JoeSchmuckatelli

Most places enjoy selling people bomb incendiary rocket precursor chemicals to the general public If that doesn't work - get on Chinese Amazon. You can buy anything there

Well in that case - let's just use coal. Steampunk Also: https://www.livescience.com/64487-steam-powered-spaceship.html

@kerbiloidwill you confirm whether the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Technologies is the actual developer? Cited in the first video. Russian FART? Seriously?

The fact that we can film a craft 80km high traveling at - what, mach 10? Amazing.

They must have made a couple of passes - the pilot's perspective makes it look like they flew a lot closer to the towers than the ground views. @StrandedonEarth Cool find!

What element makes up diamond?

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/02/venus-true-color-solar-system/621460/

NVM the fact that I am too GD big to fit in any of those. ... ..well, that's not true; I sat in an Astin Martin once and it was niiiiiice. Maybe. Just MAYBE if I won the lottery.... I'd get me ona doze!

That thing is SICK!!! Edit - My inner Teenager WANTS one!

This is interesting: Did an exploding comet help end an ancient Native American culture? - The Washington Post

Interesting - I just learned one of the downsides to EV in-wheel motors: Why don't EVs have four in-wheel motors? - EV Central

Some sci-fi book I read had the characters riding a sled - snow sled - that laid a frozen track down before it as it travelled.

That's the one. Wondering if a souped up concept would work. There was a Mercedes concept a while back that did COM shifting - don't know what happened to it Oh - no I get that... I meant in the suspension of the wheels. The articulating arms with a shoulder has interesting potential. Take the Hyundai concept and go nuts - that kind of thing. Would there be an advantage to modifying that for multi surface racing?

I did the brute-force neanderthal thing once I figured out how to use the commands. Then hid all the 'work' cells to just show output. Wasn't pretty, but it worked. They're doing it with traditional drive trains and suspensions. One of the big limitations for off-road vehicles is having an axle and gearbox hanging between the wheels. While I know there are lots of traditional articulating suspensions with massive amounts of travel... I'm riffing off an idea that (I think Hyundai) some company is doing for a boxy utility vehicle with the wheels placed on arms. The vehicle can even walk if terrain gets nasty enough - but IIRC its slow and awkward in the current iteration. Given that the shoulder, elbow and wrist have already been invented... I'm wondering why engineering doesn't mimic nature

Engineering question: If you made a vehicle with the shoulder and arm of the Boston Dynamics robot dogs, put wheels on it instead of feet, would that be faster and more adaptable to different terrain than traditional vehicle suspensions? (in other words, could a vehicle with all wheels suspended by a variable arm and shoulder/hip arrangement lower itself and shift its COM dynamically to perform better than most race cars on paved surfaces, and then extend the arms to be a capable off-road racer)? Obviously you'd have to program it for driving rather than walking - but its the dynamics of shoulders and arms and the ability to shift COM / raise and lower the suspension as needed and each wheel independent (and likely electrically driven) that I'm wondering about

They're professionals. You can't hope to compete

Oh yes... O very much so! SMH

This is possibly one of the coolest False Color images out there: The Milky Way’s center looks like contemporary art in this image | Science News Also: Earth has a second known ‘Trojan asteroid’ that shares its orbit | Science News

Satellites have located the world's methane ‘ultra-emitters’ | Science News

Um. No. I mean, technically you could fiddle with the exhaust pipe (jetting out a 3inch stream of 600-900 degree air and get some narrow melting - but the minute you try to increase the coverage area you lose all the heat during expansion https://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae454.cfm So no.

The countdown timer starts after the match is seeded. I think it's there so that potato-clock computer users have a chance vs the SSD crowd. Russian game: I'll give you one guess as to which one!

It was rare that I caught any sign of VBerg rocket launches from LA. (Freaky during the 80s). I've actually seen more launches while on vacation in Fla. Not sure why that is

That worked perfectly - thanks!

Running into a mental block. Appreciate some maths help (re: spreadsheet) Just for fun, I'm trying to write a formula or rather create a spreadsheet that will tell me how long I've spent staring at the count-down timer for a certain game. The timer is always 30 seconds. I also have the total number of battles I've played - but I want to make it 'general' so that I can run how much time has been spent staring at that timer for a player who's played 10,000 battles, 15,000 battles and so on. I want the output to be in Weeks, Days, Hours and Seconds. Problem is, I can work out each of those separately - i.e. know that a player who's logged 20,000 battles has spent 6.94 days or 0.99 weeks of their life staring at that countdown timer; but that's not the output I hope to achieve. What I'd rather output is something that shows a player with 25,000 battles has spent 1 week, 1 day and 12 hours, 47 minutes and 30 seconds* of their life staring at the timer. So how do I set up the spreadsheet to run the numbers, round to the nearest whole 'week' or 'day' and then send the remainder to the next column? Bonus, if there is no 'whole' (i.e. week), I'd like it to be zero; just showing 6 days, 17 hours, etc.? Thanks in advance for anyone willing to help me out! *(not the actual numbers, shown for example purposes)

A whole lot of this series has really seemed more like a 'montage' - you know, where they speed through a whole bunch of scenes to tell the backstory, just to be able to progress on to the main story. Rather than being a stand-alone series about Boba Fett... this is 'lets establish, re-establish cannon for the masses' so that Mandolorian and our future SW efforts make sense. The series thus, is an interlude, rather than a story in its own right. I could be wrong; if you're right and the rest of the episodes tell a cohesive "How Boba Fett becomes the Daimyo of Tatooine"... Maybe it will feel like its own thing.