i couldn't tell them apart?
― caek, Thursday, 13 November 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
xxp plenty
new horizons is going strong: reaches pluto next year, first time we've gone there, that is going to be a big deal
― caek, Thursday, 13 November 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
opportuntity has been tooling around on mars for for 10+ years (which is amazing because it was supposed to work for 90 days)
― caek, Thursday, 13 November 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
also voyager 1 which was discovered in the first star trek movie is still going after 40 years
― caek, Thursday, 13 November 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link
v cool, ty
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 13 November 2014 20:46 (nine years ago) link
caek i enjoyed your pretty diagram thing there. are we still in contact with any of those fellows heading out into interstellar space? i do not know how anything works.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, November 13, 2014 2:15 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
Think at least one of these fellows recently did a flyby of Uranus
― 龜, Thursday, 13 November 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
i guess that explains the draft *lights exploding cigar*
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 13 November 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
― caek, Thursday, November 13, 2014 3:39 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
w/e call me back when pluto clears its zone
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 November 2014 20:53 (nine years ago) link
good a place as any to say that jose canseco is losing his mind about the comets on twitter and y'all should check it out
― goole, Thursday, 13 November 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
he shot his finger off w a gun the other day
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 November 2014 22:06 (nine years ago) link
Jose Canseco @JoseCanseco · 3h 3 hours agoComets are faster than anything we could ever build and have their own power solving are two problems
yessss
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 November 2014 22:07 (nine years ago) link
former slugger, finger-shooter-offer, comet surfer
― things lose meaning over time (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 November 2014 22:07 (nine years ago) link
How much is even in the budget for development of space lassos and comet harnesses? Probably mere millions when it should be billions. Obama has fucked us all again.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 13 November 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link
of all the things to have a Twitter meltdown over, this one's relatively noble
― legit new threat wrt to a norman invasion (seandalai), Thursday, 13 November 2014 22:35 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/cF9fmG2.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 13 November 2014 22:37 (nine years ago) link
Unrelated, but I had always thought there was something just a little ~ off ~ about Los Angeles' bland skyline and just recently learned that all the skyscrapers were mandated to be flat on top to make room for the helipads. That's why there are no Chrysler or TransAmerican Buildings in L.A. Never knew that.
― pplains, Thursday, 13 November 2014 22:39 (nine years ago) link
Never noticed that huge comet in the background either. Maybe I saw it on that Bob Seger cover, I'll have to go look.
― pplains, Thursday, 13 November 2014 22:40 (nine years ago) link
The LA skyscraper thing started in the mid 70s and was just repealed this year, I think.
― nickn, Thursday, 13 November 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link
i have a friend who works for the ESA and via his Facebook posts they seem like pretty chill peeps irl
― Stim McRaw (Noodle Vague), Friday, 14 November 2014 00:46 (nine years ago) link
good thread
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 14 November 2014 14:55 (nine years ago) link
I know they have actual orbits, but I always think of comets as random junk that's just flying through space
― jenny holzer, ilxor (mh), Friday, 14 November 2014 15:18 (nine years ago) link
theyre actually sentient mushrooms so try to be more considerate next time
― lag∞n, Friday, 14 November 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/12/02/world/BIGBANG/BIGBANG-master675.jpg
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/world/new-images-refine-view-of-infant-universe.html
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 10 December 2014 12:43 (nine years ago) link
my kid could do that
― goole, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
fake
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:55 (nine years ago) link
T&O
― 龜, Wednesday, 10 December 2014 17:57 (nine years ago) link
wtf is this serial thing? is it middle brow?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 11 December 2014 22:23 (nine years ago) link
it is CSI: This American Life
― $0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 11 December 2014 22:49 (nine years ago) link
so its brow is set at the level of TAL
― $0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 11 December 2014 22:52 (nine years ago) link
wake tf up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIRjxQIYOj4
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 22:41 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Vp789.jpg
― goole, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 22:51 (nine years ago) link
think i sat next to that guy on a flight once?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 22:54 (nine years ago) link
if he's so wrong, why don't you guys do a line-by-line rebuttal of what he said? and if you don't address every single thing he said, then that becomes the new dominant theory
#science
― ♪♫_\o/_♫♪ (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 22:59 (nine years ago) link
scott stapp?
― example (crüt), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 23:04 (nine years ago) link
"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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
complex analysis too iirc
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 4 June 2015 03:07 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight years ago) link
interesting! thank you.
― the late great, Thursday, 4 June 2015 05:07 (eight 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 (eight 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 (eight 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