@Hohmannfan Congrats on 3K. Is that a permissions boundary as well? I forget the beta and non-beta levels.

@Hohmannfan Thanks .... erm, what's the occasion? It's not even a round number like 42 :O

@kimholder I think @Undo was 15 when we started, not sure tho

@TildalWave 48 is 30 in hexadecimal :D

@geoffc nope, next privilege (protect questions) is at 3,500 space.stackexchange.com/help/privileges

@Hohmannfan true, ha

24 more to go :)

What's really funny is 1024

Nothing unusual...

@PearsonArtPhoto I want that book.

A server running Microsoft Bob. That makes sense...

Does anyone have any info on the supposed Shtil'-2.1 launch on Feb. 1st? I count 102 CubeSats to be launched by it, 50 from QB50 series qb50.eu/index.php/project-description-obj/mission-objectives, and...

> Bisat 14/ Anusat 2/ Busat/Aoxiang 1/ BeEagleSat/ Delta Dsat/DUTH/ EntrySat 1/ ExAlta 1/GAMASAT/HAVELSAT/ Hoopoe/ i-INSPIRE II/ InflateSail/ KPI-SAU 1/LilacSat 1/LINK/ LituanicaSAT 2/ Nano-JASMINE/NJUST 1/NUDTSat/GMS-SA/ OGMS-SA/Pegasus/PHOENIX/ PICASSO/ QARMAN/QB-Colombia/ QBITO/BUS 1,2,3,4/RIOSAT/ RoBiSAT 1,2/SamSat/SAT_IP2/SIMBA/ SNUSAT 1/ SOMP2/SpaceCube/STU 1/ SUSat/UCLSat/UNSW-EC0/UPSat/URSA MAJOR/VZLUsat 1/ X-CubeSat/YUsend-QB50/ ZA-AeroSat/ZJU CubeSat

or maybe 103 if I didn't lose count

Tho I dunno if all those aren't already included in the QB50, so it could be "only" 53 then... still, if it happens, it ought to set some records, no?

I just found a picture that I suspect I took in a random Youtube video. Hmmm...

I know I was in the room then, and not in the picture, and I took pictures, so it might have been me who took it... Will have to look at my old photos when I get home and find out for sure...

yeah it's not like people ask for permission these days

I'm not worried about it from that sense, but...

reminds me when URTHECAST took my postprocessed version of some HDEV frame for their advertizing

either from one of the answers here or my twitter account

If you posted it from here, then it would fall under CC.

So if they gave you credit, it would be okay...

with attribution

exactly

they didn't :)

I'll check the credits to see if I was attributed in any way...

it's not really the first time this happened to me either, once it was even kinda funny

You probably could get some money from that, you know.

yeah right, I did kinda mention it to them... no reply

corporations don't have to care, their lawyers are more expensive than our lawyers

as long as they look good in the press...

actually, even that can be arranged nowadays

Maybe SE would care, if they ripped the image from here?

well I did mention it here too

and pinged our CM with it

It would fall under small claims court, which means no lawyers, I believe.

no reply either

Hmmm.

I suspect that my image was posted on the HiRISE blog, which didn't have any attribution. Or it might have been taken by one of the newspapers too, it might not even be my image...

popphoto.com/how-to/2013/07/…

I try very carefully to always use images that don't require attribution if I use them in anything remotely commercial...

Okay, not one of my pictures, must have been a newspaper then.

I can now safely ignore it:-)

I might get a chance to be a volunteer at h2m.exploremars.org ...

Maybe I'll even ask for some SE stuff to hand out there.

@Hohmannfan - "really weird" : possibly my favourite part of an answer ever :-)

Agreed.

@kimholder Your argument about the difference between the rotation is brilliant. If you are not going to post an answer, I steal it.

sure, edit it in. i only know that because i read it in other answers here :)

though i see now TildalWave gave a more technical explanation of the same thing, and also added several other good bits.

ah yes sure add in what you want, flag comments as obsolete

So that is what the "flag" thing means! I only read that part about "serious problems", so I was a bit afraid of using them

It seems like there are a badge for flags. Do moderators get a flag review queue or something?

yup

sorry, I was doing other stuff...

there's many problems with coupling human activity with the need for none of it, high precision telescopes notwithstanding :)

it might be simpler to just co-orbit a telescope

The space shuttle is also a good example

still, there's quite some atomic oxygen, MMOD, traffic (ISS also has a couple of launchers),...

problem with traffic isn't so much that it can "photobomb" your long exposure as it is that they tend to use propellants

Breaking news! Launchers use propellants!

well, not those CubeSats launched from ISS :P

@Hohmannfan So THAT'S how they get up there!

they're not accepted because of security concerns

mainly during transport

I want a cubesat.

