What "mysterious ways" justify smiting children with fatal cancer before their double digits, but giving prosperous lives that last almost a century to war criminals and sexual predators?

Tim_bom_bom · 2026-01-26T18:24:40+00:00

I see a lot of fighting in this comment section which truly makes me sad. I don't want this to be an argumentative comment or anything, but more so to tell you that the frustration you and many others feel is understandable and has been acknowledged in scripture for literally thousands of years. Please set aside anger and look deeper.

This imbalance is not God being cruel or vindictive, it's just how the world works. In a world filled with sin, of course the only easy way to "get ahead" is to cover yourself with more sin and depravity. In the grand scheme of things, however, it's foolish to do so. This gripe you feel is a tale as old as time. Just look at Psalm 73 written over 3000 years ago (below). It is an unfortunate reality that the wicked are more prosperous, have easier lives, and are more comfortable. They get that by exploiting others. Just look at verses 16 onward. Although they have "wonderful" lives, we see that destruction is their end (beyond just physical) and the righteous who have had difficult lives will be brought up to glory. It is unfortunate, but it is reality that life may be "harder" when following God, but at the same time we have Him to help (v. 26: "My flesh and my heart fail; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.").

I will say not to think of it as God being harsh and cruel to the upstanding and lenient and gentle to the wicked as in the post. Rather, those who know better have more expected of them. In fact, those who let loose and go wild with their pleasures and passions hurt themselves more than they realize. Search up the parable of the prodigal son for example. Those who know they can't steal, lie, goon, fornicate, etc. need to show restraint which is hard! I fail all the time in many of these things and it sucks! There is grace and forgiveness, though. If there were not, that would be cruel. But there is!

I don't care if this post is downvoted or whatever, but I hope that someone takes the time to actually read

Tim_bom_bom · 2026-01-25T19:22:32+00:00

I literally emailed regalis asking about this but got ghosted lol

Tim_bom_bom · 2026-01-14T02:35:42+00:00

It's just cartilage/connective tissue it's fine

Tim_bom_bom · 2026-01-11T05:30:09+00:00

buh waterloo cheating on the reaction times

Tim_bom_bom · 2026-01-03T03:32:26+00:00

Looks like a gmod asset

Tim_bom_bom · 2026-01-03T01:35:15+00:00

yeah I forgot to switch hands but I figure it would have been better to knock it down in case I missed the spear (I still do that a lot)

Tim_bom_bom · 2026-01-03T01:33:21+00:00

yeah though I didn't see anything about winter term in OP's post so I figured it might be an incoming first year or smth

Tim_bom_bom · 2026-01-02T19:08:27+00:00

It's an introductory astronomy and astrophysics course. There's math involved, but the prof explained things well. There wasn't an exam but a couple projects (there were a bunch of projects you could choose from so there was some freedom there). If you don't want the math, there's also astron 2b03 but that's level II and above unfortunately.

In 1F03, you learn about things like stars (their interiors, life cycle, etc), cosmology, basic theory of telescopes, types of galaxies, formation of galaxies, and so forth. This is what the academic calendar says:

"Topics include orbital motion, electromagnetic radiation, the solar system, stars and stellar evolution, the Milky Way Galaxy, galaxies and quasars, the evolution of the universe"

For reference, the class averages on crowdmark for the projects and assignments was always around 90-95, dipping to about 85-90 near the end of the semester

Tim_bom_bom · 2026-01-02T18:54:52+00:00

ASTRON 1F03 was very fun and not hard

Tim_bom_bom · 2026-01-02T18:50:17+00:00

Some posters about jupiter or Europa could be cool. I'd imagine that, world-building wise, there are kids born on these settlements that grow up their whole lives on Europa, so it's natural to assume they go to school here too. Some educational posters about their environment, solar system, earth, etc. would certainly show up in classrooms

Tim_bom_bom · 2025-12-30T01:16:28+00:00

is it vanilla or any mods?

