Dr. Nicholas Heavens

🇬🇧/🇺🇸 terrestrial planet system scientist now in insurance. Views my own, not my employer’s. Fellow @geolsoc, @RoyalAstroSoc, @RMetS, @burgonsoc.

[Dr. Nicholas Heavens @WeatherOnMars]

Diane smiled tautly. “You’re suggesting we have to save the world so science can proceed?”
“Yes, if you want to put it that way. If you’re lacking a better reason to do it.”--Kim Stanley Robinson, Forty Signs of Rain

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@DrFrancisYoung Ah, as predicted by Fillippo de Strata.

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@derwahlheimer @Energheea @DrRobinWard True. He’d probably have more facility with Books I and II of Principia than I would.

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@Energheea @DrRobinWard Book III uses calculus but of an archaic notation. Most of the other mathematical texts would be hard for a university maths student of today to understand because of advances in the formalism of calculus in the 19th century.

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@Energheea @DrRobinWard Classical high school students would read some of these texts in translation and bits and pieces in the original tongues. Newman would have read them all in the original. The maths of the Principia is largely geometric in Books I and II but beyond high school geometry.

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@paultrowntree Yes, SE was claiming last year they were going to retrofit them, but I haven’t seen any signs that is going forward.

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@paultrowntree @surplustakes I thought the new Waterloo suburban stock had toilets, e.g., the Arterios.

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@DrFrancisYoung My place is very low church, but we do celebrate the re-dedication/patronal feast (happily synchronised).

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@surplustakes This genre already was established in literature before it made it to television. C.J. Cherryh won her first Hugo in 1981 with Downbelow Station that explores many of the themes that would recur in Babylon 5 and DS9. And several of the other Alliance-Union novels would, too.

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@andrewpconnell Brilliant comparison!

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@legalstyleblog Custos novus rotulorum Cancellariae Angliae vivat!

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@richardmarcj @WalkerMarcus Though if Ede were an American my age, he would have been correct.

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@RalstonCollege What is the reason for everyone wearing Groves m1 shape gowns? Academical dress is a language and an m shape gown indicates a high level of academic attainment.

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@ferrismattic In other words, to be floppy or lack strength on one side, which is a good way of describing many physical conditions.

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@Shiv_who_burns @DrFrancisYoung Mammal-like reptile was pretty standard in the literature for decades.

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@jozefandrewk His LinkedIn says 1993-2013.

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@amarkowitzWX The one all-nighter I pulled in college involved implementing a radiative-convective model in Excel. It seems like another world.

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@andrewpconnell Yes, yes it is. Amazingly, the older Irish word is an apotropaic nickname ( mathúin) “the good calf.”

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@StephenCM98 @WalkerMarcus @FrGeorgeReeves These are the 2021 results.

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@mrdavidrowe Oddly enough, there’s a GIF for this:

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Outer Banks + beta drift strictly speaking, but it’s a good Bay, Brent.

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Here’s why: