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nyrath, 20 hours ago to random

I must have weird taste in scifi movies.
I just watched Atlas and thought it was pretty good.

But I thought Rebel Moon stank on ice.

Go figure.

nyrath, 7 hours ago

@mds2

The danger of an artificial intelligence going all SkyNet on the human race.

nyrath, 7 hours ago

@tkinias

Titan has apparently gotten very bad reviews. I did read a couple of reviews singing the praises of Rebel Moon.

gsuberland, 1 day ago to random

SD cards are the literal worst.

they've expanded to be the size of small hard drives, and devices like the rpi keep using them as boot media, but they:

• use garbage tier low endurance flash cells internally
• have little to no overprovisioning for wear
• perform only the most basic wear levelling
• have no protocol level integrity checking
• have few internal error correction features, if any
• decay comparatively quickly without patrol scrubs
• do not perform patrol scrubs
• cannot do PLP

nyrath, 1 day ago

@gsuberland

So you are telling me I have set myself up to fail by sticking a one terabytes SD card into my tablet?

I guess I'll have to teach myself how to set up an NAS or something.

TheSpaceshipper, 1 day ago to random

Rocketship X-M was released 74 years ago today.

"An astronaut crew on their way to the Moon are unexpectedly propelled by gravitational forces and end up on Mars instead."

nyrath, 1 day ago

@TheSpaceshipper

nyrath, 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

@oliver_schafeld

1949

https://books.google.com/books?id=hUoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA67#v=onepage&q&f=false

nyrath, 2 days ago to random

nyrath, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

@izaya

I've seen the bug-eye design used in the "Dan Dare - pilot of the future" comic books

nyrath, 2 days ago

@Steveg58

I'll try to transcribe it for you when I can get to my desktop with a real keyboard. There is no way I can type all that with a tablet's glass keyboard.

nyrath, 2 days ago

@tkinias @cjshearwood

You got me. I have no idea

nyrath, 2 days ago to random

Non-nuclear strategies for deflecting comets and asteroids (pdf file)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234347108_Non-nuclear_strategies_for_deflecting_comets_and_asteroids

nyrath, 2 days ago

@olav

You can never be too sure...

nyrath, 2 days ago

@olav

Ummm, I'm not sure which you mean

nyrath, 3 days ago to random

APR: 3D Printed Aerospace/Nuclear subjects

https://www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/?p=5399

nyrath, 3 days ago

@Madagascar_Sky @jstevenyork

Yeah, but any nation who tried to build one of those monsters would suddenly find hostile nations going to DEFCON 2.

The person on the other end of the red telephone would say "We know a weapon of mass destruction when we see it, buddy-boy..."

nyrath, 2 days ago

@Madagascar_Sky @60sRefugee @jstevenyork

https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/surfaceorbit.php#id--GCNR_Liberty_Ship

nyrath, 2 days ago

@60sRefugee @Madagascar_Sky @jstevenyork

There was a study done in 1968.

Nowadays? Not a chance.

It is all fun and games, until the quartz chamber cracks at ten kilometers altitude.

Then you have a fissioning reactor that is already vaporized, spreading to the four winds over the entire damn planet.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19680012569

pauldrye, 3 days ago to random

So this happened. Given the colour and the fact they were working with nitric acid, I'm feeling somewhat doubtful this was (relatively benign) nitrous oxide.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd11xzjkvk0o

nyrath, 2 days ago

@pauldrye

I assume any chemical compound that makes an orange cloud is bad news for a human being to come in contact with? Even if it isn't actually on Derek Lowe's list?

thisnorthernboy, 4 days ago to random

Might be making a rod for my own back here, but I think the next thing I try to build in Blender, might be a Star Wars spaceship dock - like Docking Bay 94 from ANH. Or Peli Motto's Hangar 3-5 from The Mandalorian.

I will, of course, have to design a SW ship to go in it.

nyrath, 2 days ago

@thisnorthernboy

The man is in the flow! That wasn't much time at all, sketch to 3d mock-up. Nice clay render, with great lighting.