Aloha all
It was nice to see everyone this past weekend. Cowtown changes but it doesn't. I realize now though that I need to be gone for awhile though. I dunno if a year will be enough, it might have to be at least a couple.
Reddit.com is proving to be an excellent time waster while we are waiting for jobs to get processed at work. I read today that NASA may have inadvertantly nuked Jupiter when ending the Galileo probe mission of Europa (one of Jupiter's moons). Basically they didn't want to ditch the probe on Europa because it contains frozen oceans (thus potential life), so they ditched it on Jupiter...at 100,000mph. Guess what it was being powered by? Plutonium, lots of it. At that speed, and given the gravity on Jupiter, the probe reached a depth in the gaseous atmosphere at several thousand atomospheres (Earth is one atmosphere...duh) in mere seconds. If you don't know how a nuke works, it's basically imploding a fissionable material (plutonium, enriched uranium, etc..), usually via very carefully placed explosives around it. Pretty much the equivalent of the Jovian atmospheric depth the probe reached in terms of pressure. They noticed a black spot on Jupiter awhile back..hmmm...
This all being said nuclear energy is goood...probably better than oil in the long run. Clean, highly efficient and you can find ore with....seismic! Yeah...YEAH!
We're finally starting to learn how to actually process seismic data. It's actually pretty cool all the little problems that are inherent in the data, and how we go about solving them. Some of it is pretty ingenious, but I'm always asking about the little details. One thing I'm finding is that geophysics doesn't really care about uber accuracy, you'll hear "It's good enough" *quite* a bit. Despite it all being trigonometry, I haven't had to do any! What what!
Bah, the roommate situation is frustrating. The Mexican dude is getting better, slowly but surely. The Morroccan is getting worse. He now knows he annoys me and he keeps trying to provoke me. All day long he doesn't pay attention to what's going on, then turns and asks me what to do. Along with stupid comments about everything being "Bullshit", or "Oh yes!", I'm in a throttling mood. Thank god for the gym here.
So yeah, flight back sucked due to the huge Latino family aboard with about 20 kids who loved to run around the plane and what sounded like yelling in Spanish for 4 hours. But I'm here, drinkin a beer, cheers.
It was nice to see everyone this past weekend. Cowtown changes but it doesn't. I realize now though that I need to be gone for awhile though. I dunno if a year will be enough, it might have to be at least a couple.
Reddit.com is proving to be an excellent time waster while we are waiting for jobs to get processed at work. I read today that NASA may have inadvertantly nuked Jupiter when ending the Galileo probe mission of Europa (one of Jupiter's moons). Basically they didn't want to ditch the probe on Europa because it contains frozen oceans (thus potential life), so they ditched it on Jupiter...at 100,000mph. Guess what it was being powered by? Plutonium, lots of it. At that speed, and given the gravity on Jupiter, the probe reached a depth in the gaseous atmosphere at several thousand atomospheres (Earth is one atmosphere...duh) in mere seconds. If you don't know how a nuke works, it's basically imploding a fissionable material (plutonium, enriched uranium, etc..), usually via very carefully placed explosives around it. Pretty much the equivalent of the Jovian atmospheric depth the probe reached in terms of pressure. They noticed a black spot on Jupiter awhile back..hmmm...
This all being said nuclear energy is goood...probably better than oil in the long run. Clean, highly efficient and you can find ore with....seismic! Yeah...YEAH!
We're finally starting to learn how to actually process seismic data. It's actually pretty cool all the little problems that are inherent in the data, and how we go about solving them. Some of it is pretty ingenious, but I'm always asking about the little details. One thing I'm finding is that geophysics doesn't really care about uber accuracy, you'll hear "It's good enough" *quite* a bit. Despite it all being trigonometry, I haven't had to do any! What what!
Bah, the roommate situation is frustrating. The Mexican dude is getting better, slowly but surely. The Morroccan is getting worse. He now knows he annoys me and he keeps trying to provoke me. All day long he doesn't pay attention to what's going on, then turns and asks me what to do. Along with stupid comments about everything being "Bullshit", or "Oh yes!", I'm in a throttling mood. Thank god for the gym here.
So yeah, flight back sucked due to the huge Latino family aboard with about 20 kids who loved to run around the plane and what sounded like yelling in Spanish for 4 hours. But I'm here, drinkin a beer, cheers.
posted by Poshy at 6:10 PM
3 Comments:
Man sorry we didn't have a good time with you. I have a good night out at the Ranchmans. Maybe fRaNCe will have enough culture for your refined tastes.
Jerk Mike
You're a jerk.
But seriously, I've been in Calgary while everyone else was away at uni, I need to go get my travelling in.
haha. I am a jerk it's true. You know I'm just Joshing with ya....
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