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

Pengest & Corsa (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 17:14 (nine years ago)

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

brat_stuntin (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 17:18 (nine years ago)

dmac - check 25 seconds into this for detailed instructions:

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

Karl Malone, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 17:21 (nine years ago)

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

brat_stuntin (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 17:21 (nine years ago)

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

Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 17:45 (nine years ago)

'useless banter' = posts very much out of character

mookieproof, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 17:47 (nine years ago)

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!

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 17:53 (nine years ago)

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

brat_stuntin (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 18:02 (nine years ago)

two weeks pass...

super-potatoes for Mars!

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

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:05 (nine years ago)

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

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:10 (nine years ago)

did you see the martian morbs?

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:10 (nine years ago)

i did not. were there potatoes?

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:11 (nine years ago)

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

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:12 (nine years ago)

yes it was an extremely potato-centric movie

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:12 (nine years ago)

you might enjoy it given your irish heritage

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:13 (nine years ago)

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

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:15 (nine years ago)

ah the auld midget cabbage bowling

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:19 (nine years ago)

this is good content, fellows

a landlocked exclave (mh 😏), Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:23 (nine years ago)

now is the spudder of our goodcontent...

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 30 March 2017 18:24 (nine years ago)

one year passes...

#ROSETTA 😍 OSIRIS #67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO new albums 😍--ROSETTA EXTENSION 2 MTP030-- Miércoles 1 Junio 2016 all filters stacked pic.twitter.com/Bf173Z5g79

— landru79 (@landru79) April 23, 2018

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 23 April 2018 23:00 (eight years ago)

wow!

i'm really enjoying this entire page, actually

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

Karl Malone, Monday, 23 April 2018 23:15 (eight years ago)

are the bright streaks ice, i guess?

Karl Malone, Monday, 23 April 2018 23:16 (eight years ago)

<3 ♪♫ caek's corner ♪♫

mookieproof, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 01:46 (eight years ago)

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

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 03:10 (eight years ago)

so you're telling me

i can see cosmic rays

gbx, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 03:12 (eight years ago)

space is out of control

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 03:13 (eight years ago)

yeah somebody oughta tell space to just chill the heck out

gbx, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 03:15 (eight years ago)

caek plz tell space to take it down a notch

valorous wokelord (silby), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 03:15 (eight years ago)

hey space: leave it m8

gbx, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 03:17 (eight years ago)

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

you bet, nancy (map), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 04:06 (eight years ago)

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

Karl Malone, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 05:02 (eight years ago)

black is the donk of space

El Tomboto, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 05:08 (eight years ago)

seven months pass...

🔊🇦🇶 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

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 16:16 (seven years ago)

this is beautiful, ty

gbx, Tuesday, 27 November 2018 20:37 (seven years ago)

three months pass...

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.

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 17 March 2019 22:17 (seven years ago)

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

mookieproof, Sunday, 17 March 2019 22:47 (seven years ago)

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?

mh, Monday, 18 March 2019 02:12 (seven years ago)

six months pass...

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?)

mookieproof, Thursday, 10 October 2019 23:17 (six years ago)

1password

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 10 October 2019 23:18 (six years ago)

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

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 10 October 2019 23:19 (six years ago)

tyvm!

mookieproof, Thursday, 10 October 2019 23:20 (six years ago)

cosining caek's advice!

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 10 October 2019 23:30 (six years ago)

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

president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Thursday, 10 October 2019 23:36 (six years ago)

LastPass is substantially worse of a user experience

president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Thursday, 10 October 2019 23:36 (six years ago)

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

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 10 October 2019 23:38 (six years ago)

(1password i mean)

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 10 October 2019 23:38 (six years ago)

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

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 10 October 2019 23:39 (six years ago)

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.

Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Friday, 11 October 2019 23:46 (six years ago)

two months pass...

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

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 27 December 2019 19:46 (six years ago)

man, i fucking love this corner

But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Friday, 27 December 2019 19:48 (six years ago)


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