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3 hours ago, heretic88 said:
Well, not Greece, but we hungarians offered help for Serbia. Seems like nobody really cares about the situation outside of V4. Western politicians may babble about how serious this new wave of rapefugees, but they do nothing else.
That’s because these refugees maintain the crisis that keeps the politicians elected; why would they solve the problem that gives them so much power and money?
This situation reminds me of the last ~200 years of the Roman Empire... -
Ok, did some research, and it turns out that the Earth-Sun L2 point is ~1.5 million km from Earth, give or take, and the umbra that Earth casts is only ~1.4 million km in length... which means this point is never in full shadow, and you cannot use the Earth or any vector within the vicinity of the Earth to radiate a spacecraft’s heat.
On a side note, I feel incredibly inconvenienced by these facts.
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4 hours ago, Beer said:
I wouldn't call it a miss if it managed to knock out some 7-8 cars by shrapnels (not sure if the one on the far right was hit too or came later).
Anyway this Anna video is literally filled with dead bodies and destroyed machinery. At some points it looked like a slaughter.
That’s usually the story when someone has a overwhelming air superiority. I doubt those akbars even had manpads with them. -
A consideration with using nuclear generated electricity on a telescope is that the radiative surfaces to cool the scope would have to be large, which would necessitate a wider radius to increase the surface area without overlapping the radiative vectors, which would increase the moment of inertia. This might not be that big of a problem, considering a lot of telescopes just look at one location for long periods of time, but would pose a problem when trying to turn 180 if there is an urgent requirement (asteroids and such). Also, launching such a large satellite will cause problems, unless we work on our microgravity construction techniques.
Though, on advantage of it being so far out (the Earth-Sun L2), you could indeed use volatile coolants like NaK, not that big of an environmental risk cause space is already inhospitable, though Earth’s gravity might render this point moot if coolant leaves the L2 area at certain vectors.
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9 hours ago, Jeeps_Guns_Tanks said:
Ok and now another UNREP photo, and this one is really interesting, its another supply ship, and if you look, you can just make out a pair of SINGLE five in gun mounts on a Destroyer taking on supplies on the other side. Is that a Fletcher Class Destroyer?
yep, a low “square” bridge fletcher class. The majority of Fletchers completed were to that design, so narrowing it down is gonna take some effort. -
9 hours ago, Jeeps_Guns_Tanks said:
Wonder what type of gun mount that is?
Mk.33 twin Mount for the 3” L/50 RF Mk.22.
http://navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_3-50_mk27-33-34.php
This gun appears to be on the oiler from the first set of pictures, based on the shape of the derrick and boom, though this particular picture may be further aft?
On 1/26/2020 at 1:00 AM, Jeeps_Guns_Tanks said:Here are some pretty cool shots from an underway replenishment. It could be anywhere on the World cruise in 68.
the stack isn’t in any of these pictures, but I assume that this is the same ship, just a different angle. -
14 hours ago, Jeeps_Guns_Tanks said:
Same UNREP the Phantom shot was taken on, looks like the same Cruiser in the background.
strange to see an auxiliary ship, armed, during a time enemy aircraft or surface raiders (especially open ocean) were at a minimum.
Also, those guns look like the older Mk. 22 / Mk.26, and not the automatic Mk.34. Kinda surprised they used anything on the auxiliaries, let alone hand loaded weapons.
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And just like that, things go from looking bad for the US, to looking bad for Iran, again.
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On 12/14/2019 at 2:48 PM, LoooSeR said:
Finally watched Hard Boiled.
All action scenes were over the top and fun, parts in between - average, last action scene (almost whole hospital part) was a bit too much. Great action scenes there, but the whole thing is too long to the point of being exhausting.
so you could say they over cooked it
... I’ll go back under my rock now...
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I just read something about modeling the hull lines with equations? It’s not making too much sense to me; can anyone explain it?
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Not a picture or art, but still interesting:
http://www.combinedfleet.com/okun_biz.htm
TL;DR, Bismarck and Tirpitz are overrated, Richelieu, Sodak, and Vittorio V are surprisingly matched (in armor, at least), and Yamato has great deck armor, but only slightly above average main belt armor.
