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boy ain't that some timing.

"deorbit" https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/deorbit

So would "its five-year mission" be an appropriate phrase?

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

sounds like they're hiding something there

thought jupiter was trump there for a sec

will the heat affect yr viewing of the meteor shower?

no but the clouds and the demon drink will

hey caek did u recently recommend a series of books of historical maps?

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reading american history to 1870 which is great (although i suspect some of the pre-columbian speculation is a little outdated).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.

also engaging wit throughout and occasionally laugh out loud e.g.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CkRdU01WYAAQ_eX.jpg

this is a good twitter account to bring civility to your twitter a few times a day btw

https://twitter.com/dscovr_epic

how is ancient for maps of roman empire?

xp needs some poles imo

anyway i ordered the ancient one so i hope it's good for that xp to myself

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

ok u sold me i got like 5 of them

ancient, medieval, modern, america, africa

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.

those look good, i impulse ordered ancient and medieval.

worst case they are good http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shiterature

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.

btw this my bløg https://pinboard.in/u:mike

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

dope you guys thx

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)

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 dig
History will have to be rewritten: confirms an existing footnote in the standard work on the subject
A great city: a few hovels, maybe a village
The Venice of its day: any site that has produced a few articles from somewhere else
Earliest known: undated

Great stuff, these atlases. I have to limit myself to the ones I have because otherwise that's a whole other bookshelf taken up.

ha yeah he is particularly salty in the ancient one.

xp needs some poles imo

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http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2016-231

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hello mate http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Philae_found

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^^^stealing that

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http://spacetelescope.org/news/heic1620/

Observable Universe contains ten times more galaxies than previously thought

the universe: no matter how bad you think, it's always worse

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Galaxy_195910.jpg/220px-Galaxy_195910.jpg

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?

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.

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 think you mean a great good 1950s pulp story

If not a good right-before-the-crackup Silverberg story.

this is a fun story http://nautil.us/issue/42/fakes/the-cosmologists-who-faked-it

Thought that was going to be about Joe Weber.

That was a great read.

Somehow never thought I would never "hear" Aimless use that exact formulation.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict myself. I contain multitudes.