thx!
― StanM, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:29 (fourteen years ago) link
when i get around to watching this, if i find it to my satisfaction, i will be happy to send it to anyone who wants to see it. we're probably going to screen it in a lecture theatre somewhere here in münchen.
― caek, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:34 (fourteen years ago) link
"thousands of women of a certain age have developed a sudden and burning interest in particle physics"
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:46 (fourteen years ago) link
More than just a pretty face: Brian Cox gained a physics degree at Manchester University when he was 23
WOW PRECOCIOUS
― Top Geir (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:47 (fourteen years ago) link
lol dailymail.co.uk
pretty sure kate has professed love for him on this board btw
― caek, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:48 (fourteen years ago) link
He is honestly the spit of my friend Michael.
― Top Geir (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 12:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Things Can Only Get Wetter
― StanM, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Hi dere.
I was interested in physics *way* before I discovered Brian Cox. I think I might have found out about him asking on ILX "who was that DDB on Horizon last night?" several years ago. Humph. (I have already had the "I knew about him before you did!" conversation with a fellow electronic musician who was being all Losing My Edge about him because he liked the film Sunshine.)
Though, if you want to point the blame at a TV science hotty, you might want to ask a prepubescent Kate about Carl Sagan.
My illustrations on Flickr have picked up a sudden surge of interest since this programme began, though.
― Delia & Daphne & Celeste (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I was interested in physics *way* before I discovered Brian Cox.
i know, the mail thing just reminded me you had already identified him at talent. i remember talking to you about him here in 2006ish.
― caek, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link
going to do a bunch of not reading ilx for a few weeks. will be back for the world cup. i wish you all nothing but the very best in all things.
― caek, Thursday, 13 May 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
rip you
― max, Thursday, 13 May 2010 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISVZ3GrMJk8
― caek, Thursday, 13 May 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
come back soon dude
― Consensus Working Overtime (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 13 May 2010 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
lucky you, wish I could do that
― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 13 May 2010 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link
r.i. piece of caek
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Friday, 14 May 2010 08:40 (fourteen years ago) link
I've started re-watching Wonders Of The Solar System now Kate's WDYLL picture reminded me that I've ordered it on blu-ray - its glorious and breathtaking HD quality is another reason to be happy I took the blu-ray plunge. I've seen a couple of earlier Brian Cox things (about time and CERN and stuff) and I'm a fan of his contagious enthusiasm, but I find I always have to adjust to his accent a little bit. "... about everythink. But you'd be wrongue." :-)
― StanM, Sunday, 30 May 2010 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
dear caek
what is this I am hearing about Betelgeuse
― some men enjoy the feeling of being owned (acoleuthic), Friday, 4 June 2010 00:43 (thirteen years ago) link
*awaits ten tons of real-talk*
― some men enjoy the feeling of being owned (acoleuthic), Friday, 4 June 2010 01:02 (thirteen years ago) link
hiyo!
― caek, Saturday, 5 June 2010 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
where you been at?
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 5 June 2010 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link
my desk for a month. it sucked. back for world cup madness/12 hour nights shifts at an observatory in texas.
― caek, Saturday, 5 June 2010 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
In an observatory, do you actually do any looking through telescopes, or is that old hat?
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 5 June 2010 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
you don't use your eyes, no. the detector is a CCD, just like in a digital SLR camera.
― caek, Saturday, 5 June 2010 16:31 (thirteen years ago) link
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/04jun_swef/
caek on a scale of 1-10 how worried should I be?
― fruiting bodies of minds in agony (dyao), Monday, 7 June 2010 09:14 (thirteen years ago) link
This happens every 11 years, doesn't it? I don't think we should be to worr
― StanM, Monday, 7 June 2010 09:16 (thirteen years ago) link
stanm how were you able to click the 'submit post' button?!?!
