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fictionalred · 7 years ago

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Loot from FACTS and Kaya’s aka @yourspookyginger visit!

First of all: I MET BRENT SPINER :

He was amazingly funny, like he has a quick wit, and so turned every question/situation into something nice.

We got to sit pretty close at the Q&A!

His Patrick Steward impression was so freakishly good. Like OMG

Apparently the specific pronunciation of Data is due to Patrick Steward, even though Brent Spiner himself had imagined it differently, and Gene Roddenberry just wanting to settle any dispute quickly by saying that whoever said it out loud first decided how it got to be pronounced.

His fave species is the Borg Queen *wink wink*

He has serious difficulty with names though. Every person asking a question would say “Hi, my name is .....” and Brent would be “whot? Your name is *seriously not that person’s name*???

Except my name. I went for an autograph after the Q&A. He asked who it be dedicated to. I said my name. My name has various ways of spelling it. So I was mentally preparing myself to spell it out loud. But he got it right immediately. It confused me.

Then he said “You’re a Bajoran right?”

“Yes”

“Youknow I dated a Bajoran once”

*awkward laughter* ..... “What?!”

“Get with the program, Michelle!!”

I am still confused by it.

Michelle Forbes???? (would explain him spelling my name right + the dating a Bajoran thing)(but idk i’m confuse!!)

Anyway, when he found out I lived in Ghent he showed me some pics he had taken with his phone of Ghent. Said the colours of it looked like a Vermeer painting. And some other pics on his phone included fan art! He seemed to particularly like art of Data done by a Japanese artist.

How cute is it that he has fanart of Data on his phone ^.^

Although I had expected him to be a bit arrogant he was just gentle and funny and I loved meeting him!

The pic he autographed is one of him and LeVar Burton as Sherlock and Watson and now I rlly want to meet LeVar Burton so he can sign it too.

The loot!! The right side of the pic is stuff brought to me by Kaya, my goodest friend, who had bought a Star Trek collection in the Netherlands a while back.

The Star Trek The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine boardgames

We tried playing the DS9 one but that shit isn’t meant to be actually played it’s way too complicated wtf

The classic TOS phaser!!

A tin can with TNG playing cards

Star Fleet dice xD

Atlantis patch!

A PADD notepad (amazing right)

Holographic TOS keychain

Holographic DS9 (honestly too beautiful for words)

A gift I’m not allowed to open ‘til after Halloween

ESA keychain (not pictured)

Cassini Huygens comic :))

Beautiful art she drew herself like with her own hands idk how someone can draw & colour things so precisely but she did that and gifted it to meeee!!!!!

thank you frieeeend <333

FACTS loot:

Buffy “Once More With Feeling” poster

Assassin’s Creed ‘Origin’ poster (2)

two leather drinking horn holders

Gorgeous Stitch art

Tiny tiny Klingon skull

A BEAUTIFUL coat (isn’t pictured)(I’ll take a pic soon though)

Some cards from some amazing artists. Hoping to visit their shops soon.

It was a GREAT weekend and Kaya is the best friend. Brent was nice. And it all made me happy!

#fr #facts2017 #facts #star trek merchandise

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scienceblogtumbler · 4 years ago

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3D model seeks to explain mysterious hexagon storm on Saturn

With its dazzling system of icy rings, Saturn has been a subject of fascination since ancient times. Even now the sixth planet from the sun holds many mysteries, partly because its distance away makes direct observation difficult and partly because this gas giant (which is multiple times the size of our planet) has a composition and atmosphere, mostly hydrogen and helium, so unlike that of Earth. Learning more about it could yield some insights into the creation of the solar system itself.

One of Saturn’s mysteries involves the massive storm in the shape of a hexagon at its north pole. The six-sided vortex is an atmospheric phenomenon that has been fascinating planetary scientists since its discovery in the 1980s by the American Voyager program, and the subsequent visit in 2006 by the U.S.-European Cassini–Huygens mission. The storm is about 20,000 miles in diameter and is bordered by bands of winds blowing up to 300 miles per hour. A hurricane like it doesn’t exist on any other known planet or moon.

