What do you wish you knew more about?

[Aeson]

Do you taste the wastewater though?

[ricketyclik]

Easy enough to say, but do you have a book on wastewater management that you flip through occasionally, just because? I do.

I do, but not just because.

[The Mad Monk]

Do you taste the wastewater though?

The book doesn't include a lab credit.

[Broken_Erika]

Does it at least have one of those "scratch-and-sniff" thingies that let you smell the wastewater?

[Elok]

My wife checked out a book on septic tank management from the library about a year ago. It was lavishly illustrated in a cartoony style, so my son was enchanted, and begged her to explain how this system or that worked, so often that he could give a pretty good explanation of his own.

[Uncle Sparky]

I bet you were flushed with pride.

[I AM MOBIUS]

There's nothing mysterious about women that generally treating them with respect doesn't usually solve.

My problem is time and application. I don't have the luxury of either.

I generally apply myself to whatever's in front of me: currently that's comms; websites; app building; crisis management etc for work.

For play, it's buffing up my French in prep for our latest battlefield tour series in a few weeks time. So, due to the various constraints on my friends (families etc.), we're taking the Eurostar into Brussels and hiring a car for a glorious mashup of military eras: Napoleonic (Waterloo); WWII (Ardennes/Maginot Line); Romans (Augusta Treverorum), and WWI (Verdun).

There were other candidates like Arnhem etc., but frankly that was a bridge too far...

So plenty to brush up on, but then they're all eras I know about pretty much back to front - so it's more about tugging out the interesting little known stuff...

Anyway, don't stress - you're never going to have enough time, so just keep on trucking...

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[pchang]

I wish I knew more about all the planets orbiting all the stars in this galaxy.

[ricketyclik]

There's nothing mysterious about women that generally treating them with respect doesn't usually solve.

Au contraire.

Why, for example, are they so fvckin' dumb?

[Lorizael]

I wish I knew more about all the planets orbiting all the stars in this galaxy.

Here you go.

https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/

[I AM MOBIUS]

Au contraire.

Why, for example, are they so fvckin' dumb?

Oh dear...

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[I AM I AM I AM MOBIUS]

There's nothing mysterious about women that generally treating them with respect doesn't usually solve.

QFT

[Lorizael]

Yeah, that's not an attitude I understand at all. I know plenty of dumb women, but I also know plenty of dumb men; people are stupid. But it's never been hard for me to find smart, curious, creative women.

x-post, kinda

[pchang]

Here you go.

https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/

That is only a small fraction of what is out there.

[Lorizael]

But it's a more representative fraction everyday. We even understand the selection biases pretty well now and can make reasonable inferences about what types of planets are most common. This video gives a pretty good summary of exoplanet demographics so far.

[pchang]

I can’t wait for spectral analysis to be possible so we can get an idea of atmospheric make up (if there is an atmosphere).