<bofh> egg|anbo|egg: yeah it's not updating for some reason, give me a sec.
<SnoopJeDi> bofh, I misunderstood your calendaring earlier, you're just laying out January?
<bofh> SnoopJeDi: yeah, just laying out what I know I need to do and what is in my schedule for Jan.
<bofh> (some of that repeats until May, like courses).
<SnoopJeDi> ah. I'm not usually a heavy scheduling person, but I'm going to try planning out as many of my regular events as possible in the interest of freeing up mental bandwidth
<SnoopJeDi> so I can stop thinking "what am I doing tonight" and just look at The Plan
<bofh> I mean I have the opposite problem, at least in Paris, tho it exists in general
<SnoopJeDi> yea, wildly different contexts
<bofh> the answer to "what am I doing tonight" is "any of, like, Five things, three of which I want to do and one of which I actually need to do and those two sets are not always coincident"
<SnoopJeDi> I definitely want to still leave room for the cognitive mechanical bull ride
<SnoopJeDi> with the hope that it's more fulfilling if the Important Things are on autopilot
<bofh> Yeah, my problems tend to be a bit weird compared to others'.
<bofh> I guess the way of putting it is being on meds means I actually have an attention span, but, like, in a way I'm still fundamentally ADHD
<bofh> so it just means I can actually follow thru with my distractions, which is nice
<bofh> but also it's been getting to the point where I need to learn to actually not immediately agree to every single thing that sounds cool
<bofh> which is hard and, well, not going to lie, I feel really bad every time I turn down an invitation to do something neat or cut a conversation short or whatnot
<SnoopJeDi> that one strikes me as fairly common, although the way in which everyone experiences it may be unique?
<SnoopJeDi> as you well know, I'm still getting my head around all of it :/
<bofh> but I need to figure out how much I can do that for, last year was me going as far as I could in one direction
<bofh> and, well, [PID-controller-oscillating-around-setpoint.jpg]
<SnoopJeDi> but that's why I was curious about your calendaring
<SnoopJeDi> standard reference brain
<bofh> Indeed.
<bofh> Let me get it to show up and then I can link it to you
<bofh> it's just google calendar
<bofh> also stripeycat is self-petting against my foot, lol.
<egg|zzz|egg> yay
<egg|zzz|egg> *purr*
<SnoopJeDi> hmm, is there seriously not a Twitter account that tweets random excerpts of the Feynman lectures?
<bofh> slightly jealous of how good fib's meowing has gotten after she came back from 35c3
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: oh she's back?
<bofh> ya
<egg|zzz|egg> meow
* SnoopJeDi pets egg|zzz|egg
<egg|zzz|egg> meow
<SnoopJeDi> I am sorry I ever doubted new-gen Pokemon. I started playing Moon and I have a litten and I can pet him and this is good.
* bofh pets egg|zzz|egg
<egg|zzz|egg> meow
<bofh> meow
* egg|zzz|egg meows at whitequark
<bofh> egg|zzz|egg: how's ANBOcat?
<egg|zzz|egg> bofh: probably sleeping on the chair next to the front door
<egg|zzz|egg> let me check
<UmbralRaptop> SnoopJeDi: can I have a meowth help me with space exploration?
<SnoopJeDi> maybe? I dunno, this is like rediscovering the series!
<SnoopJeDi> I blithely assumed there wasn't a ton of evolution (ha) in the series
* UmbralRaptop was being silly >_>;;
* bofh pets SnoopJeDi & UmbralRaptop
<SnoopJeDi> I know there's a shuttle in uhhh one of the newest ones?
<SnoopJeDi> a Space Shuttle, that is
<bofh> egg|zzz|egg: blackcat says hi
<bofh> well, 'mew'
* SnoopJeDi scritches bofh
<bofh> but I assume that's 'hi' in this conteggst
* UmbralRaptop grooms bofh
<UmbralRaptop> ;8ball be a cat?
<kmath> UmbralRaptop: Better not tell you now
<bofh> UmbralRaptop: come to congress next year; be forcefelined? :p
<UmbralRaptop> Hah!
<bofh> oops, I think I miscommunicated to stripeycat, I meowed at it several times and then looked to the side and it pounced at the spot I glanced at
<bofh> no, I did not mean 'look, mouse there' >_<
<bofh> speaking feline is hard
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<SnoopJeDi> c3 sounds wicked
<SnoopJeDi> and sliiightly intimidating :p
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