@UndotheSnowman Hmmm... that's a lot longer than when he was last in The Pod Bay :O And it was nearly 4 days since he was last at The Workplace, tss tss :)
Would we like to have a bit of fun on meta and run a Space Exploration Beauty Pageant 2013? Since we call our spacecraft and rockets and all the hardware as females, referring to them as she, I thought we could have a "who's the sexiest" contest of space exp hardware active in 2013 :)
maybe "Sexiest Space Exploration Hardware of 2013"?
It's the time of the year again, namely it is December 2013, and so we shall now refresh our Community Promotion Ads for the new year.
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@CrazyBuddy Oh cheers to both! I'll have to check other sites too when they open such threads, and @UndotheSnowman too :) Thanks a bunch!
@CrazyBuddy Oh and BTW I've read your blog and looking forward to the Mpemba experiment too... I just didn't have the time to comment on it yet, I'll add "Poke @CrazyBuddy on Twitter" to my todo list :)
@TildalWave Heh, yeah... You better check it out. Both the ads would fit great for probably anyone. Wait, you've publicized in EE, Skeptics, etc. too... Right? :D
@TildalWave I just finished writing about Mpemba. I pinged you on twitter... Didn't you get it? O_O
To-do-list??? O_O Hmm... Looks like I can rely on someone else too, (in addition to Manish) :P
@CrazyBuddy Aye, I'll check a bit later, I'm now writing The Sexiest Space Exploration Hardware of 2013 meta post LOL
@CrazyBuddy I got "the hot water experiment" but you mention in your blog that you'll do the freezing / Mpemba experiment later
> That’s just as expected. I’ve been saying all the way down, “I’m trying not to observe the effect”. Next time, I’ll try to get the effect (I’m sure I’ll attempt doing the same experiment again, at home)…
@TildalWave: BTW, there are a lot of Ravishankars allover the country. That's really a name that appears every one in 10000s (of the whole billion or so, population) -_-
@TildalWave The experiment? Probably 8 or so times, and now I'm tired of doing it. I'll better do that at the start of next semester. For now, VACATION..!!!
badminton, swimming, juggling (learning now, starting from two balls), gaming, reading, blogging have extended degrees of freedom :D
Now that I've got out of the bed and brushed my teeth, I guess I'm ready to chat :D
Disclaimer: The purpose of this thread is having a bit of end of the year festive season fun, nothing else. It can be construed as one of the most pointless exercises in misplaced vanity, in which case here's a link to our main site, thefinalfrontier.stackexchange.com for your convenience, or a p...
Disclaimer: The purpose of this thread is having a bit of end of the year festive season fun, nothing else. It can be construed as one of the most pointless exercises in misplaced vanity, in which case here's a link to our main site, thefinalfrontier.stackexchange.com for your convenience, or a p...
Background information: Rube Goldberg machine
The Woot! Enthusiast and Fanatic badges are awarded to users who manage to log into one of the sites every day for 30 and 100 days straight, respectively.
We have already seen that this is easy to accomplish, either through sheer user addiction or ...
Start with sharks. Attach frikken laser beams to their heads. These laser beams fire intermittently. Occasionally, they fire at other animals, including other sharks with frikken laser beams attached to their heads. When the LASER hits another shark with a frikken laser beam attached to its h...
Really it's crazy how fast we can get information across the globe.
And it's crazy to think, "I'm setting here unhappy because my computer is receiving 8 million ones and zeros every second through a little copper wire, and I think that's slow."
@UndotheSnowman Yes, and it also answers your question. Now all you have to do is follow announcements (or make your own if you think there's some interesting CTF competition) in Sec.SE meta and be in the main chat room and ask for access to the CTF room during the competition
Most competitions are published on CTFTime.org, our team there is secse and we'll add you to it once we get to it (during or after some comp.)
Competition is fierce tho, and often our team doesn't have the time for it or maybe just a few challenges. I think all things considered, we did pretty well in some competitions, there's usually ~ 500 teams in bigger ones
@CrazyBuddy hehe wait, I'm just looking which launch was the first here... I believe there was Morpheus Lander testing event before that, but you prolly meant an actual launch? Did it happen, or we waited all for nought?
This is an invitation to attend our chat room event, where we will be covering the launch of the ULA (United Launch Alliance) Delta IV-Heavy configuration delivering the classified NROL-65 payload to orbit for the United States National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
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Yeah well, I started reading something on Titan since I've been following incoming photos from the last flyby, and things got interesting what can I say? :D
@Everyone It's a commercial launch for Inmarsat so the customer decides what they wanna make public, which would mostly be a few more opportunities to advertize :)
mostly pre-recorded videos of "look how awesome we are"
@Everyone What do you mean? If they get swag? Graduated sites with own design would have their custom designed swag yes, but those are getting increasingly more difficult to get, especially after the SE shop closed. I never got a chance to get any, except for the diamond hat that is the same design for all.