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17 hours ago, LoooSeR said:
French police during protests on 16.11.2019
they’re still rioting over there? I’m actually impressed... hopefully the protesters will start sharpening their guillotines
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On 10/27/2019 at 12:10 PM, Sovngard said:
Enhanced 105 mm gun with the longer XM24 gun tube (L/66) , this project was initiated in March 1983 and abandoned in the late 1980s.
lol, this would imply M829 has had 4 generations of upgrades, while M900 has not been touched, since it was introduced.
We really needed that smoothbore 105 like 2 decades ago, at least... or the 75mm ARES.
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14 hours ago, Zadlo said:
yeah, um, not really. For modern ammunition, and the velocities they impact at, DU (and tungsten and steel) all undergo adiabatic (constant mass) shearing; basically the forces are so great and happen so quickly, the material cannot plastically deform in any meaningful way, and simply disintegrates. This can be seen in still-frames of high velocity test KE penetrators impacting hard targets, and how both the ‘penetrator’ and ‘armor’ turn to a noticeable plume of dust at the impact point. It’s not so much penetration, or deformation, as it is atomization. -
14 hours ago, A. T. Mahan said:
What if we did an airplane contest next?
I would be interested in that, I have some ideas for a ground attack/ heavy fighter and a high altitude interceptor. But:12 hours ago, Sturgeon said:Aircraft are more difficult to make convincing renders of though, and they can be more difficult to evaluate as well.
this. Making an airfoil (convincingly) in some 3D CADs can be difficult and tedious, but I think choosing pre-defined airfoil shapes from something like NACA would make it easier as the contestants could just make a general wing shape, then specify which airfoil shape they’re using... maybe. However, the calculations involved would still be a pain, as aircraft can be very sensitive to minor force imbalances, and the body shape of the craft would still pose a problem.11 hours ago, LostCosmonaut said:X-Plane is the best program I can think of off the top of my head to render/test aircraft, but:
- Acquiring it legally costs money
- There is a learning curve to using it. I haven't used in a while, and from what I remember it was fairly complex (it's been a few years since I used it).
As with the tank design, I think if we did a plane contest 1930s-1940s would be best. Having to design radar systems, electronics, supersonic aerodynamics, and all that would rapidly get too complex. Like the last contest, but worse.
That darn caveat: money.
Anyway, as interested as I would be to make a 1940s aircraft using modern knowledge, I think it would be a difficult contest to follow through with, either with the complexity of the aerodynamics involved with the aircraft, time investments into modeling said complex shapes, continually having to teach and mentor some competitors who know (comparably) little about aircraft, or extending the time of the competition.
on a tangential note: I do have some ideas that I can’t find data or theories to confirm my suspicions. Which forum topic could I ask those in?
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On 10/15/2019 at 1:40 PM, Ramlaen said:
Bradley with a turret bustle (and Iron Fist light)? Actually doesn’t look bad. -
Glad I could make your brain work
Not too surprised; though I was initially confused when you mentioned selective breeding and gene screening, but it is interesting nonetheless.
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On 10/2/2019 at 5:47 AM, Toxn said:
I agree that this is definitely a fallacy on the part of whoever drew that comic (not the only one, mind), and that you've succinctly laid out the most relevant factors at play here.
Expanding a bit on your thoughts; we know for a fact that shifts in taste regarding beauty standards happen with regularity in societies, and are often driven by shifts in lifestyle and a sort of cyclical 'follow the leader' phenomenon where elites set standards that are imitated by those below them until they lose currency as marks of exclusivity and are replaced by new standards.
I have been noticed!!!
On 10/2/2019 at 5:47 AM, Toxn said:Right now we have very limited capacity to re-engineer someone as an adult, so a lot of proposed genetic engineering is germ-line by default. But perhaps not forever: CAR-T therapies show that it's possible (if very risky) to completely rewire parts of your immune system. So here's my (Victorian-era guy speculating on aircraft) guess as to how it might go:
- You'd get a bunch of tissue samples (possibly including gut and skin microflora) taken and then be put in sterile isolation.
- You'd then be more or less disinfected, put on high-dose antibiotics, antiviral drugs etc.
- Your immune system would be knocked down or even out (possibly all the way to bone marrow ablation).
- You'd be given a complete course of genetic engineering (possibly using advanced versions of CRISPR, as the T effector cell issue may be overcome with immunomodulation or versions of the cas 9 enzyme that don't set off a reaction) aimed at editing as many cells as possible.
- If you're going for tissue/organ engineering, then this might be the point where they operate on you to give you chameleon skin or whatever.
- At the same time, your immune system would be modified using something like CAR-T therapy to prevent rejection of edited cells.
- Once the editing was done, your microflora etc would be reestablished and you'd be released for convalescence and follow-up treatment.
Another option might be to avoid trying to edit anything out of germline all together, and just rely on non-immunogenic approaches and surgery. This may be something like novel organ printing using your own cultured cells, or xenografting. This approach is necessarily less radical and more limited in some ways (no chromatic scales for you, citizen), but still allows some really freaky possibilities (second sets of arms, crazy bio-machine hybrid organs, radical restructuring of the human form) while significantly lowering the chances of your immune system going nuts and killing you.
This was another concern I had with gene manipulation: would such modifications effect the individuals’ ability to procreate? If some person who modified themselves to be a half human/ snake naga thing tries to have children with another who is modified to be a mer-person (and I think it’s reasonably safe to assume neither knows much of how the gene mods affect them), would it be possible for them to conceive? Would the child be human (at first, anyway) or some terrible amalgam?
Also, I’m almost certain that if a child were modified in utero to be something their parents decided for them, there will be major legal and moral issues if and when the child reaches adulthood and decides “I don’t like these changes I’ve had since birth, and were forced upon me by my parents.”
As thoroughly interesting and beneficial as this technology can be (I myself could benefit from a cure to my outrageous metabolism and Aspergers, as well as removing the familial cancer risk for women in my family), there are consequences and concerns that must be resolved before societies utilize it.
Since I’m more familiar with industry and machines, than biology and organisms, I think I’ll make a post on how that may effect the future; just need to gather my thoughts.
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Why does the exhaust cause yellow stains all over her superstructure? Burn marks would be understandable, but it looks like the crew uses that area to piss.
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No MBTs this time?
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On 2/23/2016 at 3:32 AM, Toxn said:
The bullshit populist version, sure, but also one of our possible futures.
This thread is for musing on how things will go, with an an emphasis on accuracy.
As all I can really speak to is biotech stuff, I will be posting a bit in that line here and there. For the rest, I invite our learned electronics engineers/internet pedants to provide their views on how things will go from here on out.
Major Necro, but I have some questions:
1. Not 100% sure on this, but wouldn’t such radical genetic changes require the immune system to be heavily suppressed, if not completely deactivated? And wouldn’t such a procedure be expensive and time consuming, making it viable only for the rich (and those people who spend more money on their car or jewelry than their home)?
2. On the cultural/societal aspect of this: wouldn’t this cause a type of classism, where the rich and wannabe rich can alter themselves (seemingly) at whim while the plebeians below can only look on in envy? Would it also spawn types of xeno/ species/ racialism due to animosity, jealousy, and/or inferiority complexes?
3. In relation to society and culture, would individuals who chose certain modifications, let’s say high muscle and bone density, for high strength applications, be held in the same regards as someone who modified their brain to maximize surface area and neuron transmission speed? Would someone’s genes, and physical structure, limit their societal roles to the select areas attuned to them, as other areas are already saturated with ‘attuned’ people?
These would seem to provide major challenges to the populist and communist dreams of many who yearn for this, as people often (and are programmed to) separate differences they observe into different categories.
Also, the first point that “everyone will be hot” is not only subjective (personally tastes like exoticism and fetishes) and objective (Fibonacci’s number and general cultural / societal beliefs of attraction), but also would be subject to availability curves, insofar as if the percentage of “hot people” in a population increases, the average or perceived level of ‘hotness’ within that population would stay constant, or decrease. (This would also cause animosity and exoticism / fetishization between the societies and cultures who have access such technology, and those who do not; think the exoticization of certain extra-cultural/ societal/ racial groups and/or sexes, like orientalism, and American idealism in the late 1800s and early 1900s.)
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“Hydrofoil Handbook; Volume 1” (design of hydrofoil craft) 1954
Syrian conflict.
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Stay safe over there, Stimpy: the situation is probably not going to get much better due to both sides increasing their aggression.