― fruiting bodies of minds in agony (dyao), Monday, 7 June 2010 09:16 (thirteen years ago) link
DAMN! busted ;-)
― StanM, Monday, 7 June 2010 09:21 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, i think that refers to the regular 11 year solar cycle. next peak is 2013. you should be worried 2/10 : )
― caek, Monday, 7 June 2010 10:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Patrick Moore's "The Sky At Night" was on last night. It was surreal - I don't think I've seen him on telly since Gamesmaster. What a strange guy.
― village idiot (dog latin), Monday, 7 June 2010 10:10 (thirteen years ago) link
he is a very old man
― caek, Monday, 7 June 2010 11:25 (thirteen years ago) link
right wing mentalist too, but I do enjoy The Sky at Night.
― every time i pull a j/k off the shelf (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 June 2010 11:26 (thirteen years ago) link
what a pro:
On 26 April 1957, at 10:30 pm, in an event that was to be a landmark of his career, Moore presented the first episode of The Sky at Night, a BBC television programme for astronomy enthusiasts. Since then, he has presented every episode each month, excepting July 2004, because of a near-fatal bout of food poisoning caused by eating a contaminated goose egg.
― caek, Monday, 7 June 2010 11:27 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, he is mental, xp
i usually tear up at the end credits of sky at night tbh
― caek, Monday, 7 June 2010 11:28 (thirteen years ago) link
even is he is a racist paleoconservative
― caek, Monday, 7 June 2010 11:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I was also watching Sky at Night last night and pleased that it's been going all this time with no horrible flashy re-boots, just some peeps discussing new discoveries in unpatronising layman's language. Hope it can continue like that when Moore eventually has to pack it in.
― every time i pull a j/k off the shelf (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 June 2010 11:30 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost
Yeah he is a guy who I can separate his politics from his other fine attributes.
― every time i pull a j/k off the shelf (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 June 2010 11:31 (thirteen years ago) link
He writes books with Brian May from Queen and a very astronomy looking young dude.
― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Monday, 7 June 2010 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100607/sc_space/strangediscoveryontitanleadstospeculationofalienlife
caek should we be interested/concerned/frightened about this strangediscoveryontitan that has apparently led tospeculationofalienlife?
― del griffith, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 04:53 (thirteen years ago) link
what's this shit?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hole
― louiiiis jjjjagger (S-), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
some fucking space shit iirc. dunno!
xp, you should take note of this discovery, for the beings are certainly taking note of you.
― caek, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
EVERYBODY PANIC (*)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7819201/Nasa-warns-solar-flares-from-huge-space-storm-will-cause-devastation.html
(*) again. Stupid newspapers.
― StanM, Monday, 14 June 2010 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
How do I set up a mailman list to which non-members can post questions, comments, and problems to which members can respond without non-members posts getting bounced and with non-members receiving and auto-reply acknowledgment? This is administered within my institution. I don't know if that affects things. I tried to do this through Privacy Options -> Sender Filters -> generic_nonmember_something-or-the-other set to Accept, but this did not seem to work. No auto-replies. No posts. Thanks in advance for any help that you can provide that is probably unrelated to your known area of expertise.
― youn, Monday, 14 June 2010 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
non-members'an
― youn, Monday, 14 June 2010 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I know you can set it up to accept posts from non-members. Presumably it's just a switch in the admin interface? Not sure about autoreplies though. Worst comes to the worst, you could set up a dummy gmail account to receive all posts and acknowledge them using an autoreply (in a way that appears to come from the list admin).
― caek, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
this is an unsatisfactory situation: http://observatories.hodar.com/mcdonald/index.html
four fully clear nights in a row on a 60% site though, so i'm not complaining.
― caek, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
it is very cloudy here so we are goofing off with a seriously fancy teleescope. we just discovered saturn.
― caek, Thursday, 17 June 2010 05:11 (thirteen years ago) link
congrats 2 u
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:04 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks. discovering a planet was a big moment in my career. high on coffee right now.
― caek, Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:21 (thirteen years ago) link
you guys are gonna go far off this- have you though of a manager/agent?
― Remember when Mr Banhart was a replicant? (darraghmac), Thursday, 17 June 2010 09:23 (thirteen years ago) link