Weird Uncle Konstantin

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Friendly rocket uncle, except I don't work on rockets, I am more interested in what can go on the rockets. Cis/het/white, he/him, I try not to be a dick but if I fuck up please let me know.

Currently doing my MSc thesis where I design, build, and (hopefully) launch a ChipSat, may hit people up for knowledge if they're cool with it.

Main at @RedFuture, still interested in ancom space programs but this alt is for thesisposting and questions about academia and science.

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Weird Uncle KonstantinApr 5, 2021
@Cyborgneticz "A professor of mine went to go hear Derrida speak once. The entire talk was about cows; everyone was flummoxed but listened carefully, and took notes about...cows. There was a short break, and when Derrida came back, he was like, “I’m told it is pronounced ‘chaos.’”" (From Phil Gentry, https://twitter.com/pmgentry/status/1379093511539150852)
Weird Uncle KonstantinApr 5, 2021
2 weeks TAing on an elective soon, first time TAing. Any tips or advice?
Weird Uncle KonstantinMar 26, 2021
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Show threadWeird Uncle KonstantinMar 20, 2021

Talking about the problem of a vast ocean of redundant and duplicate data confusing people, esp in multidisciplinary fields

I think he just finally got sick of lit reviews

Show threadWeird Uncle KonstantinMar 20, 2021

Talking about the giant mass of missions to Mars, and how information is extremely fragmented between multiple places and journals, with independent post-processing of data, independent functionality of instruments, etc

He mentioned emerging databases of spectral databases and analogue samples of earth rocks that are like mars rocks etc, so I'm guessing his solution will be like that

Show threadWeird Uncle KonstantinMar 20, 2021
The paper is titled "Anomalous thermal fluctuation distribution sustains proto-metabolic cycles and biomolecule synthesis", R. Ball and J. Brindley, 2020
Show threadWeird Uncle KonstantinMar 20, 2021
Now Elias Chatzitheodoris, A Unified Concept to handle information in planetary exploration
Show threadWeird Uncle KonstantinMar 20, 2021

"Net biosynthesis may occur under a fluctuating dynamic drive but eventually must fail in a calm environment"

There's also an optimal storminess

This is all in a paper by R. Ball and J. Brindley (2020), but I didn't get the rest of the ref before the slide vanished, sorry

Show threadWeird Uncle KonstantinMar 20, 2021

Ideal storminess is 1.6 (not sure how that's parameterised)

Not a biologist or chemist, so apologies if butchering concepts

Show threadWeird Uncle KonstantinMar 20, 2021

Forgot the CW, sorry for the text walls

Now talking about the implications - higher temperatures favour life, but can produce unstable conditions

They modelled two types of vesicles in the model rock pool - simple vesicles, and more complex, more thermally stable vesicles, competing for the same substrate

More "storminess" means more stable vesicles, the simpler vesicles have a non-linear response with a dramitic peak, a trouch, and then a final rise