Two of the many scientists-turned-interplanetary-storm-chasers working to uncover the secrets of this marvel are Jeremy Bloxham, the Mallinckrodt Professor of Geophysics, and research associate Rakesh K. Yadav, who works in Bloxham’s lab in Harvard’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. In a recently published paper in PNAS, the researchers began to wrap their heads around how the vortex came to be.

“We see storms on Earth regularly and they are always spiraling, sometimes circular, but never something with hexagon segments or polygons with edges,” Yadav said. “That is really striking and completely unexpected. [The question on Saturn is] how did such a large system form and how can such a large system stay unchanged on this large planet?”

By creating a 3D simulation model of Saturn’s atmosphere, Yadev and Bloxham believe are they closing in on an answer.

In their paper, the scientists say that the unnatural-looking hurricane occurs when atmospheric flows deep within Saturn create large and small vortices (aka cyclones) that surround a larger horizontal jet stream blowing east near the planet’s north pole that also has a number of storms within it. The smaller storms interact with the larger system and as a result effectively pinch the eastern jet and confine it to the top of the planet. The pinching process warps the stream into a hexagon.

“This jet is going around and around the planet, and it has to coexist with these localized [smaller] storms,” said Yadav, the study’s lead author. Think of it like this: “Imagine we have a rubber band and we place a bunch of smaller rubber bands around it and then we just squeeze the entire thing from the outside. That central ring is going to be compressed by some inches and form some weird shape with a certain number of edges. That’s basically the physics of what’s happening. We have these smaller storms and they’re basically pinching the larger storms at the polar region and since they have to coexist, they have to somehow find a space to basically house each system. By doing that, they end up making this polygonal shape.”

The model the researchers created suggests the storm is thousands of kilometers deep, well beneath Saturn’s cloud tops. The simulation imitates the planet’s outer layer and covers only about 10 percent of its radius. In a monthlong experiment the scientists ran, the computer simulation showed that a phenomenon called deep thermal convection — which happens when heat is transferred from one place to another by the movement of fluids or gases — can unexpectedly give rise to atmospheric flows that create large polar cyclones and a high-latitude eastward jet pattern. When these mix at the top it forms the unexpected shape, and because the storms form deep within the planet, the scientists said it makes the hexagon furious and persistent.

Convection is the same force that causes tornadoes and hurricanes on Earth. It’s similar to boiling a pot of water: The heat from the bottom transfers up to the colder surface, causing the top to bubble. This is what is believed to cause many of the storms on Saturn, which, as a gas giant, doesn’t have a solid surface like Earth’s.

“The hexagonal flow pattern on Saturn is a striking example of turbulent self-organization,” the researchers wrote in the June paper. “Our model simultaneously and self-consistently produces alternating zonal jets, the polar cyclone, and hexagon-like polygonal structures similar to those observed on Saturn.”

What the model didn’t produce, however, was a hexagon. Instead, the shape the researchers saw was a nine-side polygon that moved faster than Saturn’s storm. Still, the shape serves as proof of concept for the overall thesis on how the majestic shape is formed and why it has been relatively unchanged for almost 40 years.

Interest in Saturn’s hexagon storm goes back to 1988, when astronomer David A. Godfrey analyzed flyby data from the Voyager spacecraft’s 1980 and 1981 Saturn passes and reported the discovery. Decades later, from 2004 to 2017, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured some of the clearest and best-known images of the anomaly before plunging into the planet.

Relatively little is known about the storm because the planet takes 30 years to orbit the sun, leaving either pole in darkness for that time. Cassini, for instance, only took thermal images of the storm when it first arrived in 2004. Even when the sun shines on Saturn’s northern pole, the clouds are so thick that light doesn’t penetrate deep into the planet.

