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  1. What level are we talking? I have no experience with spanish but managed to get a good grade in french GCSE (an exam we take in the UK around the age of 16) with zero latent talent for languages (and no external exposure) just by writing down sentences (in both languages, using references materials) over and over and over again. Bottom line is, unless you are actively trying to become fluent in another language, you are just trying to pass a test, not become bilingual.
  2. p1t1o

    Shower thoughts

    Simple, you just have to use the Schwarzs
  3. Thats actually a complicated question that needs to take into account a great many things that are different between a modern fighter. eg: At low speeds (Im taking a Sopwith Camel as my example, top speed ~110mph) a "high aspect ratio" wing is best (long, stright and narrow) which naturally have excellent stall/AoA characteristics, but at higher speed exhibit much worse drag than other planforms. But very simply put, a biplane (or aircraft of similar ilk) has a low stall speed and high manouverability mainly because they are made of wire and fabric (fully fuelled masses in the region of 5-800kg, pilot can make >10% of aircraft mass!), thrust-to-weight ratio can indeed rival modern aircraft (although perhaps not so much with VERY modern jets which just have ridiculous engines! Also advances in composite materials that drop mass)
  4. Looks like a nice day in.....Siberia??
  5. p1t1o

    Good Bye

    In fact, almost every game I've ever owned! To be honest, I got everything I wanted from KSP already, quite a while ago (I really went for it though, hundreds of mods). I have more hours on KSP than any other game I have ever played. There is no game that is perpetually playable, nor any game that can remain "the best" perpetually - there are excellent new games coming out all the time. What I can say though, is that there is no other game that I have remained an active member of the community for, especially once the game leaves my "current" list. I think that is a great comment on the quality of the game itself, the developers and the community which they have attracted (one of the best, all-around communities on the web IMO, whether you're into rocketry/science or not.) So Long Doc, have fun out there!
  6. It wont "get better". But you can "make it better". There are actions you can take to improve your circumstances, and by far the best action you can take is communicating openly with other people, which is what you have done. So I think you are close to being on a better track. I dont have professional, hands-on experience with treating depression, but by far the most common and most widely respected piece of advice is simply to talk. Not about everything to anyone, of course. Make intelligent choices. But talk. I can easily believe that depression makes this harder, puts up obstacles to communication, or strongly discourages you - symptoms of the disease, not personal mistakes. And this is why I think that it is true that communication in almost any form is the best advice. To be brutally honest - because you are not the only person with depression, and countless people build lives despite the challenge. I say that not to be harsh or condescending, but to show that it is possible. FWIW - I dont have depression but have had my share of very sad things happen. I didnt know what to do or where to turn and was spinning. I talked to my parents basically because I had no other options. I was shocked at how much just talking helped. It might sound simplistic, suggesting that merely mouthing the words could have a significant impact, but like I said, I was shocked.
  7. p1t1o

    Shower thoughts

    Does a burger in the bath count? I can recommend it
  8. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2881301/Orion-astronaut-s-point-view-Nasa-reveals-video-historic-entry-capsule-arrives-Florida-base.html Disclaimer - I wouldnt normally distribute links to "The Daily Mail" but they had the picture I wanted. Please do not rely on it as a robust source of scientific data.
  9. Sadly, the google results for "4d hypersandwich" were disappointing.
  10. Tacos are clearly a type of cracker. Functionally and morphologically.
  11. p1t1o

