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doyleI am perversely proud of having lived in Ireland for all of my 22 years without ever celebrating St. Patrick's Day. But happy Wearing Green And Getting Plastered day, everybody. I'm just enjoying getting the day off uni.
Of course, I should use this day off to do my essay (due tomorrow), not obsess over House and poke at Angel/Lost fic for the Lyric Ficathon.
I'm convinced one of my professors is downloading House. We were looking at a spectrum of a star. Why, he asked, would two lines of Fe X have different intensities? When we stared blankly at him he made us list all the possible causes, wrote them on the whiteboard, and crossed them out as we eliminated them ("can't be temperature, they're in the same part of the star..."), finally drawing a triumphant circle around "atomic data". Differential diagnostic astrophysics. Pretty sensible, really.
Of course, I should use this day off to do my essay (due tomorrow), not obsess over House and poke at Angel/Lost fic for the Lyric Ficathon.
I'm convinced one of my professors is downloading House. We were looking at a spectrum of a star. Why, he asked, would two lines of Fe X have different intensities? When we stared blankly at him he made us list all the possible causes, wrote them on the whiteboard, and crossed them out as we eliminated them ("can't be temperature, they're in the same part of the star..."), finally drawing a triumphant circle around "atomic data". Differential diagnostic astrophysics. Pretty sensible, really.
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on 2005-03-17 07:34 pm (UTC)