egg changed the topic of #kspacademia to: https://git.io/JqLs2 | Dogs are cats. Spiders are cat interferometers. | 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 | Logs: https://esper.irclog.whitequark.org/kspacademia
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<SnoopJ>
UmbralRaptop, do you have any opinions about Martin Elvis?
<SnoopJ>
I just saw a talk by him and I'm trying to calibrate my 'Harvard astronomy'-meter
<UmbralRaptop>
Afraid I don't know the name
<SnoopJ>
the talk was about 'Oumuamua and what if it's really a spacecraft, if that provides...context..
<UmbralRaptop>
uh oh
<UmbralRaptop>
Avi Loeb was pushing the alien spaceship thing hard for reasons
<SnoopJ>
that was the impression I was kinda getting from the talk
<SnoopJ>
he has a new book out, s-so
<SnoopJ>
idk
<SnoopJ>
didn't really look at the paper promoted at the end other than to scan it for computation and/or figures
<SnoopJ>
"I have turned to researching the astronomy needed to enable asteroid mining, hoping to cut those costs by putting capitalism to work in space." Ah.
<SnoopJ>
(costs of space telescopes, that is)
<UmbralRaptop>
Make launch costs cheap enough to avoid another SIRTF
<UmbralRaptop>
Of course, you might get another SOFIA
<SnoopJ>
:'(
<UmbralRaptop>
sorry
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<UmbralRaptop>
Staying in a casino hotel is hurting my soul
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<UmbralRaptor>
prediction: we will know if the Trappist-1 planets have atmospheres by end 2023 and some of density/composition by end 2025. If there's life, we'll get nothing definite
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