Regardless, many hypotheses exist on how the storm formed. Most center on two schools of thought: One suggests that the hexagon is shallow and only extends hundreds of kilometers deep; the other suggests the zonal jets are thousands of kilometers deep.

Yadev and Bloxham’s findings build on the latter theory, but need to include more atmospheric data from Saturn and further refine their model to create a more accurate picture of what’s happening with the storm. Overall, the duo hope their findings can help paint a portrait of activity on Saturn in general.

“From a scientific point of view, the atmosphere is really important in determining how quickly a planet cools. All these things you see on the surface, they’re basically manifestations of the planet cooling down and the planet cooling down tells us a lot about what’s happening inside of the planet,” Yadav said. “The scientific motivation is basically understanding how Saturn came to be and how it evolves over time.”

This work was supported by the FAS Research Computing, the NASA High-End Computing Program, and the NASA Juno project.

source https://scienceblog.com/518879/3d-model-seeks-to-explain-mysterious-hexagon-storm-on-saturn/

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sasharnie · 7 years ago

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Could you tell us more about Saturn and Cassini? Thanks!

Saturn is a good boy

He’s the poster child of the ICS because everybody loves him and would die for him. Never once has he caused any sort of problem in the 50ish years that he’s been in the program. Like every living generation is a fan of him, on par with the popularity of things like Justin Bieber and One Direction once were.

Why is he so damn popular? Just look at him, he’s beautiful. You can literally look anywhere in the city and find his face plastered on an ad for hand soap or clothing or something.

But the main thing Saturn his popular for is his fighting. The members of the ICS are, in short, glorified soldiers. They defend the city from outside threats, all the while being broadcast live of television. Although in reality this is very serious business, the audience has become somewhat detached from this reality. Of all the ICS members, Saturn is shown the most, probably because he is so charismatic and beautiful. He plays his fights to the appeal of the audience, full of edge-of-your seat peril and overall badassery. Specifically what kind of badassery? Well, that’s for another ask another day, but for now I’ll just say one thing: superpowers.

Cass is Saturn’s attendant. Basically, her job is to make sure is to make sure Saturn doesn’t do anything to either threaten the safety of the city and its citizens or threaten the reputation of the institution and by extension the government. But like I said before, Saturn is a good good boy that has literally caused no problems, so Cass’ job is fairly easy on that part. She does however to things like paperwork and helping out in other various positions because she hates being idle. She has been voted Employee of the Month for two years straight because of how damn good she is at her job.

Although she has an outstanding work ethic, she is a giant ball of stress, constantly feeling that she’s not doing good enough and that she’s always teetering o the border of being fired (though she’s obviously not). This fear stems from the fact that she started pursuing this career path kinda late in her academic life because she had no idea what she wanted to be, so she had to work her ass off to catch up with the competition. This fear has diminished over the years with the help of her therapist.

Attendants and their charges live together in the same living space. In the past, they all lived in the same government complex because the government and the public were still wary of having Locus daemon in their midst, but after a while restriction like that relaxed and eventually they got to pick where they wanted to live. Saturn and Cassini live in a high-end condo at the northeast edge of the metropolitan area, between the commercial district and the upper class neighborhoods.

#asks #aka #aka saturn #aka cassini huygens

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sasharnie · 8 years ago

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I forgot to post this yesterday but here is the Ball of Stress

#aka #aka cassini huygens #cassini

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sasharnie · 8 years ago

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info dump o shit waddup

Let’s start with Arden

Okay before i really start, I just want to say that looking at Arden’s character sheet rn, I just noticed that their info is very sparse and spread out compared to my other characters, yet they are my main character

Moving on

I’ve said both that Matty has been Arden’s best friend for as long as they can remember, but they can’t actually remember that far back. Earlier on in their life, Arden had some kind of accident that gave them amnesia, and now they can’t remember anything further than 5 years ago (sidenote: this number is not concrete; I’m still figuring some story stuff out, but it’s somewhere around this number). Arden knew stuff like how to walk and talk, but the memory loss was so bad that they had to re-meet their parents.

