JoeSchmuckatelli

When you do, you'll be famous... And we'll be able to say 'We knew cubinator back then' and 'that guy is outta this world!'

No one puts two people into a can that are not professional enough to overcome minor differences. There are plenty of trained people to take up a spot if necessary

Look into the woman who drove x number of hours in her Space Diaper to yell at another woman over a man.

I was studying this chart comparing Shuttle, SLS, N1 and Raptors thinking 'wow; those are some powerful rockets'. A little time passed before I actually even glanced at the left side of the chart. That Falcon 9 is total weak-sauce. Will never amount to much.

People have been cooking for 780,000 years. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/14/world/earliest-evidence-of-cooking-with-fire-scn/index.html

I think I just solved Global Warming. (Industrial CO2 shortage) --- CAPTURE IT! This is a crisis: the beer is flat. Prices of industrial CO2 are rising and stocks are dropping. Joking aside: Carbon Capture (from the atmosphere) is in its infancy and still very expensive and not available for industrial uses. Flat beer could be another byproduct of the energy crisis – DW – 11/15/2022

Ah crap - now I have to google all those terms! (which, tbh, is why I swim in these waters)

Global Warming affects all civilizations. Kerbals too must pay the price: Atlantis KSC1 is now a park for divers!

Bonus points if on every other body the game determines you're 'coming in hot' and starts playing the 'exciting times' music. (But please, no 'Waaamp Waaaa' when I pickle the Kerbal. Something somber. Respectful.)

I'm a little concerned about viewing gravity as an expression of expansion. Also, am I correct that when Einstein framed his thought experiments (like the person in the elevator not being able to tell the difference between inside a box at rest on the surface of the planet from being inside one under constant acceleration in space) - he was making analogies. I don't believe he was saying that experiencing gravity on the surface is exactly the same as being under constant acceleration. While they may be for practical purposes relatively indistinguishable, they are functionally distinct. (I accept that I'm being accelerated toward the center of the earth and resisted by its surface, which gives my mass weight, but I make the preceding statement/question because I don't think this next is true...) At least not to the point where you could say that infalling toward the center of the gravitational well of a planet and feeling your weight on your feet as the planet's surface resists your ability to infall further is the same thing as being at rest except for the expanding planet pushing against your feet creating the illusion of gravity. That seems a step too far. For gravity to be an expression of expansion the planet would have to be expanding in a way distinct from 'me' - I and the space I occupy could not be expanding similarly to feel the effect of the planet's expansion as gravity. If everything in this local space were expanding uniformly, I would be expanding, the ruler I use to measure things would be expanding, etc. and so I would not experience gravity as an expression of expansion. OTOH for gravity to be an expression of expansion me and my ruler would have to remain 'at rest' (or at least expand differently) from the planet, which would become measurably bigger all the time. ja?

Well, there was a movie with a lot of famous guys using EMP to do a heist in Las Vegas. (Not everything is politically motivated!)

Definitely one of the problems of too much cash in circulation. Rate hikes are certainly a tool - but there's also some interesting things going on that don't necessarily relate to too liquid of a lending environment. The jobs slice is quite interesting: from pharmacy workers to electricians (both non college-degree-requiring jobs)* America has a real need to revolutionize our work-force participation... and a big problem is the Educational Bias toward college degrees over solid vocational training.** Traditionally, employers have been willing to assist college-educated workers relocate - providing a good amount of liquidity in the highly-educated worker market, but vocational or trades workers were largely left to fend for themselves; if they could not find a good job locally, there was little being done to incentivize the skilled vocational worker to move to where the work was... which can result in industries stagnating or struggling due to a lack of qualified employees, and communities floundering with underpaid, overskilled workers with talents that lie outside of the local demand. In other words - we have a messed up supply and demand situation in our labor market on top of too much money lying around. In addition, Covid provided a shock that exposed just how precariously we were all hanging on to the wild ride of logistics these last few years. It was a completely ad-hoc 'system' that managed to work, but wasn't really designed and certainly lacked resiliency. (Just in Time is profitable so long as everything is cooking right along... but once there's a hiccup, all of a sudden Just in Case makes sense!). These issues are, of course, broader than just the U.S. Russia and Europe also report issues of trying to find talented vocational workers and yet very few people are talking about how to improve the situation by looking at the liquidity of labor piece: no one wants to pay 'low skilled' or 'low educated' workers to move... even if that worker is exactly what they need right now. Growing pains. * The latest worker shortage may affect your health: Pharmacies don't have enough staff to keep up with prescriptions (nbcnews.com) The State of the Electrician Shortage in 2022: New Data on the Impact of COVID-19 (borderstates.com) ** US Jobs Day: America Faces a Great Labor Shortage in 2022 - Bloomberg The Stigma of Choosing Trade School Over College | Department of Human Resources (sfdhr.org)

