Totally off-topic thread

Stab74 · 28 Mar 2017 09:13

Why does $1 beer night at my local pub always result in a $100 hangover?

Xoran · 28 Mar 2017 11:52

Why does $1 beer night at my local pub always result in a $100 hangover?

Logic

28 Mar 2017 20:23

If anyone is interested in a great citizen science opportunity, check out Zooniverse. I have been using it non-stop for like 3 days. There are plenty of fields such as exoplanet detection, classifications of galaxies, muon rings, LIGO data, animal population counts, even Mars geography. If you sign up with your real name and make a discovery, your name could get cited in any paper that uses your data. Personally, I've been going through the LIGO data and there are always new fields.
Here's radio meteor detection:

(Not trying to sell anything to you, it's just a fun website)

YouTube · 29 Mar 2017 01:27

Hornblower, I know it since 2012 and it's very cool! The only problem is that they send too many emails, I'm considering unsubscribing to them

Gnargenox · 31 Mar 2017 14:00

For the life of me I can not remember how I stumbled across a link to Fractal Terrains last night. It has been a long while since I played with Wilbur terrain generator. So, I fiddled around with it and combined the texture map with the archaic program called Celestia and popped this out

lol

I guess I will look into Irfanview and Cubemap next to generate a real Space Engine planet texture.

01 Apr 2017 08:29

Cody Blows Himself Up
[youtube]Iv6T90gFqI0[/youtube]

(and happy April fools day)

DoctorOfSpace · 01 Apr 2017 08:40

(and happy April fools day)

The older I get the more I dislike April 1st.

Gnargenox · 01 Apr 2017 13:43

Well, my patience and determinism finally paid off! I have officially been accepted to NASA's Astronaut Candidate selection process!!! The 3:1 ratio for experience over academic qualifications (Physical Science) allowed me to meet the requirements. Believe it or not even Experimental Psychology IS a qualifying degree BTW lol and I meet the height requirements of being between 62 and 75 inches tall (I'm 72 inches, 210lbs).

Since passing this preliminary screening, I am now off to the Johnson Space Center for a week-long process of personal interviews, medical screening, and orientation classes! I need to be Scuba certified in the next few weeks and will need to tread water with a flight suit on for 10 minutes. They will put me through hyperbaric and hypobaric atmospheric pressure test in the altitude chamber too.

If I can pass all this I will graduate to International Space Station systems training, Extravehicular Activity skills training, Robotics skills training, Russian Language training, and aircraft flight readiness training. Plus I will be getting a GS11 government issued paycheck lol, wish me luck everyone! This is a dream come true! WOOHOOO!!

01 Apr 2017 18:35

Per aspera ad astra

Gnargenox · 01 Apr 2017 19:21

Sorry, nope, I won't be headed to the stars. April Fools ;P

01 Apr 2017 19:30

Per astra ad aspera.

N0B0DY · 03 Apr 2017 10:13

Can someone confirm Space Engineer is OK?
We must clone Space Engineer just in case...

Xoran · 03 Apr 2017 10:30

And how exactly will we clone him?

03 Apr 2017 11:21

Can someone confirm Space Engineer is OK?
We must clone Space Engineer just in case...

He is online right now.

DoctorOfSpace · 03 Apr 2017 11:34

Can someone confirm Space Engineer is OK?
We must clone Space Engineer just in case...

He is the one who told me about this so I assume he is alright, and this was 15 minutes ago

Who is online