I want one named "cutesat".

lol give it a face?

they're cubes, they have 6 faces :P

Touche.

ah sorry, that's facets

Stupid t always getting in the way.

t, not T

I'm still gonna star that for the ambiguity value :P

:P

lol

launch an unsolved Rubik cube

...then at some point we'll look at it again, and it'll be solved.

Use the radiation pressure from Earth based lasers to turn it. "Megawatt laser space Rubic's cube solver"

Ah lol. That might just work.

Megawattslaserverdsromsrubikskubeløysar is just one word in Norwegian

That's crazy.

I had a hard time learning to not concentate words in English

megawatt laser Rubik cube solver?

@TildalWave Yup

megawatt laser space Rubik cube solver

it won't work, you need three :P

International cooperation: A Russian, an American and a Chinese laser solving the cube together

No, no! The top layer! нижний слой! 中间层！

better

Hello! Anyone around? @TildalWave

No

What's up?

Lol I had a funny thought today. Did anyone read the book written by the creator of xkcd?

Which one?

There is more than one?

I am talking about "What If"

There's also "Thing Explainer".

@JukEboX I'm in the DMZ

Sorry @TildalWave you in a very important chat :P

amzn.to/1Sp8UTb

I guess technically there's an XKCD book as well, but...

well, believe it or not it's about super-resolution microscopy, muon tomography,,...

@PearsonArtPhoto If you paste the full link it will onebox

Oh well.

I am going to have to get that one

Well anywah here is what I thought.

If someone created something that once activated came to complete absolute zero stop at it's point in the universe. If there was someone standing near that would they be killed by the whole created of it ripping through thm?

@JukEboX wat

The problem with that is, what is the absolute zero point?

have you thought about submitting it to his what if section?

@kimholder I am really thinking abot it

@PearsonArtPhoto I am thinking of the universe as some kind of container

I asked one about transporting the Earth to 500 AU. Would be interesting...

or even the use of any matter. Which I am probably using the term incorreectly

@JukEboX nothing would happen, all the object's energy would be potential energy

At the best you could cancel out the speed relative to the galaxy, but the Universe, well, I don't think there's really a defined absolute zero point.

Where you put this item would some stop in it's relation to the universe at absolute zero and stay there

@PearsonArtPhoto no and it can't be

See what I am thinking is if you did that.

well, everywhere is

And the earth is moving a X miles an hour around the sun

Then the item would rip through everything

because it would be stopped completely

and the earth will be moving around it

The idea was based on an idea I had when thinking about maping the universe on 3 planes

And also a bit of thinking how the engine on the ship from Futurama worked.

it doesn't work like that

Where it moves the universe around it instead of moving the ship

@TildalWave I can dream can't I ?

@JukEboX sure, but it's a nightmare where you just killed Einstein

@TildalWave

LOL

basically, the answer to your question is "everything is relative"

and Einstein would say that's especially true around Christmas

So bottom line, zero out the movement around the galaxy, but beyond that, well, you'd be hard pressed to do anything.

@TildalWave well I am thinking this item would find its spot relative to the ends of the universe

@PearsonArtPhoto yeah kind of what I am getting at.

You can kind of think of the universe like a balloon. The points on the opposite end are moving apart from the center.

Except there isn't a center of the Universe, not really. It's a bit confusing...

@JukEboX there are no ends of the universe as far as we're concerned, google "observable universe"

But we do not know if that is a correct analogy as we haven't found the edge of the universe

Ok so the question is. Hypothetically

If we did make this item

still nothing happens

@TildalWave I think it would because are we not constantly moving amazing speed through the universe?

you could say that anything at the deep end of a local gravity well has same properties

i.e. on Earth, anything at about its surface

Only me and dead people understand hexadecimal. Including you, we are deaf.

terrible joke

:P

A more complicated version of the "There are only 10 kinds of people in the world"

but... you skipped deae.

Did you know that approximately half of the world's population is badfaced?

I don't understand that one.

Convert badfaced to decimal

lol

faded people are getting this joke

faded

@duzzy only 11 people understand the unary system, so it is just us.

:P

You know that you need sleep when you are using regexes to search English text for abcdef-only words to make terrible jokes.

