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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@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
now that I'm a bit further down this rabbit hole I'm realizing this isn't much different from the terrestrial cartography I did one summer in college about 16 years ago, except that your benchmarks are all moving a lot faster
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now that I'm a bit further down this rabbit hole I'm realizing this isn't much different from the terrestrial cartography I did one summer in college about 16 years ago, except that your benchmarks are all moving a lot faster
one of the benchmarks we wanted to use had a typos where two digits were transposed preventing us from using it because otherwise none of our math would have added up. the professor rejected my proposal to simply interpolate the error across all our data points to make the more convenient benchmark work out lol. so instead we had to chain our data points to a much less convenient datum which iirc involved us trespassing into a reservoir.
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one of the benchmarks we wanted to use had a typos where two digits were transposed preventing us from using it because otherwise none of our math would have added up. the professor rejected my proposal to simply interpolate the error across all our data points to make the more convenient benchmark work out lol. so instead we had to chain our data points to a much less convenient datum which iirc involved us trespassing into a reservoir.
anyways, somewhere in peru there's a town that is legally somewhere between 100 meters and 1 km off from where it actually is, and it'll be really funny if it ever gets big enough for that to actually matter
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anyways, somewhere in peru there's a town that is legally somewhere between 100 meters and 1 km off from where it actually is, and it'll be really funny if it ever gets big enough for that to actually matter
time is fake, but as it happens space is also fake
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anyways, somewhere in peru there's a town that is legally somewhere between 100 meters and 1 km off from where it actually is, and it'll be really funny if it ever gets big enough for that to actually matter
@aeva wouldn’t it matter more for smaller cities?
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@aeva I mean borders and locations of civil territories are actually definitively imaginary so that tracks.
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one of the benchmarks we wanted to use had a typos where two digits were transposed preventing us from using it because otherwise none of our math would have added up. the professor rejected my proposal to simply interpolate the error across all our data points to make the more convenient benchmark work out lol. so instead we had to chain our data points to a much less convenient datum which iirc involved us trespassing into a reservoir.
@aeva at least all the measurement units are nailed down.
https://www.nist.gov/pml/us-surveyfoot
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@aeva wouldn’t it matter more for smaller cities?
@luana I figure the smaller the city the lower the odds you end up with grosstopically overlapping structures, legally speaking
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@aeva at least all the measurement units are nailed down.
https://www.nist.gov/pml/us-surveyfoot
Well, ok it could be worse.@kevingranade they did eventually redefine the kilogram as something other than robespierre's evaporating left nut at least
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it's a good thing countries are pretty short lived geologically speaking otherwise plate tectonics would cause a lot of problems
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it's a good thing countries are pretty short lived geologically speaking otherwise plate tectonics would cause a lot of problems
@aeva I mean, we already see similar issues with geographic borders. Especially rivers, because rivers really don't like to stay put.
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@aeva I mean, we already see similar issues with geographic borders. Especially rivers, because rivers really don't like to stay put.
@ataylor nothing a liberal application of hubris can't pretend to fix
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@aeva "We shall put this river in a box and then everything's fine!"
Cue decades of flooding.
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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@Spiggitzfan in Italy it's a common say that "Mussolini did good things too".
It's always been understood as a way for fascists to sanitize his image.
Famously, Berlusconi replied this to Clinton on a visit, and Roberto Benigni joked about it: for fuck's sake, of course he did, even Hitler and Stalin must have had some road built. Even Florence's Monster (a serial killer) must have said "good morning" to someone at some point!(in Italian
https://youtu.be/_yWTvhv2w4c )
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Caparezza: giovedÌ 13 agosto 2026 concerto alla festa di radio onda d’urto
@anarchia
Caparezza torna alla Festa di Radio Onda d’Urto, l’edizione numero 34, in calendario nell’agosto 2026, come sempre all’area feste di via Serenissima a Brescia. La data, già annunciata dall’artista, è quella di giovedì 13 agosto 2026, nell’ambito dell’”Orbit Orbit Tour”,...
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Global sumud flotilla: le barche italiane lasciano la costa siciliana alla volta di gaza, “buon vento”
@anarchia
Sono salpate, alla volta di Gaza, le imbarcazioni italiane della Global Sumud Flotilla dal porto siciliano di Augusta. Sono 18 le barche al momento, partite dalle coste siciliane questo sabato 13 settembre, che si uniranno in mare https://www.rivoluzioneanarchica.it/global-sumud-flotilla-le-barche-italiane-lasciano-la-costa-siciliana-alla-volta-di-gaza-buon-vento/
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@aeva "We shall put this river in a box and then everything's fine!"
Cue decades of flooding.
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@ataylor nothing a liberal application of hubris can't pretend to fix
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@aeva I mean, we already see similar issues with geographic borders. Especially rivers, because rivers really don't like to stay put.
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it's a good thing countries are pretty short lived geologically speaking otherwise plate tectonics would cause a lot of problems
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@kevingranade they did eventually redefine the kilogram as something other than robespierre's evaporating left nut at least
