<kmath>
Ellied: You read that SpaceX's Dragon has succesfully attacked the International Spacestation. It turns out that non-thermal bremsstrahlung hurts just as much as the normal kind.
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* UmbralRaptor
? UmbralRaptor in the paperwork.
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<Ellied>
Pinkbeast: I solved that problem by installing my own IRCd. I now have a clean server with no people on it.
<Pinkbeast>
Nice but of limited utility
<Pinkbeast>
I'm at the dead dog at Eastercon; someone is explaining their kook theory as to why relativity is bogus to a very patient foreign chap
<Pinkbeast>
I am keeping my gob shut but it's getting increasingly hard because someone is Wrong on the Real Life
<Iskierka>
people who claim relativity is wrong I think are probably under the misunderstanding that he just made it up out of nowhere
<Iskierka>
as opposed to the michaelson-morley experiment completely refuting all conventional logic of space
<Pinkbeast>
I expect a slightly higher average level of comprehension at Eastercon
* Iskierka
googles
<Iskierka>
but yes, if interrupting, ask if they're aware of the michaelson-morley experiment
<Pinkbeast>
It's the UK's national SF convention, about 1000 attendees.
<Pinkbeast>
The foreign chap is well aware of it and is trying to get a word in edgeways
<Pinkbeast>
Now there's a conspiracy? theory involving integer representations in computers
<Iskierka>
o.O
<Iskierka>
location of it would've been a bit awkward for me anyway
<Pinkbeast>
Something about the Earth's magnetic field, simulations thereof, and that all integer representations have the sign in the first bit.
<Iskierka>
except the unsigned ones
<Pinkbeast>
One of many flaws in this argument, yes
<Iskierka>
egg: you have a decimal logic calculator, does it manage signs? (and how?)
<Pinkbeast>
location> quite convenient with Whitby being next weekend; staying over in Sheffield tomorrow night
<egg>
Iskierka: ?
* UmbralRaptor
recalls recently running across someone online who seemed to think that the twin paradox (and time dilation in general) was not well grounded. o_O
egg is now known as egg|nomz|egg
<Pinkbeast>
Oh, oddly much of kook's argument was rooted in the fact that GPS works.
egg|nomz|egg is now known as egg
<UmbralRaptor>
O_o?
<Pinkbeast>
Well, frequencies are the same everywhere.
<Iskierka>
egg: I recall you mentioning a DL calculator before and was wondering how it achieves negatives without 2's complement
<Pinkbeast>
I may not be doing the argument justice
<Pinkbeast>
I _think_ it hung on a failure to understand how time dilation and apparent size dilation means everything looks right at both ends
<Iskierka>
until you allow a tachyon telephone
<Pinkbeast>
Please do not violate causality. Or turn out to have violated causality last week.
<egg>
Pinkbeast: conjugation and time travel are hard
<egg>
Pinkbeast: do not have violated causality?
<Pinkbeast>
egg: Well, I mind when I find out about it, when I open my wallet to find out Iskie went back in time and stole all the money
<Pinkbeast>
Now I have a 2038 tenner and the Queen is a dragon
<Iskierka>
I burned it in front of a tory asking for more MP allowance
<Pinkbeast>
In that case I forgive you
<egg>
Pinkbeast: Iskierka is the queen?
<Pinkbeast>
I dunno, dragon recognition's not my forte
<Ellied>
I like inspircd's history module. Makes IRC a little more like other chat services that automatically hold messages for users that aren't online.
<kmath>
<politico> A kid asks Trump to sign his hat at the White House Easter Egg Roll. The president signs ... and then tosses the ha… https://t.co/uhPfgL5Xaa
<Glaug-Eldare>
oh man, I read about that
<Glaug-Eldare>
was a dick
<Glaug-Eldare>
what*
<Ellied>
incredible
<Ellied>
;mission
<kmath>
Ellied: You search for the Mysterious Cities of Kerbin. Your GPU fries.