strong headline
can't believe there are people say "your a nuss" :-(
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 23 November 2015 13:32 (eight years ago) link
http://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/images/9-small-bodies/2015/20151211_NAC_2015-12-10T01_31_06_651Z_ID10_1397549000_F22_levels.jpg
me after a few pints
http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/small-bodies/comet-cg-20151211-osiris.html
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 11 December 2015 16:48 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CYnNDODWYAAbFCU.png
A very deep Chandra view of metals, sloshing and feedback in the Centaurus cluster of galaxieshttp://arxiv.org/abs/1601.01489
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 16:28 (eight years ago) link
http://gawker.com/german-food-is-driving-refugees-back-to-the-war-zones-t-1762193158
― 龜, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 15:35 (eight years ago) link
refugees otm
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 2 March 2016 15:40 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/EHTN00d.gif
― 龜, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 13:14 (seven years ago) link
boy ain't that some timing.
― pplains, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 13:29 (seven years ago) link
"deorbit" https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/deorbit
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 14:24 (seven years ago) link
So would "its five-year mission" be an appropriate phrase?
― takin' care of beersness (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 14:59 (seven years ago) link
yes but it now has another mission: 37 orbits of jupiter, ~2 weeks each, so still a couple of years until it gets deorbited into jupiter (to avoid contaminating any of the moons)
the orbits are v elliptical because jupiter has a crazy radiation field that would fry the electronics
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/Juno_trajectory_through_radiation_belts.png?1467818421847
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 6 July 2016 15:23 (seven years ago) link
sounds like they're hiding something there
― mh, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 15:34 (seven years ago) link
thought jupiter was trump there for a sec
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
will the heat affect yr viewing of the meteor shower?
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 August 2016 19:07 (seven years ago) link
no but the clouds and the demon drink will
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 11 August 2016 19:20 (seven years ago) link
hey caek did u recently recommend a series of books of historical maps?
― Mordy, Thursday, 1 September 2016 01:22 (seven years ago) link
yes these ones
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&text=Colin+McEvedy&search-alias=books&field-author=Colin+McEvedy&sort=relevancerank
i've read medieval, ancient, and modern. currently reading american history to 1870 which is great (although i suspect some of the pre-columbian speculation is a little outdated). recent is next.
they are extremely accessible, quick reads. i'm not an expert but they seem like tour de force concise syntheses of huge subjects too.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 1 September 2016 01:42 (seven years ago) link
also engaging wit throughout and occasionally laugh out loud e.g.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CkRdU01WYAAQ_eX.jpg
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 1 September 2016 01:43 (seven years ago) link
this is a good twitter account to bring civility to your twitter a few times a day btw
https://twitter.com/dscovr_epic
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 1 September 2016 01:46 (seven years ago) link
how is ancient for maps of roman empire?
― Mordy, Thursday, 1 September 2016 02:02 (seven years ago) link
xp needs some poles imo
― mookieproof, Thursday, 1 September 2016 02:02 (seven years ago) link
anyway i ordered the ancient one so i hope it's good for that xp to myself
― Mordy, Thursday, 1 September 2016 02:03 (seven years ago) link
the conceit of the entire series is that each spread has a page of text and a map, and that map is the same area of earth on every page. iirc the ancient world one covers all of europe, quite a lot of north africa, and asia to present day northern india. so it's not super high resolution. and each page covers decades, so the temporal resolution isn't high either. the odd battle gets described (and in a couple of cases gets an inset map) but this is more "broad sweep of history" stuff. obviously greece and rome dominate the ancient world.
the medieval book starts with the conversion of constantine, so you're going to want that one too if you're interested in rome in particular. but medieval is great regardless: along with the american one it's the best/most interesting of the series to me.
you can get them used on amazon for $5ish btw
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 1 September 2016 02:09 (seven years ago) link
ok u sold me i got like 5 of them
― Mordy, Thursday, 1 September 2016 02:19 (seven years ago) link
ancient, medieval, modern, america, africa
― Mordy, Thursday, 1 September 2016 02:20 (seven years ago) link
lmao. recent is the only one you're missing. i don't have africa. it's a different shape book so i'm not sure if it's the same premise, but i'm sure it's great.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 1 September 2016 02:22 (seven years ago) link
those look good, i impulse ordered ancient and medieval.
