RANDOM RANTS XLVI: Slightly More Than a Month-ly Edition #1

[Dachs]

What should it look like?

Congratulations, you induced me to pull out Paint.NET. I hope you're happy; I haven't done this since we discussed Russian war aims in the First World War a month or so ago.

Key:
Vandal core territory controlled in aftermath of 439 sack of Carthago
Vandal territories seized during the late 450s and 460s
Vandal territories seized during the late 450s and 460s and subsequently lost to the Goths in the 490s
Vandal territories controlled from the 439 sack of Carthago up to some point in the 500s and 510s due to defeat at the hands of the Mauri
Who the hell even knows
Definitely not Vandal territories

Here are more accurate maps:

Happy?

As you probably know, those are worse.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.4598

God damn it, astronomy! You really need to stop being a conveyer belt of bad news! You've been a god damn conveyer belt of god damn bad news ever since you demoted Pluto! Bastards.

And I WAS in a good mood until I saw that link.

 

[Borachio]

Recent observations from NASA's Kepler mission detected the first planets in circumbinary orbits. The question we try to answer is where these planets formed in the circumbinary disk and how far inside they migrated to reach their present location. We investigate the first and more delicate phase of planet formation when planetesimals accumulate to form planetary embryos. We use the hydrodynamical code FARGO to study the evolution of the disk and of a test population of planetesimals embedded in it. With this hybrid hydrodynamical--N--body code we can properly account for the gas drag force on the planetesimals and for the gravitational force of the disk on them. The numerical simulations show that the gravity of the eccentric disk on the planetesimal swarm excites their eccentricities to values much larger than those induced by the binary perturbations only within 10 AU from the stars. Moreover, the disk gravity prevents a full alignment of the planetesimal pericenters. Both these effects lead to large impact velocities, beyond the critical value for erosion. Planetesimals accumulation in circumbinary disks appears to be prevented close to the stellar pair by the gravitational perturbations of the circumbinary disk. The observed planets possibly formed in the outer regions of the disk and then migrated inside by tidal interaction with the disk.

I'm always mystified/astounded by what you find to rant at, PlutonianEmpire.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

I found that link in this off-site thread: http://solar-flux.forumandco.com/t1079-circumbinary-planet-formation

It's a bunch of other posts as well indicating difficulties for circumbinary formation.

For the record, circumbinaries are my life's passion. I long for a circumbinary Earth analog.

In fact, a naked-eye star right in our own neighborhood seems to be a nearly-perfect candidate for a circumbinary Earth analog. I look at the star every so often with my telescope.

 

[Borachio]

Yes. I get that you're passionate about astronomy.

And that's a very good thing indeed, imo.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

You have no idea what I'm talking about, do you?

 

[Borachio]

Yes. A circumbinary planet orbits two suns instead of one.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I wish the motherboard manufacturers would standardize the beep codes to all the same ones. I'm trying to talk one of my friends (via email on her cell phone) through troubleshooting her non-booting computer and she doesn't know what type of motherboard she has so I cant look up the beep codes. If tey were all the same I wouldnt have this problem

 

[ace99]

As you probably know, those are worse.

A map where the Huns control Denmark and South Sweden is to be classified as awesome, not worse. Hunnish Vikings. Imagine....

 

[Phrossack]

A map where the Huns control Denmark and South Sweden is to be classified as awesome, not worse. Hunnish Vikings. Imagine....

With fleets to sail up rivers and hordes to rule the steppes, the Hunnish Vikings seemed unstoppable. They were finally defeated after dying of alcohol poisoning from their mead-kumiss mix.

 

[Takhisis]

Horse archers shooting double-headed battleaxes instead of arrows? I'm in.

 

[ace99]

Thank god bears weren't domesticated centuries later by the Russians. If the Hunnic Vikings had bear cavalry who knows what would have happened.

 

[SamSniped]

Fixing my rant from yesterday.

I love her so much, yet she only likes me as a friend

 

[ace99]

The furnace broke sometime last night so no heating and the landlord has been trying to repair it all day to no avail. The temperature inside has dropped to a bracing 55 or so degrees while outside it's a pleasant 30ish.

WHAT KIND OF SPRING BREAK IS THIS?

I've been forced to wear both pants + a hoodie. I NEVER WEAR PANTS IN THE HOUSE

WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME?

 

[azzaman333]

Fixing my rant from yesterday.

I love her so much, yet she only likes me as a friend

On the bright side, you at least know this instead of getting a completely non-commital answer either way.

The furnace broke sometime last night so no heating and the landlord has been trying to repair it all day to no avail. The temperature inside has dropped to a bracing 55 or so degrees while outside it's a pleasant 30ish.

WHAT KIND OF SPRING BREAK IS THIS?

I've been forced to wear both pants + a hoodie. I NEVER WEAR PANTS IN THE HOUSE

WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN

Spring breAk, more like spring broke amirite?

 

[classical_hero]

Fixing my rant from yesterday.

I love her so much, yet she only likes me as a friend

You don't love her, you are infatuated with her.

 

[ace99]

Spring breAk, more like spring broke amirite?

Tell me about it. And people are being no help. Like I tell my girlfriend when I try to get her to sell her eggs:

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I think I broke it.

Spoiler :

 

[NickyJ]

Oh man. Ooooooh, man. There's got to be a way to stop this. There has to be. Nobody can possibly let this go unchecked. WHERE IS THE RESISTANCE?

#34'd.

 

[Mathalamus]

I think I broke it.

Spoiler :

i hate those BSOD's. it doesn't help me solve the issue at all.

also, what application did you need to require an OS that old?