The reason why Arden wears a scarf has something to do with their past, something they can’t figure out and feel they should hide.

Arden tells themselves they’re confident, but there is a lingering uncertainty in regard to their unknown past that they are trying so hard to ignore because it opens too many channels of thought that could end disastrously.

On that happy note, let’s do some fun facts:

Arden has a very mellow and soft laugh.

Arden is a die-hard conspiracy theorist.

How they would spend a rainy day: thinking, being content, hanging out with Matty, reading, walking in the rain

Okay that’s enough. Onto Matty!

I haven’t actually thought a whole lot about Matty’s past (she was originally a spur-of-the-moment character when I was test writing some scenes and went “Ya know what, Arden needs a friend” and boom Matty was born. Man now I gotta do that…

If you couldn’t already tell, Matty is a Saturn fangirl; he’s been her hero for as long as she can remember. More on that later though.

She bonded with Arden over their shared love for puzzles, strategy, and problem solving, though she’s more on the fence about conspiracy theories (she goes along with Arden’s ramblings because she is a very good listener).

She’s very independent and hates asking for help (even when she really needs it).

She was diagnosed with dyslexia when she was nine, but that only pushed her harder to reach academic success, and Arden helps her out a lot with school.

Her intuition is usually very accurate and she has a good judgement of character.

She needs glasses but doesn’t wear them.

She sometimes wears stick-on earrings because she’s too scared to get real ones.

She’s way more of an open book than Arden is.

Now we can get into some of the interesting stuff.

Saturn is going to be a bit harder to talk about because there are so many other characters that still need to be introduced world stuff that still needs to be explained on a later date, but whatever.

So yeah basically this guy’s a heartthrob among his peers, and he’s particularly popular with the ladies.

Although he is the most popular of the ICS inmates, is he not the “leader” of their little eight-person group. He’s like the poster child of the program. For those of you that are fans of Attack on Titan, this analogy may work: Saturn is like Levi; although he is the most recognized member of the Scouts, Commander Erwin is the one in charge and calling the shots. Honestly, if you have a pretty okay knowledge of the planets in our Solar System, you can probably figure out who the actual leader is.

Um, I’m realizing now that I can’t divulge into too much of what Saturn actually does in this world/what makes him so popular without explaining the entire world that this story takes place in, so moving on the fun facts?

He’s got a ring collection (creative I know).

He’s very kind and presentable/photogenic, he’s basically an angel for the media in the press. The perfect boy. How could there be anything wrong with him? Ehehehe

He’s a perfectionist and kind of a control freak.

He’s an 11/10 and he fucking knows it.

I can name a few people that don’t like him, but I won’t. Not yet.

Cassini is interesting to say the least. She’s a character whose arc I basically had completely planned out before I even gave her a personality.

Like Matty, she is also a mega fan of Saturn, who has been her hero since she was a small little bean, but she is way more lowkey about it than Matty is.

If you noticed on the last little comic I did of her, she is Saturn’s attendant. They are basically government-issued watch dogs, and each of the ICSs have one to make sure they don’t do things they aren’t supposed to (of course more on that later). In fact, she is known as one of the best attendants on the force because of her professionalism.

Not quite sure on the details, but she had a rough childhood, and worked extremely hard to get her job.

She has a hard time saying no.

She is very emotionally and mentally sensitive, but keeps it on the down-low.

She is very ambitious and is known to be theatrical at times.

She loves her job and hates standing idly by; she always has to be doing something.

She snorts when she laughs and she hates it, especially when Saturn hears.

When she’s not working, she’s into photography and journalism (and really good at it).

Wow okay that was a lot. Hopefully this wasn’t too terribly boring to read. Also you’re welcome to send me an ask if you have any questions/want to know more about someone or something!

#aka #aka arden crawford #aka matty anker #aka cassini huygens #aka saturn

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