International Launch Services (ILS) have successfully launched another Russian Proton-M launch vehicle, tasked with lofting the Inmarsat-5 F1 satellite on a flight to its transfer orbit that will take... Related posts:ILS Proton-M launches with EchoStar XVIInternational Launch Services (ILS) have launched their Proton-M rocket from... ILS Proton-M successfully launches Canada’s Anik G1I…
I follow the ARocket mailing list but this is full of serious Amatuer rocket folk. Like Henry Spencer, and others, so I am severely intimidated from posting.
I was wondering if anyone else seriously participates in it and has mentioned this site on it?
@JonEricson Congratulations! And yup I do recognize James Cosmo in it, I just didn't know what to make of it. I thought you threw away your grooming kit :)
We were recently having a conversation in The Pod Bay, our chatroom (get involved!), about what feeds we should have.
These can be RSS feeds, and can contain anything you can fit in an RSS block.
Also, one feed per post, the accepted answer should be community wiki and should include all feeds ...
@UndotheSnowman What recent events? There was no related event that I'm aware of. If you are thinking of @Chris stepping down, then he said it's got nothing to do with us in any way whatsoever
No, it's more that now there's only two of you, and if you have to go through that dance every time for each little typo I flag, I wouldn't want to keep flagging little typos unless you're OK with it
It's just his personal decision, he's free to decide so. And he told us he's leaving, which is a lot better than some ex mods on other SE sites that just faded out.
Oh, in related news, I made enough of a nuisance of myself for the SO mods to notice that they were getting 100 comment flags every day at 00:00, and they asked me to spread them out a little. I count that as a personal achievement :D
@UndotheSnowman Mod load is not too tasking really, then it depends on each individual how much time you'd like to spend refreshing pages and how often. I'm slowly getting a hang of things in that department too, and the new top bar is actually now better (faster notifications, but thats just my impression I can't substantiate it)
I think that they should put as a basic requirement for mods to have at least dual screen setup. It helps a lot when you can have one monitor dedicated to this and still work on anything else
I even made the secondary NV card to do PhysX in hardware, but had to use some really old drivers... but since I don't use it as my primary, I don't really care for how fast it is in 3D mode
So I now have all the hardware acceleration anyone could ever want... CUDA, PhysX, OpenCL,... the whole shebang
My weekend project was to take an old HP laptop (one of these), and turn it into a home server running Ubuntu Server 12.04.
It's a happy server.
Say, @TildalWave, whatcha think of this comment?
Hey everyone..Thanks for the reply...I know it sounds like homework but is not. to make it more general question if u like so, I would like to know how to calculate the longitude and latitude of a satellite in circular polar orbit. thanks :) — Tas Tor8 hours ago
@UndotheSnowman I did that once too, running lubuntu on it... I took the back side off and placed it directly on the note cooling pad, then disabled the annoyingly whiny fan it had over the chipset
Well the problem with that question is that you'd first have to calculate the orbital period based on altitude, then decide on some time mark when you pass over e.g. equator and account for rotation of the Earth. In honesty, it's probably best left for OP to realize that, or ask what he needs first.
I'm not sure how this can be so difficult. I mean, 90% of it was already there, all they'd have to do is keep the functionality they wanted and add new design and functions to it.
It's a one man job really, and it shouldn't take longer than perhaps two weeks to have a demo ready, then test it where it would use all its functionality (obviously not mSO LOL)
The Stack Exchange network seems like the best way to get good answers fast, but I don't if and what SE forum I should use to ask my question.
I'm looking for somewhere, anywhere, that would let me view and or purchase the full taping of the September 20th, 1973 tennis match between Billy Jean K...
The Battle of the Sexes is a title given to three notable tennis matches between a male and a female player. The first match was between Bobby Riggs and Margaret Court, over the best of three sets. The second was a nationally televised match between Riggs and Billie Jean King, over the best of five sets. The Riggs v King match was officially dubbed The Battle of the Sexes. The final match was between Jimmy Connors and Martina Navratilova, over the best of three sets and hybrid rules favoring the female player, which was dubbed The Battle of Champions.
Riggs v Court
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@UndotheSnowman No, it's asking about where to get a hold of a product. Any recordings of that match would be copyrighted so that makes them merchandize.
As an active, non-moderator user, I'd like to be able to see some graphs of our statistics. Is there any way for me to acquire these visualizations of data?
It's the time of the year again, namely it is December 2013, and so we shall now refresh our Community Promotion Ads for the new year.
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that will show up on the main site, in the right sidebar. The purp...
Start with sharks. Attach frikken laser beams to their heads. These laser beams fire intermittently. Occasionally, they fire at other animals, including other sharks with frikken laser beams attached to their heads. When the LASER hits another shark with a frikken laser beam attached to its h...
There used to be a place where you could buy Stack Exchange branded gear, what happened to it?
I follow the ARocket mailing list but this is full of serious Amatuer rocket folk. Like Henry Spencer, and others, so I am severely intimidated from posting.
I was wondering if anyone else seriously participates in it and has mentioned this site on it?
We were recently having a conversation in The Pod Bay, our chatroom (get involved!), about what feeds we should have.
These can be RSS feeds, and can contain anything you can fit in an RSS block.
Also, one feed per post, the accepted answer should be community wiki and should include all feeds ...
