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Undo

02:20

I have officially posted a not-an-answer generating question:

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Q: iPhone 5 suddenly wants activated; can't connect to activation server

My iPhone 5 suddenly wants activated - when unlocked, it shows me my wallpaper. After sliding to unlock, it asks for my passcode. When I enter it, it takes me straight to the 'Activate iPhone' page - like it wants to be set up. The text on the page: This iPhone is currently linked to an Appl...

Undo

03:01

@TildalWave You here?

UV-D

hi @Undo

iphone 5 ...hiss.... spit

Hash

07:07

@TildalWave is it possible to write html code in notepad and open it in the browser ?

Hash

07:22

hiss.............spit...........

UV-D

indeed

ManishEarth

07:36

@Hash yep

UV-D

hi @ManishEarth

ManishEarth

hi

UV-D

how you be?

ManishEarth

good good

went on a department trip yesterday

UV-D

oh? where to?

ManishEarth

07:44

a nearby place. Bhandardara. Realy beautiful, tere's a big lake and waterfalls and grassy hills and little cliffs

UV-D

that sounds pretty awesome - why did you all go there?

ManishEarth

@UV-D we have a department trip every semester. Good time to hang out, relax, and get to know your seniors/juniors

UV-D

that is a great idea - sounds like an ideal day in a ideal place

ManishEarth

yep. tired myself out while swimming, then later I and a friend were just lying down on a rock

Later I popped out my flute (and he his guitar) and we were playing music :)

UV-D

08:00

that is extremely cool .... haven't had a day like that for years

TildalWave

09:42

@Hash Of course, why not? It's just text

I do it all the time

@Undo I am now, sup?

Crazy Buddy

You're always in the room... But, not when someone wants you :P

Yooouuuu''rrrrrreeee despicable :D

TildalWave

11:27

PearsonArtPhoto

Crossed the 9K barrier. 1K more to 10K, shouldn't take too long.

Stack Exchange

12:25

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Q: about the never mentioned movie

On these answer: http://space.stackexchange.com/a/2322/55 there's an bad inference to a movie that I never saw. I never thought about that movie when thinking question. I never thought about emergency procedure. The question is about how much it could take to wear an EVA suit on ISS. I really ha...

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Hash

14:50

I still donno whether my answer to this question is correct

TildalWave

16:04

in other news...

YAAAAAY! LADEE has safely entered orbit at the Moon! http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2013/10060633-congratulations-to-ladee.html #ThingsNASAMightTweet

Tweeted by elakdawalla on October 6, 2013 at 1:34 PM

Not too insensitive, I hope :O

ManishEarth

17:34

→ 78 messages moved to Trashcan

RhysW

surrenders

PearsonArtPhoto

And let's just be done with that conversation for now!

RhysW

im not even going to pretend to know whats going on, so ill just move on.

You guys heard about the supposed new state of matter?

David Freitag

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@RhysW Nope, it doesn't matter much to me.

RhysW

@DavidFreitag badum tsch

PearsonArtPhoto

17:36

@RhysW That's just best. I don't understand it either, and I was in the thick of it.

RhysW

they basically managed to get photons of light to behave like atoms, and form molecular shapes

David Freitag

@PearsonArtPhoto Likewise. Whatever it is, it's best taken care of quietly methinks.

RhysW

and when i say basically i mean im using very very basic terms!

PearsonArtPhoto

I'm actually in a 3 way conversation at the moment trying to do so, so...

RhysW

Good luck!

David Freitag

17:39

Damn 3-ways, they always get so complicated...

RhysW

depends if its devils or tridents

David Freitag

@RhysW how did they manage that?

RhysW

really specific conditions! hold on ill find it

David Freitag

Well duh...

RhysW

ignore that its by a newspaper, they are quoting harvard research, which i havent foud yet, and doubt i have access to anyway

independent.co.uk/news/science/…

David Freitag

17:42

I found this blog this morning. It's particularly hysterical. pipeline.corante.com/archives/things_i_wont_work_with

@RhysW Pretty cool. Have you ever seen the femto photography recording of photons going through a tomato and a coke bottle full of water?

