14:23 <raptop> !choose the internet is a series of tubes|the internet is a parallel of tubes

14:23 <galois> raptop: Your options: the internet is a series of tubes, the internet is a parallel of tubes. My choice: the internet is a series of tubes

18:04 <raptop> !wpn

18:24 <raptop> "The easiest thing to harm in this situation is the students" -- my advisor

18:30 <raptop> I'm like 80% certain that the guy in the hat is named Bary. (Naturally Bary is centering himself in this discussion): https://xkcd.com/2898/

18:30 <galois> [xkcd] Orbital Argument | Alt-text: "Some people say light is waves, and some say it's particles, so I bet light is some in-between thing that's both wave and particle depending on how you look at it. Am I right?" "YES, BUT YOU SHOULDN'T BE!"

20:07 <raptop> Anyone got a spare nuke to test this? https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14864

20:07 <galois> [arXiv] “The Karzas-Latter-Seiler Model of a High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse: A New Numerical Code for an Old Model” Gavin S. Hartnett — «A high-altitude nuclear blast can produce an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) capable of disrupting electronics on Earth. The basic phenomenology of the initial (E1) phase of the EMP was initially worked out in the 1960s by Longmire, Karzas, and Latter, and although more accurate and…»

20:10 <raptop> It's in the abstract, but astronomers naming things: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15381

20:10 <galois> [arXiv] “Optimisation-based alignment of wideband integrated superconducting spectrometers for sub-mm astronomy” A. Moerman, K. Karatsu, S. J. C. Yates et al. — «Integrated superconducting spectrometers (ISSs) for wideband sub-mm astronomy utilise quasi-optical systems for coupling radiation from the telescope to the instrument. Misalignment in these systems is detrimental to the system performance. The common method of using…»

20:13 <raptop> okay, that's an interesting name choice: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.07434 (Sonora Bobcat for an atmospheric model)

20:13 <galois> [arXiv] “The Sonora Brown Dwarf Atmosphere and Evolution Models I. Model Description and Application to Cloudless Atmospheres in Rainout Chemical Equilibrium” Mark S. Marley, Didier Saumon, Channon Visscher et al. — «We present a new generation of substellar atmosphere and evolution models, appropriate for application to studies of L, T, and Y-type brown dwarfs and self-luminous extrasolar planets. The atmosphere models…»

20:41 <raptop> astronomers naming things: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15275

20:41 <galois> [arXiv] “Simulation Studies for the First Pathfinder of the CATCH Space Mission” Yiming Huang, Juan Zhang, Lian Tao et al. — «The Chasing All Transients Constellation Hunters (CATCH) space mission is an intelligent constellation consisting of 126 micro-satellites in three types (A, B, and C), designed for X-ray observation with the objective of studying the dynamic universe. Currently, we are actively developing the first…»