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wait are you telling me you've made it all these years without making a time crystal? i am very surprised and impressed, it's not easy out there without one.

You get 10 seconds in the dome for every one you collect iirc

There's a reason caek gets a corner and youse clowns get a ring

dmac - check 25 seconds into this for detailed instructions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BuSUH4vt_I

This useless banter is just another twenty wasted time crystals I'm never gonna get back

You get 10 seconds in the dome for every one you collect iirc

― Pengest & Corsa (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, March 15, 2017 5:14 PM (thirty minutes ago)

strong lol @ this

'useless banter' = posts very much out of character

this is the most useful thing i've seen

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/researchers-present-time-crystals-made-of-quantum-mechanical-oscillations/

my intuition is (1) crystalline structure is an extremely weird concept mathematically and i got my second lowest finals great on the relevant course (2) treating time like a spatial dimension is guaranteed to make your intuition useless. i got my lowest finals grade on the relevant course.

that's all i got!

That's it, into the ring with the rest of em

super-potatoes for Mars!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/bridaineparnell/2017/03/30/scientists-grow-super-potatoes-in-mars-like-conditions/#4303e3cc694f

Researchers from the International Potato Center (CIP) in Peru
Researchers from the International Potato Center (CIP) in Peru
Researchers from the International Potato Center (CIP) in Peru

did you see the martian morbs?

i did not. were there potatoes?

i saw the NY1 tease "Potatoes on Mars" and thought they'd found a Bowie alt take.

yes it was an extremely potato-centric movie

you might enjoy it given your irish heritage

i do my best to ignore it except for Irish Night at the ballpark

ah the auld midget cabbage bowling

this is good content, fellows

now is the spudder of our goodcontent...

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— landru79 (@landru79) April 23, 2018

wow!

i'm really enjoying this entire page, actually

https://imagearchives.esac.esa.int/index.php?/category/410/

are the bright streaks ice, i guess?

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the foreground things are cosmic rays, which you get on CCDs when the exposures are long. the weird downwards snow/motion effect in the background is from background stars.

here's an individual frame https://imagearchives.esac.esa.int/picture.php?/172648/category/410

so you're telling me

i can see cosmic rays

space is out of control

yeah somebody oughta tell space to just chill the heck out

caek plz tell space to take it down a notch

hey space: leave it m8

counterpoint: space should amp it up a little, maybe put a donk on it

it seems impossible to amp it up any more than it already is, but if anything has another level, it's space

black is the donk of space

🔊🇦🇶 Antarctic ice drop sound, TL;DR version 🇦🇶🔊
1) As ice scrapes down hole, Doppler effect decreases sound frequency
2) "Ricochet" is sound of ice hitting bottom coming up at varying speed
3) "Heartbeat" is set by 320 m/sec speed of sound reverberating up/down hole@UofR pic.twitter.com/OZaUQERX54

— Peter Neff (@peter_neff) April 27, 2018

this is beautiful, ty

just bought one of these https://www.ambientweather.com/amws2902.html

i love the unboxing videos for weather stations! such incredible nerds! people are really angry about low accuracy sensors on wunderground.

bought one of those for my parents a few years ago but they didn't want to plug the internet part in : /

weather stations are cool as heck. my dad has one and I should see about upgrading it

the data issue is tricky because I think the more location-specific data we can have out there, the better! but threre’s a lot of money in it. it might be one of the few data privacy/monetizarion things where I’d be completely cool with a company giving the value proposition up front that they subsidize your station as long as you allow them to use the data. and if you were in a low-data area you’d maybe even get a bounty?

i am told that i should use a password manager. do you recommend any in particular? (didn't lastpass get hacked a little while back?)

1password

(And yes you should. It feels risky but the alternatives are worse. Turn on 2FA everywhere you can.)

tyvm!

cosining caek's advice!

yeah my 1password rec is now slightly qualified b/c they'll coax you into paying monthly these days but I honestly don't care

LastPass is substantially worse of a user experience

i sync to dropbox, no subscription. but yes they do try really hard to funnel you into a subscription thing.

(1password i mean)

I sync over WiFi for all my own stuff but we have a family subscription for all the shared stuff

1Password user here since about 2010. I'm counting the days until I migrate to something, anything else. I just don't feel that 1Password is deserving of my subscription funds, even though it's not much. The company has gotten increasingly asinine since I signed up, and their support ranges from don't-care to shitty-snarkiness.

Hmm, here's the same supernova remnant from Hubble in narrowband with a 10 year gap between frames. A few stars zooming around too, though I think only the one bright one will be obvious in the gif. pic.twitter.com/lIJ4tjstUa

— Judy Schmidt (@SpaceGeck) September 12, 2019