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
so fucking cool
― I love you girls but that music is for radical faeries (Matt P), Friday, 3 December 2010 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4Oy_7FFvAeg/Sun71WaOgWI/AAAAAAAAFuE/MSgPNQt8O3A/s400/Arsenic+mouth+stuff+www.amazingribs.com+cary_grant.jpg
― I love you girls but that music is for radical faeries (Matt P), Friday, 3 December 2010 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
hey caek do you think this is a cool graphic why or why not thx love yr stuff
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2445/4002050596_0c2b6c4dd2_o.jpg
― kanellos (gbx), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 00:33 (thirteen years ago) link
it's amazing data, but the graphic itself is (1) kind of confusing imo (2) loses the opportunity to lay down some serious multi-dimensionality (see VDQI by tufte for details)
the voyager mission is probably my favourite thing re: human space exploration.
― caek, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 04:48 (thirteen years ago) link
via this discussion:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jan/09/giant-magellan-telescope-robin-mckie
― caek, Sunday, 9 January 2011 14:46 (thirteen years ago) link
http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-2011-06-a-large_web.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/2K5rH.gif
― caek, Friday, 18 February 2011 08:39 (thirteen years ago) link
via
― caek, Friday, 18 February 2011 08:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Cox's Wonders Of The Universe (4 parts, first part was on BBC HD yesterday and is on BBC 2 in England tomorrow) : C/D ?(I'll probably just order the blu-ray if they make one)
― StanM, Monday, 7 March 2011 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
if you can deal with the brian cox and the top gear test report style "CINEMATOGRAPHY" then everything he says is pretty solid, i think.
― caek, Monday, 7 March 2011 22:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Although he got to it eventually he got my back up by saying there was no physical law that prevented a glacier from reconstituting itself. Nothing in classical mechanics says it can't happen by thermodynamics certainly has something to say on the matter. Are these not physical laws or are they devalued because us engineers came up with them?
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 7 March 2011 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
hey caek i cant find your email--do you want to give an official comment on this
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/22/us-venezuela-chavez-mars-idUSTRE72L61D20110322?
― max, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 02:53 (thirteen years ago) link
"chavez otm"
― caek, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 18:30 (thirteen years ago) link
haha that is an amazing article
― caek, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link
"Careful! Here on planet Earth where hundreds of years ago or less there were great forests, now there are deserts. Where there were rivers, there are deserts," Chavez said, sipping from a glass of water.