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
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<profanegeometry> putting out preemptive feelers; do any of my followers (or anyone in my immediate circles) work/study at, or otherw… https://t.co/kkBWluYSdR
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<egg|cell|egg>
Bofh: UmbralRaptor: snow! Saw a cat but too far and in too much of a hurry for catpics
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<egg|cell|egg>
Bofh: UmbralRaptor: in particular the sun is probably covered in snow
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<bofh>
meow
* SnoopJeDi
scritches bofh
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<UmbralRaptop>
egg: does this mean that the sun could be eclipsed by a cat?
<SnoopJeDi>
UmbralRaptop, hm, I have "connections" at LBL/SLAC in the sense that I know people there, but nothing that is I think appropriate for that person :(
<SnoopJeDi>
(I mostly know theory weenies)
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<SnoopJeDi>
I was tempted to tell them to reach out to our local cyclotron (which does a TON of spallation for aerospace stress testing), but I assume they said LBL/SLAC mostly because of location.
<SnoopJeDi>
...and probably would be more expensive anyway, because your financial competitors for beamtime are mostly defense contractors? lol
<SnoopJeDi>
no black helicopters, but they definitely get touchy about anybody going close to the "SEE line"
<raptop>
Uh, your advisor should be fine with you not knowing things as long as dKnowledge/dt is reasonably positive.
<B787_300>
yes but how do you know what value is reasonable to him/her
<SnoopJeDi>
ask
<SnoopJeDi>
in science, I've seen far more damage done by the fear of admitting ignorance (or the desire to appear "smart") than I have by an honest "I do not know"