Thanks for posting this! I hadn’t seen the simulated image yet, but this isn’t technically my field. I do EM, just different things.

Aww, thanks.

I suspect you were one of those that were annoyed that they just kept restating the Euclid problem in the Hidden Figures movie, rather than giving us an actual whiteboard talk. Three of my lady engineer friends and I went for our feminist movie night, and we were all trying to check out the chalkboards for accuracy.

Happy to help.

OOooo, a science question *grins*

So, here’s the deal. The big deal with this telescope is not about magnification, it is about wavelength. Do you remember the Hubble deep field image? At the very edge of our range there, we could see little fuzzy globs of very, very early galaxies. However, the reason they were…

Shhh....nobody tell them. It’s my working theory they like the idea of something that big and covered in gold shot into space on their watch.

IANAL, but it seems like anti-trust cases in the US are a thing of the past. When was the last big one that actually affected a tech company? The Microsoft IE one?

Europe, of course, is another story; Germany in particular seems like they would look on this skeptically. If they do a US-only rollout first, however,…

In small doses, kids are generally ok. I know many people think that babies smell good, but not to me. They’re also often intent on self harm, and I just do not have time for that. Puppies, on the other hand, are adorable.

Ha. My mother-in-law popped my nephew in my arms while I was on the floor with her dog in my arms. Like, no. I said I did not want to hold the kid, he’s fine over there, and I am not suddenly going to change my mind towards having kids by having a relative thrown in my arms. Also, the kid liked to push his head…

I am desperately trying to finish a phd in this mess. So...I’ve gained about 30 pounds. Which, for me, is insane.

This. This was my understanding as well. I....we really are heading towards a new period of horrendous awful, aren’t we?

In that town, I think stakes and fire might have been involved. Or perhaps checking to see if I weigh as much as a duck....

True story, I did some work for one of those once. They hired me to come down and fix their startup Christian radio station, and I needed the money at the time. She was shocked (Shocked!) that I had Harry Potter in my bag. Was I not aware that there were real SPELLS inside? Ignoring the fact that she was going…

So I updated an hour or two ago at work, and Pokemon Go keeps. Crashing. Well done guys.

You’re not wrong. I recognize as a martial artist, I’m a rough critic of fight scenes, but this was pretty bad.

Gods yes. I’m not sure my liver will make it through this presidency though...

You were fine, Ivyhall was a dick.

*hugs*

Look, I get that you think you’re helping, but you’re not. When you say things like that, you are actively hurting the person you seem to think you’re helping. Stop.

I’ve been saying all week Franken needs to run for President next time around. I love Tammy Duckworth, and I would support her if she ran, but Franken could wipe the floor with Trump.