#soylent | Logs for 2026-05-03
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[06:42:17] <chromas> To avoid north on top, south on the bottom, give the labels random rotation so that there is no top on the map
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[06:50:58] <halibut> Ingar: Great moon picture. Thanks for sharing.
[06:55:10] <halibut> AlwaysNever: I think even Hubble, with a 2.4m mirror, can only resolve objects down to ~100m at the distance of the moon, so seeing things left there from Earth is a bit of a stretch.
[07:00:09] <chromas> Stretching it to 1000m
[07:04:31] <halibut> If I built a telescope, the focal knob would go to 11. Most people, they have the focal knob at 10, and then they want to see something small just a little more clearly, but where can they go from there? Nowhere.
[07:04:39] <halibut> Now, if they had my telescope, they could go one more, to 11.
[07:04:54] <halibut> I would also sell a more expensive version where the focal knob went to 12. That's 1 clearer.
[07:05:48] <chromas> Mine goes to 12.5
[07:06:00] <chromas> The half is useful for fractional reserve Plancking
[07:08:27] <halibut> 12.5, that's really clear. I wish my telescopes went that clear.
[07:09:31] <chromas> If you twist it really hard, you can get it to focus to ∞
[07:10:16] <halibut> Woah.
[07:10:45] <halibut> That must be what the astronauts did when they went up to correct Hubble shortly after it launched.
[07:11:56] <chromas> Yeah, what's even stopping it from continuing to turn? Some cheap physical barrier. Twist hard be free!
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