StrandedonEarth

Not allowed to use/bring your own? Makes a certain amount of sense, as it makes troubleshooting simpler when all the units are the same (hardware and software)

Thundering V8s in fast cars? Me too! Looks like an intriguing story behind it too...

That certainly seems true, but when it comes to reliability, you have to look at who's been building the machines lately. There should have been significant staff turnover between thirty years ago and now. Maybe I wasn't paying as much attention over the last thirty years, but my impression is that the Russian space program has had more anomalies than usual in recent years.

Yeah LEGO is fun. Being tasked with going through the bins of LEGO and reassembling as many as possible of the kits that the parts came from was not so fun. My kids are no longer allowed to play with the assembled kits because then they (the LEGO) ends up back in the bins, reduced to LEGO atoms. And I’m left resisting the urge to stuff the kids into the bins too Looking at the LEGO catalogues and drooling over some of the kits (Star Destroyer anyone?) is lots of fun. Looking at the price on those kits is not at all fun.

Do they still have the soccerball-cam up there? I thought external fly-around pics was something that they hoped it could be rated for....

But that view tho....

Probably too late now, but the best thing to do when you notice that you just did such an oops, is to press ctrl-z (undo)

Nice, I tuned in just in time for a picture-perfect launch and landing! Looks good to go for Flight 5!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuralink

My first video game was Pong, on Telstar hardware. It was the fancy version, with a “hockey” mode! And my cousin had Electronic Quarterback, and later an Atari console Anyone remember the toy car (Trans-Am?) that was programmable, with the keypad under the hood?

Yet they would also benefit from hybridization even more, given the mass to accelerate and decelerate. Also bear in mind that trains use electric drives, with diesel generation when not externally powered.

I've only been playing this game since 2013, and finally needed to use the object thrower to decouple something. A little un-intuitive that the unchecked checkbox says "unarmed" and one needs to check the box to change it to "armed." Took me a few minutes to figure that out. Then I had the speed set too high and it had no effect, just zipping through the target.

Because someone threw a tub of sour cream at you for eating all the salsa!

Reciprocating internal combustion engines (piston engines). About the only improvement left to make would be solenoids powerful enough to actuate the poppet valves directly, instead of using a camshaft. Aside from lighter materials, which applies to practically any tech.

Hmm, wonder why they keep slipping it? Triple-checking that everything is A-OK hunky-dory norminal?

Error 3.14159chomp: Pi is being eaten

Near the end of my shift I was putting stuff away. I tossed a roll of rubber (7kg or so) into the corner it came from, and it hit the (3/4”?) PVC water pipe coming up out of the floor. *SNAP* So then there was a 2m fountain of water gushing up from the stub of pipe, which had broken just below where it attaches to copper pipe, where the shutoff valve was. So I had to run and tell my boss, who was luckily in his office around the corner (sometimes he’s not even in the building), so he could grab the key and hustle to the locked utility room and try to figure out which valve is the master shutoff. So I spent the rest of the shift gathering up the shopvacs and sucking up the tens of gallons of water that had gushed everywhere. At least when I apologized to my boss, all he had to say was “[manure] happens...” If it was all metal pipe it wouldn’t have snapped. I think that was the last water pipe that hadn’t been caged off to prevent this sort of thing... At least it wasn’t like another job where a forklift driver (not me!) had hit an overhead natural gas line and didn’t even notice. Luckily that leak never found a spark. Another time at that facility a different forklift driver broke a sprinkler line. I could feel/smell the humidity moving though the warehouse...

You know, $10/kg would make mesospheric/stratospheric cremation fairly competitive with regular cremation. Another market to help get the flight rate up. Although there may be an ick factor for people living under the drop zone.... E: The ultimate way to go out in a blaze of glory. Terminally ill? Go out more at more than terminal velocity!

Sign? What sign? I didn't see a sign...

Today's earworm is...

You, sir, are a ModderGod. God among modders?

My stepmom always self-prescribed a few servings of a non-prescription sedative, widely available in the airport lounge, and even served in-flight!