Cancer Posted July 3, 2018 Report Share Posted July 3, 2018 Actually, I could support "moron" as the official label for the fundamental unit of entropy. L. Marcus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 3, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2018 17 hours ago, Old Man said: Fissure 8 has stabilized to the point where they're trying to figure out exactly where to put the viewing platform. Good luck Pariah, bring that exam down with a clean headshot. It wasn't quite a clean headshot, but it was a solid kill. One down, one to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted July 4, 2018 Report Share Posted July 4, 2018 9 hours ago, Cancer said: Actually, I could support "moron" as the official label for the fundamental unit of entropy. I prefer "maroon" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinecone Posted July 5, 2018 Report Share Posted July 5, 2018 I vote for "Study Group"...this not only measures Entropy (As you can see we have a gradient of 8 Study Groups per second) but denotes one of the major producers of Entropy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 5, 2018 Report Share Posted July 5, 2018 Hmm, I'll bet faculty committees are up there also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 6, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 It is finished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted July 6, 2018 Report Share Posted July 6, 2018 Your masters? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2018 No, just the astronomy and geology classes. 7 credit hours in 4 weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted July 7, 2018 Report Share Posted July 7, 2018 So you are an expert on space rocks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2018 I know that it does! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 7, 2018 Report Share Posted July 7, 2018 So are you going to anoint yourself Lord of Plagioclase Feldspar and Millisecond Pulsars? Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted July 7, 2018 Report Share Posted July 7, 2018 I was thinking more along the lines of metal hydrogen from Saturn. maybe it was Jupiter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted July 7, 2018 Report Share Posted July 7, 2018 3 hours ago, Pariah said: I know that it does! So, uh, are you going to tell us about the feasibility of Planet Salt Flats from The Last Jedi? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2018 A salt flat that stretches on for a hundred kilometers in every direction? Shoot, I know where to find one of those right here on Earth. I live next door to it. As far as the bright red substrate that comes with it...well, I don't know of a specific terrestrial example, but I'd say that with the right depositional environment, it's feasible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2018 5 hours ago, Cancer said: So are you going to anoint yourself Lord of Plagioclase Feldspar and Millisecond Pulsars? I'll put it on my C.V. Edit: Maybe those should be two of my subdomains when I finally join the Superdraft in the next day or two.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2018 4 hours ago, Bazza said: I was thinking more along the lines of metal hydrogen from Saturn. maybe it was Jupiter. As a chemist, liquid metallic hydrogen is one of the strangest and most interesting things I've ever heard of. (And it's Jupiter. I don't think Saturn is dense enough for LMH. Cancer?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 7, 2018 Report Share Posted July 7, 2018 Last I heard, Saturn was supposed to reach metallic hydrogen conditions in its deep interior, but in a smaller proportion of its volume. My understanding is that it has been produced in the laboratory here, in diamond anvil cells. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2018 That's good information. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 7, 2018 Report Share Posted July 7, 2018 Hey, all you need is a few gigapascals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted July 7, 2018 Report Share Posted July 7, 2018 I bet it makes a swell explosive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted July 8, 2018 Report Share Posted July 8, 2018 12 hours ago, Pariah said: A salt flat that stretches on for a hundred kilometers in every direction? Shoot, I know where to find one of those right here on Earth. I live next door to it. As far as the bright red substrate that comes with it...well, I don't know of a specific terrestrial example, but I'd say that with the right depositional environment, it's feasible. Well, yes I know of the one you probably speak too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 11, 2018 Report Share Posted July 11, 2018 Interesting little exercise for proving the Earth moves around the Sun, and estimating the size of the AU. Probably upper-division undergrad level (as well as requiring some stuff most folks don't have for the data acquisition and measurement), though, and clearly not a one-semester project. Link Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted July 11, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2018 I listened to a lecture about the Michelson-Morley experiment recently that mentioned this. Pretty interesting stuff. (Actually, it was two lectures, and the Michelson-Morley experiment was only the topic of the second. The two lectures were both concerned with experiments to determine whether the Earth moved with respect to the ether or not.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted July 11, 2018 Report Share Posted July 11, 2018 I think the thing that surprises me most about aberration is Bradley's means of discovering it, using what was in effect a jury-rigged transit telescope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted July 12, 2018 Report Share Posted July 12, 2018 14 hours ago, Cancer said: Interesting little exercise for proving the Earth moves around the Sun, and estimating the size of the AU. Probably upper-division undergrad level (as well as requiring some stuff most folks don't have for the data acquisition and measurement), though, and clearly not a one-semester project. Link I just remember in high school, in earth science class, when we had a section on astronomy, putting the solar system down on the hallway. The sun was a circle on a piece of tape, while Pluto (still a planet damn it) was about 300 ft+ down the hallway and a barely perceptible dot on a piece of tape. KInd of messes with your mind the vastness of space. (at least me) Note: Pluto was about 10 ft from the boy's bathroom, which might be a perfect metaphor for how the science community thinks of Pluto. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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