RhysW

@DavidFreitag no but i want to!

David Freitag

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RhysW

ta

David Freitag

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> A laser pulse that lasts less than one trillionth of a second is used as a flash and the light returning from the scene is collected by a camera at a rate equivalent to roughly half a trillion frames per second.

RhysW

thats a lot of FPS

David Freitag

17:55

I can't remember where i read it, but that camera records something like 160TB/s worth of data

RhysW

jeez

David Freitag

Well, it's 500,000,000 images per second

give or take a few handfulls

On average, they take 480 frames, or 1.71 picosecond slices with several different cameras and construct a 2D video with all the data

RhysW

thats too insane to think about, didnt even realise we could record that high

David Freitag

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Yeah, MIT does some crazy sheet.

PearsonArtPhoto

18:40

Nice work on planetary-science! We asked 9 questions, putting it on the first page. This week's Topic of the Week is juno, until October 12th. Next week's topic is medical.

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RhysW

19:25

@PearsonArtPhoto question: what IS juno?

ah its a probe, all my googles turned up with the damn juno films

PearsonArtPhoto

LOL, sorry 'bout that.

It's the next Jupiter Orbiter, although oddly enough, it doesn't have a single camera on it.

A few spectrum analyzers, but...

PearsonArtPhoto

21:50

I'm surprised, SES appearantly is still flying on the next Falcon 9... nasaspaceflight.com/2013/10/…

TildalWave

Who here is at Orbital? I forgot...

PearsonArtPhoto

We have someone at orbital?

I'm a project manager with a small Orbital contract, and they are just down the street from me.

TildalWave

@PearsonArtPhoto I'm pretty sure I saw it mentioned by someone. There's an off chance I confused some other chat with one on SE tho, not 100% certain

*dunno where that typo crawled from sorry

not a freudian slip :P

PearsonArtPhoto

22:06

My company has a fair amount of affiliation with Orbital, I can often get inside info, with a bit of work.

One of my co-workers came over from there 2 months ago, matter of fact.

TildalWave

Sadly, I'm not anywhere close to anything interesting right now. Most of the stuff moved elsewhere with the crisis hitting us hard, and no funds to keep projects alive. There was a fair deal of interesting projects for ESA, also NASA developed here not even a few years back tho. I think they're still keeping that CERN project, but that's not up my alley really ... Manish would probably be really into it tho LOL

Ah no they still work for NASA, but they moved cities

PearsonArtPhoto

I live about 25 miles west of D.C. There's a ton of interesting businesses here.

Orbital, Lockheed, Raytheon, Orbcomm, Irridium, Geo-eye, and I'm sure a bunch of others that I'm not thinking of.

Air-bus

Chris

@PearsonArtPhoto Intelsat, Boeing, ATK, DigitalGlobe... that list could go on for a while

not to mention an interesting gov't agency or two ;)

TildalWave

yeah, rub it in...

PearsonArtPhoto

Yeah, I'm just talking about the 10 miles nearest my house.

There's a lot more if I'm willing to go 20 miles.

TildalWave

22:24

I just found out that the institute I did physics at is still doing the Atlas experiment in CERN :) Yeah, I have something closer than 10 km too!

tho the experiment isn't :(

or maybe that's a good thin, just in case they really make Swiss cheese out of Switzerland with LHC

oh, you're talking in miles ... that's not fair!!

PearsonArtPhoto

Well, most of those are within 10km too. Not to mention places like Verizon, AOL, etc.

TildalWave

ah I'm not bothered by those, I do have IBM, Microsoft,... some 4 km away

space tech tho... it's kinda left, I've found that institute is likely involved with something, they usually are, and then there's another company about 30 km away (?) that is a contractor for NASA / ESA / ARM / ...

but a lot of our brains just left after all the troubles ... and of course, Murphy at work, I just came back from abroad to see the worst of it :|

PearsonArtPhoto

I basically live in the East Coast Silicon Valley. which is rumored to be the most important community for the Internet to work anywhere.

Rory Alsop

@Tildal - I loved the EVA answer you gave. Why did you delete it?

