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# I wiped my memory stick
with a 5 Tesla magnet yesterday.
Gay.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:04, archived)
# I thought magnetic field strength was measured in Gauss...
(I helped save b3ta! We are the lemon irked your craw on, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:06, archived)
# 1 tesla
equals 10000 gauss.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:08, archived)
# I see we still haven't plumbed your full geeky depths
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:09, archived)
# Jaques Cousteau
and a team of experts could not plumb my geeky depths.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:12, archived)
# yeah
but you wrote 10000, not 10^5.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:13, archived)
# of course.
because I meant 10k and not 100k.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:15, archived)
# *ahem*
yes.

10^4.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:16, archived)
# Google calculator to the rescue :)
(I helped save b3ta! We are the lemon irked your craw on, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:09, archived)
# He tells the truth.
admittedly it was only running at 1,000 G at the time, so at the distance I was at, it should only have been a few Gauss, but it's a new and shitty Swiss-made memory stick.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:14, archived)
# fucking hell
when are you from, 1956? or are you just a cosmologist?

/has to use gauss and doesn't like it blog :( gauss are a damned silly unit.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:12, archived)
# gauss
is the proper unit for proper scientists. There. I've said it.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:13, archived)
# ^ this
F*** physics and its SI system. c.g.u. all the way!
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:15, archived)
# Christ, what is this, the Flat Earth Society?
Luddism Today?

I still have to use Gauss and it annoys me. I also have great fun with codes where everything from temperature to time to distance to acceleration is measured in various powers of megaparsecs.

This also annoys me.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:17, archived)
# It makes my work a lot easier
to have a scale you can actually work with.

(N g^2 mu~B^2)/(3 k~B) = 0.125.

You don't get that kind of somplicity in SI...
You and your 4*pi*10^whatever...
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:20, archived)
# Yeah but my work is way harder
You try and sit there and figure out what Newton's constant is in fucking (Mpc)^-2.

Granted, this is nothing to do with Gaussian units but it's important anyway.... Plus I like that 4pi in Maxwell's equations. It makes angular integrations so much more pleasant.

This said, I haven't used units where time and space are different for about five years now. This is marvellous so long as I don't have to work with the real world.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:23, archived)
# That's not work.
That is avoiding actual work by fucking around with numbers.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:26, archived)
# You take that back!
I avoid numbers whenever possible. greek letters are where it's at. I haven't actually put numbers to anything for about 9 months now, and that's the way I like it.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:27, archived)
#
6CO2(g)+6H2O(g)
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:29, archived)
# Pah
Chemistry.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:30, archived)
# *rages*
If it wasn't for chemistry, there'd be no chicks in the sciences...
With the exception of medicine.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:33, archived)
# And biology
About 60% girls at my undergrad uni.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:35, archived)
# There's a surprising number in medical physics.
I'm not sure where they came from, because there were hardly any in physics at uni.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:36, archived)
# they are just trying
to snag a doctor and are only there because their naive dads make them go.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:37, archived)
# That's certainly why I'm in it.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:39, archived)
# you're the reason
the dads are naive ;)
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:42, archived)
# I like science
But I'm not called Boris - does that rule me out?
(The Insidious Dr Mayhem ...conquering all on Metaltech.me, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:36, archived)
# Hmm.
*rubs chin.

'Fraid so, Mr non-Boris.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:39, archived)
# Yes, but the real question is how many parsecs can you do the Kessle Run in?
(I helped save b3ta! We are the lemon irked your craw on, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:20, archived)
# 3.3
there's a shortcut just past the third black hole no-one knows about. it's a reference to how near you can get to the black holes, so you do it in the shortest distance.*



* Bollocks stolen from Wikipedia a while back. George Lucas is an idiot and thinks that parsecs measure time. It is possible that Han Solo works in units where c=1 but, frankly, I fucking doubt it, not least because it would make the Kessle Run about the size of the galaxy.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:25, archived)
# And this is why scientists shouldn't be allowed into the real world.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:26, archived)
# I'm not in the real world
I'm on the internet. The real world is scary.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:31, archived)
# \o/
*Awards Sexy Science Award*
(I helped save b3ta! We are the lemon irked your craw on, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:30, archived)
# Woo!
:)
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:32, archived)
# Let that be a lesson to you
Either never use a flash stick or never go down to the basement and mingle with those weird experimentalists.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:10, archived)
# Never a problem with my old one
just this new one I have.
I love my SQUID.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:13, archived)
# i yearn for the day
when i too can invite famous professors to my department and enjoy myself pulsing a 5T magnet at their pacemaker. and credit cards.

ahahahahahahahahahha.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:15, archived)
# "My pulsing 5T magnet"
Science phone box card, anyone?

New paper out last Friday, another out on tuesday and one more submitted last wekk.
Busy times...

*smugs*
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:18, archived)
# Oh god yes.
Bagsy Nikola Tesla.
(I helped save b3ta! We are the lemon irked your craw on, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:23, archived)
# yeah yeah yeah WOTEVA
i wrote a paper LONGHAND last weekend. all it needs are the results, which i've dumped on a phd student here. he'll do it shortly (it won't take all that long actually, just when he's built a code he has to build anyway) and then a nice easy paper which will offend everyone in the field because they take life too seriously. i'm well looking forward to this. this time I'M claiming first author, so i get to have the outraged emails in german.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:29, archived)
# Excellent work!
I'm part-way through writing a few. Very, very pissed off my old supervisor has been sitting on a paper that's finished for nearly a month now. I've even written the cover letter and he still hasn't submitted it.
Rrrrraaaagggghhhh!
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:31, archived)
# on the other hand
i've just looked at the list of papers i've got to write that's pinned to my wall. right now it lists 13 of the things -- one pretty much done except the actual results part of things. one half-done with most of the results but no actual writing. one that's been going for almost 5 years and is full of good but insanely slow code i can't optimise. and so forth.

it looks ace until i think that i want to get them all out. soon.

also there's one i should have delivered results on two months ago and the coding turned into a right bitch and i have to spend next week hammering that desparately or i get some pissed off south africans coming after me.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:34, archived)
# Do you know the ALPS project?
Monte Carlo simulations for magnetism. Except it only runs on f***ing linux and the b*****ds at the computing department won't install it on the cluster.
Any chance of writing a windows verion....?

*no, I guess...
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:38, archived)
# calm down.
you are making me feel guilty about not doing any BOINC projects recently.
(I helped save b3ta! Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:44, archived)
# ah, boinc
i was meant to write a code based on that a few years ago. it went ok and then my contract ran out. quite nice software, actually, in some ways.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:51, archived)
# actually no, never heard of it
sorry :( also, i'd be very tempted to write it in linux, i'm afraid. windows doesn't like makefiles very much. nor does it have decent c or f90 compilers.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 22:50, archived)
# I know... :(
It's hard for us non-geeks.*


*by 'geek', I mean comparatively within the sciences as opposed to the general populace.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Fri 6 Jun 2008, 23:02, archived)
# I actually still find it hard
to learn that I'm viewed as a relative non-geek in science. How the hell did that happen....?
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 23:17, archived)