per aspera ad astra
― be told and get high on coconut (gbx), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 14:12 (thirteen years ago) link
audere est facere
― Everytime I hit 'submit post' the internet gets dumber (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Carthago delenda est
― ledge, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 14:18 (thirteen years ago) link
mi casa su casa
― be told and get high on coconut (gbx), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 14:20 (thirteen years ago) link
go n-eiri and bothar leat
― Everytime I hit 'submit post' the internet gets dumber (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Rock on.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 July 2010 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
ou sont les neiges autrefois?
― Everytime I hit 'submit post' the internet gets dumber (darraghmac), Wednesday, 21 July 2010 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
yo caek what's the fuckin craic where's the warnings of all these asteroids that are nearly hitting us man? what we payin you for?
― k¸ (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 September 2010 11:23 (thirteen years ago) link
(caek can't check ilx as he's beeing steering the entire planet on manual control the past two days)
― k¸ (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 September 2010 11:31 (thirteen years ago) link
yah phd been pretty much under control for a month so i've been moonlighting by steering asteroids and posting on ilx. it's been pretty chill.
― caek, Thursday, 9 September 2010 11:44 (thirteen years ago) link
still in germany? what are your living plans for the foreseeable?
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 9 September 2010 11:47 (thirteen years ago) link
in munich until the end of the year. submit in december, viva in jan, after that is tbc. i'm finishing out of sync with the academic year (which is how the job market works too), so worst case scenario is back in with the 'rents until the summer, although that wouldn't be so bad. dad + wife have kids who are 4 and 1. best case scenario is a ~6 month contract in one of a couple of places in the US, which i have been supposed to get news about "later this week" for the last two months.
what about you? i thought you dropped out of your masters and then you were all like "i have an exam tomorrow". i guess you have finished now?
where is gbx does anyone know? i miss him so.
― caek, Thursday, 9 September 2010 12:08 (thirteen years ago) link
ah nice - well I hope you teach the kids the value of playing to the whistle, if you do end up shacked with 'em - godspeed the American applications though
I have finished now, yes, although I only find out later this month whether I've passed my resits! I have it on my CV that I spent a year working on the Masters, and obviously while I'd really like to have passed, if one piffling module fails me I'll still have completed a large and comprehensive course of work. Pretty confident though. I came very close to tapping out a few times but I ain't a quitter - finish their MA and get out of there tbh
gbx is *coming to London* pretty soon - his sister is studying here! I am so so psyched to meet the guy, all-time ILX dude
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 9 September 2010 12:23 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, worth getting the letters after yr name if at all possible. good work.
― caek, Thursday, 9 September 2010 12:46 (thirteen years ago) link
letters after ur name- ILX (All time)
― k¸ (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 September 2010 13:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Master of ILX (or MILX) should be a thing.
― seandalai, Thursday, 9 September 2010 13:28 (thirteen years ago) link
milx vs toast
― k¸ (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 September 2010 13:30 (thirteen years ago) link
M.ILX, maj. Football threads.
Originally signed up for Zing degree, transferred after dept shut down ;_;
― k¸ (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 September 2010 13:32 (thirteen years ago) link
♪♫ love u space ♪♫
― caek, Monday, 4 October 2010 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
that is cute.
― mmmm, Monday, 4 October 2010 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link
coooooooooooooooooooooool
― journey to the end of nyt (nakhchivan), Monday, 4 October 2010 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
srsly, nice mnml ryoji ikeda soundtrack too
― journey to the end of nyt (nakhchivan), Monday, 4 October 2010 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
fucking love the space IDM XPOST
― acoleuthic, Monday, 4 October 2010 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
that darn nakhchivan
― acoleuthic, Monday, 4 October 2010 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link
there is always above air by CoH, a 'concept album' abt a pilot floating in and out of consciousness in the upper atmosphere
― journey to the end of nyt (nakhchivan), Monday, 4 October 2010 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
caek do you know that this is all about (apologies if posted elsewhere)
is it aliens?
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/nov/HQ_M10-167_Astrobiology.html
― rent, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 13:42 (thirteen years ago) link
judging by the people involved giving the conference, it's something in the solar system (so not another exoplanet discovery). a "finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life" suggests it may even be a discovery on earth, which would also make sense given people involved.
findings on earth that would impact the search for evidence of ET life include some new form of life that can survive in very extreme conditions, or, and this would be a very very big deal: clear evidence that life started twice on earth in the form of something that does not share the common ancestor that all currently known life shares.
doesn't sound like aliens though :-(
― caek, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 13:53 (thirteen years ago) link
finally, a noble gas-based lifeform
― .\ /. (dayo), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 14:08 (thirteen years ago) link
i was on holiday at the time, but i think bill clinton gave the 1997 one on life on mars, so this is clearly not _that_ big
― caek, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 14:20 (thirteen years ago) link
blast from the past http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/snc/clinton.html
― caek, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
>finally, a noble gas-based lifeform
I, for one, welcome our Argonian overlords and their lilac glow.
― Bill A, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 14:40 (thirteen years ago) link
caek otm: http://nasawatch.com/archives/2010/11/mediablogger-ex.html
― caek, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
this would be a very very big deal: clear evidence that life started twice on earth in the form of something that does not share the common ancestor that all currently known life shares.
good call. this would be dope.
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
if life has started once on earth it doesn't prove much about whether it started elsewhere, especially since, as far as we can tell, the odds against it are overwhelming. if it's started twice on earth than that doesn't just double the number of times we know it started. it also proves there's something wrong with our calculation of the odds, and they're not actually that remote. and that all but guarantees there is life elsewhere.
thinking about it, that would be the kind of news that would be so big they might get the president involved, so maybe it's just arsenic stuff.
someone on this thread has access to the paper.
ne way, i started a phd in this stuff in australia (with the first author on that paper before he moved to AZ, as it happens), so it is relevant to my interests.
― caek, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
although i'm handing my own phd thesis in on friday (conclusion: there is more magnesium in the middle bit of this one galaxy than in the outside bit), so i'm pretty annoyed this is going to blow my stuff off the front page.
― caek, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link
WHO HAS IT
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Your phd thesis needs some tie-in between magnesium and the prevelance of cute, naked women. Pics helpful. It wouldn't have to be a very strong tie to get yoiu back onto the front page, imo.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
caek if u feed me the angle ill sensationalize it on gawker for u
― max, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link
only if the dentonator gives me double what the iphone 4 guy got
― caek, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
caek what is this nonsense about rings in the background microwave radiation proving the universe has started over and over again? is penrose high as usual?
― e.g. delegates at a set age (ledge), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/11/recycled-universe/
― e.g. delegates at a set age (ledge), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm not an expert on CMB analysis, which is something people spend careers on. neither is penrose for that matter. that is utter nonsense imo.
― caek, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
always wondered what happened him after dangermouse got cancelled
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 01:00 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/12/epic-discovery-nasa-discovers-new-non-dna-based-life-form-to-be-annouced-at-2-pm-est.html
― max, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
whoa
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:49 (thirteen years ago) link
rad!
― caek, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
so cool
― max, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
here we go!
― gospermaban sim gishel (acoleuthic), Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
trending right now #gävlegoat #arsenic
― caek, Thursday, 2 December 2010 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57PENuNVapc&feature=related
― caek, Friday, 3 December 2010 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link