"Read a book, Seth!"
― nickn, Thursday, 15 January 2015 04:22 (nine years ago) link
thanks to the person who ilx messaged me today!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 16 May 2015 18:59 (nine years ago) link
'twas I. Did not know about your corner over here. Mentioned you on this other thread over here
― Lemmy Cauchemar (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 May 2015 19:33 (nine years ago) link
ha! i am in new york but no longer at columbia (or in academia for that matter).
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 16 May 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
when are you in baseball?
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 17 May 2015 15:54 (nine years ago) link
waiting for the cyclones
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 17 May 2015 16:14 (nine years ago) link
caek what sorts of math do you use in graduate-level astrophysics classes?a
― the late great, Thursday, 4 June 2015 02:03 (nine years ago) link
a lot of normal algebra and calculus, linear algebra, vector calculus, maybe some field theory if you're doing cosmology. tbh nothing too fancy. the number of unsolved problems in astrophysics that seem vulnerable to exact or even approximate mathematical analysis is ... not large afaict.
far more important for research than "maths" in that sense are statistics (and maybe a bit of what would now be called machine learning), and numerical methods and linear algebra in a computer programming context.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 4 June 2015 03:05 (nine years ago) link
complex analysis too iirc
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 4 June 2015 03:07 (nine years ago) link
You mean you don't utilize Poincaré Dodecahedral Space? My illusions are shattered.
― Faron Young Folks (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 4 June 2015 03:08 (nine years ago) link
there is a spectrum from theoretical physics to cosmology to astrophysics to astronomy (although the difference between these last two may be illusory). at one end it's pretty much all maths, and at the other it's pretty much all statistics and/or instrumentation
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 4 June 2015 03:16 (nine years ago) link
interesting! thank you.
― the late great, Thursday, 4 June 2015 05:07 (nine years ago) link
i would ask more detailed questions, since i am interested in auditing some classes, but it sounds like i need to figure out where on that spectrum my interests fall before asking more questions
― the late great, Thursday, 4 June 2015 05:41 (nine years ago) link
ah. if you're auditing graduate level classes (rather than doing research) then the stats/machine learning stuff is going to be much less important.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 4 June 2015 15:37 (nine years ago) link
https://scontent-lga1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/l/t1.0-9/p720x720/11826025_10153447754851772_5865874462321484670_n.jpg?oh=347fa1544c8298fca55e37072d1668ce&oe=56563D12
not a shop...
https://www.facebook.com/NASA/photos/a.67899501771.69169.54971236771/10153447754851772/?type=1&fref=nf
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 17:11 (eight years ago) link
wow
― welltris (crüt), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
where is monolith?
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 17:15 (eight years ago) link
What's up with that raccoon's mask?
http://i.imgur.com/HmHJODr.png
― pplains, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link
idk, you say it's not a shop but i need more evidence before i believe in the moon. cool photo tho.
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 17:33 (eight years ago) link
decent looking Horizon on space junk starts shortly ...
― xelab, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 18:56 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/dscovrepicmoontransitfull.gif?itok=m-pCEXqi
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 19:26 (eight years ago) link
http://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/eso1532a.jpg
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1532/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 6 August 2015 18:17 (eight years ago) link
I recognize that these images are generally hyper-colorized for legitimate scientific reasons, to accentuate structures that would not be nearly as visible without it, but they always leave me with a certain sense of artificiality, like fashion model photos with all the skin blemishes photoshopped away.
― Aimless, Thursday, 6 August 2015 19:50 (eight years ago) link
I just noticed that you can see the reflection of the moon in the ocean.
― nickn, Thursday, 6 August 2015 21:22 (eight years ago) link
that's the reflection of the sun
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 6 August 2015 23:56 (eight years ago) link
sunned in a celestial beef, dang
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Friday, 7 August 2015 01:52 (eight years ago) link
:(
― nickn, Friday, 7 August 2015 06:54 (eight years ago) link
aw! icarus, o icarus.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 7 August 2015 14:08 (eight years ago) link
Icky for short
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 August 2015 14:14 (eight years ago) link
caek you have probably seen this but for those that have this thread bookmarked check out this gif of flyby of pluto from a video nasa posted:
https://33.media.tumblr.com/9478051d20de16848348a5dc65caccda/tumblr_nu170k9x4R1rdy7odo1_500.gif
― 1995 ball boy (Karl Malone), Thursday, 3 September 2015 02:57 (eight years ago) link
fn hell that's cool
― andrew m., Thursday, 3 September 2015 03:48 (eight years ago) link
Why does the sock monkey look away from us?
― pplains, Thursday, 3 September 2015 03:49 (eight years ago) link
i have not seen that! nuts!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 10:29 (eight years ago) link
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/nasa_graphics_manual_nhb_1430-2_jan_1976.pdf
― 龜, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 11:58 (eight years ago) link
👍
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 17:22 (eight years ago) link
A global ocean lies beneath the icy crust of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150915155309.htm
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 September 2015 17:44 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/pluto-wows-in-spectacular-new-backlit-panorama
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 17 September 2015 16:14 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/nh-apluto-mountains-plains-9-17-15.png?itok=30xh2XGF
yeah, these are phenomenal.
