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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

man, i fucking love this corner

ditto

good account

A bit of Saturn pic.twitter.com/BlCx8EAKqV

— Bits of Saturn (@bitsofsaturn) March 3, 2020

caek are you actually from ☰☰☭☰☰ SHEFFIELD ☰☰☭☰☰ or just a fan

caek are you actually from ☰☰☭☰☰ SHEFFIELD ☰☰☭☰☰ or just a fan

i have ilxmailed u

haha got it thank you!

<3

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launched 15 years ago today and is still going strong. It's incredible array of instruments include MARCI, CTX & @HiRISE pic.twitter.com/BO6bIXLcrn

— Seán Doran (@_TheSeaning) August 12, 2020

i bought a NAS

wait, does that mean you're in NAS now? if so, congrats!

(i don't much about what it takes to get in, but it seems congrats-worthy imo)

No I got one of these https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS220+

so we finally know which side caek favours in the great QNAP/Synology divide

i never thought we'd see this day

caek u seem pretty smart lol, so I would appreciate your opinion on how Ouija boards work.

The prevailing theory is 'ideomotor effect,' a "psychological phenomenon wherein a subject makes motions unconsciously." This seems preposterous to me.

ideometer effect sounds right to me. granted this material was not covered during my phd.

you and all your fancy books! I think it's ghosts

This seems preposterous to me.

You don't seem to grasp how little of brain activity emerges into consciousness. The very fact that participants who use Ouija boards are led to anticipate the possibility of meaningful actions can influence their participation. btw, it is not often emphasized, but sometimes Ouija boards give completely incoherent responses, even though the board helpfully supplies landing areas that circumvent the need for laboriously spelling out responses. This is explained by devotees as 'the spirits not feeling cooperative', which explains nothing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBDxqCHxT_8

Wow why the heck does anything need more than one horsepower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RDBp_ofQL8

that video looked familiar and i looked it up - helper, utah - yep. except he'd be fat with close-cropped hair, walmart clothes, miners lung and an opioid addiction.

https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/05/ship-hovering-above-sea-cornwall-optical-illusion

back in the good old days, an entire religion would have been founded based on that

“Superior mirages occur because of the weather condition known as a temperature inversion, where cold air lies close to the sea with warmer air above it,” said David Braine, a BBC meteorologist. “Since cold air is denser than warm air, it bends light towards the eyes of someone standing on the ground or on the coast, changing how a distant object appears.”

He added: “Superior mirages can produce a few different types of images – here a distant ship appears to float high above its actual position, but sometimes an object below the horizon can become visible.”

siiiiiiiick

Same thing causes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfa_lights but that flying boat is a particularly insane example

subatomic antineutrino with 1,000 x the energy the LHC can produce detected (indirectly, because it collided with an electron and produced the predicted Glashow resonance) at the ice cube lab on Antarctica - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03256-1

I only understand part of that but it's still fascinating