/ [a-f]+ /g seems to work pretty good.

lol sleep deprivation can do strange things to people... but I've never seen it do that. :P

The Space Show on the Overview Effect starts in 8 minutes: thespaceshow.com/content/listen-live

Note that Live365 has gone out of business and now the feed is only available through Fast-serv

to call the show: 1 866 687 7223

Launch of ILS Proton rocket w/ Breeze M upper stage deploying Eutelsat 9B communications satellite is now webcast live. More info here. Video feed from the launch site (no commentary) also available here

liftoff

Wow, I'm about 15 seconds behind.

I watch on that Tsenki link with sound from the hosted webcast

so far so good

clear night

stage separation

just a tiny distant dot now

@kimholder haven't they said they'll still be up till the end of the month?

What was that?

what was what? :)

It looked like a poof.

Was that another separation?

hehe that's descriptive

ah yes

lol I don't know how to describe it.

3rd stage burning now

OK I can't see anything anymore

What are those lights for?

and we're back to watching Baikonur's launch site

Are some of them just blown out or is that some kind of indicator for something?

@duzzy to signal aliens in case of a close encounter of the third kind :)

:P

reflectors for the launch site

artificial daylight :D

People are just driving through.

Maybe they're lost.

meh it's just hydrazine, once it burns it's mostly harmless ... mostly :)))

lol

That beep sound isn't harmless. Ach!

BTW where's @BrianLynch recently? He's not snowed in is he?

(again)

If you're around, I thought some of the FISO telecons might interest you spirit.as.utexas.edu/~fiso/archivelist.htm Actually, that goes also for @kimholder but I think I gave her that link before

he's snowed with work

he's around, just got called up to teach two courses this term -- I officially had 66 hours per week on the go so the university even made me put my post-doc on hold

damn I should have attended that NEEMO one

Could you not find it?

Sometimes I roll my eyes at myself.

didn't even know they existed until seeing Tildal's link

(FISO workshops I mean, I know about NEEMO)

I am surprised I still have electricity here, we are currently experiencing a hurricane with wind speeds of 35-40 m/s

sorry that was me sneezing over here that caused it

Or maybe your pet butterfly?

that island looks like a windy, windy place

though that would be too on-the-nose :)

@Hohmannfan btw I noticed that Ariane 5 launch ended up at a 0.5 deg inclination so the altitude drop was definitely not due to the change in Earth radius

working on a trajectory optimization problem a long time ago for a polar launch, I kept being confused by varying altitude even though the orbit was circular... took me a while to realize it was due to the oblate shape of the Earth, so always comes to mind when I see altitude plots (as opposed to radius plots)

@BrianLynch I feel for you :)

<-- thrives under pressure

plus teaching is something that I can actually do and feel that it is done... research always feels like there is no ceiling...

No ceiling is kind of the idea with space-travel...

^ I like how this guy thinks.

/|\

@Hohmannfan nice

@TildalWave now I will have vertigo next time I look up at the sky

oh I already get those,... old age, the Earth spinning sooooo fast :D

Neil Young, Comes A Time: "Ohh, this old world keeps spinning round. It's a wonder tall trees ain't layin' down"

that's from Harvest?

actually, I can google

think it's from an album of the same name

yeah it's later than Harvest but along those lines

oh yea, not much rust in that song :)

my favorite album of his (OK with Crazy Horse) is still Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, but I think I have pretty much everything of his

nice, I love that song too

blimey that's from 1969

it even predates me

gonna play it now since I mentioned it

same haha

you might like my current favourite band: Matt Mays, he's been compared to Neil Young

cheers, gonna check it out

oh - i can't believe i actually have a chance to comment that my mom went on a date with Neil Young when they were just teenagers :D

no way!

did she get a kiss?

out there in pickering where they both grew up. yep.

she doesn't say...

just that he was always fooling with his guitar.

makes sense lol

it was just the one time so if she got a kiss it was probably no biggie

now I'm thinkin about Helpless

ahhh one of my favorite songs ever

no but 6 degs of separation lol

you know someone who knows someone who was probably kissed goodnight at her door by Neil Young :)

apparently when he auditioned for Crosby, Stills, and Nash, he just sat down and played that song and they signed him on that night

boom exactly!

and buddy and his 2 bros are fanatical about Neil

my buddy I mean lol

@kimholder you know there was a movie kinda on that theme

I liked it, can't remember what it was called tho... gotta check

yea I recall that too, not Neil Young though right?

no, but it was supposed to portray him

oh I meant not that

was thinking it was some movie start that the main character was hoping to see all night long

*star

dunno if I'll find that movie, I really don't remember enough about it

not the one with the kid who joins the band on tour as a kind of journalist?

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