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uhoh

00:11

Oh! you have a selectable integrator, how cooooool :-)

when I zoom out to try to see the "hot" particles (those who've recieved a big "kick" from the Earth and have larger specific energy (C3) 1, 2 I can't see the ring particles anymore because their size is scaled to sub-pixel (and the stars interfere).

I'd love to see a "view physics mode" where the stars are turned off and the color of the particle reflects C3 or change in C3, and minimum particle size is guaranteed to be visible.

Maybe color can just be v^2 and not C3 proper, because C3 is only defined in certain few-body scenarios.

1 hour later…

Boosted Nub

01:22

It's funny to see some certain users (well not to mention their names, I'd bet you have an idea) post a question, put on hold or closed for a reason, then they'd delete it afterwards. That makes me feel like they never thought about the suitability of the question itself which intended to ask.

uhoh

02:20

A: Should the word "problem" always be blocked from titles?

Starting from 30th of August 2018, we can now use the word problem in titles which are 41 characters or longer.

yay!

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Happy Koala

08:16

@uhoh @uhoh Yes, it's WebGL! It's off the hook what you can do in a browser nowadays. Gonna run the scenario in retrograde as soon as I've had my first coffee of the day... Mmmm... Coffee

@uhoh Should be possible to implement without too much fuss! Thanks for da feedback

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uhoh

11:41

@geoffc I thought you would appreciate this but apparently others didn't. :-(

geoffc

12:12

@uhoh I take the horrible, vile, unfair abuse (Including statistics! Totally racist and unfair man! Numbers are mean and evil, dontchaknow?) with aplomb and pretend to not even notice it. BUt you totally get my upvote.

How dare you back up your good humour with actual facts to point out the grain of truth at the heart of the humour. That is totally unacceptable on a site like this. We should get a rule change done for the entire SE network to prevent such a travesty from happening again.

PearsonArtPhoto

12:54

PINCH ME! We’re less than 6 days from the flyby of #UltimaThule ! Just half an hour ago it should have entered Encounter Mode, a state preventing anomalies from diverting off the flyby plan. Confirmation of that critical event comes this afternoon—from 4 billion miles away. 1/2

Tweeted by AlanStern on December 26, 2018 at 11:43 AM

It's happening! New Horizons should once again be in encounter mode, locking out safe mode and all ready for the first flyby of an object that has been done after a spacecraft has launched!

geoffc

As in, target changed/determined after launch? (Wording is a bit ambiguous).

PearsonArtPhoto

We have never sent a spacecraft to visit an object that was not discovered until after it launched.

Or at least, that is my understanding.

I mean, there might have been distant flybys of some of the moons of Saturn/ Jupiter discovered after the launch of Cassini/ Galileo, but... I don't think so actually.

My latest project, or a small piece of it.

I'm learning so much about the early days of space exploration...

Alex Hajnal

13:20

Should the ~~idiocy~~ shutdown continue into the new year, full New Horizons coverage will be available on the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory YouTube channel.

PearsonArtPhoto

Good on them, I've got to say.

Odds that the shutdown will be complete before then: Almost 0.

Alex Hajnal

Optimism

PearsonArtPhoto

LOL

I can't really see this being resolved until after the new Congress, and even then...

Alex Hajnal

Can I say "goat rodeo" on this board?

I hope the Ultima Thule encounter goes well; it should be very interesting to compare it with Pluto.

uhoh

@geoffc thanks for melting me, just what i needed.

@PearsonArtPhoto that is extremely cool!

PearsonArtPhoto

13:40

nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/12/…

geoffc

13:51

Very cool stuff.

THink how much science NASA could do if bFR were flying daily/weekly and 100K payloads were cheaply launchable.

@uhoh Careful! JRCM will start downvoting you just for humour.

PearsonArtPhoto

We would go back to the Soviet model of space exploration.

Send many, send often, don't worry about reliability.

Alex Hajnal

Is there any way to roll back one's declining of an edit? i.e. one that someone else made to one's post. I changed my mind and want the editor to get credit for the edit.

XKCD

14:14

My pet theory is that in real life, the kid at the beginning of Jurassic Park who made fun of the 'six-foot turkey' never got a talking-to from Dr. Grant, and grew up to produce several of the movie's sequels.

uhoh

@AlexHajnal I know that if you remember their user name and write a message under their question using the (@)user method, there is a good chance they will receive a notification of your message. So you could try to invite them to repeat the edit.