TildalWave

@RoryAlsop hmmm, not sure I'd feel comfortable discussing it here... stuff happened because of it

Rory Alsop

22:39

@RhysW well, we can't really. It's like wagon-wheeling - it's lots of photographs (like video is) but not necessarily ones that would happen consecutively in real life)

@TildalWave oh - hence the deleted. Gotcha - I don't need to know

RhysW

@TildalWave tildal! hugs

TildalWave

@RhysW hugs back ... awkward! LOL

RhysW

i felt it was warranted, dont ever expect it again :P

TildalWave

that was your phone in your pocket, right?

RhysW

um yeah totally

TildalWave

22:44

:))

RhysW

:P so my first question on juno: "Where can I find a dance club to learn the moves they do in juno"

TildalWave

juno who?

RhysW

juno what, expect lots of more poor jokes :P

and poor grammar to boot!

TildalWave

there's no such thing as poor jokes, just poor reception

RhysW

well with all the satellites we have the reception should be pretty good

TildalWave

22:48

wait what?? ...

2 days ago, by PearsonArtPhoto

LOL. Before that, for a long time, I was an Aardvark.

RhysW

best quote ever right :D

his gravatar :P

TildalWave

@RhysW didn't see it :(

RhysW

i forgot until he reminded me :L

if you zoom to when it was posted, he put the picture there

TildalWave

@RhysW I tried, it just displays his current gravatar

RhysW

@TildalWave lh3.ggpht.com/…

TildalWave

22:51

hehe nice

RhysW

so whats up, any awesome questions i should see?

UV-D

someone say awesome question?

RhysW

:D

evening

/ very early morning

UV-D

don't know about awesome, but I wrote a question on space...

RhysW

what type of question?

UV-D

22:54

its coming up to 9am here

this time tomorrow, I will be back in the classroom teaching

RhysW

00:00 for me in a little bit

its monday for you right?

UV-D

yes

very monday

public holiday here

RhysW

you beat me to it

i was about to ask :P

damn mind link

UV-D

what were you going to ask?

RhysW

about to ask why you were going back on a tuesday

UV-D

22:57

lol

RhysW

man i never should have opened minecraft this weekend

UV-D

lol

RhysW

lost entire days to some of these elaborate mods

TildalWave

@UV-D a bit of it is here: space.stackexchange.com/a/1195/49 (tho not delwing into any detail)

UV-D

I might link it in and state that this is a specific example

RhysW

23:00

@UV-D i could lose entire weeks reading questions and answers on things like your question

UV-D

that's the purpose

RhysW

no! i need to go to work! and sleep and stuff!

UV-D

no, not allowed

David Freitag

@RhysW I've told you this already, sleep is for the dead!

RhysW

i forgot to eat yesterday already

so ill be one of the dead soon enough!

David Freitag

23:03

No way, humans can go without food for weeks.

UV-D

@TildalWave so good question?

TildalWave

@UV-D they are definitely a viable source of sustainable energy ... there's the kinetic energy of eruptions themselves, then the heat exchange, then the electrostatic charge it produces, sublimation pressure, all kinds of ways to exploit it, depending on which technology converts more of its potential energy into useful one

RhysW

@DavidFreitag hah, who says im a human!

TildalWave

yes, a good question... but you might wanna make it a bit more specific? Not sure how, tho

UV-D

hence my 2nd prt to the question - how do they compare to magmatic eruptions

David Freitag

23:05

@RhysW the DNA tests i had on you last week.

RhysW

man i have a hhard enough time figuring out what uv-d writes, let alone when its midnight

UV-D

@TildalWave perhaps say a future colony on Triton..

David Freitag

Caffeine, it makes all the difference.

RhysW

@DavidFreitag waaaay ahead of you

UV-D

be specific about which moon?

RhysW

23:06

still no idea though, something about exploting volcanoes for energy i think

David Freitag

Hmmm... I wonder if Cold can be used to create energy.

TildalWave

@UV-D oh dunno, I didn't wanna suggest you should limit yourself to a particular celestial ... maybe time frame it, to prevent too futuristic speculations?

David Freitag

Er well.. uh... convert energy i should say..

