♪♫ caek's corner ♪♫

are you offering?

earlier today by the little telescope we will be using tomorrow night

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs488.ash1/26696_10150220656075305_673235304_12898372_1925929_n.jpg

if you can convince me that there's a commercial future for saturn exploitation then i'll take youse on, sure

caek, imo, has the life

failing to take a photo of myself on the side of the mountain

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/caek/IMG_3374.jpg

(not shown in this picture: terrible, terrible sunburnt bald spot from all day drinking england/usa match the day before)

fuuuck you get bald and sunburnt from drinking?

too late to quit now, but at least i know what happened to me.

yeah, drinking and watching football:baldness::morbid obesity:diabetes : (

caek's corner is a depressing place lately, we should party and fun times up in here

http://www.theme-party-palace.com/images/space-party-invite.jpg

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/caek/lhs-scout-parade-band-1.jpg

thesis time. wish me luck.

-- caek out.

luck.

courage!

upwards

per aspera ad astra

audere est facere

Carthago delenda est

mi casa su casa

go n-eiri and bothar leat

Rock on.

ou sont les neiges autrefois?

yo caek what's the fuckin craic where's the warnings of all these asteroids that are nearly hitting us man? what we payin you for?

(caek can't check ilx as he's beeing steering the entire planet on manual control the past two days)

yah phd been pretty much under control for a month so i've been moonlighting by steering asteroids and posting on ilx. it's been pretty chill.

still in germany? what are your living plans for the foreseeable?

in munich until the end of the year. submit in december, viva in jan, after that is tbc. i'm finishing out of sync with the academic year (which is how the job market works too), so worst case scenario is back in with the 'rents until the summer, although that wouldn't be so bad. dad + wife have kids who are 4 and 1. best case scenario is a ~6 month contract in one of a couple of places in the US, which i have been supposed to get news about "later this week" for the last two months.

what about you? i thought you dropped out of your masters and then you were all like "i have an exam tomorrow". i guess you have finished now?

where is gbx does anyone know? i miss him so.

ah nice - well I hope you teach the kids the value of playing to the whistle, if you do end up shacked with 'em - godspeed the American applications though

I have finished now, yes, although I only find out later this month whether I've passed my resits! I have it on my CV that I spent a year working on the Masters, and obviously while I'd really like to have passed, if one piffling module fails me I'll still have completed a large and comprehensive course of work. Pretty confident though. I came very close to tapping out a few times but I ain't a quitter - finish their MA and get out of there tbh

gbx is *coming to London* pretty soon - his sister is studying here! I am so so psyched to meet the guy, all-time ILX dude

yeah, worth getting the letters after yr name if at all possible. good work.

letters after ur name- ILX (All time)

Master of ILX (or MILX) should be a thing.

milx vs toast

M.ILX, maj. Football threads.

Originally signed up for Zing degree, transferred after dept shut down ;_;

♪♫ love u space ♪♫

that is cute.

coooooooooooooooooooooool

srsly, nice mnml ryoji ikeda soundtrack too

fucking love the space IDM XPOST

that darn nakhchivan

there is always above air by CoH, a 'concept album' abt a pilot floating in and out of consciousness in the upper atmosphere

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

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 :-(

finally, a noble gas-based lifeform

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

blast from the past http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/snc/clinton.html

>finally, a noble gas-based lifeform

I, for one, welcome our Argonian overlords and their lilac glow.

caek otm: http://nasawatch.com/archives/2010/11/mediablogger-ex.html

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.

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.

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.