Jurassic Park Hello?
whats up
So how would you spend your time?
I would buy a space yaht then i would go to space
Fancy. Anywhere particular?
yeah i would visit all of the different planets
Do you consider Pluto a planet?
i kind of do even though astronomers dont it is just too big to be an asteroid or mini planet or anything
And it has a moon.
yeah i mean seriously how can that not be a planet? do asteroids have moons? i mean what else has a moon?
They're not allowed to have such Pluto-nic relationships I don't think anything else has moons (Ignore that pun. Please) You have to be large enough to have a gravitational field of sorts.
hahaha that was funny yeah well everything has a gravitational field but only big things have strong enough ones
like really big things
to hold an object in orbit at a decent speed
and apparently Pluto has not one, but five moons
really?? then why isn't it considered a planet do you know?
I don't really know. Something about fitting some of the criteria, but not all of the criteria of a planet I think it had to do with the fact that they were finding a lot of Pluto-sized planets and the number of planets in our solar system
hmmm weird so there are more plutos?
Yep. There's some like Eris and...Makemake I think
what? i have never heard of those before
Yeah, lots of them are out there with Pluto, beyond the Kuiper Belt, though I think there's one between somewhere before the gas giants Lots: more like a couple
wow so the solar system is much more dense than we though
Yep. One of those childhood lies: there are 9 planets in the solar system, and that's it. DENIED
hahaha yeah i never knew that are you an astronomy major? is there a major for astronomy?
No. I checked and it was only a minor. I wanted to go into astronomy a couple years ago and then I took physics. That kind of cut the line right there.
oh ok i forgot are you an incoming freshman or are you a college student?
incoming freshman for fall. You're...a senior?
no i am a sophomore i think credit wise
how many years have you been there?
just one actually less than one but i have been taking classes the whole time
so you've kind of finished your first year?
yeah i got a 4.0 it was rough but worth it i suppose
Holy guac! What are you majoring in again ?
holy guac haha
I'm too lazy to type guacamole
i am majoring in applied math essentially it is the ACME program
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have you heard of it?
ACME...I feel like I have...but not 100% positive
it is Applied and Computational Mathematics
what kind of things can you do with that major?
So it is focused on machine learning and datascience you build algorithms and learn about the complex math behind some of the worlds most groundbreaking technology and then you go into the field developing it google and apple and other tech companies are paying between 300-500 thousand a year i get the feeling that is just trying to lure people into the field because they need more but still you get paid a lot and there is a HUGE demand for it right now
holy guac. you'd be set for life. That's true though, all this tech needs more people who have the know-how
yeah exactly and the math is incredibly complex believe me i am learning about it it is really interesting
what kind of math/technology?
well right now i am learning linear algebra and it is a bit of a headache
You have my condolences
yeah it can be complex what is your major then physics?
Haha. No. English I've always liked writing and reading I was going to try doubling up with Biology and Conservation, but the advisor advised not to
yeah doubling up is really rough oh wow english is a polar opposite of physics i feel like
Yeaaah. I'm a middling child. It's a problem.
middling child?
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Ugh, I can't see anybody's messages. Again
wait can you see mine?