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  1. Nuke
    well they calculated the energy to spin up ceres, but has anyone figured out what you would have to do to maintain structural integrity? i figure the process of simply reinforcing the rock would be a lot more difficult than the spinup operation. you would have to tear up the whole rock and rebuild it anyway. figure it would be easier just to strip mine the whole rock and use the materials to build a massive oneil cylinder with enough external radiation shielding to keep everyone alive. even easier would be a large number of surface centrifuges built in domed over pits. every time the population becomes untenable, build another one.
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    well i did kind of read them all in rapid succession so theyve kind of blurred together in my head. but i think heres whats going to happen: the rest of caliban's war mid season finally abaddon's gate (either partially or in full) why else would you introduce anna and ashford this season?
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    the spin up thing is kind of silly, but hey at least its not artificial gravity magic. anyway it looks like they are going to be cramming whats left of book 2 and some of book 3 into this season. they also threw in some references to book 4, but i dont think they will get that far this season. dont expect them to follow the story exactly though im curious to see what they do with it. *made vague so as not to spoil.
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    cats are better. they routinely sit on your keyboard and prevent you from using your computer. blocking your ability get sucked into social media. i for one never found much use for social media.
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    humans are stupid. i got that part figured out already.
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    well it was that or the gulag. i think he made the right choice.
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    unfortunately i grew up in the a.d.d. era, before schools switch to aspergers as their excuse for why some children do not follow the heard. even though every aspie test i ever took was positive, never could get a professional to agree though.
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    just figured out how to pxe boot linux mint. managed to get it installed in my lab computer next to windows. i was already using the practice of sticking a grub partition at the top of my drive so it was easy to play with other oses. was also trying to install reactos 0.4.7 with less successful results (it just doesnt seem to work on newer computers, doesnt work on my old i7 rig or my older core2 rig).
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    not a big fan of it myself.
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    good to see the kodiak space port get used for something. there was some debate to close it some years ago citing the "declining" population of stellar sea lions or some such (them things are everywhere, on any day i can walk 2 blocks and see at least one of them at the marina and an entire harem on bouy #3).
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    thing is 'very rare' is not never. even if its like one in a million thats still a non-zero chance. just takes one unlucky mishap to irradiate a lot of area. of course the only time you really want a nuclear powered aircraft is when you want to keep it up for weeks or months, so i doubt it would be viable as a passenger aircraft. its good if you need to keep a nuclear bomber on stand by. icbms obsoleted the aircraft reactor experiment, slam, etc. idk what other thing you would need a nuclear powered aircraft for, only things i can think of is research aircraft, perhaps as an atmospheric communications sat or a flying house for a rich person.
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    well if there is no momentum exchange there would be a blatant violation. but the theory is that there is some momentum exchange in the form of mass fluctuations. it uses the rest of the universe as remass. as i understand it the mega-drive is not very power hungry, unlike the em drive where you have to pump in a lot of microwave energy. mega drive you just have to run an oscillator, oscillate a small mass at a high frequency in tune to the natural fluctuations (you could do a mems device for chipsats i suppose). woodward was claming f1-like performance was possible using current space power systems or some such , in other words you can launch it from the ground. so when they demonstrate that capability then i will believe it. something something extraordinary evidence something. if it works then its a very ufo engine. thing that bugs me about it is if the mass fluctuations are natural, then wouldn't they be chaotic and hard to predict? certainly hard to tune for.
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    oooh megadrive thread!
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    its both easy and fun to fly. and its cheap.
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    also the chance of the plane crashing is non-zero.
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    mega drives. aka mach effect thrusters. they are "reactionless" drives (though you could say they use the entire universe as reaction mass). the idea is the mass of something really doesnt mean anything unless there are other objects to compare it to. but since gravity is not instantaneous, the mass of objects are in a state of flux. if you can determine the fluctuation and oscilate a mass in tune to it, you get free thrust. it does everything em drives do except there is theory out there to explain why it works. they are currently in a mad quest for more thrust but they are running into materials problems.
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    ive done a lot of c++ and some c programming. i tend to avoid vms and interpreted languages but im really good with lua, so its what i go to when i need a gui or something to talk to an arduino, i have the stub of a game engine written in lua but i dont expect to finish it.
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    the ones i paid extra for dont seem to be that much better quality than the ones that come with your mobo. i wish it were true. but every time i give it a shot there is much swearing at wine and the eventual giving up that comes with it. i think the most success ive had was on my pi tablet, where i got emeulators for 16 bit games, and a lot of ported games from the 90s that compile just fine on the pi.
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    dont see any reason why you couldnt. my brain didnt stop working until at least 35 and thats plenty of time to learn programming. python is pretty much the new java right now. i hear its very popular in the scientific community, so worth going into if thats something you are interested in. python is kind of at the top of my languages to learn list. but i often find myself using other languages that i already know. i started with c when i was 15 though.
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    i think msata was replaced by m.2. im using an m.2 now but in sata mode through an adapter. i figured when i got around to upgrading my mobo (and everything else for that matter) id get one with an m.2 port and not have to buy the drive. future proofing. you just need to know about keying and protocol. but it seems a lot of the drives are b+m keyed and so can fit either slot. can operate over either sata or pcie which is nice and provides reverse compatibility options when you need them. theres this new fangled nvme protocol that is supposed to be really fast but mobo support was lacking last i looked and those drives were really expensive anyway. the real benefit i think (when i get it plugged into an actual mobo anyway) is no damn cables to block airflow and provide points of failure, oh and theres speed too.
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    i woulnt be so quick to give up on your drives. sata cabling gets iffy after awhile so try things like the "wiggle it" technique or try different cables/ports. its the kind of bs that made me switch to m.2 (hopefully those connectors arent as bad). the number of working drives that i own that i had previously thought dead is astounding.
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    cant say i like ubuntu. last thing i played around with was mint. maybe il try straight debian again. idk. as for the drivers it was an input and i quickly found documentation on the uinput library and i2c library thanks to google and had working code an hour later. cant do that on windows (i would have still been downloading the sdk).
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    turns out the only distro im any good with is raspbian. up to writing device drivers (i2c joystick).
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    first language i learned was c. really learn the power of turing completeness that way as you are really just moving memory around.
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    "infinite" nah its just that its gas tank is the size of the earth's atmosphere. we may have come up with a way to speed up atmosphere depletion.
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