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One of my lecturers had the livestream of the launch sharing half the projector space with his presentation, it would have been cool if they lifted when I was watching live

I've been having a think here, and have come to the conclusion that historicity rather than realism may be the most problematic factor.

As an example, think of how much better WoWP would have been if, instead of real-world designs it had used the same class approach (fighters, GA, heavies and so on) on clean-sheet designs inspired by real aircraft.

It could be perfectly realistic (use X-plane or something to model flight characteristics and keep the old weapon/damage model) without having the baggage the real aircraft bring along. Plus, balance becomes the infinitely easier.

Historical balance is the least of WoWP's issues

Leads for cats are amusing

The rocket goes hypersonic backwards? She says they're only for re-entry at 1:30

Huh, that's interesting. It's only a ~0.1mm gap

Anybody know how we can prevent that here?

It looks like here has "show all" set as default. Of course, no way of knowing for sure until february

Oh fucking really? How do you make it not do that?

On TN, at the top of each board there's a bar with buttons for "recently updated", "start date", etc - different ways to filter the threads. right hand side of the row of buttons is called "custom", you can set the desired cutoff date in that

Evidence of habitation is useful for territorial claims. Same reason china is making islands

This forum is more active than they are, which is quite sad. Also for some reason all the posts from "Armor Scientific" keep disappearing, which is just incredibly stupid.

The forum settings default to "only show threads from the last 3 months", could that be it?

Apparently duplet can stop BM-42 - video was found on tanknet in a post by Damian

I think it's a turret for a ship, stood on the under deck supporting stuff.

Just keep in mind, we're gonna be stuck with "current gen" consoles for at least a decade.

And if you think that doesn't affect you because you just play PC games...

So pretty soon we'll have enough grunt to just emulate them in software, meaning any games exclusive to a given console are now shared with PC?

All modern chips have heat activated kill-switches - for a modern PC it's advanced enough to reduce the frequency and power consumption first in the hope it'll cool down if it gets too hot. Intel designed that cooler to manage that chip just fine in a sealed case, and since turbo boost is pushing it to 4.3GHz then the chip must be completely happy with the temperature.

Having less sharp leading edges also helps with heating (heat transfer rate at hypersonic speeds is proportional to 1/sqrt(radius)

Huh, that is really odd

Keep in mind, the pressure being produced is high, but the area's very low, so the force involve is also probably low (assuming 60,000 PSI and 1mm diameter, that means 3.27 Newtons force are being exerted on the primer. This is equivalent to the force of gravity on something that weighs 2.4 ounces). A third theory is that there's enough pressure escaping around the primer to equalize the pressure on it. I think this is probably likely.

Erm, I think you made a mistake in that calculation - 60000 psi over that radius comes out around 300N, not 3N

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=60000psi+*+%281mm%2F2%29^2+*+pi

That's pretty significant for such a thin sheet of brass. You do have a good point about the bolt keeping the rest of it in - I'd forgotten it was so close around the firing pin. As for the pressure release, it sounds odd to me - the path from the propellant to the primer is quite open, so you ought to end up with a substantial amount of gas blowing past the primer if it is going to equalise the pressure. Also, with that gas cancelling out the chamber pressure, you shouldn't expect to see machining marks on the primer surface

Or more specifically, why don't they burst? You have huge pressures behind them, they're thin and not really solidly fixed in place, and yet they are expected to stay intact - how?

Me and colli were discussing this on TS yesterday, and there's no way inertia of the firing pin could be providing meaningful support - from squinting at a pressure Vs time graph of a 30.06, and assuming the firing pin can be modelled as a piston of radius ~1mm acted on by the chamber pressure, the applied impulse is on the order of kgms^-1. So that firing in should be moving backwards at a considerable velocity, given the light weight, and over the ~1millisecond of the firing process it should move several mm back - yet primers retain the impression of the firing pin after firing. The peak force applied was on the order of kN, so I'd be very surprised if the firing pin spring was providing enough of a force to resist this

hippies will emerge from the filthy mud pits whence they are bred and descend on you

You mean glastonbury?

It will fit with a mallet an some kind of mother!

 

Also, no idea. He's going to send them my contact info and we'll discuss it. 

 

Edit: oh no, if I work for another video game company, will I be unable to post on the WT forums? How terrible!

Working for WG hasn't stopped you!

The soviets were scared in general of ATGM's - look at the gulf between M41 and M551, or between AMX 13/75 (which had ATGM's fitted at that time to improve the firepower) and 13/90

The manual for the mobo should tell you how to set the xmp profile (eXtreeeme Memory Profile!), which would sort that. You'd think someone would have figured out how to do that as standard by now

Computers are fairly easy to build, even I managed it

Now you've mentioned it, you've got to post it

On-board video is fine, I used it while waiting for a dvi cable to arrive with no issues

IIRC sturgeon mentioned once that the british 4.85 had the same muzzle velocity as the 5.56 of the time, since it had less of the swept volume goodness

Windows 8 with classic shell or similar is nice, as long as you avoid the apps