The Astronomy Thread
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
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That was a fun movie. "I am Russian Cosmonaut!"Relax. The professionals will handle it.
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At the end of the day it all goes back to the classical problem of how to most efficiently stack spheres in a given space. Since two particles can't occupy the same space. There absolutely is a connection. The fact that the particles are vibrating complicates things, but still. Doesn't matter if we are talking photons or hadrons, when it comes to the ways they fill space, they're going to follow roughly the same rules at the basic level.
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Generic reference to the classical sphere stacking problem, since most here are so ignorant that they probably think I'm just high and making it up
en.wikipedia.org
Sphere packing - Wikipedia
Borzak
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Galaxy season is upon us. Ordered new telescope mount that is much lighter than my main mount. Plan on doing some light astrophotography with a much smaller telescope. Things have really changed in the last 15 years. Though weight is always a plus in steadiness I'm downsizing a lot.
My old mount I could and often did use up to a 8" refelector up to 4' long. New mount will be used for a 72mm scope, plus counterweights, plus camera, plus finder, plus guide scope. It adds up.
My old mount I could and often did use up to a 8" refelector up to 4' long. New mount will be used for a 72mm scope, plus counterweights, plus camera, plus finder, plus guide scope. It adds up.
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Borzak
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Freaking Putin. One of the biggest and until recently only maker of Maksutov type telescopes was in Russia. It's something they are actually good at. I missed it but apparently that company went to full military stuff 5 years ago. So can't get a Maksutov Newtonian telescope now. Blah, Putin. From the name guessing it was a Russian who invented that type along with Mak Casses. Looked it up, he was during WWII.
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Loser Araysar
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Sanrith Descartes
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Just another example of Musk dominating a market segment and it's challengers falling by the wayside.
If their model was more effective or efficient Musk would be using it. Virgins problem is that they wanted to do something new and unique. They chose novelty over practicality.
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Virgin Orbit fails to secure funding, will cease operations and lay off nearly entire workforce
Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart gave employees an update in an all-hands meeting on Thursday, according to audio obtained by CNBC.
- Virgin Orbit is ceasing operations “for the foreseeable future” after failing to secure a funding lifeline, CEO Dan Hart told employees during an all-hands meeting Thursday.
- The company will lay off all but 100 employees, according to audio of the 5 p.m. ET meeting obtained by CNBC.
- Shareholders unloaded the stock in extended trading Thursday.