― until the next, delayed, glaciation (map), Thursday, 1 September 2016 02:48 (seven years ago) link
worst case they are good http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shiterature
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 1 September 2016 03:48 (seven years ago) link
love historical atlases. i have the ancient history one in this series which gets my seal of approval, backed by the formidable authority of my related ba and ma from a long time ago.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 1 September 2016 13:11 (seven years ago) link
btw this my bløg https://pinboard.in/u:mike
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 1 September 2016 13:23 (seven years ago) link
i'm gonna bookmark that and drink your milkshake by beating you to posting cool articles to ilx ;-)
jks aside thx for the Markov Chain Monte Carlo Without All The Bullshit, was just trying to read about this the other day and getting nowhere
― flopson, Thursday, 1 September 2016 13:39 (seven years ago) link
dope you guys thx
― goole, Thursday, 1 September 2016 16:57 (seven years ago) link
xp it's good, right?! i am cowriting a report at work about probabilistic programming and that was one of the more useful pieces of background. we'll be publishing an annotated reading list for the whole "bayesian inference + sampling algorithms + compiler design" thing later this year. will link here if i remember (remind me if i don't, it will be primo PDFs)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 1 September 2016 17:49 (seven years ago) link
lol at this
People react to problems of this sort in different ways. Some build to large safety factors, searching around for extra material to shore up their walls. Others respond more neurotically, erecting many-storyeyed, extremely perilous structures, decked out with advertisements in a special archaeologist-speak that goes like this:Major new civilization: a particularly disappointing digHistory will have to be rewritten: confirms an existing footnote in the standard work on the subjectA great city: a few hovels, maybe a villageThe Venice of its day: any site that has produced a few articles from somewhere elseEarliest known: undated
Major new civilization: a particularly disappointing digHistory will have to be rewritten: confirms an existing footnote in the standard work on the subjectA great city: a few hovels, maybe a villageThe Venice of its day: any site that has produced a few articles from somewhere elseEarliest known: undated
― Mordy, Saturday, 3 September 2016 01:43 (seven years ago) link
Great stuff, these atlases. I have to limit myself to the ones I have because otherwise that's a whole other bookshelf taken up.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 3 September 2016 01:45 (seven years ago) link
ha yeah he is particularly salty in the ancient one.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 3 September 2016 01:46 (seven years ago) link
― mookieproof, Wednesday, August 31, 2016 10:02 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2016-231
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 3 September 2016 01:47 (seven years ago) link
ty
― mookieproof, Saturday, 3 September 2016 01:59 (seven years ago) link
hello mate http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Philae_found
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 5 September 2016 19:14 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/xSBxXJ7.jpg
― 龜, Monday, 5 September 2016 20:07 (seven years ago) link
^^^stealing that
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Monday, 5 September 2016 23:06 (seven years ago) link
http://i65.tinypic.com/kbvnsx.jpg
http://spacetelescope.org/news/heic1620/
Observable Universe contains ten times more galaxies than previously thought
― StanM, Thursday, 13 October 2016 18:02 (seven years ago) link
the universe: no matter how bad you think, it's always worse
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 13 October 2016 18:19 (seven years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Galaxy_195910.jpg/220px-Galaxy_195910.jpg
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link
My first thought is to ask how does this discovery affect calculations of the total mass of the universe, especially in regards to the amount of dark matter thought necessary to create an oscillating universe?
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, 13 October 2016 18:42 (seven years ago) link
it likely doesn't very much. the mass distribution of the universe on which those expansion/contraction calculations depend is not found by counting galaxies. it comes from treating those galaxies we can see as probes. how fast they move, etc. tells us how much mass is nearby. so it's not the end of the world if we can't see all the galaxies, at least from the POV of figuring out if the universe is expanding, contracting, etc.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 13 October 2016 19:00 (seven years ago) link
so it's not the end of the world if we can't see all the galaxies
invert that sentence--We can see all the galaxies, and it's the end of the world!--and you have a great bad 1950s pulp story
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 13 October 2016 23:53 (seven years ago) link
i think you mean a great good 1950s pulp story
― The times they are a changing, perhaps (map), Friday, 14 October 2016 05:12 (seven years ago) link
If not a good right-before-the-crackup Silverberg story.
― Fustian of this ilx (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 14 October 2016 06:01 (seven years ago) link
this is a fun story http://nautil.us/issue/42/fakes/the-cosmologists-who-faked-it
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 6 November 2016 04:48 (seven years ago) link