What's everyone up to right now?

[Edwardo Piet]

I tried looking you up on Skype but didn't find you...

I have his Skype I can send you his Skype contact details since he already wants your Skype.

[Longhorn]

Overslept. Feels good c:

[Silver]

When I oversleep I feel as bad as when I do not get enough sleep.

[Edwardo Piet]

For me it depends if I underslept the previous night or not... but then if I did the "oversleeping" isn't really "oversleeping" is it? It's "catching up"

[vorlon13]

LOL, arranged furniture and some equipment cords (finally) so I can turn the Roomba loose in the living room.

It's busy doing it's thing, and I'm posting, cleaning out some shows on the DVR, and supervising the Roomba.

Haven't quite figured out what's up, but there's about 20% of the living room it seems to avoid. Might have something with the dirt sensor thinking the rest of the area is worse, but it should at least go over that entire space once, and it definitely has not.

I put the cat to bed so I don't have to deal with his nutty behavior around it.

I just moved one of the pylon gizmos, but I really don't think it was getting too close to that.

[Edwardo Piet]

pylon gizmos[...]

[vorlon13]

Eventually, Roomba cleaned the area. Did have to pull a string out that was wrapped around one of the driving wheels, maybe it was having mobility issues?

[Alex K]

It was a custom-made LED up-down pendant light in an oval shape.  If we had done the same light but in just a down-light it would have been $8000.

I just went trolling for renderings but it looks like we never made any so the only images of its fantasticness are in my and the project manager's mind...

Here's something I hope will cheer up a hospital designer.

The uni hospital our spawn was born in is a unique building from the late 70s which, alongside the Centre Pompidou in Paris, is considered one of the important examples of European techno modernist architecture. It is now a protected architectural heritage site - including the carpeting! From the outside, it looks like an oil refinery meets Blade Runner (the helipad is a recent addition)



The desks and hallways look like this:







How 'bout it, Clueless? Why not do some green retro techno desks?

[vorlon13]

ALSO:

Found this tonite, could be a big deal, an astronomical object has been found in the outer solar system, they are a little imprecise about the distance to it so far, but the further away it turns out to be, the larger it is.  It could, emphasize 'could' be larger than earth.

Curiously, the object, whatever it is and however far away it turns out to be, is seen to lie in almost exactly the same direction as the nearby star system, Alpha Centauri.  While I follow the reasoning why it can't be 'that' far away, it is 'odd' out of the entire sky, it just happens to be seen in that direction.  The equipment used to discover the object was in fact, being used to study the Centauri system when this weird little goomer turned up.  It raises the question to me, are such objects common in the outer solar system ??  If they are, this equipment probably would have detected  others before now.  Here's a teaser of the announcement:


Astronomy
&
Astrophysics
manuscript no. aCenD_ALMA_Letter
c
ESO 2015
December 10, 2015
L
etter to the
E
ditor
A new submm source within a few arcseconds of
Centauri
ALMA discovers the most distant object of the solar system
R. Liseau
1
, W. Vlemmings
1
, E. O’Gorman
1
, E. Bertone
2
, M. Chavez
2
, and V. De la Luz
3
1
Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Onsala Space Observatory, SE-439 92 Onsala,
Sweden, e-mail:
[email protected]
2
Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), Luis Enrique Erro 1, Sta. María Tonantzintla, Puebla, Mexico,
3
CONACYT Research Fellow, SCiESMEX, Instituto de Geofisica, Unidad Michoacan, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico,
Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico. CP 58190
Received ; accepted
ABSTRACT
Context.
The understanding of the formation of stellar and planetary systems requires the understanding of the structure and dynamics
of their outmost regions, where large bodies are not expected to form.
Aims.
Serendipitous searches for Sedna-like objects allows the observation of regions that are normally not surveyed.
Methods.
The Atacama Large Millimeter
/
submillimeter Array (ALMA) is particularly sensitive to point sources and it presents
currently the only means to detect Sedna-like objects far beyond their perihelia.
Results.
ALMA observations 10 months apart revealed a new blackbody point source that is apparently comoving with
Cen AB.
Conclusions.
We exclude that source to be a sub-
/
stellar member of the
Cen system, but argue that it is either an extreme TNO, a
Super-Earth or a very cool brown dwarf in the outer realm of the solar system.

[Alex K]

A little imprecise about the distance is an understatement! Either a TNO or a dwarf near alpha centauri? Can you post a linky?

Uh the formatting threw me off. They exclude that it is with alpha centauri. Cool. Suck on that, Sedna.