JoeSchmuckatelli

FICSMAS Um... yeah. Just got a "Totally Normal Gift" That was fun.

I did a variant of this back when I was slow playing the first phase - but it was a combo of guts leaves and wood making solid biofuel - which carried me through oil and coal (yep, I built out backwards). Thing is that once I had oil and coal hooked up the biofuel generator farm stopped working. Even when I was over utilizing electricity and the breaker would trip - I'd discover zero biofuel had been consumed. I figured it would act like backup power (chewing biofuel when I needed power in excess of the renewable sources) - but apparently once you hook up a renewable source the game stops drawing any power from biogenerators ever. Is this a known bug or a feature

So - my minimalist strategy seems to be fine. I'm nearing completion of Phase 4 Space Elevator items having built exactly ONE producer of each part. I'd read that Nuclear Pasta via Particle Accelerators took a LOT of power and decided to build a new fuel farm (HOR + Rubber & diluted fuel) = 30 generators. Not a small project. Needing to keep returning to base for stuff, I got bored and built out a single normal node of Copper that could produce 100 Copper Powder p/m - which is exactly what I need for one Particle Accelerator. Seeing that I had excess power I built my first one. That thing is now my favorite thing in all of Satisfactory. The startup sound is epic! I'm back at the fuel farm getting close to completion and... It looks like a side quest b/c the time it's taken to build out has allowed the single PA to churn Nuclear Pasta almost to full. (Mind you - this side quest also includes building DD capacity and fixing a bottleneck or two. ...all of which is to say that my experience is vastly different from what gets shown in media about the game.

Meaning we should see efforts to land there and do things in a reasonably short time. Likely much shorter than I was waiting for the completion and launch of JWST. I.e. My kids might see people on Mars before they have kids. On the flip side - once we get there, we might do Moon Landing things for a while and then not return for decades. There is no telling what the economic and political situation of the next few decades will bring. The technology to do anything productive or profitable still needs to be invented. Honestly - the thing I'm excited to see SX do is land a truly monstrous rover with lots of capabilities and sample return. Something that looks like a repurposed military 8x8 with arms and excavators / drills galore. That is maybe something I can see in the next ten years. I just don't want to see the 'one way trip' scenario (even if there are people who would volunteer).

Okay - thank you for NOT spoilering this for me. I just unlocked Dimensional Depots for the first time. This is part of the game I enjoy - figuring stuff out. And I just figured out how to make my life easier. ... which, now necessitates another "Adventure". Grin!

So... Hard to quite put into words - but I am kinda frustrated with the Satisfactory community. Problem is, you never get close to the answer you are looking for. Anyway - got me to thinking about how good this community is and has been. We've been really fortunate with this place!

Getting ready to start on that. I finally have a working Aluminum and Battery factory running off a single baux node. Shrug - guess I'm a minimalist! I will say that 'adventures' are a lot less hairy with the hazmat suit, appropriate filters, inhalers and homing rifle rounds. In retrospect, going after jumping radioactive gas spiders with a xenozapper and a handful of nuts was, in fact, suicidal. (Also - let say that I love the design choice that spiders hate everything.)

Google researchers... use GPS signal measurements pulled from millions of anonymous Android mobile devices to map the ionosphere. Google used millions of Android phones to map the worst enemy of GPS | Popular Science The blue dots in the graphic above show several regions where the Android ionosphere map exceeded the accuracy of monitoring stations. Credit: Google Researchers ...compared the Android phone map to measurements from a database that includes readings from monitoring stations around the world. The phone method greatly expanded coverage, particularly in areas of India and Eastern Europe where there’s a lack of monitoring stations. In the image above, the blue dots show roughly 100,000 locations around the world where sufficient numbers of phone measurements were available to help map the ionosphere. That’s compared to just 9,000 monitoring stations. “In many parts of the world, the performance of our model is equivalent to using the state-of-the-art global ionosphere map fit on measurements from monitoring stations,” the Google blog post reads.

Reusable sustainable,

As long as it's all written in French, there should be no problem.

