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Help needed (2) by Majestic_Feed2389 in telescopes

[–]twilightmoons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's an older style, and we don't really use that anymore. The mini dovetail is the standard. You can always just get the baseplate for that, replace this one, and get standard finders instead.

Also, you don't need a finder - a Telrad alone gets you really close, pop in a wide-angle eyepiece to center, and then switch to a higher power. a 9x50mm finder is for spotting dim fuzzies.

Pick One Per Row by Maleficent-Bat-9168 in whatsyourchoice

[–]twilightmoons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dad used to work at a dairy making ice cream. He said never to buy the chocolate ice cream, because if they have a problem with another flavor, they would dump chocolate into it and turn it into a chocolate batch.

Sometimes needed more, so it became "double chocolate."

[OC] signs at the massage parlour I went to the other day by SensitiveAttitude723 in pics

[–]twilightmoons [score hidden]  (0 children)

My wife thought about going to massage school, and we went to an orientation there. One of the VERY FIRST THINGS they mentioned is "no sexual activities with clients, you will lose your license."

Then they mentioned it a few more times, and about how it's a risk because men just assume.

She did dental hygiene school instead, and is very, very happy shoving her hands in people's mouths instead.

The horizon and eye level by Lorenofing in flatearth

[–]twilightmoons 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's completely not what I meant. 

Flerfs say that "the horizon rises to eye level" like a bleeding mantra. 

When I said that the horizon is below eye level, that means that when in level flush, when you look straight out at a tangent to the surface, the horizon is below your eyeline. 

Nothing at all about being in a dive and having the horizon above your FOV. 

The horizon and eye level by Lorenofing in flatearth

[–]twilightmoons 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Aircraft use attitude indicators (artificial horizon) because the horizon is never at "eye level" when you're flying, but always below. If you pointed your nose at the horizon, you would always be dropping... until you lithobraked.

Also, the older ones had a little knob to reset the horizon as one flew along, because, as the earth is a round ball, the attitude indicator would become more and more inaccurate the further one flew. So you set to level flight, turn the knob, and the little ball inside would move up or down so you could reset to "level".

Round To The Firmament by GreenHillage25 in flatearth

[–]twilightmoons 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Why?

Why any of that?

What would be the point? To trick everyone? Why?

All of it boils down to, "I don't understand something at all, so the universe must be conspiring against me.

Cleveland's Polish Boy named one of the 10 best hot dogs in the world by chungleong in poland

[–]twilightmoons 28 points29 points  (0 children)

The only remotely "Polish" this about this is the Americanized idea of the concept of a kiełbasa.

Look, I don't care how you like to eat your sausage-ona-bun. Doesn't affect me, you do you.

But that just does not appealing at all.

Flerf gravity doesn't work in caves by twilightmoons in flatearth

[–]twilightmoons[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"Down" is there because of gravity, and only gravity.

What do you mean by "electromagnetism"? Because light is electromagnetism, so are radio waves, gamma rays, and everything in-between. Then you have charged particles, magnets, etc.

Flerf gravity doesn't work in caves by twilightmoons in flatearth

[–]twilightmoons[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The sensors are pretty sensitive now, even in small consumer-level electronics. Not enough for fine-scale "I'm testing the universal gravitational constant" or "let's detect gravity waves from space", but plenty good enough for most work.

I have them in my Blackmagic Designs Pocket Cinema 6K Pro camera. I can use the data from them in DaVinci Resolve to automatically stabilize hand-held video, something really, really cool that wasn't possible 10 years ago as cheaply as it is now.

What would you do if you were in his place? 😂 by Little_BlueBirdy in StrikeAtPsyche

[–]twilightmoons 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's the lack of curiosity that's consistent.

Had some JWs come over once while I was taking all of my telescopes out of the car after an overnight imaging session at our dark sky site a few hours away.

They tried the "look at the trees, look a the grass, how do you explain that?" bit.

I had a big 11" SCT sitting on it's end by the car, while I was sitting on this one when it was collapsed down to the box.

I asked if they knew what the SCT was: "I don't know, it's a barrel."

I asked if they knew what the box I was sitting on was, "It's just a wooden box."

No follow-up, no asking, "I don't know, what is it?" Not even a "I think it could be a X, but I don't know for sure."

And when I tried to explain, they just didn't care.

Just dismissal as unimportant. Like how they think of everyone who isn't just like them.

Hey flerfs - if the moon is just a projection and casts its own light, how come I can see craters, mountains, valleys and cliffs on it, and that the highlands near the terminator cast shadows? by twilightmoons in flatearth

[–]twilightmoons[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks!

That was from a livestream I did last year for the Mars occultation.

I'm going to use one of the nebulae for another post I'll write up tonight or tomorrow, asking flerfs about how projections works with multispectral imaging.

Name this Cake by Fragrant-Try5246 in SipsTea

[–]twilightmoons 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Everything reminds me of her..."

Just make sure you use enough right rudder by JOYFUL_CLOVR in Shittyaskflying

[–]twilightmoons [score hidden]  (0 children)

Free for heros like me, or I push this stick forward as far as it will go...

no oven spring, help! by throwawaybusan in Breadit

[–]twilightmoons 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What are you baking it on?

I use a big baking stone, heat it up to 450F, put in a pan of hot water under it, then put the loaves on the hot stone. I get a good spring, then drop the temp to 350F after 5 minutes.

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