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people born into different circumstances develop differently. that's pretty much all there is to it. my grandma goes into how everyone is so computer dependent, how they cant make change when the system crashes. i didn't have the heart to tell her about all the changes to the tax code that require every transaction be logged in meticulous detail and they simply do not train their cashiers to do that because they expect 100% uptime. in her day it was all cash on the barrel and the irs was content with a more crude estimate, because tracking all that stuff would consume almost the entire work day. those cashiers could totally make change if their boss told them to. the problem is regulators expect everyone to be using technology. its a reason why the amish now carry cell phones to manage their furniture businesses, the irs is not happy with hand written receipts. i once got paid a hundred dollars a minute to fix a computer system at a pawn shop, granted it took 5 minutes to restore the system, i just read the instructions. at the very same time i don't think i could do modern i.t. the systems are too complicated and there are too many of them.

current 3d printing project is new joystick grips for my joystick of doom (tm). i have a couple hat switch designs that i can print but i needed a couple 12mm buttons for the pinkly and thumb buttons. found some nice stainless steel buttons on ebay. then they made me train their ai to check out. what ebay? when i want to give you money you shouldn't waste my time with puzzles. and dont say those puzzles are for security, especially considering you are training an ai to identify those photos, thus defeating the whole purpose. its like every time you open a lock you help send an enterprising young individual to burglary school. its certainly up there with 2 factor which is more about farming personal information that security. if they really cared about security they would use ttop instead of sms.

there are so many examples of human fertilizer in this world that i have a hard time feeling bad about myself. just look around, especially at the gutter slime humans you find in walmart, then look at yourself, you will feel batter.

stacking rockets like cordwood, i like it.

as far as space goes the dragon capsule has plenty of leg room, but it has endurance limits, iirc, as with any other orbital station wagon. it was designed for leo, not lunar operations after all. it could probibly be retrofit for the job though. you could probibly launch with a service module (replacing the trunk) in the heavy config just fine. and a second heavy can bring up the lander. possibly all without expending a stage. whats the maximum cadence for the heavy, can two be launched at a short enough interval? does spacex even need nasa to go to the moon? i still dont think the sls is useless though, it still can launch a lot of payload and thus has a place. even if it is more of a governmental flex than a launch platform.

capsule yes. service module and lm too? fuel? consumables for more than a few hours visit? besides the competition isnt who makes orbit first, its who gets man-rated.

better to do battle in space and leave the earth alone. but humans would probity do both.

no, but ask me again when starship makes orbit. falcon is nice and all until you need to launch something that wont fit in its fairing. its great for satellites and probes, but it wont take humans beyond leo. can it? maybe. with multiple launches and a modular spacecraft and it might end up costing more than a single throwaway launch.

aquired some bose speakers for free today. not exactly a high end model but still, they sound good for how small they are. debating replacing my 3 foot tall full range found on the side of the road speakers, but where would i put all my cat pictures.

damn, idk why they sped this song up. might have had something to do with how lemmy got kicked out of hawkwind. this version is cool and bluesy.

H.R. Giger prints are good enough for me. Zdzisław Beksiński thrown in for good measure. much grimdark very good. just realized this was a nekro. that's ok it fits my artistic tastes.

to pull "up" turn "right". i think the thrust vector is the cross product of the thrust direction and the axis of rotation. don't quote me on that though.

if you want the compartmentalization benefits, you will probibly want every section to have its own independent life support, including toilets. the centrifuge itself might also be compartmentalized further for additional redundancy. however moving consumables like potable water and propellant around is probibly a matter of filling a tank and moving it through the airlock. the interchange becomes a very busy place as your crew size increases. for station design you can throw some serious machinery at the problem which would just not be in the mass budget for a space craft. i imagine big interchange rings, a small centrifuge, which can spin up, dock with the rotating section, exchange personnel and cargo, they can spin down for zero g access or even reverse direction if you got sections spinning both ways. bigger stations might actually have a rail system that can run through the hub. industrial stations will need a high throughput hub as some processes may be handled better under spin gravity than in zero g or vise versa.

go home boeing, youre drunk. no dont fly. oh poo....

that is clearly alien stealth tech, sasquatch is from the martian ice caps.

that's the thing about government funded rockets. things cost more when you spend someone else's money.

infrastructure is a weird thing to be sentimental about. especially when the cable company wants to upgrade and wants their gear back in exchange for something newer. they will usually want to keep the existing coax runs though and will opt to boost the signal because apparently that's something they can do from the office. in the olden days they would have to send a guy to physically change the attenuator, which is used to limit the signal. they would send a really strong signal and have to reduce it based on the length of the runs, number of boxes on the line, etc. but now that's all software controlled.

weather likes to play havoc on external runs, moisture gets in, you get freezing, contraction of the metal, corrosion, etc, all of which change the conductive properties of the cable. last time i had a problem like this i called the cable company and they increased the signal, they didn't even have to send a guy out.

that's actually the least believable part of the show. real change takes time, you literally have to wait for the old guard to die off for new ideas to really take hold. thing about alt histories is that you always wonder what the divergent point was. it has to be close to the pilot episode because history has a way of accreting. to far away and what you see is completely different and thus unrecognizable. then if the divergent point is close enough then the changes are so subtle its hard to see and difference at all. doing a different decade every season was a brilliant choice though it does make character arcs harder to follow.

not everyone has a car but everyone uses the toilet.

i was waiting for the last episode and binged over 3 days. i think it was an interesting season. with so many scifi shows failing to meet the mark (especially shows with trek and wars in their names, barring gems like andor and picard s3) its nice to have something thats actually watchable and consistent. though really the timetable on fusion is grossly exaggerated. that's a long steep climb and it doesn't matter how active your space program is. we all want one of those little fusion startups to have an idea that's actually viable, but the more i look into those, the more i admire the brute force effort of iter. seems the little guys spend most of their time looking for funding while the big boys are busy installing ginormous coils. i actually think fusion as propulsion is closer since it doesn't need to be breakeven. doing fusion-electric like on the show seems like a roundabout method. you get a better engine just dumping charged particles out the tailpipe. you still need fission or a massive solar array or beamed power or whatever. also the notion that you might have fusion powered plasma propulsion capable of changing an astroid's orbit that quickly, why the hell aren't you in the belt doing the belter things.

toilet maintenance should be taught in high school. its one of those life skills that can save you thousands of dollars in the long run.

i wonder if elon would let me borrow a raptor for snow removal.

so yea, alaska decided to stop being broke about a week ago and started snowing, ive been shoveling snow ever since. i shoveled the deck and the walkway last night, and again this afternoon. probibly again tomorrow. being in se alaska, i need to get it while its still powder, wet snow is heavy and turns to ice if you don't handle it immediately.

as a fellow fastener hoarder i understand. also didn't know you guys were talking about this until now. now im thankful that alaska airlines never uses their newer planes on alaska routes. i was shocked to get the 737-700 on my last flight. even been on a 400 once. we also used to have this combi which had cargo up front passengers in back. but they retired it because they needed more cargo capacity and opted for a dedicated cargo plane.