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Magnetic Blood Artificial Gravity.... Safe-ish?
Gargamel replied to Spacescifi's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Speaking with over a decade in emergency medicine, to me this is a simple No. Body chemistry is a finely tuned balancing act. Adding too much of anything causes issues. See follow up post below Blood vessels are -not- structural. Applying internal forces to them will tear them to shreds This is a very very bad idea medically. Yes, they would be stuck to the floor, but would be also very very dead, with a very nasty case of acute morbid lividity. -
It really doesn’t give the modders anything to go on by merely yelling ‘please fix it!’ I would bet that if you supplied the requested info as found in the OP or the “How to get support threads” pinned in various places around the forums, it would go a long way to resolving your issue. Until then, they’re only guessing.
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For Questions That Don't Merit Their Own Thread
Gargamel replied to Skyler4856's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Did you see it's 1800 hp? Just tap the throttle and you'll be one with the seat. No issues. -
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I swear I've seen 4 motor race/super cars before. _checks notes_ Ahh yes.. Rimac makes (at least) one. That was the one that Hammond threw off a cliff in Switzerland. https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/rimac-ctwo-1888bhp-hypercar-track-2021-deliveries -
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Gargamel replied to Skyler4856's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Once at college we used a Zamboni to ice over a parking lot for street hockey. Guess it's a similar idea. -
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Gargamel replied to Skyler4856's topic in Science & Spaceflight
You think people complain about snow on cars? Wait till your.... thing... is laying down a nice slime trail... -
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Gargamel replied to Skyler4856's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Because wheels are the most efficient form of travel over even moderately rough surfaces. It's not the wheel that's the problem to evolve, it's the bearings. There are creatures that can curl up and roll quite quickly, but I'd have to imagine it's very difficult to maintain awareness over any sort of distance. And since they're only one wheel, they'll bounce way more than anything with a suspension. (Even man made one wheeled vehicles have some sort of suspension with rubber tires). -
There's been a number of threads on the forums here about custom controllers. There is/was a mod for interfacing KSP with an Arduino if that's your thing. Sadly my bookmarked link was to a version of the forums that no longer works, so I have lost the bookmark.
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Gargamel replied to Skyler4856's topic in Science & Spaceflight
The mod/floor option will work.... but shouldn't there be a formatting thing too? Where it knows the number of seconds and just displays it as Day/hour/minute/sec? A lot of race/super/hyper cars already do this for exactly those reasons. I had a friend who ended being a medic in another state, and we were talking shop one day years ago. They had ambulances that would scan the road ahead with lidar or something and adjust the suspension to compensate for potholes. I haven't seen anything about it since, I only have his word, but it makes sense for a smoother ride. -
You don't want to thermally melt snow on a roadway. In a lot of places, the temperatures can drop down below what a heater system can keep up with. If you have standing melt water on the road, oh looky, now we have a skating rink! And even if it stays warm enough to not refreeze on the road surface, that warming system only extends out so far. The snow will build up on the edges, and under the right conditions, now you have canals! Physical removal of snow is the only way to deal with it. Have the trucks dump the chemicals (salt, beet brine, etc) to prevent ice buildup, but keep those plows on the road (They're the same truck, so it's not hard). If your system requires physical removal to supplement the melting system, then your system is backwards. Having melting systems to supplement the physical removal.
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Bad science in fiction Hall of Shame
Gargamel replied to peadar1987's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Ok, I can buy that, it's obviously not canon (Nothing outside the movies is canon IMO *prepares for wookiepedia editors to descend in furious rage*), but it really fits the character. Especially since the, IIRC (and I probably don't), retcon they did in Solo was more about the pilot's / navigator's jump plotting skills than the ship itself. -
Bad science in fiction Hall of Shame
Gargamel replied to peadar1987's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Injecting math into Star Wars is like telling soccer players they can no longer take a dive. Just won’t happen. We’re talking about a series that made an entire movie simply to Retcon the fact the original creator did not know the difference between a unit of time and a unit of length. -
Mitutoyo makes arguably the best measuring tools around. And Froyo makes frozen yogurt.
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Gargamel replied to Skyler4856's topic in Science & Spaceflight
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What is a movie you know you watched but can’t remember the name of
Gargamel replied to purple_teeth_'s topic in The Lounge
Momento. -
I’m going to start a company to make calipers out of ice cream. It’ll be called Mitufroyo. (Sorry, really really niche joke.).
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The James Webb Space Telescope and stuff
Gargamel replied to Streetwind's topic in Science & Spaceflight
I don’t think it’ll be a problem for us that understand the really purty picshures will come eventually, but still.... can’t be any worse than Hubble’s firsts pic though.- 869 replies
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The James Webb Space Telescope and stuff
Gargamel replied to Streetwind's topic in Science & Spaceflight
I predict that after the decades of color corrected, slightly touched up, curated photos that Hubble released, there will be a collective “ahhh what?” From the general public when the first Webb photos get released.- 869 replies
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The James Webb Space Telescope and stuff
Gargamel replied to Streetwind's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Most accurate URL ever.- 869 replies
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Project Orion: A discussion of Science and Science Fiction
Gargamel replied to Spacescifi's topic in Science & Spaceflight
Which is fine if everything is unmanned. Once you through people in the mix, there's a limit to the acceleration they can tolerate and still survive. That limit is far below what an unmanned missile is capable of, so the missile will always catch the ship unless you can deal with your crew being reduced to paste. The human pilot/crew is the limiting factor in high performance vessels, even today. -
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