egg changed the topic of #principia to: READ THE FAQ: http://goo.gl/gMZF9H; The current version is Germain. We currently target 1.8.1, 1.9.1, 1.10.1, and 1.11.0. <scott_manley> anyone that doubts the wisdom of retrograde bop needs to get the hell out | https://xkcd.com/323/ | <egg> calculating the influence of lamont on Pluto is a bit silly… | <egg> also 4e16 m * 2^-52 is uncomfortably large
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Krontane. — the problem is not only aesthetic as the frame of reference relative speed gets wacky
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Stonesmile. — Is this using KRASH?
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Krontane. — yep
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Stonesmile. — Start the sim in Earth orbit, go to alt+F12 and toggle cheat gravity, go to orbit selection cheat menu and change orbit to desired body, toggle cheat gravity off
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Krontane. — Thanks man
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meow
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Stonesmile. — 🐱 ?
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raptop: is it reasonable to assume diffraction-limited for any earth orbservation or planetary astronomy task?
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egg|anbo|egg: Given the Trump leak last year, we know that 2.4 m telescopes are diffranction limited for surprisingly shallow angle Earth observations
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I would hand-wave for an earth-like atmosphere that any telescope below ~20 cm is always diffraction limited in optical
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Bigger than that, and you want less air (high, Mars), adaptive optics, or longer wavelengths
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wait how does the angle matter, the diffraction limit gives you angular resolution and the observation angle then makes the corresponding linear resolution worse, no?
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More air means more possibilities for turbulence / bad seeing
<egg|anbo|egg>
oh, right. The atmosphere is a thing in that direction too.
<raptop>
the cows require higher order harmonics
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Caravans of Rockets. — ???
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Caravans of Rockets. — what do@UB3R-B0T and @鹊桥IRC bots do?
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egg. — no idea about the former, the latter is a bridge to the IRC channel
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The latter acts an an intermediary for a diapsid trapped in a chinese room
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[Principia] daantimmer opened issue #2867: Hard CTD when using the slider to change the tangent after modifying the initial time using its slider. - https://git.io/JtqLh
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Ashnoom. — Right, done. Thanks. Wasn't aware. Was looking at the 'default' log locations 🙂
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Standecco. — raptop, do you have wolfram alpha integration?
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Standecco. — would be a worthy addition to the AI
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Standecco: Weirdly, my academic access to things doesn't include that (as best I'm aware)
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(I mean, I also need to use sci-hub weirdly often also)
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(experimentalshells?). — 🏴☠️
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(experimentalshells?). — legally questionable, but morally correct