magnemoe Posted September 30 Share Posted September 30 5 hours ago, DDE said: Sometimes these older portals were a lot easier to understand and navigate... Probably because they was designed by engineers to be functional rather than designers to look good, functionality is not very important. And the information you want to find, google it. And google if I type in an url I have to add https or the first 10 hits is for sponsors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimera Industries Posted September 30 Share Posted September 30 Today I took it upon myself to read a scientific article about meteor crater formation, for a world-building project I'm doing. I wanted to know how big of a crater I could have on my planet and still have just a single peak in the center, instead of a ring of mountains. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted September 30 Share Posted September 30 22 minutes ago, Kimera Industries said: Today I took it upon myself to read a scientific article about meteor crater formation, for a world-building project I'm doing. I wanted to know how big of a crater I could have on my planet and still have just a single peak in the center, instead of a ring of mountains. How curious, I was also wondering today what the minimum size for central peak formation is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimera Industries Posted September 30 Share Posted September 30 1 minute ago, cubinator said: How curious, I was also wondering today what the minimum size for central peak formation is. All I know so far is that the threshold size depends on gravity, it's larger for low gravity, and smaller for high gravity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanamonde Posted October 1 Share Posted October 1 6 hours ago, cubinator said: I found out this week that I live 1 hour away from a meteor crater. Of course I'm making plans to visit it. Didn't you hear the kaboom? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted October 1 Share Posted October 1 10 minutes ago, Vanamonde said: Didn't you hear the kaboom? I might not have evolved ears yet at the time... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted October 4 Share Posted October 4 (edited) On 4/14/2023 at 10:40 PM, DDE said: Slightly more than a month ago someone at work mentioned something about a space-themed outing at the VDNKh. Naturally, your truly turned this from an offhand comment into a plan. Attendance was terrible, a mere four people besides me, owing to several concurrent ***********s at the office, and I may have to work on a Sunday, but it was worth it. Was repeatedly approached by staff for unauthorized tour guide work and was eventually kicked out due to the museum closing at 21:45. Dear forum, I nerded out so hard I got the cops called on me. I went and did it again, with almost four times the company, and I had to raise my voice a bit. So the official tour guides raised a stink. However, it was folly of them to try to outargue almost a dozen people who earn a loving through the gift of gab. We quickly determined that they didn't have a definition of an unaccredited tour guide (which they accused me of being) in their regs, and that the available definition was utterly circular (a tour guide is someone accredited to be a tour guide). Their own criteria of "sounds professionally knowledgeable" were, well, not in any regs. So I went on about von Braun and GIRD. By the time I was around Vostok, they called their rent-a-cops. Those were a bit more aggressive, but did not cough up any useful legal grounds. We explained to them at length how they couldn't even make me leave, and went on. So they did call a cop, AKS-74U over the shoulder and everything. The guy wasn't impressed, and after another round of heckling he seemed to try to save the museum any further embarrassment, and then left. The rent-a-cop tried claiming I can only continue the visit while mute, but then the guide-in-chief knocked it to just me getting an accreditation next time. (I'm grinning so hard it hurts) Edited October 4 by DDE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlamoVampire Posted October 4 Share Posted October 4 It wasnt today or even yesterday but wednesday. I had some time before returning home from my moms funeral and burying her, which ill never get over, but, I went back to the USAF Museum. Its changed so much in the twenty years I was last there. I saw the Memphis Belle, Bockscar, an SR-71 and YF-12. I saw so much more. I feel guilty having enjoyed it given my current state. 154610042024 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimera Industries Posted October 4 Share Posted October 4 (edited) 45 minutes ago, AlamoVampire said: It wasnt today or even yesterday but wednesday. I had some time before returning home from my moms funeral and burying her, which ill never get over, but, I went back to the USAF Museum. Its changed so much in the twenty years I was last there. I saw the Memphis Belle, Bockscar, an SR-71 and YF-12. I saw so much more. I feel guilty having enjoyed it given my current state. 154610042024 Don't be. Fun experiences are worth it, and are better for mental health than most realize, surprisingly. Edited October 4 by Kimera Industries Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSaint Posted October 6 Share Posted October 6 (edited) Got back this afternoon from hunting all weekend with Thing #1 and Thing #3. It's #1's last year as a junior, he has to apply for tags as an adult starting next year. <sniff> It's #3's first year out, so I guess it is a passing of the torch of sorts. Everybody has struck out so far, although #1 did take a shot at a beautiful 4x3 buck, but it was a tough shot and he missed. We have all week. Edited October 6 by TheSaint Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimera Industries Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 The Wikipedia page for Theia (the hypothetical protoplanet that collided with the early Earth to form the Moon) has a tag at the top suggesting that the page be merged with that for the Giant Impact Hypothesis. Chew on that for a second. Gave me a good laugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlamoVampire Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 well ive decided to twist the knife in my heart. Im doing (all be it the wrong time of day, aircraft, and day) the same flight my momma took just a week and 1 day ago. Also realized how out of touch i am with the 737-700. The 777-300er and its heavier automation for cabin pressurization has eroded my touch a bit in the 737-700 lol. 233010082024 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlamoVampire Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 