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Originally Posted by Kirk Garrett
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06-10-2022 08:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Doktah B
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Originally Posted by Doktah B
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Originally Posted by Kirk Garrett
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Originally Posted by Christian Miller
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[QUOTE=Christian Miller;1202259]A phd in astronomy is 4 years of trying to work out why your computer program isn’t working (I did a masters year working on Hubble data so I got an idea of what it might be like)./QUOTE]
If computers were a thing when I studied the subject, I would probably have done much better at it. These days I spend my days writing code to simulate light transport through participating media that I think might be like the differential equation that tried to teach me to describe energy emerging from the sun.
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Originally Posted by Christian Miller
If you're interested there's some info here that might interest you.
Roman Space Telescope Simulations by the IPAC/STScI/Goddard Group
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Sweden is a powerhouse for pop music songwriting and production. They have a formula and with that formula they've ruled the pop charts for many years now.There's an interesting book about it called The Song Machine.
So it makes sense to me that Spotify, a Swedish company, would use the assembly line process for the many niche markets of background music. After all, Spotify is nothing but a capitalist juggernaut that treats musical artists with utter disrespect. They are just the latest in a long line of unscrupulous music companies.
Personally I think that the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is leagues more interesting.... I learned a new word today: grism.
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I still have no idea what a low pass filter does, apparently it has them....or one... maybe a thousand, no matter how many I don't know what it does other than filter something, my guess is some form of light given its purpose, but whether it's low because it doesn't cycle often (as in low amount of passes) or it's referring to frequency, I have no clue. my guess is the latter, I felt way too dumb to ask. My comments were generally "that sounds impressive", as it did, and no matter what I was right, it does sound impressive.
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Low pass = dumb way of saying high cut.
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Originally Posted by Jimmy Smith
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Originally Posted by Doktah B
Basically, I enjoy the sensation of reading about the technical aspects as if I understand what's going on, but I really just like to gawk at the pretty pictures.
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Originally Posted by supersoul
No I didn't, here's a snip
"Integration is a low-pass filter, and chopping, which is temporal differentiation, is a high-pass filter. Their combined application can produce a limited band filter tominimize the impact of disturbances"
It sounds fancy pants to me.
something to do with coronagraphs and searching for exoplanets I think.
none the less I still have no clue what it does. maybe i don't need to know?
I liked the hubble pic taken when it was pointing into a really small dark point in space and they found it wasn't dark at all.
I don't enjoy listening to things I cannot comprehend, advanced scientific mathematics makes me want to cry...
I'm the sort of numpty that looks at a complex molecule model structure and says "wow, it looks like a pretty flower".... for some of us there is little hope of salvation.
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Originally Posted by Doktah B
Anyway, I can recommend the YouTube channel 'Cool Worlds' which is presented by an actual exoplanet researcher who also has a gift for communication if you are interested in finding out more without so much gobbledegook.
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Originally Posted by AllanAllen
Regarding the noble science of astrophotography, I was reminded of how excited the community was getting a couple of years ago after images of the dimming of light emitted by Betelgeuse suggested we (or our grandchildren) were "about to" (in cosmic terms) witness a supernova. Turned out that it was most likely due to clouds of cosmic (ok, circumstellar) dust. Anyway, keep looking for exoplanets, we'll find a way to get there.
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Epidemic Sound, a Swedish company that creates the fakes played on Spotify and elsewhere, is suing Meta, alleging that the owner of Facebook and Instagram has “ignored Epidemic’s repeated notices of infringement and requests for access to the tools that would help stop the infringement”. Epidemic further claims that Meta “has created tools” whose “primary purpose is to increase the amount of theft” on Facebook and Instagram.
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