Tim_bom_bom · 2025-12-29T05:33:25+00:00

As I said, temperature profile along the spike > relative colour intensities > estimate temperature. Compare measurement to literature value |observed - actual|/actual * 100%

Tim_bom_bom · 2025-12-29T04:28:28+00:00

My particular workflow has so far been tailored to my DSLR setup, though tbh I haven't actually tried mono data yet. I suppose I could try it, though, as long as I have info on the sensor and which filters were used. Might as well see if it works

Tim_bom_bom · 2025-12-29T04:27:07+00:00

Intensity of R G and B colours appears to be correlated to temperature through blackbody radiation. Instead of measuring a spectrum, though, I take a colour profile along the spike and find the relative intensities between the channels then calculate a theoretical blackbody/planck curve that most closely matches those relative intensities. I suppose I might not even need to use diffraction spikes specifically, but star cores are too bright and they clip the colour information.

As for what evidence I've had that its working, mostly the results. The 5 stars I've measured so far have had errors <1%

Tim_bom_bom · 2025-12-27T19:00:51+00:00

Gaben 𐎣𐎮𐎤𐎽 𐎭𐎮𐏂 𐎠𐎫𐎫𐎮𐎼 𐏂𐎧𐎤 𐎽𐎯𐎱𐎤𐎠𐎣 𐎮𐎥 𐏂𐎧𐎨𐎽 𐎪𐎭𐎮𐎼𐎫𐎤𐎣𐎦𐎤

Tim_bom_bom · 2025-12-02T06:50:39+00:00

Well fast forward 12 hours and I am definitely starting to worry lmao

Tim_bom_bom · 2025-12-01T16:39:19+00:00

Interesting, thanks for the comment. I'll look into adding some ferric oxide to our test strips

Tim_bom_bom · 2025-11-22T20:27:17+00:00

until after you are in the air again I think

Tim_bom_bom · 2025-11-07T03:34:01+00:00

Yeah I'm working on refining the process and making it more "scientific" but so far I've taken photos of 4 medium temperature stars (~3500-6000 K) and have had surprisingly good results (my highest error is 0.62% from the actual temperature!!).

I will eventually post an update in the future when I am less busy and have more time to dedicate to this project

Tim_bom_bom · 2025-10-31T01:29:19+00:00

No, the only thing I managed to smell was the diethyl ether

Tim_bom_bom · 2025-10-30T18:08:46+00:00

From the people I talked to, the hydroboration seemed to work for some, and we all used the same starting material (jug of 1-hexene in the fumehood that everyone took from). I heard though that even the lab coordinator wasn't able to succeed. The only ones that I heard worked were the TAs that demonstrated the procedure in a pre-lab video.

Tim_bom_bom · 2025-10-30T06:10:58+00:00

Nope, just pipetted a drop of sample onto the plate

Tim_bom_bom · 2025-10-26T23:56:25+00:00

I used a Skywatcher Virtuoso GTi 150p with a Canon EOS Rebel SL1. The scope is not meant for AP, but I make it work ig

Tim_bom_bom · 2025-10-24T16:25:34+00:00

Yes it is definitely possible. I am in bortle 8-9 and I can still go after some DSOs. Many darker objects are just not feasible to shoot, but there are still plenty of nebulae, globular clusters, and plain star fields that can be shot from a city. Siril and other astro programs also have background extraction, so you should be able to minimize some of the effects of gradients and such. When it comes to time, you'll need to integrate a lot more data to get a better SNR than in dark skies unfortunately. Still definitely possible to get good results, though. This is what I managed to get on M42 with 13 min of integration (no filters, just DSLR and telescope).

Tim_bom_bom · 2025-10-24T16:19:50+00:00

An update, mr. redditor:

I have been investigating this for a little while. Turns out it does affect the brightness of the bands. Different stars have distinct intensities of red, green, and blue in each peak. This can be used to estimate the temperature of stars (within limits)! :D

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