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* galois
gives egg|cell|egg a lorenz polynomial pterodactyl with a atlatl attachment
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<bofh>
qzss?
<egg|cell|egg>
QZSS?
<galois>
QZSS: Quasi-Zenith Satellite System
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<bofh>
ahh
<bofh>
right, that one.
<bofh>
nice.
<UmbralRaptop>
"Interestingly, both engineers were surprised to find that the temperature inside a parabolic curve would drop to somewhere between 10 K and –40 K."
<UmbralRaptop>
-40? o_O
<whitequark>
what
<UmbralRaptop>
Something about passive cooling of space telescopes
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* Raptop
stabs velocities
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<bofh>
UmbralRaptop: minus 40K via passive cooling? even more what.
<Raptop>
I have no idea where the minus sign came from.
<bofh>
like between +10K and +40K makes sense for a space telescope
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<SnoopJeDi>
negative absolute temperature is also just a thing which is kind of unfortunate
<SnoopJeDi>
...but hopefully not what is meant in this case heh.
<bofh>
yeah I'd be very worried if my space telescope optics were at negative absolute temperatures
<bofh>
pretty sure any glass doesn't tolerate that
<SnoopJeDi>
might be useful for a space antitelescope
<Raptop>
The context was such that the negative absolute temperature was either a weird modeling limitation or a tyop