JoeSchmuckatelli Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 1 hour ago, StrandedonEarth said: And this is how I discovered BeamNG.drive, although I now notice it was mentioned on this forum many, many times... https://i.imgur.com/bXmQxKI.mp4 The suspension. What really caught my attention was the suspension height... Laughing. My son would enjoy that. He caught me checking out Universe Sandbox for the first time... and all he wanted me to do was throw rocks at Earth and laser everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted July 17, 2022 Share Posted July 17, 2022 https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/web-search/?st=1&wo=福島&ac=srch&ar=1&fy=&fm=&fd=&ty=&tm=&td= Yomiuri informs that a beach at 10+km from Fukushima powerplant has reopened. *** You can sunbathe there and tan skin even in cloudy weather. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 In Japan they presented a new concept of a lunar colony, named (Jap→Rus→Eng) "Glass". Spoiler It's a large glass bowl full of water,, with islands to live and boats to move. It's rotating (1 round per 20 s), creating artificial gravity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunlitZelkova Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 6 hours ago, kerbiloid said: In Japan they presented a new concept of a lunar colony, named (Jap→Rus→Eng) "Glass". Reveal hidden contents It's a large glass bowl full of water,, with islands to live and boats to move. It's rotating (1 round per 20 s), creating artificial gravity. One is for the Moon and one is for Mars, each respectively named Luna Glass and Mars Glass. They want to land “something” related to the project on the Moon by 2050, perhaps a subscale demonstrator? It has a height of 400 meters and a diameter of 100 meters. Lunar Beagle is the name of the monorail that runs around it (although Gizmodo claims it is called the Hexatrack), while the hexagonal Earth-Moon transport is called the Space Express. They want to avoid using nuclear power for it. In the past, a Japanese construction company proposed building a space elevator by 2050, and many apparently got hyped until they realized it was just a concept for promotional purposes. It is different this time, they actually intend to do this although in kerbiloid’s video one of the guys states they recognize there are many problems to be solved. They think putting the idea out there is an important thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 If watch with attention the scenes where the personnel is doing their job with concerned faces, it suddenly appears that they actually do absolutely nothing. Spoiler They touch the instrument hull near the buttons, but don't press the buttons, touch the dials but don't rotate anything but fingers, switch a dial counterclockwise (i.e. disable), stick in a phone cable and immediately unstick it back, touch the bomb hull with hands at the place where it's nothing. Just once they run a tape recorder (probably, being fascinated). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 (edited) Several propulsion options were considered for the Kh-101 air-launched cruise missiles. Including, apparently, a coaxial pusher propeller powered by a turbodiesel. Edited July 19, 2022 by DDE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Which makes it a torpedo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, kerbiloid said: Which makes it a torpedo. "Flying torpedoes". Everything new is old again. Edited July 19, 2022 by DDE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted July 21, 2022 Share Posted July 21, 2022 https://sportrbc-ru.translate.goog/news/62d99bf49a79471d36e21c89?from=newsfeed&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru Quote A chess robot broke a seven-year-old boy's finger at a tournament in Moscow Telegram channel Baza reported that the robot injured the child when he hurried and began to make his move without waiting for the completion of the robot's actions. The vice-president of the Moscow Chess Federation said that the child was put in plaster on the finger <...> “The boy is all right. They put a plaster cast on the finger to heal faster. Yes, there are certain safety rules, the child, apparently, violated them in time trouble and, when he made a move, did not notice that he had to wait. This is an extremely rare case, the first in my memory, ”<...>. The chess robot had a aikido training mode, and saw no other way to teach him respect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 The most optimistic isotope in the Universe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismuth-209 Quote Bismuth-209 was long thought to have the heaviest stable nucleus of any element, but in 2003, a research team at the Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale in Orsay, France, discovered that 209Bi undergoes alpha decay with a half-life of approximately 19 exayears (1.9×1019, approximately 19 quintillion years), over a billion times longer than the current estimated age of the universe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 https://nplus1-ru.translate.goog/news/2021/05/12/pb-neutron-skin?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru The atomic nuclei aren't just balls (or packs of balls). They have a mantle and a neutronic crust, almost like planets. Spoiler Won't be surprised when they discover continents and start studying a nuclear geography. Then it will appear that our bodies are moved by myriads of miniature Orion ships, at the orders of the femtocivilisation High Council. The Universe is an absolutely weird place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 7 hours ago, kerbiloid said: The Universe is an absolutely weird place Yup On 7/19/2022 at 10:10 AM, DDE said: Kh-101 air-launched cruise missiles I read the accuracy part and scoffed at the terrible Soviet missile. ...before remembering that 'm' in Soviet is 'meters', not 'miles'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 20 minutes ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said: I read the accuracy part and scoffed at the terrible Soviet missile. ...before remembering that 'm' in Soviet is 'meters', not 'miles'. Usually. Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrandedonEarth Posted July 24, 2022 Share Posted July 24, 2022 Had to share this somewhere... Gorgeous pic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunlitZelkova Posted July 24, 2022 Share Posted July 24, 2022 3 hours ago, StrandedonEarth said: Had to share this somewhere... Gorgeous pic! This is fake. https://smhoaxslayer.com/is-the-viral-astronaut-selfie-from-space-original-no-its-an-edited-one/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/23/australia-mildura-medical-marijuana-pink-sky/ Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 4 hours ago, kerbiloid said: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/23/australia-mildura-medical-marijuana-pink-sky/ Hide contents Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 Not fun, but still fact. The cruel reality of space. https://nypost.com/2022/07/22/astronauts-should-not-masturbate-in-zero-gravity-nasa-scientist-says/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 25 minutes ago, kerbiloid said: The cruel reality of space I'm not a statistician, but the possibility of one of the things mentioned seems low. ...also, yeah, no one wants to room with 'that guy'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted July 25, 2022 Share Posted July 25, 2022 And btw, about the need in artificial gravity for the long-term flights. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 Stanislaw Ulam, looking for a peaceful use for the bomb came up with the Orion drive. I would expect that most of the smart guys on this forum already know this... But did you know there is a nice biography of him currently available on Prime? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 "Space torpedo" is a term of legitimate defense discussion https://www.livescience.com/every-country-wants-space-force.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 (edited) 59 minutes ago, DDE said: every-country-wants-space-force.html Not all. Spoiler P.S. After the we-all-know-whose spy/recon/spotter-sats benefit during the current events it will be rather strange if everyone won't take part in the race of anti-sat tech and sat signal jamming Was it worth it? I doubt. But the I believe, wrong choice is already done. The spy/recon/GPS sats have designated themselves as an existential danger for everyone but their owners. So, the antisat world championship will begin. Edited August 3, 2022 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeSchmuckatelli Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 (edited) "Someone" could have made the choice to just stay home. But then, that "Someone" isn't a rational actor. Edited August 3, 2022 by JoeSchmuckatelli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 Sometimes the home includes all its rooms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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