I'm looking forward to the day when nations don't really get a say in whether the internet is on or off and anyone with a phone can tap into the web

So... We need two sample return missions. If the sample is as close to Mars chemistry as the moon is to Earth - impactor is correct. If the sample is not, then capture. Except - Olympis Mons sticks out of the atmosphere - and could have splattered the moons with Mars stuff - so we will need a follow up mission to DRILL BABY DRILL!

Dark "energy appears to be changing or weakening over time. If that is indeed the case, it would upend astronomers’ standard cosmological model. It could mean that dark energy is very different than what scientists thought — or that there may be something else altogether going on.* https://apnews.com/article/dark-energy-desi-cosmology-astronomy-7856ae96fab5cb42e6b4a6fd7c3555ec

If you recall the days of cheap dial up... would you go back to save money? FWIW - I see homeless people with cell phones. How that works, I don't know - but they do. So it's not just for the rich - it's practically required to have connection. I think if you can imagine someone getting on their phone and NEVER losing connection to the internet, never having to switch wifi - or even have wifi - and cell service - and cable... I'm serious; once ubiquitous, everyone will have it. And the cost will be the cost - borne by everyone, one way or another

I think they're looking at the direct to cell service - just another $100 per month!!! -- Which will then become so ubiquitous that we almost feel like it's a necessity rather than a nice to have. Honestly, if someone offered me a chance to buy into a company offering gigabit wired service to homes... I'd not really see that as much of a growth model as I once would have. Always on, wireless direct to satellite full time internet access? Once the cloud/snow/rain/indoors thing is figured out - there's likely to be a lot fewer linemen outside of power distribution.

The impressive thing for me is the buoy cam; tells everyone they hit their mark. Entirely possible. But as a "Get tons of stuff to space" platform - I'm guessing we can all agree that the capability is there (for expendable stage, if not yet routine reuse). Still, this is the 'farthest along' of any 'land massive stuff on Mars' program. Possible that SS won't be the final product. Imagine the excitement, however, once they start trying to land there. From a "gotta start somewhere" perspective - this is pretty much 'somewhere'.

... and we are fans. Kinda like Apollo or Shuttle. Can't keep interest for long when Dr Oz is in the newz

So... Comment. One of my kids who I got all excited about this in class looked it up in the news and asked 'why isn't anyone reporting on this - why isn't it front page news?'. Gave the usual reply. Politics. Celebrity gossip, etc. But I now perceive more. SX is succeeding in making it feel routine. Case in point - remember the sheer number and speed of posts for SN15?

Well played, sir

Booster is drifting. Wind. FTS might be triggered at some point

Noodled about the other day laying in a new train line to the NW NitroGas node, bringing over sulfur for future use and setting up blenders to produce cubes and cooling systems. Required a drone port b/c of how I set up my hubs and 2 drone ports to extract the products to send it to the next stage of manufacturing. Simple enough process... Except I kept running out of key ingredients - like concrete, steel plates, iron plates, copper, batteries radio control units, computers and etc and etc. Mind you... Not all at once. Sequentially. I'd run out of something - take the long train ride back to where I made stuff, another long train ride back to the site - run out of a different something, necessitating another long train ride... Rinse and repeat and repeat and repeat. Wondered why I kept making so many stupid mistakes. It was 3am Yeah. That's Satishfaktry

Tuesday? Poo. I will have to watch the replay. Maybe - just maybe - I can run it during class.

I see that on my horizon. Just unlocked the advanced aluminum. Will probably spend a bunch of time getting that and my current runs optimized first. Amazing to think that I'm actually considering this. Usually quit after getting to Aluminum. I credit my overbuilt rail network!

So I spent two days somewhat flabbergasted by the numbers you're suggesting. Aside from coal nodes for power - I've got 2 nodes mined for iron and 2 nodes mined for copper (uh, make that 3 since 1 is dedicated to the aluminum plant)... Aside from that all other production comes from single node sources. One caterium, one quartz, etc. I thought, 'there is just no way I'm gonna need all that stuff'. Until I got supercomputers and radio control units going. 1 manufacturer, each. Backwards planning how to increase the throughput to triple SC and RCU production? Yeah. I'm gonna need more trains.

War Monger. Everyone knows that eggsats are offensive weapons!