Wait, what the hell are Hydra and Nix? Why have I not heard about them before?
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
they have been discovered 5 years agoSpark wrote:
Wait, what the hell are Hydra and Nix? Why have I not heard about them before?
elvis chilling in a sun lounger in a frozen-lakeside mansion owned by hitlermenzo wrote:
and im very exited what the new horizons probe will see when it finally reaches pluto in 2015
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Spark = failure.menzo wrote:
they have been discovered 5 years agoSpark wrote:
Wait, what the hell are Hydra and Nix? Why have I not heard about them before?
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
All of Dr. Hole's projects look like he wants you to do all the boring data sifting, so he can do "big science".Spark wrote:
Anyway this has gotten kind of boring now, so...
In a pickle. Have to choose one of these to do next semester, but can't make my mind up as to which one takes my fancy. Although I do kind of like the look of the wave-particle resonance one, looks neat and kind of useful.
Prof. Cairns project(s) look boring as watching jello solidify, under the starry night sky, kept warm by the glow of an old CRT terminal.
Prof. Dewar's projects seem like the only ones encouraging original thought from the student
who gives a shit it's not even a planet. woopty fucking doo we found some smaller rocks spinning around larger rocks out in the fringes of the solar system where there are billions of rocks. this is just gay scientists just trying to put their name to something insignificant. omfg pluto has 5 little rocks spinning around it! that's just because it's a moderately bigger rock.
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do that one where you put mentos in diet coke it's fully sickrdx-fx wrote:
All of Dr. Hole's projects look like he wants you to do all the boring data sifting, so he can do "big science".Spark wrote:
Anyway this has gotten kind of boring now, so...
In a pickle. Have to choose one of these to do next semester, but can't make my mind up as to which one takes my fancy. Although I do kind of like the look of the wave-particle resonance one, looks neat and kind of useful.
Prof. Cairns project(s) look boring as watching jello solidify, under the starry night sky, kept warm by the glow of an old CRT terminal.
Prof. Dewar's projects seem like the only ones encouraging original thought from the student
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Stop being so miserable.Uzique wrote:
who gives a shit it's not even a planet. woopty fucking doo we found some smaller rocks spinning around larger rocks out in the fringes of the solar system where there are billions of rocks. this is just gay scientists just trying to put their name to something insignificant. omfg pluto has 5 little rocks spinning around it! that's just because it's a moderately bigger rock.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
stop getting excited over nothing.
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I think the wiki page for planets includes all of the dwarf planets.
You're absolutely right. Pluto is slightly bigger than other Kuiper belt objects. Not very significant at all. The only reason it can capture anything at all is because of it's relative distance to the sun. There's very little knowledge to be gained from our solar systems left overs. There are better ways to explore Cosmic Evolution.Uzique wrote:
who gives a shit it's not even a planet. woopty fucking doo we found some smaller rocks spinning around larger rocks out in the fringes of the solar system where there are billions of rocks. this is just gay scientists just trying to put their name to something insignificant. omfg pluto has 5 little rocks spinning around it! that's just because it's a moderately bigger rock.
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mmm there is a reason it's not a planet any more.
and besides which, between the last time i checked and the previous time i checked before that, the number of moons jupiter had went up by about 30. these are some of the most featureless rocks in the current context that one could imagine.
and besides which, between the last time i checked and the previous time i checked before that, the number of moons jupiter had went up by about 30. these are some of the most featureless rocks in the current context that one could imagine.
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The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
Yea, i watched this some years ago .. and it's way outdated now.Spark wrote:
mmm there is a reason it's not a planet any more.
and besides which, between the last time i checked and the previous time i checked before that, the number of moons jupiter had went up by about 30. these are some of the most featureless rocks in the current context that one could imagine.
95 Worlds and Counting
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Still more interesting than dubstep.Uzique wrote:
stop getting excited over nothing.
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and who is excited about that, exactly? you're awful.
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a lot of science is about "insignificant" stuff... I walk past research posters every single day.
the worst kind of science is the kind motivated by the scientist's individual greed, egotism or god complex...
this rush to put your name on something in space is like the era of hack-science in the victorian 1800's with naturalism.
omg must find a species!
this rush to put your name on something in space is like the era of hack-science in the victorian 1800's with naturalism.
omg must find a species!
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Its still more interesting than re-analysing old books which have already been over-analysed several million times.
Discovering or inventing new things has to be better than rehashing the past.
Discovering or inventing new things has to be better than rehashing the past.
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That was pretty awful tbf. Amazed when I read about that period in scientific history.Uzique wrote:
the worst kind of science is the kind motivated by the scientist's individual greed, egotism or god complex...
this rush to put your name on something in space is like the era of hack-science in the victorian 1800's with naturalism.
omg must find a species!
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
That was the period when hipsters and nouveaux riche muscled in on science IIRC.
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oh dilbert you really do try too hard.
people that analyse books do so out of genuine enjoyment and interest. they're not trying to put their names into the annals of history over a speck of dust on the edge of the cosmos.
why are you constantly so bitter? at your age shouldn't you at least have started to feel a little more fulfilled? sad little man.
people that analyse books do so out of genuine enjoyment and interest. they're not trying to put their names into the annals of history over a speck of dust on the edge of the cosmos.
why are you constantly so bitter? at your age shouldn't you at least have started to feel a little more fulfilled? sad little man.
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or you mean the age when science was finally made more accessible and affordable to common proles like you? that too! oh oh!Dilbert_X wrote:
That was the period when hipsters and nouveaux riche muscled in on science IIRC.
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Most people I know in the world of science aren't trying to do that. A small number of douchebags perhaps.
Most scientists or researchers write so many papers and get so many citations that they'll have their name in so many places it doesn't matter, and they're mostly trying to make progress so aren't too bothered either way.
'Science' was hijacked at a certain point but its less of a problem now.
Most scientists or researchers write so many papers and get so many citations that they'll have their name in so many places it doesn't matter, and they're mostly trying to make progress so aren't too bothered either way.
'Science' was hijacked at a certain point but its less of a problem now.
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it was a temporary hijack so that, at the end of the day, people from your background could take it up. i see no problem with the age of dilettantes in terms of social progress. it was an age of great accessibility to education (particularly university level and high academic).
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