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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<raptop>
TFW a conference uses Holst for intermission music (Venus in this case)
<WeylandsWings>
i mean it is a great choice
<raptop>
I didn't say it was a bad feel!
<SnoopJeDi>
!wpn raptop
* galois
gives raptop a fried MSSM infinitestimal
<SnoopJeDi>
!wpn WeylandsWings
* galois
gives WeylandsWings a weighted correlated life
<SnoopJeDi>
wow, rude
<WeylandsWings>
Hallelujah i finally have a life
<WeylandsWings>
!wpn SnoopJeDi
* galois
gives SnoopJeDi a flap
<raptop>
!wpn SnoopJeDi
* galois
gives SnoopJeDi a mistake
<raptop>
!wpn WeylandsWings
* galois
gives WeylandsWings a handkerchief with an impeller attachment
<WeylandsWings>
wow galois is not being kind to SnoopJeDi
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<whitequark>
maybe it's a good mistake
<SnoopJeDi>
!or good mistake or bad mistake
<galois>
SnoopJeDi: bad mistake
<SnoopJeDi>
okay
<WeylandsWings>
whitequark: or not
<raptop>
miss steak -- when the cow's AC is much higher than your attack bonus
<raptop>
!wpn whitequark
* galois
gives whitequark a Web 2.0 katana
<SnoopJeDi>
haha
<whitequark>
does it have a wet floor
<SnoopJeDi>
!wpn -add:wpn RTG
<galois>
Added wpn 'RTG'
<SnoopJeDi>
!wpn -add:adj thermoelectric
<galois>
Added adj 'thermoelectric'
<raptop>
!wpn -add:adj triboelectric
<galois>
Added adj 'triboelectric'
<SnoopJeDi>
Apparently Perseverence got its RTG installed yesterday \o/
<raptop>
\o/
<WeylandsWings>
SnoopJeDi: they installed it when it was mounted on top of the rocket?
<WeylandsWings>
that seems less than ideal
<WeylandsWings>
also how do they maintain sterility
<SnoopJeDi>
WeylandsWings, does mounting while there's plutonium in the thing sound better?
<SnoopJeDi>
(I have no idea why it's thus)
<WeylandsWings>
mounting it in the clean room before encapsulation in the fairing sounds better as once encapsulated normally no one needs to go inside the fairing
<WeylandsWings>
I was also under the impression that the RTGs pose no radiation concerns unless you really go to town on them and pretty much totally destroy/disassemble them
<SnoopJeDi>
let me see what my acquaintance says, I heard about this via scuttlebutt
<SnoopJeDi>
WeylandsWings, 'the short answer is "keep the plutonium away from the rocket as long as possible"'
* raptop
assumes that a rocket failure that throws the plutonium into the ocean would be rather embarassing
<raptop>
"The major disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect all of us. Integration and testing of the James Webb Space Telescope are among the activities impacted. NASA has re-evaluated the project schedule and announced a launch readiness date of October 31, 2021.
<raptop>
After consulting with the JWST Users Committee, STScI, NASA, ESA and CSA have finalized the review schedule for Cycle 1 proposals.
<raptop>
The JWST Cycle 1 General Observer (GO) proposal deadline will be 08:00 pm Eastern Time (ET) on Tuesday November 24, 2020. "
<SnoopJeDi>
counterpoint: it wouldn't be the first time the federal government has lost a whole bunch of plutonium
<WeylandsWings>
but why the rocket is pretty safe until they start fueling it, which doesnt happen until after the plutonium is added SnoopJeDi
<SnoopJeDi>
"don't forget that that fucker is toasty too"
<raptop>
How hot do the fins get, anyway?
<SnoopJeDi>
good question, dunno
<raptop>
The idea of getting a non-radiation burn form mishandling an RTG amuses me for some reason
<SnoopJeDi>
I'm guessing ES&H is part of this workflow yea
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<SnoopJeDi>
鬼 is perhaps not the best choice but to say my mythology is weak would be drastically understating the matter :)
<SnoopJeDi>
raptop, did I tell you that they have a lovely Japanese collection here at the Boston MFA?
<SnoopJeDi>
mostly Edo period, but this is I think par for the course :/
<SnoopJeDi>
some extremely cool wooden statues in particular, and they're in the process of restoring one of them, which includes taking x-rays of it :D
<raptop>
ooh
* raptop
vaguely misses having access to the Nelson
<SnoopJeDi>
I was feeling a little sad about having gotten a membership just before the plague
<raptop>
(Though I guess, there are tons of art museums under the Smithsonian umbrella, so in a year or two...)
<SnoopJeDi>
but they are extending all memberships by the duration of the closure 💙