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do you, caek, condone the practice of dress shirts tucked into shorts?

I do not condone the practice of adult men wearing short trousers at all, but that is next level. I condemn it!

I do not condone the practice of adult men wearing short trousers at all

says the referee

dear caek, what was a cool astronomy picture you saw today?

hi caek, great question. the answer is

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f325/caek/clip_image002.jpg

A+

caek,

schrodinger's cat, alive/dead?

whenever i think about that i am reminded of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpKqMC2YfwI

seriously though

1) i have no idea. i have had to teach QM, and it is seriously troubling shit that i try not to think about too much.

2) all these guys otm: http://phys.wordpress.com/2006/06/09/quantum-mechanical-quotes/

i will read that later, and i will post again when it makes me angry and my head hurt.

caek:

string theory, yay or nay

-max

nay x 1,000,000. lost generation of theoreticians.

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caek: it seems awfully convenient that all this stuff exists (by which I mean: the entire universe). Is there a guiding hand behind it all?

seven fundamental numbers, iirc?

caek, did u get a bike in the end and pics or it didn't happen

lol thank you erica, you made me day : )

Ismael: the guiding hand is jesus iirc. but seriously, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nothingness/#1. although i need to stop responding with links. i'm like a tumblr-generation zen asshole. don't know anything about the seven fundamental numbers. having said that, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/137_%28number%29#In_physics.

cozwn, i did not buy a bike yet. i found out i was moving house in munich over christmas (which is going to be difficult enough without a car), and will be away from germany for about 6 weeks starting soon. also this country is coooooold. and the 2009 stocks were limited but the 2010s have not yet shown up in germany. so now did not seem like the perfect time. i am going to wait to see where if anywhere i get a job (should know by late jan), and then i will make a decision. if it turns out that i'm leaving europe in september then it gets tricky. but i need to nazi up soon. getting antsy.

♪♫ no worries I understand and forgive u ♪♫

i think some reasonably well respected authorities had isolated a number similar-to-but-not-necessarily-exactly 7 fundamental universal constants that result in the stability we currently enjoy

can something be "against the run of play" when it happens 1 minute into kick off?

― adorable cheese inscription (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 9 December 2009 20:51 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sounds like a question for ♪♫ caek's corner ♪♫

― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 20:53 (24 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

*shrug*

which commentator made this point?

x-posts :D

fwiw science has already hit a brick wall, physics hasn't really advanced at all since the middle of the 20th century, for ex.

― a triumph in high-tech nipple obfuscation (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, December 9, 2009 7:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

also Dawkins is a deluded, irritable jerk he's not converting anybody as far as I can tell

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damn cant believe a whole 50 years have gone by without our understanding of the universe changing, thats never happened before

― max, Wednesday, December 9, 2009 7:09 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

physics has not advanced *at all*?!

― harbl, Wednesday, December 9, 2009 7:13 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i'm telling caek

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I don't have a question but I just wanted to say I always assumed caek was a woman until reading this thread.

u should start wearing dockers caek

lollll

fwiw science has already hit a brick wall, physics hasn't really advanced at all since the middle of the 20th century, for ex.

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lol, if you change this to "since 1990" and "physics" to "the one bit of theoretical physics that had a really good 50 year run from 1900, and which liberal arts graduates thing is cool, but the rest of physics ignores", then sure.

p.s. i do wear dockers, no homo!

is ur name pronounced cake or kike?

don't think i've ever heard it said out loud, but cake i guess. it's etymology is kind of pathetic and date's back to pre-lolcat 1998.

dear caek,

what is the big news in astronomy this week?

the news is basically RIP UK:

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/12/british-science.html (lol at "left disatisfied")

http://andyxl.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/the-axeman-cometh/ (see the comments threads for some fun. "space" here means solar system exploration, as distinct from "astronomy", which is what i do.)

http://pacrowther.staff.shef.ac.uk/stfc.html (as you can see, yesterday was not a good day)

caek--how rad is this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U&feature=player_embedded#

Never mind that, how cool is this proposal to send a boat to explore the seas of Titan?

Dear caek,

Clyde Tombaugh is a local hero here in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Do you have any opinions on the guy?

thanks,

Abbott in NM

max, the extent of anthropogenic radio signals is amazing. i love that.

the boat to the seas of titan seems like good show business. it's not a nasa idea though, and it sounds a bit retarded though, so who knows if it will ever happen. it would be cool though!

i had not heard of clyde tombaugh until your message abbott, so thank you for filling in that lacuna in my knowledge! he seems pretty cool. NM is still one of the world centres for astronomy: http://www.sdss.org/background/site.html.

hey, what it your jam for 2009-02-09?

great question! it's this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSMDgVr3YMA

that is beautiful.

totes.

ysi: http://www.mediafire.com/?yntoytonmwz

oh thank you! is the capsoul label comp worth buying? i am q tempted to go out and see if i can find a copy.

a thousand times yes, imo : )

dear caek, iyo is this a decent example of astronomical reporting?

http://www.astronomynow.com/news/n1003/02comet/

will read properly tomorrow but,

a) booming last paragraph
b) ctrl-f poppage : (

hey great article louis!

:D morelike sloppy seconds amirite, and ty! ty max as well!

anyway yeah our class was offered the optional task of writing-up some press-releases and those of us who chose to do so did a pretty good job imo - the 4 or 5 above mine (i.e. posted more recently) are by classmates. my press-release was particularly fun to flesh out. the work of astronomers = srsly rad. heavens how will we photograph this comet we trepanned earlier oh hai there's trusty ol' Stardust just orbitin' like it ain't no thang

yeah pretty good, i lolled at the last paragraph tbh

*puts fingers in mouth, whistles at Stardust, who obediently trots into aligned convergence course with some darn comet*

(and ty harbl! sorry i shall stop befouling ♪♫ caek's corner ♪♫ with Lonest Ranger fanfic)

NASA's unfished business

(congrats lj)

Hahaha! I read this earlier, chuckled at the final para, thought 'that's interesting stuff', didn't spot the author's name - and thought no more of it 'til now. I can think of no higher praise.

good to see you! hope you are well!

thanks man! likewise!

any new space facts i should know

nah it's pretty much over

whew!