I just completed the flight… i expected to feel… not numb from it… 004710092024 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuke Posted October 11 Share Posted October 11 so girl who was emailing me for two months and then fell off the internet a month ago called me today. i thought she gave up on me. i still dont know her name or what she looks like, but she sounds nice. On 10/8/2024 at 8:30 PM, AlamoVampire said: well ive decided to twist the knife in my heart. Im doing (all be it the wrong time of day, aircraft, and day) the same flight my momma took just a week and 1 day ago. Also realized how out of touch i am with the 737-700. The 777-300er and its heavier automation for cabin pressurization has eroded my touch a bit in the 737-700 lol. 233010082024 my complaint about the 700 is the seats are too close together. its better on the 900. even the combi we used to have was well spaced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted October 12 Share Posted October 12 20.6 km of foot across much of downtown Moscow. I think this was the last sunny day this autumn, so totally worth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimera Industries Posted October 12 Share Posted October 12 (edited) Today I discovered the single greatest action figure in existence: Plans are underway to send a mission to ebay in order to excavate it from the lunar regolith. However, a study of its advanced alien construction techniques suggests it might be possible to replicate it using known methods. Edited October 12 by Kimera Industries Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuke Posted October 12 Share Posted October 12 im still partial to the cat lady action figure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted October 13 Share Posted October 13 Today I visited my local impact crater! It was really cool to see the folded rock layers there and the central uplift peak sticking up out of the landscape, although most of the crater's original structure is heavily eroded and reduced to some weird hills. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunlitZelkova Posted October 13 Share Posted October 13 4 hours ago, cubinator said: Today I visited my local impact crater! It was really cool to see the folded rock layers there and the central uplift peak sticking up out of the landscape, although most of the crater's original structure is heavily eroded and reduced to some weird hills. I love local stuff that's 1000+ years old. The best I was able to hope for back in Oregon was imagining there are giant sloth fossils under my feet as I go on walks around the neighborhood, which is right in the northernmost area of their range. There's exposed strata out in the Columbia River Gorge but that's a good hour away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BA-Forums Posted October 14 Share Posted October 14 (edited) went on BART to fleet week on saturday. Fleet Week itself was fun, because they had an F-22 and F-35, along with a bunch of other planes, but i liked riding BART the best. Edited October 14 by BA-Forums photo didnt load Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimera Industries Posted October 14 Share Posted October 14 Yesterday I got up at 5:30 to see the Starship Flight 5. This is history being made! A rocket got grabbed out of the air! Plus, something else I got to see that got a little overshadowed by the awesome booster: we got live feed from a spacecraft, going through reentry, continuously until landing. Every book, news article, or movie I've seen dealing with reentry has had to explain communications blackout from the plasma ions. We now have a communications network powerful enough to break that 'rule.' If I were in charge, I wouldn't have even thought of trying to circumvent it. I would have accepted it as a 'given.' SpaceX is pushing the envelope in all directions and I like how it's expanding. I watched Europa Clipper live. I eventually had to turn off the live chat because people were going "wait the boosters are all being expended" every three seconds and someone would explain for the nth time that yes, all the boosters are being expended because Jupiter is very far away. I even waited around for the spacecraft to detach from the upper stage and for the acquisition of signal. I had a lot of free time. Also, I made my first edit of Wikipedia! Check out the section on the Saturn encounter on the Pioneer 11 page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted October 29 Share Posted October 29 It's been a while, so here's some various interesting things I've done during the outage: -judged an egg drop -solved a 3x3 in 10 seconds at a competition -watched the sun rise -cooked some mealworms -went planespotting -went to a really exciting astrobiology lecture about hot springs -saw comet 2023/A3 move against the stars in real time -tried to solve 15 Rubik's cubes blindfolded Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zozaf Kerman Posted October 30 Share Posted October 30 got a 1460 on my PSAT a few days back, but i can’t qualify for national merit because I’m 10th grade not 11th Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlamoVampire Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 I am in a bit of a funk or what ever you want to call it. I just feel numb and lost ever since my Momma passed away over a month ago now and pulled out her year book from when she graduated in 1966. It was surreal looking at her pictures in that year book. She was in a few clubs back then, one of which caught me well beyond by surprise, a club called FTA or Future Teachers of America. She was for about 17 years or so until her retirement in 2008 a teachers aide in a life skills class at a high school a few counties over. I was floored to see she wanted to teach even that far back. She never mentioned it. I found it interesting and comforting to know that her kind, caring, compassionate streak stretches that far back! I knew my Momma was a great woman, now I know she was a great teenager as well! 215910302024 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlamoVampire Posted November 6 Share Posted November 6 I was outside earlier. Was around 0500. Dark, cool, and clear with no physical clouds. I was trying to calm myself and I saw something pretty neat. It was about 30 minutes into pacing around my back yard whilst suffering an absolute existential crisis and I looked up to the south and saw a satellite that was passing over me. What made it neat was the fact it was headed north and not east! Saw a genuine polar orbit satellite. 063411062024 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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