Alex Hajnal

@uhoh I just tried that, waiting for a reply.

uhoh

You won't see the autocomplete when you start typing @, in this case, so you have to type the user name exactly.

Alex Hajnal

except it's my question, not theirs

uhoh

oh, okay that's good. I don't know the answer to your actual question here about rolling back your decline.

ya, what I'm describing is a way to message an editor of a question.

Alex Hajnal

14:22

The user is T.J.L. and this is the question

They were right, I was wrong, and I want them to get credit for the edit,

uhoh

460

A: How do comment @replies work?

You can use @name syntax anywhere in your comment to reply to a specific user. This will notify that user in their global inbox. There can also be notification through email if you set it up in the preferences found in your profile page. Who can be notified with this feature? The author of th...

oh, if it is pending, or rejected, the editor will not receive a notification :-(

Alex Hajnal

worse: "does not include pending or rejected edit suggestions"

well, hopefully they'll see it

uhoh

although it is discouraged in some sites, it's not uncommon to leave a friendly message on a random, unrelated post where they will receive a notification.

Some people don't like it, but if it is friendly and helpful, most people don't mind.

This is borderline, unless the user is really interested in getting points for editing, they may see it as you asking them to do more work for you.

Alex Hajnal

No joy on that either; they don't seem to have posted anything yet on Space.SE :^(

Alex Hajnal

14:44

Yea, you're right, I'll just do the edit myself

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PearsonArtPhoto

19:32

A mock up of what I'm hoping to do.

Depending on the dimensions, I might add a photo to the top right area as well.

4 hours later…

Happy Koala

23:09

Oh, mr WhereIsRoadster hangs out here, too... So many cool peepz here. Can't we all just get on a shiny spaceship with Mars as its destination where we'll stack oxidised pebbles and talk about space all day long?

I'm down with da flue, so that's probably the fever talking

PearsonArtPhoto

Where is Roadster was actually born in this chatroom, for most intents and purposes.

As for the spaceship, give it a few years.

Happy Koala

That's awesome...!

How do you calculate the position of the roadster? Or maybe you've outlined that on the site...

PearsonArtPhoto

If you look at the archives for Feb 7th, you'll see the very first publicly released prototype of it, which was quite horrible, but...

Happy Koala

Will do, but first I have to figure out how to access the archives... Such a perpetual n00b

PearsonArtPhoto

Click on room-> full transcripts.

chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/9682/2018/2/7

Happy Koala

23:21

Learnt something new :D Thanks!

Had no idea you could have your rep capped... I guess that's why I'm yet to soar above 435

PearsonArtPhoto

It's a rep cap/ day of 200.

Happy Koala

Ahhhhh, got it!

PearsonArtPhoto

I'm afraid this is going to end up really crowded, but I'm going to give it a shot anyways...

Happy Koala

You're referring to the project you mentioned above and posted a mockup for?

PearsonArtPhoto

This mockup is a video project I'm working on. I just tossed in an image of whereisroadster to show the 3 rough plots I want to include.

I'll have to do some more playing with it, with the right ratios...

So far all I have to show for this project is an excel worksheet with 114 rows.

Happy Koala

23:28

Awesome stuff, looking forward to seeing the final result!

You have to start somewhere :D

And it's so much fun to turn ones crazy ideas into something tangible

PearsonArtPhoto

Indeed.

I think the bit I'm working on now is the trickiest bit, but...

I've actually made quite a few edits to wikipedia to add and correct information on this project already...

Happy Koala

What's the part you're working on now, provided it's not secret and/or proprietary?

PearsonArtPhoto

23:45

Basically I'm trying to make a visualization of past space exploration missions.

The end product will be a video.

Happy Koala

Cool, I've done a bit of the same, although not in a video format

thehappykoala.github.io/Harmony-of-the-Spheres/#/scenario/…

That's a simulation of Voyager 2's encounter with Neptune

Click on the camera tab to the right, and set the camera Focus to Voyager 2, or if you simply want to see the flyby as from Voyager 2, pick Voyager 2 as the camera position

PearsonArtPhoto

Almost done with phase 1.2. Then just one more phase to go, and I can start the fun bit, programming!

But this bit Wikipedia is lacking, so I'm going to have to do some filling in...

Happy Koala

Amen to that :D

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