@SunlitZelkova You might find this interesting:

After your and @The Aziz's posts, I think the chances of the music shifting to something exciting right before I crash (again) are higher than ever!

Sorry - when I asked the question I forgot what thread I was in. Derp.!!!

Are those SS tiles?

Honestly, this line of thought does not seem that far off from my 'can we get a burn rather than a bang from nuclear fission' thread - the purpose being to harness great energy from dense material. As explained to me, nuclear reactions work vastly different from chemical - but I still respect the asking about unique ways to get propulsion and perhaps break our current reliance on the chemical fuels currently in use.

I sure hope that's not automatic, but rather something you have to engage. Playing KSP and seeing my drifting crafts maintain orientation to 'the fixed stars' while in orbit was an eye opening experience and taught me something about physics. In other words - I hope the 'improvements' over KSP don't make KSP2 'too gamey' - or lose some of the hard lessons elements in favor of improved gameplay.

@AlamoVampire and anyone else who plays MicroSquish Flight Stimulator: Anyone bit the bullet and bought a 4090? Also -- if you have not... What's the consensus on the Smart Guy forums about hardware and MSFS? I've a friend who I built a comp for (with a 3070) who all he plays is MSFS - and I don't know enough about where the game is binding up to advise him. Is the consensus that MSFS is benefitting from the new GPUs or is it still the thought that MSFS is limited by CPUs? Tango Yankee

USAF markings... How long before SpaceFarce tags it?

Love that we feel resentment (now) for what was not long ago the presumptive habit

I am fond of Hecate - she who faces the three ways - tis true. But it must be known that Persephone was my loudly proclaimed wrong answer to she who got the last word but never the first.

Tonga back in the news with a strong quake. The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 7.3 quake was centered 132 miles east-southeast of Neiafu, Tonga, at a depth of 15 miles. It predicted strong shaking but said the probability of serious damage or casualties was small. The U.S. Tsunami Warning System issued a tsunami advisory, which is one step below a tsunami warning. Tsunami advisory issued after powerful earthquake hits Tonga (nbcnews.com)

You Kerballed that answer up nicely

Trivia night fundraiser. I'm golden in the early rounds knowing "Trout Pout" and "Calvin and Hobbes". We're in the lead the whole night. Literally way out front. Closest team, helmed by one of my lawschool classmates was a massive 4 points behind us. Suckers. Whole team is excited; we are definitely winning the gold-colored plastic disk tonight! ... Comes down to the bonus round, Potpourri, 5 points each (vs 1) with no less than 3 science/history questions. I choke on dysphagia, thinking the answer given by my teammates did not smell right - and 'corrected' it - because I had had Covid and knew the answer. Gave Persephone the last word (but not the first) - I mean we're talking Juno here, and hell, we know she's vindictive, right? and finally, Mixed up what Deep Impact hit, telling everyone confidently that the Huygens probe used Deep Impact to hit Deimos and brought back samples using Osiris Rex.