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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* egg|laptop|egg
meows at whitequark's cats
<UmbralRaptor>
!meow ANBOcat
<galois>
喵
* UmbralRaptor
🔪 architecture VIIIb
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<egg|cell|egg>
UmbralRaptor: is that a type of supernova
<UmbralRaptor>
variousl
<egg|cell|egg>
Or a style of Mycenaean pretty
<UmbralRaptor>
er
<UmbralRaptor>
various telescope configurations for an RV survey
<egg|cell|egg>
Pottery even
<UmbralRaptor>
current architectures: I, IIa, IIb, V, VI, VIIIa, VIIIb
<UmbralRaptor>
[REDACTED] happened to III, IV, and VIII
<egg|cell|egg>
What about II
<egg|cell|egg>
And VII
<UmbralRaptor>
er, tyop. VII got [REDACTED]
<UmbralRaptor>
II got split into the a and b variants
<UmbralRaptor>
as did VIII, albeit for subtler reasons
<UmbralRaptor>
I - 2.4 m telescopes
<UmbralRaptor>
II - 4 and 6 m telescopes
<UmbralRaptor>
(IIa is 2x6 m, 4x4 m. IIb is 6x4 m)
<UmbralRaptor>
V is 6x3 m with an alternate speggtrograph, 6 is array of smol telescope silliness to emulate 4 m instruments
<UmbralRaptor>
s/6 /VI /
<galois>
UmbralRaptor meant to say: V is 6x3 m with an alternate speggtrograph, VI is array of smol telescope silliness to emulate 4 m instruments
<egg|cell|egg>
Also electromagnetism
<UmbralRaptor>
If this doesn't kill me
<UmbralRaptor>
VIIIa is 2x10 m + 4x4 m with differing instruments and cadences between the scopes. VIIIb is 2x10 m + 6x2.4 m
<WeylandsWings>
UmbralRaptor: why is BWI so confusing. Especially with Uber and the like?
<WeylandsWings>
Also I am kinda in your neck of the woods
<UmbralRaptor>
WeylandsWings: I've never actually been to BWI >_>;;
<WeylandsWings>
...
<UmbralRaptor>
It seems like a huge hassle when IAD and DCA are *right here*
<WeylandsWings>
Always fly out of iad or dca
<WeylandsWings>
But traffic or dealing with wmata
<UmbralRaptor>
It's the bus side of the WMATA that's awful as best I can tell
<WeylandsWings>
Silver lines doesn't got to iad yet
<UmbralRaptor>
Traffic between my apt and IAD had generally been non-terrible *ponders*
<WeylandsWings>
How is the drive between your apt and bwi in theory?
<UmbralRaptor>
Dunno, but I think surprisingly long?
<WeylandsWings>
Granted this is ignoring that iad and dca both have better flights going all over the country
<UmbralRaptor>
my best experience was probably taking a Fairfax connector (not WMATA!) to DCA when I had only carry-on
<WeylandsWings>
Hehehe I just thought of a new super expensive boondoggle that the govt could spend money on... an airside underground (mostly) high speed rail between the 3 airports
<UmbralRaptor>
Of course, I got ditched by 3x 29 buses in a row when I was trying to get home…
<UmbralRaptor>
WeylandsWings: so, expand metrorail to BWI?
<WeylandsWings>
Might help reduce traffic out of dca. Or if you make it a limited stop high speed metro ground side you could get more catchment
<WeylandsWings>
Is metro rail the wmata lines?
<UmbralRaptor>
Yeah
<WeylandsWings>
Kinda I am thinking more of a dedicated and limited service. But that would probably mean rebuilding/expanding most stations to have 2 bypass lines
<UmbralRaptor>
blarg
<WeylandsWings>
Like the "airport express" that stops at every 3rd or 4th station on the routes between the airport
<UmbralRaptor>
Not sure about other lines, but a bunch of the orange line is in the I-66 median
<WeylandsWings>
Also wmata needs a loop rail line
<UmbralRaptor>
Purple line!
<WeylandsWings>
AMD to split yellow and blue near dca
<UmbralRaptor>
(Some restrictions apply. Offer void outside of Maryland)
<WeylandsWings>
^and
<WeylandsWings>
Is this like crossrail purple line in London?
<UmbralRaptor>
There are a bunch of bus lines that do cross-station connections, but then you're dealing with buses
<UmbralRaptor>
Also,
* UmbralRaptor
🔪 WMATA 🚌 in the audio ads, and ads that take up the next stop bar
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<WeylandsWings>
They put ads on the next stop dot matrix?
<UmbralRaptor>
sometimes, yes
<WeylandsWings>
... that is terrible... who in the world thought that was a good idea apart from the accounting and advertising department
<UmbralRaptor>
And that's why you should ride Fairfax connector, CUE, etc instead
<WeylandsWings>
Most of the times I come out here I get a rental car on the companies dime
<WeylandsWings>
But that has it's own issues.
<UmbralRaptor>
I mean, as long as you're not looking for parking inside the beltway…
<WeylandsWings>
Precisely
<WeylandsWings>
What we have done a couple times is drive to the hotel then walk to a near by rail station and take that
* UmbralRaptor
wishes that the nearest rail station were closer. Though then I'd probably be farther from GMU…
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* UmbralRaptop
🔪 various telescopes
* UmbralRaptop
wonders if the correct conclusion from these sims is that you need at least 2 telescopes per hemisphere to get nightly spectra of a handful of stars, and like 6-10 for the whole target list
<SnoopJeDi>
!wpn -add:wpn simulation
<galois>
Added wpn 'simulation'
<SnoopJeDi>
!wpn -add:adj simulated
<galois>
Entry already exists!
<SnoopJeDi>
!wpn -add:wpn simulacrum
<galois>
Added wpn 'simulacrum'
<UmbralRaptop>
!wpn -add:wpn star
<galois>
Entry already exists!
<UmbralRaptop>
!wpn -add:wpn nebula
<galois>
Added wpn 'nebula'
<UmbralRaptop>
!wpn -add:wpn cluster
<galois>
Entry already exists!
<UmbralRaptop>
!wpn -add:wpn galaxy
<galois>
Added wpn 'galaxy'
<UmbralRaptop>
!wpn
* galois
gives UmbralRaptop a postdoctoral radium engine
<UmbralRaptop>
Well that's cursed. @GregorioBquer5 is following me again
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<UmbralRaptop>
One of the other physics students had a "Math" pin on his backpack… 🤔
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<UmbralRaptop>
"E492: Not an editor command: whitequark"
<UmbralRaptop>
(today in vim shenanigans)
<whitequark>
um
<UmbralRaptop>
I mean, your nick abbreviates to a valid one