StrandedonEarth
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Alright it’s Game 6 time to send some oily butts packing!
GO CANUCKS GO!
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My laptop is experiencing a catastrophic display issue. I thought I saw some faint ghosts on the black screen at first, but after restarting I can’t even see that, so I think the backlight is toast. On a Friday afternoon going into a long weekend. Good luck getting it even looked at before Tuesday.
Ah well, the power jack needs replacing/resoldering too. And probably a cleaning. I know what to ask the kids for Father’s Day (everything tends to come early around here)…
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2 hours ago, king of nowhere said:
by the way, starship wants to use methane on mars. i suppose, to keep it cool for the nine months trip, they will use this system?
They said that the header tanks will hold enough propellants for landing on Mars. Seeing as the header tanks act as a thermos, they figure boil off should be acceptable
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Refrigeration requires power. It also requires somewhere to dump waste heat. Those systems also add mass. It may be easier to and less massy to add enough insulation and sunshielding to reduce boiloff acceptable levels.
ULA was looking into it with their ACES system, which would have burned propellant for power. It’s currently shelved, however.
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5 hours ago, AckSed said:
Idle thought: would the stacking arm count as the largest industrial pick-and-place robot?
If it works autonomously, not needing human control…
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$11M worth of fibre, nice!
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On 4/21/2023 at 5:06 PM, Vanamonde said:
"This shot has a 95% chance of hitting. " Misses.
"This shot has a 95% chance of hitting. " Misses.
"This shot has a 95% chance of hitting. " Misses.
"This shot has a 95% chance of hitting. " Misses.
"This shot has a 95% chance of hitting. " Misses.Etc. Why even show a number if it's nonsense?
"Chance of winning the battle: 95%" - loses
"Chance of winning the battle: 95%" - loses
"Chance of winning the battle: 95%" - loses*ragequit*
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3 hours ago, Skorj said:
The secret to beating the biters is
Focus your time on climbing the tech tree, rather than building elaborate defenses or lengthy attack runs. Tech makes a huge difference in firepower, so limit static defenses and biter nest clearing to the immediate problem at hand.
Hopefully your factory is growing well. I'm just wrapping up my latest megabase run, which I'm rather happy with, before setting the game aside again until the expansion.
SpoilerYeah, I tend to cheat and mostly ignore defenses until an attack does major damage, then decide if I want to repair the damage or load an autosave to reinforce the problem area before the attack.
Oh hey, as long as there's a Factorio thread, I made this years ago:
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Prolific producer Roger Corman died on May 9, at age 98. Roger Corman - Biography - IMDb
Interestingly, he outlived his obituary writer by a decade...
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Four Superheavies stuffed in a Superhighbay? Starting to look like a gun magazine in there.
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Clear skies here, but also light pollution. At best, after ten minutes outside as hidden from the plentiful ambient light as I could get, I could see a haze that could easily be mistaken for high, thin clouds, except it didn’t block the stars. But my iPhone 12 camera saw this ;
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20 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:
"No robot can replace the janitor!", were saying they.
Waiting for a video about the teslabot with a broom, being trained by a biojanitor to be replaced.
A robot doesn’t care what the mess is in the bathroom that needs to be cleaned up. It won’t gag or puke at the sight, or need a gas mask, etc. I think the janitor at my wife’s school would be happy to be replaced by a robot, considering the messes that get deliberately made in the boys room. And no, they’re not smoking in there…
Although the bot itself might need decontaminating after…
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18 minutes ago, Nuke said:
im wary of renewable energy that requires vast amounts of land to be converted to energy farms. just build nuclear reactors and let the critters have their habitats.
PV can be co-located with crops, which benefits certain crops, and adds habitat for pollinators and animal. Win-win-win. Search “Agrivoltaics”
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Isn't Centaur a balloon tank of hydrogen? No pressure, no strength; not an issue until the hydrogen boils off. Oh yeah, oops. Add on all the other systems to make it work. You want people on it? That thin skin will need MMOD protection, at least that could double as insulation. It also sounds like a one-way trip, and it has to get to lunar space first!
