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Zanzibar
Age. 39
Gender. Female
Ethnicity. that of my father and his father before him
Location Altadena, CA
School. Other
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The Link To Zanzibar's Past
This is my page in the beloved art community that my sister got me into:

Samarinda

Extra points for people who know what Samarinda is.
The Phases of the Moon Module
CURRENT MOON
Croc Hunter/Combat Wombat
My hero(s)
Only My Favorite Baseball Player EVER


Aw, Larry Walker, how I loved thee.
The Schedule
M: Science and Exploration
T: Cook a nice dinner
W: PARKOUR!
Th: Parties, movies, dinners
F: Picnics, the Louvre
S: Read books, go for walks, PARKOUR
Su: Philosophy, Religion
The Reading List
This list starts Summer 2006
A Crocodile on the Sandbank
Looking Backwards
Wild Swans
Exodus
1984
Tales of the Alhambra (in progress)
Dark Lord of Derkholm
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Lost Years of Merlin
Harry Potter a l'ecole des sorciers (in progress)
Atlas Shrugged (in progress)
Uglies
Pretties
Specials
A Long Way Gone (story of a boy soldier in Sierra Leone- met the author! w00t!)
The Eye of the World: Book One of the Wheel of Time
From Magma to Tephra (in progress)
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Harry Potter 7
The No. 1 Lady's Detective Agency
Introduction to Planetary Volcanism
A Child Called "It"
Pompeii
Is Multi-Culturalism Bad for Women?
Americans in Southeast Asia: Roots of Commitment (in progress)
What's So Great About Christianity?
Aeolian Geomorphology
Aeolian Dust and Dust Deposits
The City of Ember
The People of Sparks
Cube Route
When I was in Cuba, I was a German Shepard
Bound
The Golden Compass
Clan of the Cave Bear
The 9/11 Commission Report (2nd time through, graphic novel format this time, ip)
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Twilight
Eclipse
New Moon
Breaking Dawn
Armageddon's Children
The Elves of Cintra
The Gypsy Morph
Animorphs #23: The Pretender
Animorphs #25: The Extreme
Animorphs #26: The Attack
Crucial Conversations
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
A Great and Terrible Beauty
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Dandelion Wine
To Sir, With Love
London Calling
Watership Down
The Invisible
Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Host
The Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Shadows and Strongholds
The Jungle Book
Beatrice and Virgil
Infidel
Neuromancer
The Help
Flip
Zion Andrews
The Unit
Princess
Quantum Brain
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
No One Ever Told Us We Were Defeated
Delirium
Memento Nora
Robopocalypse
The Name of the Wind
The Terror
Sister
Tao Te Ching
What Paul Meant
Lao Tzu and Taoism
Libyan Sands
Sand and Sandstones
Lost Christianites: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
The Science of God
Calculating God
Great Contemporaries, by Winston Churchill
City of Bones
Around the World in 80 Days, by Jules Verne
Divergent
Stranger in a Strange Land
The Old Man and the Sea
Flowers for Algernon
Au Bonheur des Ogres
The Martian
The Road to Serfdom
De La Terre � la Lune (ip)
In the Light of What We Know
Devil in the White City
2312
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Red Mars
How to Be a Good Wife
A Mote in God's Eye
A Gentleman in Russia
The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism
Seneca: Letters from a Stoic
The Juanes Module


Juanes just needed his own mod. Who can disagree.
Controlling the Solar System ::EDIT:: WITH PICTURES!
Monday. 5.4.09 3:22 pm
So I made a lot of progress on my project. There was a huge amount of math involved, not to mention spherical geometry (spherical triangles? didn't even know those existed!), but I finally found a book that made sense and did most of it out (it was from 1965, I don't think anyone had even checked it out since 1973.)

I'm trying to create a computer model of the solar system starting from a simple one that my professor put together (gravity, conservation of momentum... go!)

I finally got it to work sometime yesterday and since then I've been modeling every imaginable planet/satellite/comet that I can think of. Most recently I've been simulating the orbit of the MESSENGER spacecraft (that's the one I work on that's going to Mercury). You can see how the orbit just touches the orbit of Mercury. Every time it passes by Mercury, it slows down a little bit, until it finally goes into orbit in 2011. I also simulated the path of Pioneer 10, which launched back in 1972. In order to do that I had to look up its current velocity and position vectors and then integrate backwards ~40 years to try and see when it went past Jupiter in the 1970s. Behold! You can see the kink in its orbit when it interacted with Jupiter! Sweet. After a while I also put in the orbits of Halley's Comet and Hale-Bopp. Hale-Bopp's orbit is insane... we're definitely never going to see that one again in our lifetimes.

Anyway, it is still going to be a mad rush until the end... probably involving staying up all night tonight instead of having fun at my friend Samwise's exam-passing party. I'm supposed to add the precession of Mars on there somehow, and I really wanted to add a Julian date converter so that someone could just type in "April 27, 1972" and it would tell you where all the objects of interest were. I also kind of wanted to program in a thing that would tell you at what date two objects passed close to each other, so I could see if it predicts the correct date for when Hale-Bopp passed by.

All in all, I feel a bit like the genie in Aladdin when he talks about his PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWERS, but luckily without the little bitty living space. I'll put up some graphics of my results when I get the chance.

The planets:

The Inner Planets:

MESSENGER:

Pioneer 10!

Pioneer 10 from a different angle:

Comets Halley and Hale Bopp!

Comets Halley and Hale Bopp from a different angle!
4 Comments.


Blah, math. D:
» randomjunk on 2009-05-04 05:28:31

RE:
Would it sound evil if I said, "I wish?"
» Unicornasaurus on 2009-05-04 10:35:58

You.Are.A.Genius.
I so wish I knew how to do the things that you're doing.

RC: Aj=not boyfriend, due to his cheating fancies. 'Twas short lived, I suppose.
» bananaface on 2009-05-04 11:59:08

You know what?
You just reminded me of something. A long time ago, I had a fascination with the solar system. I had this little box kit with a bunch of charts and glow-in-the-dark starts, (which I wasted on my brother's chest drawers, if I remember correctly,) and I distinctly remember something about the symbols for the planets. I liked them, and I'd forgotten all about them until just now.

Thanks!
» middaymoon on 2009-05-05 10:28:03

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