The New Taleworlds Academic Journal

[crodio]

could it be posible to make the ring have an elliptic trajectory that wouldnt be perturbated by mercury?

 

[Feragorn]

Probably, but I just put it further out and called it a day.

 

[Moose!]

So apparently a paper that I was a co-author on before I left academia just got accepted into Health Communication, which bumps me up to 4 publications total. Neat, but now I'm kinda sad since it may very well be my last academic paper ever. 

 

[Úlfheðinn]

One more publication and you'd get your doctorate in Sweden (or at least that's what it was like twenty years ago).

 

[Austupaio]

I know this is more for the academics here on TW in general, but I wasn't sure where else to post it.

Either way, here's some really good science.

https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/5y7p46/conservatives_are_more_reluctant_to_give_and/

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1948550617691096

http://www.psypost.org/2017/03/no-apology-tour-conservatives-study-shows-liberals-likely-say-im-sorry-48097

 

[mdk31]

Probably, but I just put it further out and called it a day.

For optimal solar energy collection you would want it as close as possible, with as much surface area as possible. Would need to balance that with the stability issues presented in the video and so on.

Might even be worth putting it within Mercurial orbit instead of outside it. After all, with a radius of 0.5 Mercurial orbit, you'd get 4 times the energy per are unit than on top of Mercurial orbit, and nine times as much as if it's half again as far out (taking into account the inverse square law).

 

[Úlfheðinn]

Either way, here's some really good science.

Kind of hard to judge without seeing the methods section. 

 

[Feragorn]

Probably, but I just put it further out and called it a day.

For optimal solar energy collection you would want it as close as possible, with as much surface area as possible. Would need to balance that with the stability issues presented in the video and so on.

Might even be worth putting it within Mercurial orbit instead of outside it. After all, with a radius of 0.5 Mercurial orbit, you'd get 4 times the energy per are unit than on top of Mercurial orbit, and nine times as much as if it's half again as far out (taking into account the inverse square law).

It wasn't *really* a feasibility study. I doubt you get good operational lifetimes on sun-centric satellites that close. The project was to investigate the astrodynamics of some reasonably interesting n-body system.

Either way, here's some really good science.

Kind of hard to judge without seeing the methods section. 

Yeah, I couldn't find a preprint through my library.

 

[Austupaio]

Heh, I know, but that was sort of my point - outlets running away with the headline with nothing to back it up. Apparently, this was at least one part of the study, though, and I think it shows a pretty flawed view from the outset.

In a follow-up experiment, the researchers had 38 Indian individuals and 27 Americans imagine they had committed a transgression against a neighbor by not watering the neighbor’s plants as frequently as promised. The participants were asked to write down what they would say to the neighbor. The researchers found that more conservative individuals were less apologetic in their open-ended responses.

 

[Feragorn]

It's certainly an interesting finding. I'd just like to read the whole thing.

 

[Úlfheðinn]

Yeah, I mean my problem is it's impossible to figure out if they had a good enough sample without seeing what they actually did and what numbers they had.

Browsing the Reddit/interview it looks like they had 2,000 for the first study and then 65 for the experiment (65 for an experiment at first glance sounds pretty bad, but depending on various things like effect size, power, degrees of freedom, and what method they used it might have worked out).

The whole problem of news outlets just taking a title and abstract and running with it is also well known (one of the hardest aspects of research is how to explain your findings to laypeople without said people misinterpreting or exaggerating your findings).

 

[Catholic]

Presently working on a project to build a DNA synthesizer and launch it into space. Progress looks good so far.

 

[Feragorn]

What's the radiation shielding situation? I know every so often cosmic rays will cause electronics issues and computer resets on-station. I'd assume that straight DNA is at more risk of radiation damage, unless that's also part of the experiment.

 

[Catholic]

We don't know yet, actually. It's both part of the experiment and something we need to research more before we begin. Pyrimidine dimers are known to occur due to radiation, and considering our entire experiment is addition onto a pre-prepared strand, we could get massive problems if the polymerase has trouble adding basepairs to heavily dimerized DNA.

 

[Feragorn]

Hm. That'll be interesting to see.

What's your connection to space-time research? Does Yale regularly send experiments up?

 

[Catholic]

Entirely coincidental. There is a space group at Stanford that really has its **** together and does some impressive work with rocketry and balloons projects, and I signed on as their operational officer. Eventually there were some members who were interested in bioengineering, and eventually the two were wedded into a biological research division of the space group.

 

[Feragorn]

Neato.

(Sidenote, did I accidentally remember you going to Yale when you actually go to Stanford?)

 

[pentagathus]

Ayyy I finally sent a draft of my thesis to my supervisor about an hour ago, still got a lot of referencing to do and I need to fancy it up a bit and I expect my supervisor will have plenty of feedback but it feels damn good to be so close to finished with this ****-show. Only downside is that I drank coffee so I could stay up late to finish this **** but now I want to sleep and I can't.

 

[Cpt. Nemo]

Congrats! 

Only downside is that I drank coffee so I could stay up late to finish this **** but now I want to sleep and I can't.

I recommend furious, celebratory wanking to solve that problem.

 

[pentagathus]

Would do but my flatmate is also still awake and our bedroom walls are very thin. The guy is just a permanent ****ing nuisance to be honest.