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[Thunder Chicken]

Serious Geek-out:

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/76866912/

Damn, that's a hard game. Easy to hit the barge, but explodes easily. Probably realistic.

 

[ISProgram]

Damn, that's a hard game. Easy to hit the barge, but explodes easily. Probably realistic.

Space is hard.


Continuing from a post not too long ago, more progress on that geosat model I'm doing. Been working on the antenna payload, results are a bit mixed. Did a fit test. Here's how it looks from the front (the nubs peeking out are hardpoints which house the explosive bolts that hold the antennas snug to the body when not deployed:

And here's how it looks from the back, note the propulsion element, as well as the antenna struts. Couldn't find any useful references images for the struts unfortunately:

First model that's gotten to this level of completion in a long while, hopefully it'll look good when it's finished. Ok, this is a half-lie, first geosat model to get this far in a long while.

 

[Urwumpe]

Couldn't find any useful references images for the struts unfortunately

Like that?

 

[Notebook]

A great place to visit

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=d...ChMI74nz18GAyAIVAmsUCh3LXwED&biw=1024&bih=493

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=d...3LXwED&biw=1024&bih=493#imgrc=YR4gIpkTGE3BYM:

 

[ISProgram]

Like that?

More like this, a view of the back of the reflectors so that the struts can be seen. I think mine are too big at the moment, when collapsed they (probably) won't fit snugly on top of each other. ):

They seem to vary a lot between satellites even in the same platform class, really interesting, so it's complicated my design somewhat.

 

[sorindafabico]

How big is Brazil?

 

[Matias Saibene]

http://www.zdnet.com/article/micros...ux-based-azure-cloud-switch-operating-system/
:leaving:

 

[Ghostrider]

Private Detective Caught Man’s Wife Having Sex With His Own Teenage Son

And people wonder why I don't do infidelity cases...:lol:

 

[ISProgram]

Just read a heartbreaking "story":

"Goodbye mission control. Thanks for trying."

:uhh:

Like that?

Actually this has me wondering something. Renders and pre-launch processing images show that some geosats have dish-shaped antenna reflectors, like Astra-2E, F, etc. Yet others like Telstar-12V, seem to have planar antenna reflectors.

Asking this because I'm not sure how to actually snugly fit these two reflectors together for launch, a planar antenna could simplify this. More likely I'm gonna go for more "exotic designs" for the reflector struts.

Looks rather ugly and clunky.

 

[kamaz]

 

[Artlav]

Random story time.

I was debugging the client of a network game. Everything was going well.
I made a little change, and it stopped working. I change it back, and it still does not work...

For the next half hour the intensity of the WTF kept climbing, as i went back and forth over the code, rolling stuff back one by one...
Eventually, i tried to google something.
:facepalm:

Midnight have came and passed, and i haven't paid for the next month of internet access.
Monday sneaked up on me right in-between the two starts, and the way the "no funds" page redirection works, you don't really get any errors, just garbage.

It's easy to say "always check your assumptions", but it just does not happen in practice.

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

Random story time.

I was debugging the client of a network game. Everything was going well.
I made a little change, and it stopped working. I change it back, and it still does not work...

For the next half hour the intensity of the WTF kept climbing, as i went back and forth over the code, rolling stuff back one by one...
Eventually, i tried to google something.
:facepalm:

Midnight have came and passed, and i haven't paid for the next month of internet access.
Monday sneaked up on me right in-between the two starts, and the way the "no funds" page redirection works, you don't really get any errors, just garbage.

It's easy to say "always check your assumptions", but it just does not happen in practice.

I usually spend 20 minutes writing a function that solves a tricky problem, polish it off, test, have a WTF moment.

...Then realize I forgot to call the function :facepalm:

 

[mojoey]

I usually spend 20 minutes writing a function that solves a tricky problem, polish it off, test, have a WTF moment.

...Then realize I forgot to call the function :facepalm:

dontforgetmykeys();

 

[Urwumpe]

I usually spend 20 minutes writing a function that solves a tricky problem, polish it off, test, have a WTF moment.

...Then realize I forgot to call the function :facepalm:

This is why I love JMock and its similar friends...

oneOf (turtle).forward(10); inSequence(drawing); 
oneOf (turtle).turn(45); inSequence(drawing); 
oneOf (turtle).forward(10); inSequence(drawing);

Of course, you should then not forget writing the tests...

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The new biggest sailing ship, the "Sailing Yacht A", has left the German Naval Yard and is now on sea trials in the Kiel Fjord. It has three masts and is 142 meters long. It has been build for the Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko, who also already owns a tumblehome ship called "Motor Yacht A"

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And...... construction of the Berlin airport BER has been halted again because of construction errors, this time called "significant excursion of the design static loads of the roof". In three of 20 roof segments, heavier than planned smoke ventilation systems had been installed.

The different ventilation systems had installed already in 2012, to compensate for other problems in the poorly designed smoke vent system (which was designed by an unqualified assistant of the architect, who was then presented on the bills as highly-certified specialist for the task)

 

[ISProgram]

I've been on a recent modeling binge lately. (~._.)~

Haven't made a high-gain antenna fit for a planetary spacecraft in forever, but this first attempt in a long time looks good (I think).

 

[Andy44]

Awesome photos from the ISS:

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/astronaut-photographs-single-airplane-space-191757812.html

 

[jedidia]

I wish I could just can eclipse and use Android Studio to write Java on any platform...

 

[orb]

I wish {...}an eclipse

There will be one available at night of September 27/28.

 

[jedidia]

:lol:

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Finally started tearing in to the turbine and feed pumps today. :woohoo:

Tired, and I'll be a bit sore in the morning. But I've got feed pump controls spread across three workplaces.