Robotengineer

Not a bad summer here. Actually had rain multiple times. It's green, whereas some summers it is brown by mid July.

Cross species meme

3/10 Cats and doge's meme'ing together! Source of mine: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/multimedia/index.html

Quick question: How much power is a 6700k OC'd CPU and GTX 1070 GPU build going to use? I would be air cooling and in it would be in an ATX case, if that matters.

5/10 I don't know greek, does it say Alexander?

Cool site. Didn't expect it to include both USA/ESA achievements with the Russian ones.

Been Robotengineer for a while, first started using it when I was interested in robotics. I have also used HolyHandGrenade more recently.

I clicked on every link, just says that the surveys are closed. The survey is a lie!

Changed it to a funny Hubble pic. Original in spoiler.

I defer to shynung's response on the hydrogen tanks. On the electrolysis machines, it would only be available in places where water is plentiful (not most of the southwest/western seaboard), and would require more electricity. The reason we don't have hydrogen blimps is 1) the Hindenburg disaster and 2) the creation of the passenger jet made it obsolete. As to the general idea of passenger drones, I think the idea could be useful for rural areas where roads and other transportation methods either take too long or are nonexistent. Use in urban/suburban areas would have to be limited to fewer people given the tighter airspace restrictions, probably acting similar to personal helicopters do now. Just IMO, I haven't read the whole thread yet so don't know how much of this is duplicitous.

I have tried, repeatedly, to convince some of these people that science is real, to no avail. Some of them I actually respected going in, but by the end I had lost my respect for them. I also know that while I may come to a debate with an open mind, many of them will not. Their beliefs are too deeply ingrained for them to seriously consider the possibility that they are wrong. I don't have a problem with people having backwards beliefs, I have a problem with their backwards beliefs interfering in the real world, with very real consequences. A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them. It does trouble me when they block my way to the mountains.

Why are you getting a Z170 motherboard if you aren't going to get an overclockable CPU? (Apologies if this has been covered earlier).

I watched a few of his videos last year, he's a waste of time, space, and matter. He believes the moon is a hologram, planets don't exist, it's impossible to orbit, and other ridiculous claptrap. What irks me the most about him, and others, is that they get suckers to give them money to buy astronomy equipment, go on trips to do 'research' and other faux science activities. They are nothing but con artists. Was recently dueling a troll on a different forum who didn't believe a) viruses evolve, b) that the Zika virus exists, and c) that he would have to see the 'science' to believe it (he said that the photos of babies born with microcephaly caused by Zika could just be photoshopped, really). I linked him to a medical journal review article on Zika, which he said could be faked and that he would have to look it up at a research library. I think the general problem is that 'science' is seen as an optional belief system, rather than cold hard fact. When one group calls into question one part of scientific fact, it gives everyone else a pass to call into question the part of 'science' that they dislike. It also doesn't help that the media twists scientific studies into clickbait headlines ('a new study finds coffee is good for you!' 'a glass of wine can help prevent cardiovascular disease, a new study finds!', ad nauseam). These studies often provide conflicting evidence, so people think they can just pick and choose scientific studies to live by (go watch John Oliver's Last Week Tonight episode on scientific studies if you haven't seen it already). In addition to studies, there are a myriad of groups that feel they can just say solid scientific fact is false (climate change denialists, young-Earth creationists/Intelligent design advocates, anti-vaxxers, etc.) and then the media gives them equal representation with the scientists (false equivalency). All in all, this degrades science in the public's eye and allows the anti-science groups to continue and thrive (and I mean thrive, they built a freaking theme park just recently). /rant

Dwarf Fortress legendary dwarf, purple for scholar.

3/10 I've seen you before.

You can't do that because you aren't married to them. The closest you could do would be to seek legal emancipation (or whatever the equivalent in Australia is) but you have to be 16 or older (in the USA) to do that. If you did that you wouldn't have any claim on the room, and your parents could legally kick you out if you didn't pay rent.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/solar-system This is a MOOC on the science of the Solar System I think you all will be interested in. It's taught by Mike Brown (the guy who killed Pluto), and looks like it will be an interesting course.

Alternatively, you could install a barrier across a bridge, hang out under that bridge, and demand a toll from all that want to pass.

Is this inspired by xkcd Faust 2.0?

Dr. Stranelove

Does he still believe the payloads are fake though? (didn't watch the video,would prefer to not be in a bad mood for the rest of the day).

How do sound waves from the rocket (which travel through air) affect electromagnetic waves?

Mission Accomplished! Time to get to bed before it is too late.

Solar array deploy!

Dragon deploy!