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    Sideways butt.
  12. I get that. Many things are hard to put into words. Best wishes bud.
  13. Apologies if Im trying to teach you to suck eggs, limitations of the medium and all that What is your definition of failure? Quality not good enough? Make mistakes? Perceived failure to transmit feelings to paper? Something less easily described? *** I have a synthesiser, in form its a box with randomly arranged knobs and buttons. I didnt know how to work it when I got it, but I had some experience with the piano, am technically minded and knew what I wanted to do. So I started teaching myself. Im not very good, but after hundreds of hours I have managed to create maybe 2 or 3 "things recognisable as music". Its a creative outlet but my fulfillment is not dependent on "success". Or maybe it is but "success" during one session might just be "successfully trying" something that I have heard or want to create, rather than the production of any tune or song or anything that could remotely be described as "complete". I am afraid of putting my mind to say, deliberately creating a song or piece of music, because its hard and I might never succeed. I might spend a year and get something that sounds to me, great, but to everyone else, like derivative trash. But what I do do, is pick it up every now and then and dabble. Sometimes for a few minutes, sometimes for hours. Sometimes I completely fail to create the sounds I want and its nothing but trash. What I enjoy is the "ability to try", I think. I do have some musical ability, and there is satisfaction from the conventional success of actually making music, but theres more...it is not easy to put into words. Im not trying to say that this is the same as what you are experiencing, but I thought it might be parallel enough that there might be something useful there Not being able to stop thinking about your potential and possible failure to meet potential might be something worth talking about in and of itself, with someone you trust.
  14. My first thoughts were related to issues surrounding being a 500ft tall lizard in the first place. For example, it cant have bones made of bone otherwise it would be a dead puddle of flesh. It could have solid, monolithic steel bones but would probably sink into the ground. Its debatable whether any material would be able to support its structure, especially with the movements it would want to make. It must have solid metal wires as nerves as well because with biological nerve conduction speeds (~100m/s give or take) it would have crippling coordination problems. So in other words, in the real world, Godzilla is a dead, twitching puddle of liquified flesh. That much meat would literally flow like a fluid, which would be a small catastrophe in itself. Unless it was literally a skyscraper. Or its made of impossible materials. In which case screw it, all bets are off. Lets give it wings and an electric guitar.
  15. While a sub might be "attached" to a battlegroup, they do not keep station with it, or come anywhere near it. A sub travelling at ship cruise speeds is a sitting duck that cant see. The sub will travel days or weeks ahead and do its sub thing well in advance of the CVBG arriving.
  16. Alternative tack - Why draw at all? Dont you like drawing? Forget the result, just do it to enjoy it, the result need not always matter. If you dont enjoy the act of drawing, then dont push yourself to draw and forget how good you think you are and try something else that actually brings you satisfaction rather than anxiety. But if you do enjoy it, or see yourself enjoying again, then you need to practice. Expecting to be good without first being loads and loads of bad is kind of....ill advised, to put it generously. There are extremely few individuals int his world that are good at anything without lots of practice, and lots of being bad at it. But discard it if it brings you nothing. (Dont worry about wasted "potential", we are all "potentially" a lot of things, we cannot run with all of them.) What Im getting at is, why is the prospect of perceived failure bringing you so much tension? Failure is not, in-and-of-itself, necessarily a tragedy. Your education or livelihood do not depend on it right? Do you feel you are wasting your time? Fine if you dont enjoy failure, but unless something is riding on your success, I dont know why you'd torture yourself. Find something you enjoy. Something you enjoy so much that even failures bring you satisfaction. Im a martial artist and I appreciate losing in bouts. Why? Because 1) theres is ALWAYS someone that can beat you, regardless of your skill level. Therefore a degree of failure is more than inevitable and it would be folly to take that as a bad sign. 2) You learn more from failure than success. In fact in martial arts, you learn next to nothing from a victory. Ergo, if I lose a bout, im a better fighter already. If I win, Im the same person who walked in the door earlier. So: why draw?
  17. Hot dang, that IS a plane isnt it Top 5
  18. p1t1o

    Shower thoughts

    I feel like...like aeroplanes are closer to air-fish than they are to birds.
  19. I already was Burt Rutan's planes all look like coathangers anyway.
  20. It does have the largest passenger capacity ever, and since its more modern, should last longer. So it follows that fewer would be needed by the global airline community at large and that production would not last forever. Besides, production will only close until they come up with an A380-400-ZX49000 model to "wow" investors with at a later date. FWIW - IMO the A380 is one of the best looking aircraft ever made. I said it so what fight me.
  21. Pff. knowing my luck and this world, I'll probably have to do a Gattaca.
  22. Each morning I think about how the chances that I arrive at the office to find all my colleagues standing around a freak meteor crater where the office used to be, are technically non-zero. Or how maybe society will suffer a total systems failure and we'll all have to live post-apocalytic mad-max lives from now on. I wonder which one is more likely?
  23. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_F-82_Twin_Mustang Increased speed and endurance!
  24. Guys, you've all still got your lenscaps on
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