cubinator

I have been learning how to solve 3x3 Rubik's Cubes blind, and have been getting more consistent today.

I saw the Space Shuttle launches on TV and at the science museum at a young age, and saw the kinds of things that astronauts do, and became massively excited about all those things. It quickly became my goal to be an astronaut, and now I'm in my last year of college going for an aerospace engineering degree. I think rocketing off into space is just about the coolest thing I can do, and I'm still set on that goal even if it takes me a lot of failed tries. My mentality is that every moment that passes is more anomalous than the last, so even the tiniest chance is worth pursuing, and the only way to truly fail is to give up.

My first instinct is to connect the tips of the blades with a big circle, sometimes you see this on toy spinners. It'd be bulky, but we're talking about something that's supposed to carry an enormous weight anyway. Maybe it'd end up being even closer to a solid disk than that. Especially since that ring is going to be under extreme and random stress from interacting tip vortices. I know helicopter airfoils are typically thicker than fixed wing ones to increase strength.

I want the game to be astronaut training.

Well they don't break down above Mach 1, they just change. The issues arise at the transition point near Mach 1. You might be able to make the wing geometry work out so that the part of the wing near M=1 is very narrow. Most airliners today fly with wings designed to minimize the negative effects of transonic flight and fly near Mach 1 (swept wings, adjusted thickness profile...) You might be able to apply some of these to a rotating airfoil

Maybe it would look more like a Ferris wheel on its side, a huge circular structure with holes in it, perhaps even kind of like a cheese grater.

I wonder if that'll turn into one of those "hundred years' notice" things that I expect...one can hope.

Maybe Shaun the Sheep, but unfortunately Lego minifigs have Orion beat as they have traveled to Jupiter... https://brickipedia.fandom.com/wiki/Juno_spacecraft_figures

It appears the DONUT system has failed.

Astronauts (some of the time)

The engine exhaust climbs up the side under the landing legs because the pressure is low there. It's just a quirk of fast-moving air.

That looks like a step toward terraforming the Earth!

It does occasionally get visited by a group of very observant people riding trucks and helicopters.

Here is a table of specific heats of various materials, ice and cork are pretty similar with cork being around 1.9 kJ/(kg*K) https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/specific-heat-solids-d_154.html Liquid water is quite a bit higher but I doubt you'd get it to stick around long enough to capture much heat in that kind of airstream.

Aren't there better ablatives than ice? Lighter ones? Like cork, which also is pretty non-toxic.

In MATLAB, "6/2*(1+2)" yields 9. "6/2(1+2)" yields an error.

I know how hard it is. As much as I can, I want to be sure I'm not hurting someone with things I invent.

Hello all, I'm going to be graduating with a bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering next May after lots of calculus, vector math, and potential fields, and I am compiling a list of interesting companies/organizations that I might like to work for. I am interested in all non-military applications of flying vehicles and space technology, from personal electric aircraft to space stations to nuclear power and, yes, bug farming. So, have you heard of any interesting aerospace companies, large or small, doing something cool that has never been done before? In the news, in a documentary, or online? Just drop the name of the company here and I'll check them out. I'd greatly appreciate it!

Star Wars doesn't need realistic planets. Just look at Utapau, or Naboo.

Yeah I think I'll tend to follow PEMDAS letter by letter in cases like these. Otherwise, I'll have to consult whatever programming language it happens to have been typed into.

Just don't stir the oxygen tanks...

https://imgur.com/a/dI9hJaT I made a little jaunt to my favorite miniscule moon.

The issue with an impact on a gas planet forming a moon is that the debris would mostly be, well, gas. So I wouldn't expect a solid rocky body to result from that particular event. But I do hope there are such moons out there.

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