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when google fu turned up zilch, i figured it was some form of newspeak. even the urban dictionary let me down on that one. all i got were references to a fictional drug. if were talking doping the children to make them easier to control (highschool in a nutshell), why not simply use that term instead of a word the entire internet has clearly blacklisted or which is not in common use. i swear english will be replaced with darmok speak, except with pop culture references. you know if they just hire scabs they will probibly improve the quality of the movies and tv shows coming out.

industrial lasers are very real. but i highly doubt they are cheap. but if you own a shipyard or large scale fabrication operation, it might be worth having one on site.

put the words "metal cleaning laser" into youtube. be amazed, awed, and a little scared.

natural hair colors have no place in hollywood. i wonder if the state of california considers those hair products to cause cancer or if the lobbyists have done a good job.

all hubub about this movie, good or bad, comes from political sources. even though the more positive opinions come from sources i either partially or wholly agree with. but i cant deny its being used as a political bargaining chip. but yes this issue needs to be more in the public awareness and trying to bury it is almost an admission of guilt.

i built a new rotation sensor based on the as5600 magnetic rotation sensor. its really a hall sensor array with four sensors, a dsp and most importantly no analog outside the chip, the interface is i2c and it has 12 bit resolution. some 3d printing for the rotating armature and casement and i got a prototype unit to play around with. tomorrow i need to build another one before i try them out on the joystick of doom. i also got some as5048a units as well, similar sensor but with 14 bit resolution. they were more expensive so i only got 2 of those. they are designed for motor feedback so they are really fast and use the much faster spi inteface. they should be here on tuesday, along with the grub screws i need to properly refurbish the gimbals. the machine work has been fun, lots of drilling, tapping, filing, and using a cheap drill as a lathe.

well if it is it might be worth watching then (more so than any overdone zombie/vampire romp). there certainly isnt anything else on my radar other than oppenheimer and dune part 2.

idk, if its in the 70th percentile or better on imdb/tomatoes il at least give it a watch if i like the description. im a free thinker so i don't prescribe to any one way of thinking. and generally speaking when people give me pills i tend to take all of them and let my liver sort it out. im strongly anti-religious but i still watch the ten commandments every time its on, because charlton heston is a movie god. i generally dislike what wokeness does to movies, but every now and again you get someone who knows how to make a movie and can turn down the preaching enough to do that. i watch movies because i like movies and if you make a good movie you will receive my praise, if you don't you will receive my indifference. if you want to send a message, your best bet is to make a good movie. what we have now is a low point in watchable movie production, highlighted with a few that are worth watching. in this drought i will take anything that makes a ruckus.

im suspicious about that one too. wish film makers would leave politics out of the product.

in the middle of a b5 binge right now, so im actually impressed about a lot of stuff like this. b5 even has radiators (though they look like solar panels, but the station has a fusion reactor, so you would need radiators more than panels, probibly an artistic choice, they would look kind of drab in the grayish coating you see on radiators actual).

i always figured it was easier to turn small thrusters on and off than throttling them. they are all gonna be plumbed off of the pressure fed system through a solenoid valve. i suppose lining them up simplifies the plumbing greatly. also if you have multiple thrusters you have some redundancy, and you can turn on any number of thrusters if you need more or a specific amount torque. sometimes you see small and large thrusters and the smaller ones are for fine control. or with patterning of larger and smaller thrusters, achieve a lot of different thrust levels. pretty sure thrusters were just bang bang in the apollo era, with two settings, on and off with most of the control done with timing instead (turn on, wait a specific time, turn off). the rcs contol stick used had more in common with an arcade stick than my hotas. it even seemed that way on the dragon docking simulator space-x put out. the shuttle may have been different, idk.

im gonna give historical fiction a pass until they can give up their diversity quotas and their revisionism and do historical fact again.

really depends on the size of the ring. tangential docking is for big slow heavy rings. fluid stabilization will be required for any station where humans can freely migrate. with sufficient capacity it can handle docking of various manned craft. this can also be supplemented by physical ballast (say lead blocks that can be moved around with a forklift) which can be moved around as needed to take localized strain off of the stabilization system. hub docking is for small rings like the one in 2001 or the gateway station concept. first gen ring stations are not going to need more than a couple docking ports, as they will likely just be for space tourism. zero-g is preferred for science or freight handling. industrial stations on the other hand will have a diverse array of zero g and spin gravity areas. some processes are cheaper in zero g and others require gravity. and all require a lot of mass. and interchange systems will need to be able to exchange large volumes. tycho station (more as described by the books than the show) might be a good example of that.