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--kRh_098f--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/1434747542103831844.png
In this small section of the larger crescent image of Pluto, taken by NASA's New Horizons just 15 minutes after the spacecraft's closest approach on July 14, 2015, the setting sun illuminates a fog or near-surface haze, which is cut by the parallel shadows of many local hills and small mountains. The image was taken from a distance of 11,000 miles (18,000 kilometers), and the width of the image is 115 miles (185 kilometers).
― 1996 ball boy (Karl Malone), Thursday, 17 September 2015 18:36 (eight years ago) link
hi pluto
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 17 September 2015 18:44 (eight years ago) link
I thought about photoshopping the Alien derelict in there but I'm a stickler for realism and at that scale it would be about 1 pixel across.
― ledge, Thursday, 17 September 2015 19:40 (eight years ago) link
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thestandardsmanual/reissue-of-the-1975-nasa-graphics-standards-manual
there's a kickstarter lol
― 龜, Sunday, 27 September 2015 19:47 (eight years ago) link
http://notes.husk.org/post/130639610239/low-sun-apollo
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 6 October 2015 23:05 (eight years ago) link
Daniel Clark · Penryn CollegePeople please go look at the dodgy CGI graphics. If your mind tells you that that is the way a lunar module looks when taking off (like a B grade hollywood production) then you my friend have been indoctronated to a point where fantasy trying to imitate reality has actually become reality. All fake. There is no photo of earth. On apollo 17 they supposedly took a whole bunch. Of a perfectly round earth...but wait. We are on an oblate shperoid? And more recently we have found out we are on a pear shaped oblate spheriod? According to todays most foremost bullshit artist on the universe. Neil Degrasse Tyson. Makes you wonder about the automatic earth shape corrective lenses they must have had on their cameras. And why? There is no real picture of earth. If you guys find one send it. Im betting it will be some image from the Galileo satelite, or from the apollo missions or from the space station. If those are the ones anyone is going to put forth then so be it. I will show you why every singlo one of them is fake.We didnt go to the moon. And Nasa lost all the original documentation and data of the supposed greatest achievement in mankinds history when american courts ordered NASA to hand over their data.Sound plausible?If so i can do nothing for you people. You want to believe something, then fine. We are all allowed to have our dreams. But then dont taut your views as if you have proof of them. Let those moon missions expand your imagination of what it could be like. Because we havent gone there. Just out of interest.
Oh and another bombshell. It is flat. Que the science i know all too well and Ill explain it away for you:
Daniel Clark · Penryn CollegeYeah sure. And then they lost all the data and recordings. Come now man. Let's put our thinking caps on. They lost 800 boxes worth of data on man's most important achievement? After Nasa fought a freedom of information request by the public to have the data kept hidden. Then they get ordered by the US supreme Court to hand over the documents as the public have the right to the project they funded. Then NASA said they lost the footage! Really? Come now people. You don't have to be a tinfoil wearing idiot to see a lie.Like · Reply · Oct 3, 2015 6:42am
Daniel Clark · Penryn CollegeAnd Seumas. You don't know me. You don't know the capability of my mind. I investigated the moon landings and all space travel at length. It's filled with holes. Your education is programming friend. Please tell me you don't believe propoganda is just a word used in reference to the past because then you're just naive. Enjoy paying billions to nasa for fake pictures and rotating earth footage that shows no change in cloud formations over a 24 hour spin around its own axis. Yeah you keep your education mate. Didnt teach you much about logic and thinking for yourself. They just taught you which answers to give in tests if you want to move on to the next one.Like · Reply · Oct 3, 2015 6:47am
Daniel Clark · Penryn CollegeAnd just a simple point that I shouldn't have to make. Talking to someone who tells you what they have done without being under oath doesn't count as proof. Also. Why is the earth's size in their videos wrong? Why is it virtually the same size from the supposed moon they landed on as the moon is from earth? How did they get past the van Allen belts without even having discovered them at the time of the lunar landings? The astronauts wore no protective gear against a threat they didn't know about. The severity of the radiation they would have experienced would have started affecting them during their trip if they were even lucky enough to survive it. So seems Jim lied to your face man.Like · Reply · Oct 3, 2015 6:52am
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 23:14 (eight years ago) link
can't wait for caek's response to these allegations
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 14:23 (eight years ago) link
i like the "why didn't russia say it was a hoax, since they clearly could have picked up the radio signals coming back?" argument
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 23:26 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-most-interesting-star-in-our-galaxy/410023/
extraordinary claims require not running your mouth off like a damn fool
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 22:16 (eight years ago) link
lol yeah saw that, looks bananas
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 14 October 2015 22:50 (eight years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/GMTelescope/videos/vb.1429820553926626/1641664616075551/?type=2&theater
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 17 October 2015 16:46 (eight years ago) link
that's awesome
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 17 October 2015 21:53 (eight years ago) link