0
This is a totally awesome paper...

How Protostellar Outflows Help Massive Stars Form by Krumholz et al. published in Astrophys J. (2004)

I always thought this guy was really annoying but... fun paper. I like the way this guy writes -- not too pendantic. The exciting result: outflows the drive gas from a protostar actually increase rather than decrease the size of the final star....
Read More
VIEW 5 of 5 COMMENTS
bepps:
You remind me of myself 10 years ago. No ... longer, we wont divulge in exactly how long ago that was thoguh biggrin. When I think about myself back then I can't help but smile. Anyway, yea, for one reason (and)or another, I think of you and I smile. biggrin
giddyiguana:
Yes, most of the best writers tend to be kind of dicks in person.

Which means my writing career is doomed... wink
0
Science is slowly going... but at least it's going!

Yesterday, I began training in the NMR facility. I have 20 free hours with which I'll be measuring the relaxation time of 1H and 13C and 31P in my nanosamples to determine if I can do 2D exchange experiments on any of those nuclei to look at diffusion through my spheres!

Today, I'm moving over a...
Read More
VIEW 3 of 3 COMMENTS
bepps:
I thought that was a cool thought of you heating up your ramen with a 632nm laser. To heat up a cup of noodles at 632nm that would have to be a pretty beefy beam. It would be pretty impressive for sure. Probably make the noodles glow for some period of time after you shut the beam off. biggrin
turnsoffpain:
your lab sounds a lot like mine: half the shit is taped together with duct-tape and chicken wire. insect screening makes a great inexpensive light diffusor/neutral density filter.
0
Someone hung a spiderweb across the Chemistry breezeway!

ChemSpiderWeb
0
smile
0
Wasting time, reading Martial's epigrams in latin... it's just like shopping, you can forget your problems easily with it. This one seemed particularly interesting. I wonder what the context actually is?

Martial Eppigrams - 13
Casta suo gladium cum traderet Arria Paeto,
quem de uisceribus strinxerat ipsa suis,
'Si qua fides, uulnus quod feci non dolet,' inquit,
'sed tu quod facies, hoc mihi, Paete, dolet.'...
Read More
VIEW 4 of 4 COMMENTS
qvas:
Ah, Thanks... but honestly, it just means that I am a complete geek... who doesn't exactly fit in anywhere!
bepps:
I was just rambling by and noticed your profile. I would have to say that you fit in perfectly with my view of the perfect woman. love love love love love

biggrin
0
Two things I've discovered I totally love.

giddyiguana:
You're just using what you have to get what you want. Opportunistic? Absolutely. Bad? Not in the least. biggrin
digitaladdiction:
I was offered a job in Wyoming that paid a good bit more, and I turned it down.

It was a cool place to visit, but nowhere I'd like to live.

You know, taking advantage of guys like that sounds great until the tables are turned -- sorta like my karma ran over your dogma situation.

Be careful.
0
The countdown to the end of Star Trek is becoming so intense! The latest episode was called "In the mirror, darkly" and is a take on "Mirror, Mirror" (which, yes, I have the original Star Trek script - I am such a geek)!! T'Pol is looking totally hot with blonde hair in the alternate universe. I had that color of hair two weeks ago! We...
Read More
mycodename:
because star trek kind sucks..........please dont hurt me tongue
0
Sin City is an awesome movie... It's sooooo worth seeing!

I'm working up TPP data today! It appears that four years ago, I observed the glass transition, but only now have I had the opportunity and know-how to look at the data and verify that it was indeed Tg!! We also observed it going glacial (got all white and powdery) which was tooooo cool!!! smile This...
Read More
giddyiguana:
Yes, Sin City kicked ass. The opening scene alone was worth the price of admission.

As a political science major, I rarely get to deal with "hard data" like that aside from the occasional survey or poll...we deal more with the theoretical side of things. (Sometimes I find it hard to call it a real "science" at all since everything is so open to interpretation.)

Regardless, you research sounds terribly exciting, albeit a little foreign to me. Glad you're enjoying yourself! biggrin
0
Petschek's book has become quite interesting. I know I'll never talk to anyone ever again about the stars, but this book has started to completely absorb me. Chapter 5, Interaction of Supernovae with Circumstellar Matter -- by Roger Chevalier. Esentially this chapter reviews the circumstellar environment (including the progenitor stars) of supernovae. I'm amazed at how the cooling and compression (ie, hydrodynamics) of supernova goes....
Read More
VIEW 4 of 4 COMMENTS
maxwellxdemon:
Your metamorphosis sounds fascinating. I'm sure your hair is amazing to say the least. I don't see where you had the 10 pounds to loose as your body is breath taking already. These two guys must be out of there minds to allow you to slip between there fingers. Yours astronomy books sounds fascinating. Science has varied quite a lot since the 70's, hasn't it? Watching the windsurfers sounds relaxing, I'm sure you enjoyed your weekend. I pity those guys. Your too enchanting!!!!!! smile
qvas:
Sadly, I think our sun won't have the glory of going supernova. It isn't massive enough (or as an astorphysicist may say, it isn't luminous enough). Instead, it'll slowly burn off all of it's hydrogen until it starts to expand in a red giant halo. Fun, eh? My statistical mechanics professor gave us a horrifying account of this a couple years ago in our discussion of dark matter and white dwarfs, and such. Earth will be engulfed by a huge gaseous red, superhot boring ball... no explosion. Eventually, the sun will collapse in on itself and become a white dwarf sitting in the middle of a nebula. Such a bitter fate.
0
frown
VIEW 4 of 4 COMMENTS
mackenzie_k:
well forget him if he doesnt know a good thing when he has got it. you deserve better than an asshole like that
maxwellxdemon:
looking at your great pix once again I can't help but notice that you appear a bit putoff by something. Maybe it's being outside or the person taking the pixs. What would be the ideal sitsuation to capture your entire beauty? kiss