airports are pretty well standardized. the same jetway can link up to a myriad of different aircraft and operators and national origin, and various other ground equipment just works for everything. the standard cargo container also is a story of widely adopted standards that just work. the universal docking port is still valid, and the only reason iss needs a bigger variety is that there was still considerable legacy hardware involved in its construction and operation. right now there just aren't that many players in manned spaceflight. but in the post-reusability era you are going to see a significantly more diverse population in space, and as that grows standards will need to be adopted. especially when it becomes unfeasible for everyone to carry a dock adapter for when 2 ships disagree with eachother about their docking capabilities. better to use the most common standard and avoid the losses from the additional mass. also b5 is a notable example because it shows a docking procedure in the oft reused cgi stock footage that more or less makes sense (except for the pressurized docking bays and the single point of failure). it shows every point in the process from approach, landing on the pad/elevator and how the ships are brought into the docking area and even how you disembark, in extreme detail and done in a way that is not beyond our present engineering capabilities. fiction yes, but i like how much thought they put into the mechanics of it all. the hard sci-fi aspects are indeed only skin deep if you look closely enough and by s5/crusade its all star trek tech (though respect for clarke's third law is strong with this one). i actually think the b4 station was a better design and it would not be that hard to add a tangental docking platform to the larger rotating section. b5's zero g dock didnt make much sense though because you would probibly just have a container yard, either internal or external, and no reason to have only one opening, having separate personnel and cargo handling areas is a good idea though. unless you go with skylon's approach to having everything as a cargo container, even ones capable of transfering humans, then you can just take all containers in the zero g dock, route the manned ones to the interchange and the cargo to the zero-g yard. passenger containers are a good idea because you could just dock them on the unpressurized side of the bulkhead to a ring of airlocks, sort of like chambering rounds in a gatling gun. any space suited dock workers can be transferred to the zero-g section by the same conveyance network.

cant be any more dangerous than on axis docking, b5 style. the amount of thought that show put into its docking procedures was impressive. though i feel that only two docks (one zero g) for an entire station that size is questionable design. i also question the wisdom of bringing the ships into a shirt sleeve environment (id just use some kind of hook system that grabs your ship, retracts for hard dock and extends a docking collar), especially how fast you can cycle the huge airlock without venting a large volume of air. in either case automatic docking is strongly encouraged (im always screwing up docking procedures in elite dangerous, and getting fined for it, its what sucked the enthusiasm for the game right out of me). what is this, a spin station for ants?

i think i like tangental docking the best. docking on the axis of rotation only gives you 2 possible docking bays. and having a separate zero-g dock with an interchange to a rotating dock is somewhat tricky and subject to reliability issues. on large ring stations tangental docks can give you the fastest turn over and more redundancy. though they are not suitable to small ring stations, which will probibly make do with a couple docks used rarely. ive given some thought to interchange systems and how they can move personnel and cargo from rotating sections to zero g sections, or even between sections rotating in different directions. something like train cars or an interchange ring that can sync up to the rotating section, dock with it with hard seal and allow the movement of large numbers of crew or large amounts of cargo. of course if you put the centrifuge inside a large static pressure hull, then you forgo the need to have pressurized interchanges. possibly doing something as simple as having small spin up/down platforms and move everything internally with drones. an ideal industrial station would want to have both zero g and rotating areas at various gravities and pressures.

always listen to this album on the 4th. its just the most patriotic album i have in my collection.

one thing i dont get, they hacked our sattelites rather than send out fighters to act as relays. but then were not properly firewalled themselves. seems suspicious. also why would they need to coordinate, they could have blown up every city on the planet with one ship. their book keeping also sucks because they didnt account for a missing ship, nor did they check for it. they should have known the transponder was bogus before it even got within nuking distance of the hanger.

well in space lasers do not show up at all from the side, they need a medium on which to refract, but looking at the point of impact for even a fraction of a second is enough to blind you. and yes, that applies to non visible wavelengths.

don't see any reason not to use slug throwers. you have to use frangible ammo on a space craft, but you will have a hard time getting any stopping power out of a pistol sized direct energy weapon. people have built q-switched pulse laser pistols before, and they barely get through balloons and sheet metal. industrial lasers are a bit more scary but are tethered to a rather bulky piece of equipment with a fiber bundle (the primary laser is in the "gun" part, and the huge box is just the array of diode lasers that pump the yag crystal. those are pretty scary and would probibly vaporize flesh quite readily. heat management probibly limits how much you can miniaturize that box, but im sure you could get it down to a backpack sized apparatus carried by a heavy weapons space marine. but now your whole squad will need to wear laser goggles, and there will be hell to pay if you blind any civvies.

i dont have that many in my entire state.

i refuse to live in a town with more than 10k population.

2.5 seasons into a babylon 5 binge in preperation for new b5 content coming in august. not caring about star wars gate or trek in the mean time, even though snw is a couple episodes in. i will binge those when they are done. will probibly be more mystery box crap that wastes your time for 8-13 episodes.

everyone gives the fifth element too much credit, it stole everything from heavy metal.

not sure wireless is an issue, deep down where you have less ambient radio noise. most of the problems people have with wireless tech can be narrowed down to overuse of the frequency band in densely populated areas. wireless controls are most certain more reliable than wired ones (of course i have a cat that's a known cable chewer, so i might have a bit of a bias there), because it doesn't take much to mangle a usb cable. worst you can do with a wireless controller is interference, which probibly isn't very bad under 2.5 miles of seawater. game controllers are pretty reliable though. and if you need redundancy, take two and never let the battery drop below 50%. keep a couple charging cables on board, and make sure the software on the device you plug it into has an alternative control method even if you have to turn thrusters on and off from the command line. you can have a vastly overengineered controller built into the sub and not get the same redundancy. it may also be non-stock. they could have disassembled it, gave the pcb a conformal coating to protect it from corrosion, replace the thumbstick modules for more robust industrial ones using hall sensors, hell they could have put it in an after market machined aluminum case, ive seen controller mods like that. im a hotas guy and would rather have a warbrd or warthog or some high end model stick hard mounted to the control panel with managed internal cabling. its sort of like how the rutan boomerang used a power mac as its avionics. its not production worthy but its fine for a one off.