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nice shooting star grab!

saw the moonset, now i'm gonna observe some stuff

http://i.min.us/ilB6BY.jpeg

i'm hoping to go camping up in the mountains this weekend and get a really good look at some shooting stars

heck yes

i am standing right where this photo was taken

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/texasfire042011/s_t01_00000001.jpg

awes

how many of the stars i see are actually galaxies
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http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110730.html

you can see the two most prominent naked eye galaxies in the southern hemisphere here about 3/4 of the way across.

which is the best planet

earth or jupiter in my opinion

do aliens exist

yes

http://i.min.us/ijhUYM.jpeg

:-(

caek does this truck make you feel excited. do you feel the need for 440 HP in your blood.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/cryogenic-service-truck-climbs-mountain-so-te

i know alma people from my old job. when i joined i just got the normal "welcome to health insurance" medical. those guys get a this really intense fitness/heart/psych thing every six months because of the conditions they work in. but they are otherwise normal nerds (with special lorries).

oh i thought of something while i was camping.

is it possible within the laws of physics as we understand them for a "shadow Earth" as used in various SF stories to exist? i.e. a planet of equal size and mass exactly opposite to Earth's orbit and therefore undetected cos it's always on the other side of the Sun? i figure it would've been observed somehow but is that right? and if so how do we know? sums of gravitational pull or something?

lol were u think the shadow cabinet are from bruv

Oxbridge

lol they really are

i think a shadow earth would be massive enough to be detectable via its gravitational pull on other planets (incl. earth). that's how neptune (and pluto i think) were discovered.

shadow earth would be cool from an "heir and a spare" point of view. e.g. i broke the leg on an ikea cupboard this weekend. would be great to go to shadow earth and pick of a spare. instead i've got to drive all the way to ikea.

would be the wrong colour

Many worlds theory ftw from a handy spare alternate reality tho

did anyone see this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Earth

haven't seen that.

i understood that Neptune and Pluto were predicted before observed because of their gravitational effects, yeah. which means everybody who's ever used the "far side of the Sun" story shd have known better tbh

i did not see it either. it won the science prize at sundance, but films that do that are all reliably terrible ime.

i thought it was p good although idk what kinda 'science' its supposed to be showcasing

unless you get the award just for being the type of movie nerds wld like

i think that's how the sloan works tbh

love this dude's accent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cRmbwczTC6E

http://www.space.com/13401-cosmic-star-dust-complex-organic-compounds.html

caek, where we born from the stars?

totes mcgotes. space is full of ppl.

elt (mentioned upthread) got funding green light couple of weeks ago

here it is with a train (both at 1:120 scale). lol.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7092/6989303730_52292642b8_b.jpg

the god particle

ha i assumed that would be a proper hardcore acronym rather than EXTREMELY LARGE TELESCOPE

people are excited about the higgs! although tomorrow's result is kind of an open secret like anderson cooper.

there used to be OWL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telescope

nannte man das neue Projekt etwas selbstironisch Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (Überwältigend Großes Teleskop)

yes they are a droll bunch

do you have a "take" on it

it sounds like they are going to announce a "4-5 sigma" result (which is i guess "beyond reasonable doubt" for almost everyone except particle physicists and probably the people who do aircraft safety).

if i'm honest though, this kind of science doesn't really blow my hair back. partly that's the nature of high energy physics: you need a lot of data, and after a year you have a rough idea of where things are heading. the nature of your fuding quite rightly obliges you to release your early data, so you you release a result that is a "2-sigma" hint. and it's pretty much an open secret that a stronger statement is coming the next year (see e.g. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2012/07/best-physics-gossips-you-should-be-reading/54123/). so you lose the eureka moment of "tabletop physics", which is a shame. but really that's just an issue of presentation. some people will do what you mentioned yesterday:

The moments after the CNN anchor officially came out of the closet this morning were like an "over-it" contest on Twitter — a chance to see who could be the least surprised by the news.

but that is fronting. this is a legitimately big deal: the first really significant discovery in particle physics in maybe 20 years. the last piece of the puzzle in some sense. it would have been lots more exciting if they were like, "we can't find it. we have no clue." but they had to be sure, and being sure cost $10bn and a generation of particle physicists.

good article: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/may/10/crisis-big-science/?pagination=false

the og LHC

http://assets.nybooks.com/media/photo/2012/04/17/weinberg_2-051012_jpg_230x918_q85.jpg

Hey Caek!

Have you by any chance seen these Haribo Fruchtgummi Mopse?

http://www.worldofsweets.de/out/pictures/z1/Haribo-Gert-Kaefer-s-Fruchtgummi-Moepse.jpg

They have sour ones too!

http://www.worldofsweets.de/out/pictures/z1/haribo-gerd-kaefer--039--s-fruchtgummi-moepse-scharf-ingwer_z1.jpg

Apparently they are the work of this famous celebrity chef http://www.gerdkaefer.de/. I actaully ate with my parents in one of his restaurants many years ago. I believe it was this one: http://kurhaus-gastronomie.de/bistro.htm

Anyway this guy has a pug who is supposedly the most famous pug in all of Germany. His name is Sir Henry!

So, I need some of these gummis but can't get them online easily. :/ Are they readily available there?

ps - "mops" is pug in german

thanks for nybooks article link! great!

ha i will have a look in the gummi section of my supermarket next time e! (there is a gummi section. it is next to the ritter sport section.)

:D

where are you going to be working now again?

so many bores complaining about comic sans in the higgs slides

i am in munich for the next couple of years i think xp

that's a nice city, i have some cousins there. one is a foxy tv presenter, i'll send you her facebook.

i like foxy people

ugh i hate this shit

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/523589_444526022235081_226372658_n.jpg