Paul Leyland

@Brnikat

General purpose scientist, amateur astronomer. Aspie interested in almost anything technical. Ortho/meta/para - pick one. Gender: animate. Pronouns: this/that

Cambridge UK and La Palma
Joined December 2012
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    Jul 15

    Just wanna see something: Like and RT this tweet if you have ever been told, taught or heard that depression is caused by a chemical or hormonal imbalance in the brain.

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    So many galaxy brain takes come from the fact the word 'colony' can describe an outpost on Mars, or a European country forcibly annexing an African one, despite the two situations having basically nothing in common. Shallow word association presented as penetrating insight.

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    Jul 15

    This Babylonian student got bored and drew a doodle on his school exercise tablet ~4,000 years ago in Iraq

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    Jul 13

    . will need buildings for data-processing equipment & staff offices at the telescope site in Aus. The buildings must be RFI shielded to protect the radio quiet of the telescopes. Interested in this contract? Respond to the market survey by 10 Aug:

    Radio telescope antennas, buildings and cabling in the desert
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    Jul 13
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    Also, just for me, if you use "alternate means" (e.g., a twitter or facebook message), don't be surprised if it take a while to get back to you, if I ever do. And searching for old messages on those platforms (or with text messages) can REALLY suck.

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    Jul 12

    Douglas Adams nailed this long before I realized the truth of the world.

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    Jul 13

    bonkers yet impressive

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    🤬فقط في مصر 🤬
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    Jul 12

    Kids…please…

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  9. Jul 13

    Me too.

    Replying to @nyactor
    Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.
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    Jul 12
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    Peaceful overthrows of communist tyrannies did take place. Worked pretty well for the most of the former Eastern Bloc.

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    Jul 12
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    The wonderful world of academic publishing, where the authors don't get paid, the referees don't get paid, most editors don't get paid, our tax dollars fund the research, everyone has to pay to read it, and the publisher makes absurd profit margins

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  12. Jul 12

    Wound healing nicely, though one stitch has come adrift. Easily fixed with antiseptic gel and a sticking plaster.

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  13. Jul 12

    He has been living in our bathroom ever since. Basic hotel facilities: bed, food, water & litter tray. Bored silly but polite and affectionate. He's like UK incomers from red zone countries in that respect, but he may regard the food provided as rather better than do the humans.

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  14. Jul 12

    Cake update. (Cake is an orange tomcat from the farm next door who likes being around us.) Last Friday he turned up with an infected wound from his calf to his groin. Took him to the vet who removed one infected testicle and one presumably OK, then stitched him up.

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  15. Jul 12

    Very noticeable "fingers of God" in that plot. As you note, a limited data set went into it, so it is not too surprising to see that structure appearing.

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    Jul 11

    “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love” -Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

    But the truth is, these are two for-profit companies. These guys aren't trying to "make space accessible to everyone" they just want your money. Let's be clear. I think the entire narrative of this goodwill in space is bs because how much goodwill has come from them on Earth?
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    Jul 11

    It would be great if the media could even occasionally hype the names of the engineers who design and make all these spacecraft instead of the endless faces of the money dudes who happened to buy their companies.

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    Jul 10

    OK hear me out we do this at CERN with red, green, and blue lanyards, but you're only allowed to get together in groups of 3 with one of each colour

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    Jul 9

    Fellas, if she - charts her own course - is always is there to support you...even when things are on rough seas - is the youngest of 3, but by far the most mature She's not your girl, she's A Shortfall of Gravitas

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    Jul 9

    “Following the science” is very easy when it tells you what you want to hear. Almost any idiot can do that. The hard part is when the science goes against ones’ core pillars of existence. That’s a situation that is much more difficult for most people to handle.

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