i nerd sniped myself tonight and i imagine the NSA operative who is assigned to me is very confused by the increasingly erratic and frustrated google searches for HOW DO I CALCULATE THE MOON WHERE IS THE MOON
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i think astronomy would be a lot simpler if ancient peoples didn't get so hung up on conceptualizing celestial bodies as spheres and simply invented linear algebra first
@aeva a lot of things would be simpler if cults based on "perfect" shapes hadn't done all the [gestures] that they did
divine geometry is a helluva drug
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@aeva On cosmology sequence breaks: Terence Tao noted that an ancient Greek heliocentrist got his arguments shot down because others said, hey, if the earth moves so much yet the stars seem to stay still, the universe would have to be *thousands* of times bigger than anyone figures it is. And how would you know, back then, it was way *more* than thousands of times bigger?
@rf they were so close lol
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@aeva a lot of things would be simpler if cults based on "perfect" shapes hadn't done all the [gestures] that they did
divine geometry is a helluva drug
@aeva on the other hand getting extremely horny for triangles is both funny and kinda relatable, so
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@aeva a lot of things would be simpler if cults based on "perfect" shapes hadn't done all the [gestures] that they did
divine geometry is a helluva drug
@SnoopJ we're still using spherical trig in astronomy today despite earth being an ellipsoid
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@aeva on the other hand getting extremely horny for triangles is both funny and kinda relatable, so
@SnoopJ mood
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@SnoopJ we're still using spherical trig in astronomy today despite earth being an ellipsoid
@aeva well, yea, because astronomy doesn't really give a shit what shape the earth is anyway
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@aeva well, yea, because astronomy doesn't really give a shit what shape the earth is anyway
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I just want to calculate the current direction of tidal force from the observer's earth-relative position in space and time is that so wrong
@aeva oh what a fun one
have you encountered the thing where every computation in astronomy is coordinate conversion
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@aeva oh what a fun one
have you encountered the thing where every computation in astronomy is coordinate conversion
@ireneista yes
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@ireneista yes
@aeva "fun", isn't it
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i think astronomy would be a lot simpler if ancient peoples didn't get so hung up on conceptualizing celestial bodies as spheres and simply invented linear algebra first
i just want to calculate my current ecliptic coordinates from my current geographic coordinates is that so wrong
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@aeva "fun", isn't it
@ireneista no
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i just want to calculate my current ecliptic coordinates from my current geographic coordinates is that so wrong
i wonder to what extent astronomy is an insomnia friendly career still, or if it's mostly just diurnals looking at spreadsheets in fluorescent offices these days
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i wonder to what extent astronomy is an insomnia friendly career still, or if it's mostly just diurnals looking at spreadsheets in fluorescent offices these days
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@joncruz like CoPilot!
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@jannem meh you can't avoid a few sell-outs.
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@siriusfox is this because real astronomers don't actually look at the sky anymore
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@Gina
The female front-runner for the next Japanese prime minister; and a couple of the most prominent female Swedish politicians are all far-right conservatives, with hearty helpings of religious fanaticism in one or two cases.I'll just skip the matriarchy bit if it's ok with you.
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Verità sulle violenze alla Stella Maris!
@anarchia
Dopo la pausa estiva riiniziano le udienze del processo e ripartono i presidi sotto il tribunale! Martedì 23 settembre 2025, ore 10:30presso il Tribunale di Pisa in Piazza della RepubblicaPresidio di solidarietàBasta abusi! Basta uso del tappeto contenitivo!Verità sulle violenze...Vedi l'articolo
https://www.rivoluzioneanarchica.it/verita-sulle-violenze-alla-stella-maris/
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@evan it's why I dont bother setting up "smart completion" for most languages. I hit the magic key combo and Emacs searches through all my open buffers to see "ok, last time you had typed this sequence of characters, you then followed it with this result". And another combo will cycle through other options starting with most recent. Kinda works like magical "I know what you need" copy-n-paste.
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@lyresdictionary nfw
