5254 Ulysses is a large Jupiter trojan( that is, one of a large group of asteroids that share the planet Jupiter's orbit around the Sun.) It is approximately 78 kilometers (48 miles) in diameter. It was discovered on 7 November 1986, by Belgian astronomer Eric Elst at the Haute-Provence Observatory in Saint-Michel-l'Observatoire near Marseille, southeastern France. The assumed C-type asteroid belongs to the 40 largest Jupiter trojans and has a longer-than-average rotation period of 28.72 hours. It was later named after "Ulysses", the Latinized name of the legendary hero from Greek mythology, Odysseus. Ulysses is an assumed, carbonaceous C-type asteroid. Its V–I color index of 0.97 is typical for most D-type Jupiter trojans.
Physical Characteristics
In September 1994, photometric observations of Ulysses were made by astronomers Stefano Mottola and Uri Carsenty at ESO's La Silla Observatory, Chile, using the Bochum 0.61-metre Telescope. The observations were used to build a lightcurve showing a well-defined rotation period of 28.72 hours with a brightness variation of 0.32 magnitude. In March 2014, another rotational lightcurve was obtained in the R-band by astronomers at the Palomar Transient Factory, California, which gave a concurring period of 28.7840 hours with an amplitude of 0.33 magnitude (U=2). While not being a slow rotator, Ulysses' period longer than the 2 to 20 hours measured for most asteroids.
According to the surveys carried out by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), the Japanese Akari satellite, and the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, Ulysses measures between 76.15 and 80.00 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo between 0.058 and 0.087. The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link derives an albedo of 0.0608 and a diameter of 77.93 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 9.2.
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In the Ace Combat series of games, the asteroid is named "Ulysses 1986VG1" and is identified as a moon of Jupiter rather than a Trojan. Its collision with a previously-undiscovered asteroid named Polyphemus in 1994 propels a swarm of meteoroids towards the Earth, resulting in catastrophic worldwide impact events in 1999. This event is pivotal to the plot of the games.
Male business vocabulary is misogynistic and mostly based in violence.
Just had an exec boom that “we must accelerate our penetration of these regions” in his thick Austrian accent.
:kombucha-disgust:
:zizek-fuck: sniff here we see the sniff need to penetrate and fuck as a sniff way to spread ideology :zizek-preference:
so sniff ve can plainly see sniff zat all ideology is of course sniff sexual sniff pathology and so on and so on
Oh for fuck’s sake, that’s actually a coherent statement.
:visible-disgust:
Seriously though, who the fuck talks like that?
if you're interested in academic discussion of ways people do this all the time Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson is really good
tl;dr metaphor structures how we understand language. So like, business/economics can be structurally a battle ("we need to aggressively hit our targets this quarter," "our rivals are killing us!," "We need a different strategy here," "we're losing this quarter"). In this instance, the executive is quite literally using a metaphor of domination to describe fucking areas of the world. These can be mixed--e.g., "we can't penetrate their defenses." Interesting stuff
Yup. It’s really fascinating how the people doing this typically don’t even realize that’s what they’re doing. Male privilege unsurprisingly results in a lot of gross mask-off behavior.
I’ll have to check that out, thanks for the rec! I spend a lot of time figuring out how to communicate assertively at work in a non-masculine way.
zee germans
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Luv 2 penetrate an abstraction
“Mommy no love me and I need to make mommy love me.”
Gross Freudian man child shit.