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At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: MrBump on April 22, 2010, 12:48:24 PM
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8634252.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8634252.stm)
So full of awesomeness...
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going to the house of lords would be a lot cheaper...
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http://www.rosicross.com/.a/6a00d8341f5d0653ef0112796d1fb728a4-800wi
This pretty much explains what I was going to reply with in words.
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That's very cool, Jonny.
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Yes, astronomy rocks.
Well, doing it doesnt, doing it is labourious and dull, but the results rock.
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that's.... awesome!
i don't know whether to feel uplifted at the majesty of it, or depressed at my insignificance in the grand scheme of things! i shall apply alcohol and see which mood sticks :)
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Yes, astronomy rocks.
Well, doing it doesnt, doing it is labourious and dull, but the results rock.
yeah, most science is like that. :lol:
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Yes, astronomy rocks.
Well, doing it doesnt, doing it is labourious and dull, but the results rock.
yeah, most science is like that. :lol:
I dunno. Gimmie a lab with a 3b laser and some quantum wells to blast with it and I'm pretty happy, (any lab, almost regardless of what I'm experimenting with or on, actually). Gimmie a few hundred images of a couple of dozen square light years in a few bands of infra red and set me looking for or writing something to look for YSOs in it, or anything like that, and I get pretty $%&#ing bored pretty $%&#ing fast.
You do have these occasional moments of "This planet wouldnt even be a pixel on this, and this image is older than our species. $%&#" but then you have to forget that to get some bloody work done :lol:
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just depends on what you're interested in, i guess. i got tired of the whole, "this didn't work the last 42 times we tried this, but i have a good feeling about this time" mentality of a lot of it. I'm not saying it's not effective, but someone else can do it. :lol:
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just depends on what you're interested in, i guess. i got tired of the whole, "this didn't work the last 42 times we tried this, but i have a good feeling about this time" mentality of a lot of it. I'm not saying it's not effective, but someone else can do it. :lol:
I can see that, yeah. I suppose the way I see it is you've just got to know when youre barking up the right tree I suppose and make intelligent adjustments to your methodology rather than beat a dead horse and just repeat endlessly - if your supporting theory is sound (as far as you know; youre pretty sure your experiment has the flaws) and youre looking for falsification or verification but you cant quite get the method of the experiment right or get everything you need to control under control, then its frustrating, but I dont find it onerous to muddle along with that - its a challenge I rather enjoy. Its also a HUGE part of any 'day job' experimental science - reality bites; you take your pristine little hypothesis and your platonic form of a test of it to an actual lab and start cobbling stuff together and a million and one things you never expected conspire to $%&# it all up. But I like it :lol:
Sifting through reams of data to find something I'm not even sure is there to be found on the other hand is a pain I can do without.
Wait
I do that most days at work :lol: (I rarely get the opportunity to do much hands-on real empirical stuff - most of my work, alas, is physics-guided statistics and $%&#ing modelling...well being "technical lead" for a team of modellers who are all too often in need of education that their pretty game of 1s and 0s ISNT REALITY....anyway, I digress....deep breaths....and relax
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...I'm not saying it's not effective, but someone else can do it. :lol:
Yup... Right answer!
I like girls and beer...
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i think the flaw in the experiment was me... :lol: