cubinator

I find it interesting that PD was less than thrilled by the lack of art, and then KSP2 ended up being all art and no function. I'm glad the spirit is still alive!

Picked up Webfishing the other day. It's nice and chill.

Rain currently transitioning to snow here.

It's been a while, so here's some various interesting things I've done during the outage: -judged an egg drop -solved a 3x3 in 10 seconds at a competition -watched the sun rise -cooked some mealworms -went planespotting -went to a really exciting astrobiology lecture about hot springs -saw comet 2023/A3 move against the stars in real time -tried to solve 15 Rubik's cubes blindfolded

Thank you!

Oh geez, not this thread again already.

The computer you sent this message on can most likely pull off such a maneuver in a realistic simulation, in terms of raw calculation. Of course, the sensors gathering the data, computing and commanding control inputs on Starship are built a bit differently to survive being thrown into space, shaken around, and sending data across such large distances.

And it's only a little bit on fire! Awesome.

Today I visited my local impact crater! It was really cool to see the folded rock layers there and the central uplift peak sticking up out of the landscape, although most of the crater's original structure is heavily eroded and reduced to some weird hills.

I noticed my forecast was being overly optimistic during the day before it got dark. I ended up driving south, which felt pretty odd.

I have noticed during multiple storms the pillars don't point straight up, they're tilted a bit south. I wonder why that is.

I went out to some darker skies and saw some beautiful reds, back home in the city light now but can still see rapid flashing at the moment. Well worth staying up for!

I might not have evolved ears yet at the time...

How curious, I was also wondering today what the minimum size for central peak formation is.

I found out this week that I live 1 hour away from a meteor crater. Of course I'm making plans to visit it.

I saw ISS and Dragon last night, really cool to see Dragon going faster through the sky and hitting the shadow much earlier because it's lower.

Not sure if starting up engines would bring the risk matrix lower or higher in the case of, say, 1 lost chute, when the impact velocity is not that high Also I'm pretty sure starting up even just a pair of them would probably have enough oomph to counter all of the parachutes, since they're built to tear the capsule + full trunk away from the rocket at a pretty good clip.

Repairs, repairs, repairs! I replaced a busted outlet at my grandma's house, worked on upgrading my mealworm bins sealing up a couple unwanted holes and experimenting with a filtering mesh, and I opened up my electric piano that has a few dead keys and ordered the parts that I think will solve that.

You are welcome!

Not really, actually. I always 'got' it being named after Saturn, sure that's cool. You can make an argument that this vehicle is named after the stars or something, but the common use of the word is something fundamentally different. I'll never be any less stoked about anything Starship does over that, though. And it does incur a theme of being 'overly optimistic' that has been producing great things at SpaceX...

I don't think it's ever going to stop bugging me that they named this planetship "Starship".

SpaceX does seem pretty responsive generally. My first interview with them was tough too. I've gathered quite an extensive collection of questions I've been asked by them and others, though. Lots of fundamental questions about things like cantilever beams (stress, strain, etc.), fluid flow in a pipe or pressurized tank (pressure, velocity, etc.), and scenario questions that call on those physics concepts and engineering (what would you do if you were testing X system, how would you design something to perform Y function, etc.) Best advice I can give is pay attention in your various physics classes and spend some of your free time building stuff. Best of luck! I was so stressed out about waiting for an interview result a while back that I designed a whole submarine drone to distract myself. Also, if it's been a few weeks it's probably time to bug them for an update... Just always remember that it's not your fault you haven't gotten a job yet, it's a broken system and it's not your burden to fix it. There are millions of us. If you weren't ready then they wouldn't have given you a rocket scientist degree. Companies are wasting their time not hiring you.

A lot of the time something does say "entry-level" whatever, and in the qualifications they ask for a Masters degree and two years in industry. Sometimes I apply to jobs like these anyway, when they're interesting, despite requested qualifications being completely unreasonable. What are they gonna do, reject me? Probably not, actually. This time of year is good for looking for new-grad positions (they LOVE to post them right during midterm season...), I saw some at Sierra Space and Blue Origin lately. Although I've never gotten through to an interview on any company that uses that application-handling website. Mainly dry and vague automated rejection emails between midnight and 3 AM. I have found those job-posting sites unhelpful on their own, they are all full of automated junk. But they do help me become aware of companies that look interesting, where I can then periodically look up that company and see if they have anything open that's actually relevant and looks real.

Well, now that it's there...you may as well make a sword

No, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the tower flexing. Just that you can build dampening into the structure itself.