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"UncleBob" Such a very American sounding screen name.

YesI have heard of that, but I believe ThunderChicken is taking about a supposed activation during the accident dive.

Had to double check the wording of their final message. Wasn't sure if they said "dropped" or "dropping". I was under the impression that their final message indicated intent to drop weights, not that the drop had been completed, but that is not the case. In any case, I'm not so much concerned...

Mrs. Rush seems to have interpreted it that way, but if you look at the look the seated dude gave the other guy, he knew. And whether or not the other guy knew immediately, from the way he walks off, I'm pretty sure he knew after he got that look. That's a "let's not alarm the newly minted...

It's interesting to note the reaction of the two men. They know.

"Slam" tends to imply a fuzzier transient. The repertoire of English onomatopoeiae has a bunch of words for large-amplitude low-frequency transients (bang, slam, etc.), and a bunch of words for mid-amplitude high-frequency stuff (pop, crack), but modern technology has given us new ways to die of...

RG-58 is getting really long in the tooth. Have you tried twisted pair? 10BASET is a mature technology by now. 🤣 Sorry, couldn't resist...

Barbeque ribs are what happens when little pigs don't learn bricklaying.

Don't you just love it when the on screen keyboard on a mobile device crashes and won't relaunch? And the keyboard selectoris part of the keyboard interface?

I was specifically asking about the chamber temperature of 2800 K you quoted, which I don't see in the paper. I don't know what the stoichiometry for the reaction is and haven't has time to look it up/figure it out. How far rich/lean of stoichiometry are they going? I guess they'll have at...

I couldn't find it in the paper either. Urwumpe, could you clarify where you got this from? In any case, at that temperature I'd expect an exhaust comprised mostly of glowing, slaggy smoke with almost no performance unless something else added to the fuel or oxidizer provides a filler gas to be...

Wait... The NASA experiment was only 2800 K chamber temperature? How did they get any specific impulse out of that? That's below the boiling point of Al2O3, so you'd get zero chamber pressure, right? The stuff boils at 3250 K, so your chamber temp would have to reach at least that to have a...

This would actually probably be a simplification for the next century or so, and then some future generation would have to make a mad scramble. Though actually, the best solution would just be to declare that civil time is always derived directly from UT1, and to distribute TAI and UT1...

Timekeeping is full of edge cases. Even if you define 30 days as "2.592 megaseconds", you still have the possibility of a leap second.

Long before AI took off, during a discussion of poor English on tech support calls, a colleague mentioned that the best tech support he'd ever gotten was from some dude in the Philippines.

The potential advantage would be the ability to incrementally replace calls to the Windows API as work on the Linux build progresses. If you have to replace every Windows API call before the thing will even compile, that's a lot of work up front, whereas if you can replace things piecemeal while...

How much could Winelib help with the transition?

Traditionally, that job doesn't even go to anyone on board, but to Wolfgang Pauli and James Clerk Maxwell. There are people aboard, though, whose job is to make sure that you don't actually make Pauli and Maxwell do much work, as they tend to knock dents into the hull when disturbed.

OTOH, in the GR/QG literature, many of the things you can do to make gravity deviate from GR (such as introducing a massive graviton) introduce some kind of cosmological constant term (at least in semiclassical approximations, given that QG itself is a magnetically intractable problem at the...

Where Take 2 seems to have screwed up was in market research and project scope and in deciding what resources to devote to the project. From previous coverage from ShadowZone, they basically scoped the project as not much more than a ground-up redo of KSP1, which I frankly doubt would have...