UV-D

aaaah

RhysW

@DavidFreitag nicely backpeddeled

UV-D

23:08

@TildalWave "within the next couple of centuries"

David Freitag

@RhysW Heh - I've been at work for 11 hours now and I'm running on 3 hours of sleep..

TildalWave

@DavidFreitag well any difference at the exchange, and you have your source ... so ... yes?

UV-D

man, Astro is going very slow

RhysW

@UV-D my enthusiasm has been curbed ever so slightly

David Freitag

@TildalWave What i mean is, you can use heat to produce steam to turn a turbine to produce electricity.. Can sheer cold be used in the same way?

UV-D

23:09

@RhysW why?

TildalWave

i.e. if the surrounding is 10K and the eruption ejecta is 200K (which is still darn cold), you have 190K of difference to play with

RhysW

@DavidFreitag sure, heat rises to push a turbine, so put cold at the top and itll do the opposite :P

^Totally made up science

TildalWave

@DavidFreitag there is such a thing as cold? isn't that just the lack of heat?

David Freitag

@TildalWave Well, you know what i mean.

RhysW

@UV-D hmm, how best to word this, my enjoyment is based mostly off of my interactions with the community, everyone else seems to be less active, hence its reflected on me

@DavidFreitag damn slippery scientists :P

David Freitag

23:11

IE, can i coat my space ship in something that allows the flow of electrons because of the lack of heat in my environment

Sort of like a piezo element, but for temperature

UV-D

aaah, that is the same wit me @RhysW - I enjoyed answering questions and discussing them in chat... what dented my enthusiasm was the constant talk of the site falling

RhysW

i will be honest though, i dont have much of a formal education, so part of it was just, i dont understand :P

David Freitag

Pah - formal education, who needs one?

RhysW

it happened here too, i dont understand whats even being written most of the time

David Freitag

That's what they made the internet for.

RhysW

23:13

@DavidFreitag well considering mine really only goes as far as GCSE :P

David Freitag

@RhysW eh?

UV-D

this will surprise you - asides from me being as dumb as a dead pelican, I am not formally trained in astronomy at all

RhysW

im not formally trained in anything xD so i dont have a foundation to base knowledge off of

TildalWave

@DavidFreitag you mean superconductors?

David Freitag

I was formally taught english by a pack of rabid sea lions.

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RhysW

23:15

@DavidFreitag um GCSE is really basic stuff, given at roughly age 15ish

TildalWave

@DavidFreitag you're just collecting stars now, aren't you?

David Freitag

@TildalWave Uhh.... no, i mean a passive device that produces energy in some form (preferably electron flow)

UV-D

@DavidFreitag I thinkI was in your class

RhysW

mine is bad enough that tildal follows me and corrects my posts :P

TildalWave

@DavidFreitag well bose-einstein condensates are rather funny behaving so I wouldn't put it as impossible

RhysW

23:16

usually into making it look like im complimenting him though :P

David Freitag

@UV-D They tried to get me to write with my right hand... it didn't end well for them.

TildalWave

Bose–Einstein condensate

A Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) is a state of matter of a dilute gas of bosons cooled to temperatures very close to absolute zero (that is, very near or ). Under such conditions, a large fraction of the bosons occupy the lowest quantum state, at which point quantum effects become apparent on a macroscopic scale. These effects are called macroscopic quantum phenomena. Although later experiments have revealed complex interactions, this state of matter was first predicted, generally, in papers by Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein in 1924–25. Bose first sent a paper to Einstein on t...

David Freitag

> cooled to temperatures very close to absolute zero (that is, very near or )

Wouldn't that require that you keep the gas cool?

TildalWave

@DavidFreitag I'm not sure I'm the right one to ask such questions LOL... you want Manish

David Freitag

@TildalWave Well, to be honest I'm not really fishing for answers, I'm just thinking out loud :]

UV-D

23:20

be back later...

RhysW

cya!

damn! mistakenly supplied the wrong card details for my laptop, sigh, now to go through the traumas of customer service, may god have mercy on my soul

RhysW

23:33

wow its quiet here now

in space chat no one can hear you talk?

David Freitag

@RhysW No, that's what we have comms for man.

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