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horrible, horrible things which i cant mention here.

checked out vektor yet? i for one have no problem coding to extreme metal.

usually something easy listneing. like slayer.

the article really just says they got funding. its also the first time they mentioned how their de-icing system worked.

i have to post this i cant stop listening to this epic thrash metal space opera.

dont get me started on how terrible mwo is. i swear they have the most inept dev team ever.

modern gpus are seldom the bottleneck anymore, even budget cards like the 750ti. i own one of those and i really dont see enough bad performance to justify getting a new card (not to mention limited case room, im not going to run a machine bigger than the agc so i can fit in a video card i dont need).

still waiting for someone to walk in front of a bus while trying to catch a pikachu.

sr-71 has been used several times for science (tm), with tail featuring the nasa logo (not usaf). https://www.reddit.com/r/SR71/comments/4j5acm/q_what_is_this_on_the_back_of_the_aircraft/?st=iqkipimo&sh=3d933870 its kind of unique in its flight regeme. good for testing hypersonic components. not a whole lot of aircraft that can do that. so its no wonder that nasa is still flying them. i dont think we would hand one over to rel for testing, but we probibly wouldnt be against letting them bring the engines over here to run the tests under nasa/usaf supervision. actually i think rel has negotiated with the usaf in the past. renting the blackbird is likely a lot cheaper than building a new airframe from scratch.

idk i always figured the skylon is way to big to be a first step. rel should get the engines working and see who buys them. you can save a lot of money using an existing aircraft as a test bed, they mentioned a dc-10 in the article, figure replace its center engine with a sabre and your tankage in the fusalage. that would be something to see. however that configuration isnt going to do anything to test supersonic operation, let alone hypersonic. its probibly enough to test airbreating mode in the subsonic regeme, and cycle switching. you would need to send a few engines to nasa to have them test it on an sr71, which is probibly the only aircraft that can get into sabre's full air breathing flight regime, nasa has used them in tests before. thats ignoring the fact that its a lot of engine for a not very big bird.

the best thing nerds can do is find other nerds. i always thought it was short for 'inquisition', but meh.

asm is really just machine code thats been formatted for human readability. this is why every architecture has its own flavor of asm.

had has had more that a few good agc related posts. its certainly worth reading. core ram. the rom was core rope memory, sometimes called lol memory, because it was woven together one bit at a time by little old ladies.

ive recently been turned on to vektor, kind of a spacey neo-thrash metal band with a lot of scifi themes. terminal redux utterly blew me away. then theres arcturus. sort of an advantgarde metal band with some spacey themes on latter albums.

as i understand it the rocket is actually the cheap part. things like mission control, launch facility operations, use of space communication infrastructure for the duration of the mission, the people you need to pay for months or years, regulatory fees, insurance. those cost money.

it looks like a streamlined el camino.

nostradamus is very poetic in his writings, its the same sort of unnecessary grandiosity you tend to find in religious texts. the excessive use of metaphor tends to result in a text that has a lot of potential meanings. the depiction of a dictator for example (hisstor) might come from historical accounts of similar tyranical rulers in the authors past. you can logically assume if there have been tyrants in your history then logically there would be tyrants in your future. you can take those historical events and spin them into a future scenario, and eventually time will produce a dictator that fits in lockstep with that description. the author may not even be aware that he is doing this. he might be drawing conclusions from his subconcious or his imagination, attribute it to forsight and let future historians be the judge. anyone who has read the dune series understands the problems with prophecy. even if you receive a prophecy the information is useless. you are either powerless to change those events, or fore knowledge of those events causes them to happen. how do you know what you saw was an image of the future and not something you thought up. the protagonist in dune was asked if he could tell the difference between the dreems that come true and those that dont, to which he replies yes (i cant remember if that was in the book or one of the movies). every now and again i have a thought about something and then it happens, im not going to jump and call myself a prophet because of that mostly because i have no way of knowing before hand which thought is going to come true and which one wont. i have to write that off, if you guess enough things then statistically some of them will be right.

im not trying to be harsh or anything. its just my experience with people asking me to alpha test their stuff, and sometimes even help work out a code problem. he still bugs me a couple times a month even though ive made it clear that i have no further interest in helping. in this case i probibly wouldnt help if he paid me. i had another guy ask awhile back to do some modeling, he even offered to pay, but some stuff was going on and i couldn't put myself into the right frame of mind to get creative. i told him i couldn't help and he was cool with that.

i know one guy from another community who always wants me to test his stuff. and most of the time i find it rather annoying. of course he asks me a lot and is very annoying about it. if you ask nicely, once, i dont see anything wrong with that. if they say no, just accept it, if they say yes maybe ask them if they want to keep testing but dont nag em to check every little thing. however you will find a lot of people will help you test stuff just to get an early glimpse at your game. but you better wow them otherwise they will get bored and wonder off. you can also pay them.

i for one still use the 30 year old mega roll of solder i sort of pilfered from my grandpas shed sometime after he kicked the bucket. i get superior joints to any kind of solder ive bought at radioshack or online. ive heard stories about how solder can "go bad" but i just dont see that as having any basis in reality.

this gal put together has a 6502 retro computer named veronica, complete with build log, schematics and some asm code. she built the whole thing from scratch and stuffed it into an old timey radio, though she did cheat and use some modern microcontrollers for things like video generation. totally worth a read.

no! canadians METAL!

telepresence. its better to have robots outside doing most of the work, the operator can sit inside his radiation shielded module and do his job without risking himself in the process. never underestimate the number of mundane outdoor jobs that immediately become high risk operations the second you remove the atmosphere from the equation. were already kind of starting to see this on the iss, and so it will apply to moon bases and asteroid mining and the like.

ive seen everything from beeswax and hot glue to silicone to hard resins which are damn near impossible to remove. for anything involving sticking a bunch of wires together, just get some heat shrink.

is this thing actually in orbit or is it just another trojan like cruithne.