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Re: Something peculiar in my 2yo's bedroom led me to a revelation about our universe

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Post by Kluggy »

xorbax wrote: post #10
irowe wrote: post #7

I spent way too long trying to find a way to read this without making an account on X, so here's the recap: An illustrator accidentally mislabelled a quasi-satellite named 2002-VE68 as a moon of Venus called “ZOOZVE" on a children's map (Venus doesn't have any proper moons).

Yes, the story is essentially linked to a podcast called Radiolab* that has used the story as a story pitch about submitting the name for the the asteroid. The link isn't the thing-itself, it's part of a media campaign. The naming committee apparently has two dangling votes left for the decision. The podcast came out today and the decision is expected in the next few weeks. * I originally said Reply-All

Are you sure it was Reply-All? Their latest show listed is Sept 2023 on https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all and nothing newer shows up in my podcast app.

Re: Something peculiar in my 2yo's bedroom led me to a revelation about our universe

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Post by FooBarBizBazz »

The thread is about an object in our solar system, called 2002 VE. Its motion under the influence of gravity isn't clearly "an orbit", but (for now) it sort of follows closed loops when viewed from the moving frame of Venus, so people call it a quasi-moon of Venus.

Figure 4 in this paper shows the object's trajectory in the frame of Venus:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.4444.pdf

Re: Something peculiar in my 2yo's bedroom led me to a revelation about our universe

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Post by boomboomsubban »

Kluggy wrote: post #11
xorbax wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, the story is essentially linked to a podcast called Radiolab* that has used the story as a story pitch about submitting the name for the the asteroid. The link isn't the thing-itself, it's part of a media campaign. The naming committee apparently has two dangling votes left for the decision. The podcast came out today and the decision is expected in the next few weeks. * I originally said Reply-All

Are you sure it was Reply-All? Their latest show listed is Sept 2023 on https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all and nothing newer shows up in my podcast app.

They meant Radiolab https://radiolab.org/podcast/zoozve

Re: Something peculiar in my 2yo's bedroom led me to a revelation about our universe

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Post by thunderbong »

k310 wrote: post #8

It's a thread, and mere mortals without accounts see only the OP (OT?) I'm starting to get the hang of nitter.net and here's the thread. https://nitter.lanterne-rouge.info/latifnasser/status/175095... Other nitter instances were rate-limited or down. This one worked for me. It's actually interesting.

Thank you. That was wonderful! I couldn't figure out from the linked X (formerly Twitter) post what it was all about.

I think it's time for the good samaritans of HN to post nitter links for every X (formerly Twitter) post.

Also, is there some extension which I could add in the browser which would show the corresponding Nitter link?

Re: Something peculiar in my 2yo's bedroom led me to a revelation about our universe

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Post by jchw »

thunderbong wrote: post #16
k310 wrote: post #8

It's a thread, and mere mortals without accounts see only the OP (OT?) I'm starting to get the hang of nitter.net and here's the thread. https://nitter.lanterne-rouge.info/latifnasser/status/175095... Other nitter instances were rate-limited or down. This one worked for me. It's actually interesting.

Thank you. That was wonderful! I couldn't figure out from the linked X (formerly Twitter) post what it was all about. I think it's time for the good samaritans of HN to post nitter links for every X (formerly Twitter) post. Also, is there some extension which I could add in the browser which would show the corresponding Nitter link?

Libredirect is the tool I typically use to get redirected to one of these sorts of mirror sites. That said, it won't pick a working Nitter instance, you might need to look up a list and find a few that work well.

Re: Something peculiar in my 2yo's bedroom led me to a revelation about our universe

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Post by SushiHippie »

thunderbong wrote: post #16
k310 wrote: post #8

It's a thread, and mere mortals without accounts see only the OP (OT?) I'm starting to get the hang of nitter.net and here's the thread. https://nitter.lanterne-rouge.info/latifnasser/status/175095... Other nitter instances were rate-limited or down. This one worked for me. It's actually interesting.

Thank you. That was wonderful! I couldn't figure out from the linked X (formerly Twitter) post what it was all about. I think it's time for the good samaritans of HN to post nitter links for every X (formerly Twitter) post. Also, is there some extension which I could add in the browser which would show the corresponding Nitter link?

Most of the time you can just replace twitter.com with nitter.net or nitter.it but when these instances are down or blocked you can use other instances listed here: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

But as the other commenter said Libredirect is the way to go: https://libredirect.github.io/

Re: Something peculiar in my 2yo's bedroom led me to a revelation about our universe

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Post by xorbax »

Kluggy wrote: post #11
xorbax wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, the story is essentially linked to a podcast called Radiolab* that has used the story as a story pitch about submitting the name for the the asteroid. The link isn't the thing-itself, it's part of a media campaign. The naming committee apparently has two dangling votes left for the decision. The podcast came out today and the decision is expected in the next few weeks. * I originally said Reply-All

Are you sure it was Reply-All? Their latest show listed is Sept 2023 on https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all and nothing newer shows up in my podcast app.

Yeah, I donked it. I think there was some serious drama around Reply-All - they both float in the same shallow pool

Re: Something peculiar in my 2yo's bedroom led me to a revelation about our universe

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Post by xorbax »

boomboomsubban wrote: post #15
Kluggy wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you sure it was Reply-All? Their latest show listed is Sept 2023 on https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all and nothing newer shows up in my podcast app.

They meant Radiolab https://radiolab.org/podcast/zoozve

Yep. I loaded the app, looked at the name, and screwed it up.
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