I don't see a Centaur-based lander working very easily (of course it can work, by applying sufficient funding). SLS is what we got trying to re-use Shuttle hardware, remember?
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1 hour ago, darthgently said:
Along with the predicted power requirements for compute
Yeah, it's getting to the point where data/AI centers will need to secure their own power supply. Maybe that'll drive investment in a new generation of nuclear power plants!
Yeah, I know, wishful thinking, too many hurdles. But that's part of why Microsoft is invested in fusion.
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1 hour ago, darthgently said:
I'm more concerned about the electrical infrastructure. Not the charging stations, that is easily solvable, but the grid itself. Just the raw cost of required grid transformers to support EVs as the majority is daunting. Much less installing them and upgrading capacity in general. I think every charging station cluster could have it's own pebble bed reactor to address this
Well, probably not a cure-all, but localized storage (buffer batteries) and PV-covered parking lots (and/or wind where suitable) can go a long way towards slowing down the need for grid upgrades
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30 minutes ago, Jacke said:
Battery pack relatively rapid wear and tear will also likely foul establishing battery pack swaps as an evenhanded service, if the very large technical and safety issues are managed. What company providing battery pack swaps will want to give away a new battery pack for one of uncertain age and performance? What car owner will want their newer battery pack swapped out for one--again--of uncertain age and performance?
Battery-as-a-service. You don't own the (swappable) battery, you lease/rent it. Depreciation is built into the battery owner's business model; besides, LFP battery cells are much more durable and much less prone to thermal runaway issues. Refueling a rentable ICE generator or fuel cell module (for recharging the permanent battery) would be no different than changing a propane-type cylinder or filling a jerry-can.
Battery-swap systems are already operating in China. China's Nio Lets EV Drivers Swap Battery Quick and Hit the Road (caranddriver.com).
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15 minutes ago, PakledHostage said:
A friend of mine works for a company that makes fuel cell transport vehicles (busses and trucks). Their design basically works as I have described. The fuel cell provides electricity for the vehicle's electric motor via a battery buffer. Those vehicles can drive off the battery alone; the fuel cell just augments the range. If I could buy a car with that concept that's big enough for my family, I'd buy it tomorrow. I instead, I wait and hope.
I still think the optimal concept would build off of battery-swap tech. Have a smaller built-in commuter-range battery coupled with a flexible, standardized swap bay that can hold a swappable module that can be a cargo tote, another battery, or some sort of generator or fuel cell, as needed.
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There was an article, either in this thread or the Science News thread, about tickling, but I was unable to search it up. Basically, it’s known we can’t tickle ourselves (the soles of the feet may be an exception, imo), but it was also noted that tickling yourself also makes you resistant to someone else tickling you at the same time.
This info has been very useful, since my wife enjoys tickling me, which drives me nuts and not in a good way. Now I can tolerate it once I can set up my defence, much to her disappointment and my relief
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Another routine launch, first one I've had the opportunity to watch in a while. I just put it on while watching the Make-Me-Laffs force Game 7. The game ended as the booster was coming in to land.
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What a plumbing nightmare. Dev version, I hope...
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7 hours ago, Flavio hc16 said:
For example, it is only thanks to the inspector general's office that the public finally got a full accounting for the cost of a single Space Launch System and Orion launch—$4.2 billion. NASA, for years, obscured this cost because it is embarrassingly high in an age of increasingly reusable spaceflight.
Ouch!
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I suppose the most amazing part is that these last two twentieth launches were for customer payloads, not starlinks…
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27 minutes ago, DDE said:
That's either a Lancet in a very strange disguise, or someone is having way, way too much fun with a model airplane.
Or model rocket, possibly. My brother had one back in the 80’s…
The Rest In Peace thread: Producer Roger Corman, May 9, 2024
in The Lounge
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Such good boi! Much wow! Much mourn!