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TIL about "running W". Basically they tie ropes around a horse's legs and tighten them when they want to force a horse to fall. They used it in movie making to time the fall of the horse by tying the rope to a fixed point and galloping the horse by the camera. When the horse reaches the end of the rope, its legs are pulled up and it collapses. Basically every western movie has a scene or couple of them when the rider is shot and the horse falls as well (something that never made sense to me, but never thought twice about). This would often lead to horse being injuries and/or maimed. This liquides me off.

That thing sucks big time. One moment you're fine and healthy, next you're dead. RIP Grant.

Two of my ant queens laid eggs!

For Moon, at 1g you're looking at about a 4 hour flight, so just have the passengers sit in their seats. BTW, is it called flight? It certainly isn't a drive. It's a spaceship, but sail also doesn't sound right. It can't be a whooosh, since in space, no one can hear you scream. I'm confused. We need more space terminology.

Funnily enough, Scott Manley might have an answer for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by1xpy8ob8E Keep in mind that these balls were placed very close to the bomb, and destructive power drops faster than linearly with distance.

Helicopters are especially reliant on pitch control since they need it for up/down, but also left/right and front/back movement. Up/down, or more precisely, total thrust, is controlled by collective pitch where all the blades change their pitch in unison. Forward/backward and left/right movement is achieved by cyclic pitch, which changes pitch depending on where each blade is currently, relative to the helicopter body, so blades generate more lift on one side of the helicopter and less on the opposite. Cyclic pitch gives opposite blades opposite pitch adjustment. Of course, collective pitch is added to the cyclic pitch so there is no negative thrust (well there could be if the pilot so chooses and the mechanics allow it, that's how model helicopters can achieve those insane aerobatics). This model helicopter has the same controls as a full size helicopter (probably greater range of pitch control, but same type). The tail rotor on conventional helicopter is only used to counter the torque of the main rotor and prevent the entire helicopter from spinning in place. Other than that it has no purpose, which is evident from different configurations, such as two rotors on Chinook, or coaxial rotor on Ka-50. Those don't have tail rotors.

With 15% humidity, why are you not running evaporative coolers? Over here, humidity rarely drops below 50-60% during summer, so it's pretty ineffective since humidity becomes unpleasant, but in your case dew point should be around 45°F (7°C) so pretty good and quite a margin. I imagine it would also feel more pleasant in a slightly elevated humidity (as a side note, there are talks that link elevated humidity to lower transmission rates of corona virus). Anyway I'm at work, sitting in a basement at 23 °C and 64%, so it's fine, but not suitable for evaporative.

We don't talk about bugs in berries. We don't think about bugs in berries. There are no bugs in berries. There have never been bugs in berries. mkay?

Even if they're off by two orders of magnitude it will be a game changer. If they're off by one order of magnitude, they'll upend the space launch market, basically taking all the customers they can serve. The competition will scramble for scraps. If they do manage to hit the $2M mark, every other launch provider should just Alt-F4.

Recently, a supermarket offered several insect based foods, but it was quickly pulled off the shelves, since apparently in EU that stuff is not legal. So, I had the opportunity to go and buy some, but had absolutely no desire to do so. Lobster, shrimp etc, on the other hand, I'll have seconds, so I suppose it's cultural thing, just like I wouldn't pick just any and every mammal as my preferred food.

Oh, don't get me wrong, I agree with the idea to have a backup, but you have to continually assess both options and, in case of an egregious fault, step in. Decision to develop two systems should not mean being stuck with both at all cost with no option to cut ties with one that is fumbling. I obviously don't have access to all the intricacies of the deal between NASA and Boeing, but if I were some big honcho at NASA I'd be pretty peeved with Boeing and their apparent lack of quality control and overall approach, and demand quite a big software and general practices review. I'm not bothered by the fact that Starliner test mission failed, rocket science is hard, I get it. I'm bothered by how and why it failed, because, in this case, the problem wasn't rocket science, and that is indicative of some serious systemic faults in the Boeing management, which is much harder to fix than stuck valves, loose nuts or frozen o-rings. Also, NASA is not nearly firm enough with the language, not calling Boeing negligent, with only recently labeling the failure as "High Visibility Close Call". Seriously? That's the assessment?

Oh, how generous of them to offer to fix multiple deadly bugs before they put humans in there when client points their finger at them and order stuff to be fixed. Somehow, I think it's NASA that has a lesson to learn from this, the lesson being titled "Dropping Boeing".

Lady can rock.

