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[Latro]

Warning Ann Coulter article.

 

[MrMeaner]

Warning Ann Coulter article.

Very good point. I should have put that in there.

 

[BILC]

What the **** did I just read.

 

[Loonerty]

Exams are over!

Now to spend the next month on my thesis! Yaaaaaay...

 

[SM]

Exams are over!

Now to spend the next month on my thesis! Yaaaaaay...

Congrats man! And good luck with your thesis. I have a lot of admiration for those who attempt them, I just don't have the focus/interest in a topic enough to tackle something like that.

 

[Loonerty]

Congrats man! And good luck with your thesis. I have a lot of admiration for those who attempt them, I just don't have the focus/interest in a topic enough to tackle something like that.

Cheers, I'm half unsure now if I really want to be doing it, but 6 months in is a bit late to back out.

Maybe spending the break on it will get me a bit more motivated for it.

 

[SM]

Cheers, I'm half unsure now if I really want to be doing it, but 6 months in is a bit late to back out.

Maybe spending the break on it will get me a bit more motivated for it.

What's it on?

 

[Loonerty]

What's it on?

I'm making velocity maps of the Sombrero galaxy using data my supervisor took at a telescope in Chile.

It's actually really interesting but the process itself so far is riddled with errors.

 

[SM]

I'm making velocity maps of the Sombrero galaxy using data my supervisor took at a telescope in Chile.

It's actually really interesting but the process itself so far is riddled with errors.

That is awesome! So what do velocity maps measure - apart from the presumably obvious rate of expansion of the galaxy? - do they look at individual systems and that sort of thing?

 

[Loonerty]

That is awesome! So what do velocity maps measure - apart from the presumably obvious rate of expansion of the galaxy? - do they look at individual systems and that sort of thing?

The ones I'll be doing will pretty much just be looking at the rotation of the galaxy. They're like contour maps I suppose, but measured with a colour gradient (red=moving away, blue=moving towards). The reason we're looking at this galaxy in particular is that it's easy to measure its rotation because from Earth we view it edge-on, and it's got a pretty strange structure. Getting the map you can compare with simulations and try and figure out how the galaxy was formed.

 

[glenferry23]

I'm making velocity maps of the Sombrero galaxy using data my supervisor took at a telescope in Chile.

That sounds like a $200m Michael Bay film.

 

[SM]

The ones I'll be doing will pretty much just be looking at the rotation of the galaxy. They're like contour maps I suppose, but measured with a colour gradient (red=moving away, blue=moving towards). The reason we're looking at this galaxy in particular is that it's easy to measure its rotation because from Earth we view it edge-on, and it's got a pretty strange structure. Getting the map you can compare with simulations and try and figure out how the galaxy was formed.

Hm, what does it resemble?

 

[Loonerty]

Hm, what does it resemble?

You tell me!

 

[BILC]

The ones I'll be doing will pretty much just be looking at the rotation of the galaxy. They're like contour maps I suppose, but measured with a colour gradient (red=moving away, blue=moving towards). The reason we're looking at this galaxy in particular is that it's easy to measure its rotation because from Earth we view it edge-on, and it's got a pretty strange structure. Getting the map you can compare with simulations and try and figure out how the galaxy was formed.

Like a 2-3-5?

 

[SM]

You tell me!

That is an awesome pic.

 

[SM]

Like a 2-3-5?

#19thCenturyFootball

 

[Cooldude]

Some ridiculous arguments against football here:

http://www.clarionledger.com/story/...est-soccer-sign-nations-moral-decay/11372137/

I particularly liked (ie thought was completely batty) this:



Completely vacuous attempt to combine conservative tropes with a disregard for football.

Ann Coutler talking about moral decay, irooony

 

[Flameboy]

2nd tier player Dirty Bird

 

[Dirty Bird]

#3Forward

 

[jod23]

That sounds like a $200m Michael Bay disaster.

EFA.

 

[Cruyff14]

Gotta love some Phil Collins, eh moomba

 

[glenferry23]

Where is moomba? He's vanished it seems.

 

[Cruyff14]

He sent me a message a while back saying he was taking a break.

 

[strauchanie59]

So this just happened. Was 2-0 down after the first leg, came back to win 6-1, 6-3 on aggregate!! Probably the best win I've had on any FM game, considering Bayern won the last 2 Champions League titles. But 4 goals after the 81st minute is incredible!! Now have to face Real Madrid

 

[Cruyff14]

You should go to Spain and play with two DMs and look to suffocate the game, Madrid are beatable.