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SVEN and TORD unaware of SYSTEMS GOTHWAVE/IDM DEVELOPMENTS. still playing KAISER CHIEFS in DRESSING ROOM... KRAUTS AND SPICS make us LAUGHING STOCK. Barwick needs to act NOW. VINI REILLY must be installed as ROBOT PRIME MINISTER
― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, May 9, 2006 3:09 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

\(O_O)/

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.

caek did you like TARS or CASE more

i couldn't tell them apart?

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

opportuntity has been tooling around on mars for for 10+ years (which is amazing because it was supposed to work for 90 days)

also voyager 1 which was discovered in the first star trek movie is still going after 40 years

v cool, ty

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

i guess that explains the draft *lights exploding cigar*

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, November 13, 2014 3:39 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

w/e call me back when pluto clears its zone

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

he shot his finger off w a gun the other day

Jose Canseco @JoseCanseco · 3h 3 hours ago
Comets are faster than anything we could ever build and have their own power solving are two problems

yessss

former slugger, finger-shooter-offer, comet surfer

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.

of all the things to have a Twitter meltdown over, this one's relatively noble

http://i.imgur.com/cF9fmG2.jpg

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.

Never noticed that huge comet in the background either. Maybe I saw it on that Bob Seger cover, I'll have to go look.

The LA skyscraper thing started in the mid 70s and was just repealed this year, I think.

i have a friend who works for the ESA and via his Facebook posts they seem like pretty chill peeps irl

good thread

I know they have actual orbits, but I always think of comets as random junk that's just flying through space

theyre actually sentient mushrooms so try to be more considerate next time

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

my kid could do that

fake

T&O

wtf is this serial thing? is it middle brow?

it is CSI: This American Life

so its brow is set at the level of TAL

wake tf up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIRjxQIYOj4

http://i.imgur.com/Vp789.jpg

think i sat next to that guy on a flight once?

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

scott stapp?

"Read a book, Seth!"

thanks to the person who ilx messaged me today!

'twas I. Did not know about your corner over here. Mentioned you on this other thread over here

ha! i am in new york but no longer at columbia (or in academia for that matter).

when are you in baseball?

waiting for the cyclones

caek what sorts of math do you use in graduate-level astrophysics classes?a

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.

complex analysis too iirc

You mean you don't utilize Poincaré Dodecahedral Space? My illusions are shattered.

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

interesting! thank you.