I bought a metal cutting band saw. The thing is awesome. Fast and cuts beautifully. Not exactly dirt cheap, but with all the savings I'll be making on that elbow grease, it will pay for itself in no time. I did have to make a few modifications, though. Originally you had to stand there and push the GO button and the handle, which on bigger pieces would certainly get tiresome (not quite as tiresome as hacksawing, but still), so I ziptied the button to always ON (there are still ON/OFF buttons, so no lost control there) and installed a mounting for some weights. Now I can pop some weights and leave the saw to do it's thing mostly unsupervised. I still need to make an endstop so when the cut is complete it doesn't slam down (current endstop is not in good position for this type of operation).

$47.99, discounted from $159.99. HA! As my boss would say: "Tell me how big of a discount you'd like and I'll tell you the cost." Asks for all the payment info before specifying shipping costs? Nah, no thanks. The model aside, the site itself reeks of scam.

If you want to waste scammers time, much safer is to engage the ones that email you love letters, lottery winnings, and ultra rich orphans whose uncles are evil dictators. That way you can dictate the tempo to suit your desires and avoid rushing with decisions. Also they don't request access to your PC and you don't risk them being better than you. Just because you have a VM, it doesn't mean they can't detect it and bypass it. Once you give them access via TeamSpeak, or other more nefarious remote control software, they need only a few seconds to run a script that could make you sorry you ever decided to do that. Don't think they are stupid. While the people you may be on the phone with are not the best ITs, the guys that designed the scam are most definitely not idiots and certainly gave some nasty tools to the phone operators.

You open up yourself for potential trouble. I'd advise against it, unless you know very well what you're doing.

Surre, but I don't see why the method of drying would be relevant.

This is something you could actually try yourself if you have access to most basic of tools. Of course, you might have trouble freeze drying it, but why do you think that would make for a better rocket? Sun dry, crush, rehydrate to paste, press into shape (directly in rocket motor tube) dry again and supply with O2. Just make sure your family members don't realize what you're doing, or lab coat people may come for you.

I might find enough to cover two of the digits of that sum, as long as one is ~.

What confuses me is, if for an outside observer stuff can't fall below event horizon how is it that can we have black holes of different (greater mass? Shouldn't all black holes be equal sizes, just above black hole forming threshold size? Or does matter stop before reaching the event horizon but as more stuff falls inward the EH moves up to encompass the matter that previously approached?

An ant queen just strolled past my monitor, so I grabbed a Petri dish and adopted her. I gave her a cotton ball with water and another one with sugar water so she has a choice. I'm still not sure if I'll keep her, but if I do I'll have to make a nice enclosure for her and the babies I hope would come soon. She still has wings so it's not clear yet if she's going to be a mommy. I think she's a Lassius Niger, but I'm not an entomologys, so not sure. She fits the description and they are common in this part of the world, so it's fairly likely. So what say you guys? If she has kids, do I keep her? UPDATE: Another one turned up and by the time I got a new Petri dish I spotted yet another one. This mean I need names, and since I suck at name giving (looking over at kids named Boy and Girl, jk) the first one is provisionally called Anna. Beatrice was caught, but it took me a few moments which Charlotte used to hide in the mess of my desk. So, I grabbed yet another Petri dish and started digging on my desk, only to find not only Charlotte, but also Darla. Charlotte is rehomed, but Darla got away, at least until this part of this post update at which time I decided to take another look, and there she was, only to disappear out of sight again. So, in total... aaa there she is! BRB Caught her! Apparently nuptial flights are going on and there might be more, but I think four will be enough for now. I'll give them a week or so to settle down and perhaps decide which one to keep and release the rest. Also, I'm open for name suggestions.

...getting off your lawn...

In this case where there is a maximum of only one input key pressed at any given time, you can also use one analog input pin to monitor multiple buttons, each hooked up to a slightly different voltage divider. If you pick the resistors so that each button gives you half a volt different readout you can easily get 10 buttons on one pin and still have quite a big margin for noise. That being said, I'd still go for shift registers for outputs. Mixing inputs and outputs on the same pins requires careful sequencing, since a misstep will cause a dead short if any A pin and D pin (richfiles schematic) are set to output simultaneously and one HIGH while the other is LOW and a button is pushed. Controlling shift registers is dead simple using the shifter library. shifter.setPin (LookupTable [i], HIGH); //sets the pin HIGH to turn on an output shifter.write(); // sends the new states to the registers, only now the changes take effect Lookup table is to adjust for physical location of pins on the IC package and ease of PCB trace routing.

As if any of that was optional.