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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!wpn whitequark
* galois
gives whitequark an assistant
<raptop>
useful
<raptop>
...wait, is the assistant a cat?
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<raptop>
!8 Am I turning into a cat?
<galois>
raptop: no
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<raptop>
!8 Am I useful?
<galois>
raptop: no
<raptop>
!wpn
* galois
gives raptop a CFFI rusty starling
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<raptop>
!8 Is everything on fire?
<galois>
raptop: yes
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<SilverFox>
raptop, https://youtu.be/HWVfGTSiooU in this video we see the arcing of electric current, are electrons inherently purple or is that the spectroscopy of atmospheric air?
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<raptop>
SilverFox: I assume it's very hot plasma
<raptop>
something something blackbody >10,000 K
<SilverFox>
ah thats fair, its just colour from blackbody
<raptop>
I mean, there's probably also line emission, but I assume that normal air is dense enough to make it more or less a blackbody
<SilverFox>
even in vacuum?
<raptop>
uh
<SilverFox>
near-vacuum*
<SilverFox>
like in this guy's vacuum chamber
<raptop>
hrm, maybe something with oxygen or nitrogen lines
<SilverFox>
also, because of the way physics works, the average molecular weight of atmospheric air changes on altitude right?
<raptop>
Not for any reasonable altitude(!)
<raptop>
Like, you get the amounts varying once you're out in the exosphere (and possibly thermosphere), but it's relatively constant composition for the first like 100 km
<raptop>
(ignoring things with lots of regional variation like H2O, CO2, and SO2, but those are also relatively small components)
<SilverFox>
Interesting, so I wouldn't have really skipped out on that in my atmospheric model
* raptop
internally screams at the lack of response to my emails about not being able to access the classes that I'm nominally teaching
<SilverFox>
Nice
<SilverFox>
I once never got responses, in person too, about my college math class where an bug online was causing my forms to get submitted after a question or two, out of 10 or 20, so I'd constantly get only 1 or 2/10 and I failed the class
<raptop>
I have at this point had to apologize to 2/16 students who took initiative and emailed me about why they weren't seeing the class
<SilverFox>
that's a big oof
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* raptop
stabs things
<raptop>
!wpn -add:adj Mohorovičić
<galois>
Added adj 'Mohorovičić'
<raptop>
!wpn -add:adj Milanković
<galois>
Added adj 'Milanković'
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<raptop>
"You are responsible for completing these tasks by Sunday, January 29, 2016."
<raptop>
No, my students are not
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<raptop>
.choose 玉蜀黍国|米国
<raptop>
!choose 玉蜀黍国|米国
<galois>
raptop: Your options: 玉蜀黍国, 米国. My choice: 米国
<raptop>
!8 Is Texas actually 6 Ohios in a large hat?
<galois>
raptop: yes
<raptop>
!8 Do I have a doppleganger also set as an instructor?
<galois>
raptop: yes
<raptop>
ah
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<raptop>
!wpn
* galois
gives raptop a working tcsh nightjar
<raptop>
working or working?
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