14:18 <raptop> Disapointing, but negative results are still worth publishing... https://astrobites.org/2022/10/07/gc-origin/

14:18 <galois> [url] Tracing back the origin of Globular Clusters in the Milky Way | astrobites | astrobites.org

14:19 <raptop> astronomers naming things: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.14922

14:19 <galois> [url] [2106.14922] Cosmic-CoNN: A Cosmic Ray Detection Deep-Learning Framework, Dataset, and Toolkit | arxiv.org

14:19 <raptop> astronomers naming things: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00686

14:19 <galois> [url] [2210.00686] 3D Photon Conserving Code for Time-dependent General Relativistic Radiative Transfer : CARTOON | arxiv.org

14:19 <raptop> astronomers naming things: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00560

14:19 <galois> [url] [2210.00560] A global view on star formation: The GLOSTAR Galactic plane survey. VI. Radio Source Catalog II: $28^\circ < \ell < 36^\circ$ and $|b| < 1^\circ$, VLA B-configuration | arxiv.org

22:43 <umbralraptop> "To-day we have ceased to be consciously afraid of the unseen;—knowing that we ourselves are supernatural,—that even the physical man, with all his life of sense, is more ghostly than any ghost of old imagining:"

22:44 <umbralraptop> (source: Ululation - In Ghostly Japan)

22:46 <umbralraptop> "Divine, perhaps, in some unknowable ultimate way,—but certainly not merciful, and still more certainly not loving. Only by eating each other do beings exist! Beautiful to the poet’s vision our world may seem,—with its loves, its hopes, its memories, its aspirations; but there is nothing beautiful in the fact that life is fed by continual murder,—that the tenderest affection, the noblest enthusiasm, the purest idealism, must be nourished b

22:46 <umbralraptop> eating of flesh and the drinking of blood. All life, to sustain itself, must devour life. You may imagine yourself divine if you please,—but you have to obey that law. Be, if you will, a vegetarian: none the less you must eat forms that have feeling and desire."

23:01 <umbralraptop> But even so-called inanimate matter is self-devouring. Substance preys upon substance. As in the droplet monad swallows monad, so in the vast of Space do spheres consume each other. Stars give being to worlds and devour them; planets assimilate their own moons. All is a ravening that never ends but to recommence. And unto whomsoever thinks about these matters, the story of a divine universe, made and ruled by paternal love, sounds less persuasive

23:02 <umbralraptop> than the Polynesian tale that the souls of the dead are devoured by the gods.

23:04 <umbralraptop> "Monstrous the law seems, because we have developed ideas and sentiments which are opposed to this demoniac Nature,—much as voluntary movement is opposed to the blind power of gravitation. But the possession of such ideas and sentiments does but aggravate the atrocity of our situation, without lessening in the least the gloom of the final problem."

23:05 <umbralraptop> (In conclusion: no god, only dæmons. And if you want to reach heaven, you'll have to build it yourself)