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cool :) so space telescopes are for the two extremes: really pretty pictures and really uncharismatic but vital details about the mass of extremely distant objects

yeah i knew pulsars were only found by radio telescopes, and only then when they happened to be beaming in the correct orientation - i had been asking earlier whether these new telescopes were radio telescopes but it appears they are conventional, just enormous

also nice links guys, will peruse

forthcoming radio/mm telescopes:

massive array of dishes in the atacama, EUR-US-Japan consortium, http://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/alma/

SKA, probably end up in western australia:
http://www.skatelescope.org/photo/design_full.jpg
http://www.skatelescope.org/pages/page_genpub.htm

what is this radial spiral nonsense

goonhilly and herstmonceux all the way, bitches

I don't understand gravity. if I spin a ball, objects resting on its surface fly off of it. how do we stick to the earth?

dark matter has been a major component of shoe soles since 1906

iirc centripetal force keeps us in a sort of fixed harmonious orbit around the earth's centre, as for gravity, well, help us caek

no one understand's gravity. it just is. things with mass are attracted to each other. that is the way of things. people are working on understanding it, but given it's the most familiar force on the day-to-day, it's odd that it's by far the most poorly understood.

lj's centripetal force comment is not even wrong.

i am getting better at science iirc - either that or i am now making sure i only say the stuff i know to be truthful

gravity is caused by god fyi

yeah I get centripetal force conceptually but gravity seems like mysterious magic and I was hoping someone had figured it out since the last time I took a science class

I don't believe in god but it's hard to deny gravity

p sure gravity is due to god

im a scientist btw

i love caek

like a fat kid loves caek

lj: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong

lol

sombrero galaxy would be a good band name

;_;

plan to use that as awesome stealth zing though so all good

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wronger_than_wrong

Something that is wronger than wrong is therefore more wrong than something that is not even wrong.

wrong

not as stealthy as it used to be thanks to peter woit: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0099488647/

(a+ book)

RONG

∞RONG∞

the rong ranger rides again

~wtw~

sombrero galaxy would be a good band name

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Wednesday, March 3, 2010 10:54 AM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark

STEALING THIS

also caek u rule and also again i solved the universe btw the other night on w33d and it has to do with magnets, do u want my theory y/n

magnets sound more plausible than god tbh and you can have sombrero galaxy btw

dude

god is magnets

why do you think one magnet moves when you put another one near it

I thought I was moving it with my mind

it is like when the T-1000 was frozen and shot to bits but managed to recoagulate - god's design is beautiful and mysterious

popular 3-D cinema is also god's design fwiw

no gbx U rule, when we're both doctors let's start a blog called hipster doctors

ppl already think i'm the hipster med student cause i ride a bike and played in a band once. so cool let's do it

btw i am working on my explanation of magnets for u

popularpoppage 3-D cinema is also god's design fwiw

― queen of the rapping scene (acoleuthic), Thursday, March 4, 2010 2:19 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

click here to see fresh young teens losing their anal virginity...in 3D

tbf that is the point at which we put human culture into a little box and fire it into a comet at ~high speed~

3D Porno wd be kind of self-defeating in its unsatisfyingness

"Hey! Just look at these awesome 3D boobies all up in your face" is more distracting than arousing really

i mean being caught wanking is one thing but wearing those goggles too i mean seriously now

btw LJ, is there an official definition of poppage that is more than just 'sex'

zits exploding in 3D is much, much grosser than 3D porn

'solving' the universe by making it destroy itself in sheer embarrassment.

http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/archive/2750/27501101.jpg

well that's as clear as mud then

need more physicists to cheerfully admit 'we can't know that right now, but thanks for asking', then carry on with studying actual data.

onion infographics like that aren't entirely physicists's fault, to be fair. there is codependent relationship between a certain kind of science and new scientist type publications.

basically www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=2773

~god is a hologram~

i have that tattooed on my back

only in *this* universe

btw caek i bet you feel the same way about this kind of science as many humanities profs feel abt buzzy crit theory papers