UmbralRaptor 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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* UmbralRaptor
pokes the Calar Alto observatory with a stick
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<UmbralRaptor>
(checking for a paper on historical numbers of clear nights)
<egg|laptop|egg>
B787_300: J2 is zonal
<egg|laptop|egg>
for sectoral harmonics, you want Cnn Snn
<UmbralRaptor>
Huh. this paper claims that their 3.5 m is the largest in continental Europe. (But what about ВТА-6?)
<B787_300>
UmbralRaptor: Russia isnt Europe?
<B787_300>
well parts of it arent
<B787_300>
and isnt the BTA-6 in the Asia Part?
<UmbralRaptor>
That telescope is in the European part!
<UmbralRaptor>
(If kinda near the Georgian border)
<B787_300>
thanks egg|laptop|egg, but a smidge late, actually dug out my modern orbital dynamics text book
* egg|laptop|egg
sneaks the principia documentation onto B787_300's bookshelf
<B787_300>
egg|laptop|egg: i am stuck trying to teach a EE orbital mechnics
<B787_300>
which is both fun and a challenge
<egg|laptop|egg>
hm
<egg|laptop|egg>
I don't kow much about EEs
<egg|laptop|egg>
I could help you teach a pure mathematician
<B787_300>
as she gets stuff that most wouldnt, but has had the hardest time understanding the 6 classical Orbital elements and Eccentric and Mean Anomaly
<egg|laptop|egg>
the eccentric anomaly is neither very intuitive nor very practically useful tbh, it's more of a convenient intermediate construction
<egg|laptop|egg>
(the equinoctial elements are extremely useful otoh)
<B787_300>
she hasnt gotten there yet and dont want to confuse her
<egg|laptop|egg>
the mean anomaly is time that pretends to be an angle, so that's also confusing
<B787_300>
i spent a couple hours today trying to explain an odd combination of hohmann transfers and why there are critical inclinations that are fun to mess around with
<B787_300>
in which i happened to mention J2 and J4
<B787_300>
she thinks i would make a good professor
<B787_300>
which is funny to me, as I think i would be terrible
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* UmbralRaptor
x_x
<egg|laptop|egg>
!wpn UmbralRaptor, whitequark, et al.
* galois
gives UmbralRaptor, whitequark, et al. a normal chlorine spoiler
<UmbralRaptor>
!wpn egg|laptop|egg
* galois
gives egg|laptop|egg a 0x5f3759df
UmbralRaptor is now known as NomalRaptor
* egg|laptop|egg
gives NomalRaptor a book about aqua regia
* NomalRaptor
reads the book, and feels anxious
* NomalRaptor
feels anxious about Fourier series
* NomalRaptor
feels anxious about simulating a TAC
<NomalRaptor>
(Granted, you could argue that I should use a neural network)
<NomalRaptor>
TAC?
<galois>
TAC: Time Allocation Committee
<NomalRaptor>
"We replaced the Time Allocation Committee with numpy.random"
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<SilverFox>
has anyone responded to my inquiry on if we can harness the power of sodium-water explosions?
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<UmbralRaptop>
… GMU is advertising a scholarship for students who get unpaid internships.
<UmbralRaptop>
!choose Struggle with La Silla weather data as a proxy for Las Campanas | Just use Cerro Tololo
<galois>
UmbralRaptop: Your options: Struggle with La Silla weather data as a proxy for Las Campanas , Just use Cerro Tololo . My choice: Struggle with La Silla weather data as a proxy for Las Campanas
<UmbralRaptop>
;choose Struggle with La Silla weather data as a proxy for Las Campanas | Just use Cerro Tololo
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