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it will displace anyone who based their entire economy on oil.

read the nature article. looks like this shot was aiming for higher energy output. it was running d-t. the shot only lasted 5 seconds, which is the limit for what jet's coils can handle. this machine formerly set the q record for a tokamak, but that's not what they were going for with this shot.

i knew this was coming. nvm. q-plasma was only 0.33 for this shot. not really record breaking.

i forgot that episode for some reason.

if vampirism was real, it would be considered a disability.

yea, since the enterprise never goes into the atmosphere (at least in the pre-jjverse canon), there is no reason to have it retractable. keep in mind that in trek lingo the purpose of the dish is to detect and clear space debris that can harm the ship at warp. so it has both receiving and transmitting elements. the tng technical manual also indicated that it contained long and short range sensors. i think it may also come with lasers to ionize space dust, and then the dust is steered out of the way (or into the bussard collctors) via magnetic fields. it can also be used to ineffectively shoot at borg cubes. while i generally like the star trek design language, the deflector is a little bit too jack of all trades for my tastes.

id just figure they would be deployable and would be stowed for re-entry. some sensors could be hidden in the structure, such as using the nosecone as a raydome, which is how fighter jets tend to place their radar. optical sensors would be placed in a turret somewhere, like what military drones use for their sensor package, though usually in the chin position or in a pylon mounted pod, a space craft would want that on the cold side of its heat shield, and it might be something you could retract when you are not using it. you probibly want some kind of high gain dish antennae for long range communications, but again this would be retractable for re-entry (which isnt really the best time for communications anyway). when your local afb has an airshow, be sure to look around at the various sensor and communications packages for inspiration, and then realize a system used in space is going to need to be bigger to maximize aperture for the longer operational ranges they will be used at.

super heroes never really made sense to me. i dont really like the genre, except where they are being deconstructed, like watchmen, or even dune. as with typical humans with exceptional abilities, each would tend to use those abilities in their own self interest and would neither be heroes nor villains. anyone who thought their superpower would entitle them to special treatment, would quickly be put in their place by the others.

ive never cared much for spectator sports. whats the point of watching a pro game of a sport you yourself do not play? i can understand if you are in a local baseball league you would want to watch what the pros are doing in an effort to try to improve your game. same thing applies to e-sports. im not going to watch a pro starcraft player's twitch stream unless i play starcraft (which i haven't in a very long time). sometimes its out of nostalgia, say you played football in high school and it reminds you of your glory days. it also provides an outlet for various tensions that result from living in the civilized world, a matter of city, state, or national pride. a less violent stand in for the gladitorial combat of olde.

well something like 75% (i got that number from an actual engineer) of the energy goes to waste heat. problem is hot things like to go up in the air, not down in the road. i supposed if you pointed the radiators down and added really powerful fans to them, you might be able to speed things along. you could probibly try and capture waste heat, and with some really exotic plumbing perhaps you can pump the working fluid through your tires which would need to be designed to be really thermally conductive. never mind that you need to pump a fluid through a bearing to a spinning thing. though i cant imagine that being any more complex than the self inflating tire system on the humvee. tires also have a relatively small contact area with the road, so maybe if you could do the same thing on tank treads, idk, that sounds like really hard engineering. getting fluid to a spinning tire is one thing. you would probibly need heat exchangers in all the idlers. where a network of heat pipes and tubes connect each of the tread segments (this would be a closed loop, likely pumped by the compression of the tread plates sort of like a peristaltic pump). either way sounds expensive. your typical friction interaction between tire and road is usually enough to help melt snow. the roads are the first thing that clears. and that is helped along by salt and other abrasives added to the roadways.

dead men horde no gpus.

they actually heat some parking lots to keep them clear of snow. you really only need to keep the surface just above the freezing point i think to do that they just lay down an insulative material, put in coolant loop and pour concrete or asphalt on top of it. of course this is energy intensive and doing it for the whole road network would really use a lot of energy.

honestly ive seen so many of those that they kind of blur together. i was born at a time where mothers let their four year olds watch scary movies, so by the time i hit adolescence i had become so desensitized to them that i don't really get much out of the genre anymore. still 'the cabin in the woods' is a great movie. every horror fan should watch it at least once.

i binged the first 5 episodes. it was pretty good. we need the god emperor to take over the known universe first.

you know how many movies were made about kids in a cabin in the woods stalked by monsters. just watch 'the cabin in the woods', it parodies all of them.

i suspect it will run provided you dont push the partcount too high or use too many mods. more ram would be better though. upgrade if you can.

ive heard it said that the periodic table is really just a quantum truth table.

i like full 6dof on ships that need to dock. on most probes i usually get away without it. i have, on occasion, docked ships without any thrusters except the main engine, sometimes to things that are spinning. goods thing ksp docking ports have strong magnets. warships would have large lateral thrust capability to dodge incoming projectiles. in almost all situations the main engine is still going to give you the best acceleration. i once did a probe with 3 ion thrusters and no reaction wheels, you could get 2 axis control with variable thrust. i later found that if you angle out 2 of the thrusters slightly, you could get rough 3-axis control. but this made the probe squirrely during burns (moving the com towards the straight thruster helped somewhat). i remade the design with 4 thrusters and that turned out to be a lot better. the cheatiness of ksp's reaction wheels has made me wonder if you can get 3 axis control out of just 2 thrusters. im not sure if reaction wheels can exchange momentum between axes, if they can then moving the momentum to the one axis with control authority for detorque might work. but then again im not sure if that is physically possible.

ive done that too. granted in different proportions.

i just keep adding it until the consistency is that of egg nog.

i made little lego adapters for the little 9g servos. you start by removing the mounting brackets with a dremel, and take the stickers off too. i used an axle peg, cut off the peg side with an exacto knifre close to the flange, sanded it down, super-glued it to a servo horn (the hub at least, i dremeled away the rest), and drilled out the center to accept the attachment screw. attach it to the servo. then you get an axle brick to line up the servo. then you build a jig out of lego and use hot glue to pot the servo between a couple 2x3 plates. they worked out pretty well. i have a lot of the old style technic (pre-studless) so these came in handy a lot. newer technic sets have a lot of transmission parts, and these little servos are excellent at shifting gears. you can also use them to actuate pneumatic valves.

household cleaners have a same effect. me and a certain girlfriend of mine were cleaning house. we finished early and had time to kill. nobody went to the bathroom in this case, but needless to say we both regretted the aftermath. pine sol, not even once. i should put that on the adulting advice thead.

im aware, my post was kind of a joke. did the iau ever pick an equation for determining what "clearing the neighborhood" means? last i read there were still a couple candidates.

also don't assume that human grossness is exclusive to men.

after owning the og lego rcx and the first nxt, they leave a lot to be desired. i didn't like visual programming, but both had quasi-c compilers available, which i preferred. they were limited by the official sensors, but third party sensors were available and both were documented well enough to make diy sensors if you liked dabbling in electronics (my go-to is lego technic + arduino/raspberry pi). the technic sets themselves are great for the mechanical parts. the lego motors are ok, but i like to get adapters for hobby servos and various motors and i have a 3d printer to make anything i dont need. i cant speak for newer smart bricks, but lego has always been good stuff. i suppose its a good place to start, good for kids, really good if you already have a number of technic sets.