Gep

The Guv'nor
Jun 12, 2005
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This is probably gonna be a silly question but has something changed on here or is it me? Probably the latter. Whenever I quote a reply all I see is my message. I’ve tried to respond to some of you on here and just gave up trying. So apologies.
 

ALC

Ohaulick
Oct 28, 2010
46,630
This is probably gonna be a silly question but has something changed on here or is it me? Probably the latter. Whenever I quote a reply all I see is my message. I’ve tried to respond to some of you on here and just gave up trying. So apologies.
Other people have the same issue, hit that gear button and it’ll go away

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L'autista
Administrator
Sep 23, 2003
84,955
Make American commercials great again

Sorry, I didn't like Cowboy Carter.

Florida has some damn good fishing.

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Now the restaurants on the other hand, those are abysmal.
It only figures that more juventini than rosaneri were too slow and easy to catch. :cry:

This is probably gonna be a silly question but has something changed on here or is it me? Probably the latter. Whenever I quote a reply all I see is my message. I’ve tried to respond to some of you on here and just gave up trying. So apologies.
Yeah, annoying but known issue. Depends on the browser/device too.
 
Jun 16, 2020
12,435
Visited a observatory tonight. What a experience. Really lucky with almost no guests and at a certain point just me and my kids. A absolute space nut volunteer worked there, a 21 y/o kid who left school without a diploma but memorised every star you could possibly see. He would navigate us with a laserpen throughout the heavens and then point his telescope towards it to show remnants of supernova, binairy stars, dust clouds, name it. Only the Andromeda Galaxy wasn’t good visible due to clouds, but at least we saw the core of it. Im really impressed by that dude, sad that he won’t reach the real scientific work due to the lack of a diploma.
 

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Aug 8, 2006
83,481
Visited a observatory tonight. What a experience. Really lucky with almost no guests and at a certain point just me and my kids. A absolute space nut volunteer worked there, a 21 y/o kid who left school without a diploma but memorised every star you could possibly see. He would navigate us with a laserpen throughout the heavens and then point his telescope towards it to show remnants of supernova, binairy stars, dust clouds, name it. Only the Andromeda Galaxy wasn’t good visible due to clouds, but at least we saw the core of it. Im really impressed by that dude, sad that he won’t reach the real scientific work due to the lack of a diploma.

Brian Cox and Lee Cronin have really caught my attention lately. Have you learned about Lee’s paper on assembly theory? Amazing imo.

and now Cox has shifted his focus to black holes which 10x my interest and learning
 

ALC

Ohaulick
Oct 28, 2010
46,630
Visited a observatory tonight. What a experience. Really lucky with almost no guests and at a certain point just me and my kids. A absolute space nut volunteer worked there, a 21 y/o kid who left school without a diploma but memorised every star you could possibly see. He would navigate us with a laserpen throughout the heavens and then point his telescope towards it to show remnants of supernova, binairy stars, dust clouds, name it. Only the Andromeda Galaxy wasn’t good visible due to clouds, but at least we saw the core of it. Im really impressed by that dude, sad that he won’t reach the real scientific work due to the lack of a diploma.
Nice! I was just at the observatory in LA last weekend but the motor that opens the dome wasn’t working so we couldn’t see through the telescope
 
Jun 16, 2020
12,435
Brian Cox and Lee Cronin have really caught my attention lately. Have you learned about Lee’s paper on assembly theory? Amazing imo.

and now Cox has shifted his focus to black holes which 10x my interest and learning
Yes I listen to Brian Cox every now and then. He is good, maybe it’s the British accent that just works. Also finished his book ‘Human Universe’ around spring last year. He’s always a bit pessimistic about the possibilities of intelligent life on other planets which I find odd.

About Lee Cronin, since you tagged me it kinda stayed half on my radar. I remember one good podcast with Lex Fridman when the theory was still relatively new, if I remember correctly he got emotional there after all the pushback he received. Can’t say I know all the ins- and outs about the theory, if I’m not mistaken the pushback is mostly because he suggests that evolution follows a intelligent path along with a random path, where the first part goes against the general consensus regarding evolution.

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Nice! I was just at the observatory in LA last weekend but the motor that opens the dome wasn’t working so we couldn’t see through the telescope
That’s sad man. This was my second time, first time was before the summer but there were too many clouds to see anything. You guys probably have even better telescopes, this one wasn’t even that big I think that I could afford it, sad that I live in a place with too much light pollution

It’s really a achievement if youre able to just recognise all the stars by name, damn what a talented guy yesterday. I should adopt him

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Also bought this small piece of a meteorite, when im hyped im really the ‘take my money’ guy, €35 for a piece of iron smaller than my finger tip haha

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