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[mojoey]

Didn't know that the props bend this far... (DHC-8-100)

That's a result of the camera, not the propeller. IIRC it has to do with the way a digital camera scans the image presented when the lens opens, and since the propeller moves faster than the camera scans, it warps the propeller.

 

[SolarLiner]

 

[SpaceEagle]

The real aviation lover!

 

[Urwumpe]

Never felt so good about a 130 Euro bill... I expected three times as much as worst case calculation.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

They make 130 Euro bills? How odd...

 

[Urwumpe]

They make 130 Euro bills? How odd...

Worst of all, those bills show my face. :lol:

 

[mojoey]

Worst of all, those bills show my face. :lol:

I think those are called Wanted Posters...

 

[MattBaker]

Never felt so good about a 130 Euro bill... I expected three times as much as worst case calculation.

And the opposite are dentists: "Alright, I was in there for 10 minutes, maybe 15...100 Euro?"

 

[mojoey]

Straight for the nips.

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

Flew on my first Boeing 767 flight yesterday to Tokyo :thumbup: (and I got lucky with flying the one below):

Must be me having a movie taste crisis after watching 300 & Frozen on the same flight..... :shifty:

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Flew on my first Boeing 767 flight yesterday to Tokyo :thumbup: (and I got lucky with flying the one below):

Must be me having a movie taste crisis after watching 300 & Frozen on the same flight..... :shifty:

Heh. Those guys are FUN to clean out the cabin on.

 

[Kyle]

I saw this posted on Facebook via The Spaceflight Group, hit me in the gut.

 

[Linguofreak]

I saw this posted on Facebook via The Spaceflight Group, hit me in the gut.

Your image link is broken.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Your image link is broken.

Works fine for me.

 

[Linguofreak]

DISTORTIONS - YouTube

He uses the Big Dipper as an example of stars in constellations not being in the same plane, but it's a rather bad example. Most of the stars in the Big Dipper *are* in fact in more or less the same plane (except for one corner of the scoop that's significantly out of plane, and the end of the tail, though that's not quite so far out of plane), and I've actually managed to find a spot in Celestia where even with that one out-of-plane star, the Dipper actually does look substantially the same (with a few distortions, one star being significantly brighter, plus the whole constellation being mirrored and having a couple other bright stars in the middle of it).

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I just thought of a really evil way of encoding Unicode:

Have each character be represented by a 32-bit value. Use the x86 real-mode address computation method (with A20 enabled) to convert these values into codepoints. You'd be missing 16 codepoints off the top of Unicode, but as the primary use for this encoding in the first place would be to make programmers cry, and as the missing codepoints would be 14 private-use characters and two invalid codepoints, it wouldn't really matter, would it?

 

[SolarLiner]

He uses the Big Dipper as an example of stars in constellations not being in the same plane, but it's a rather bad example. Most of the stars in the Big Dipper *are* in fact in more or less the same plane (except for one corner of the scoop that's significantly out of plane, and the end of the tail, though that's not quite so far out of plane), and I've actually managed to find a spot in Celestia where even with that one out-of-plane star, the Dipper actually does look substantially the same (with a few distortions, one star being significantly brighter, plus the whole constellation being mirrored and having a couple other bright stars in the middle of it).

But that's the constellation most people know about; when you ask what a constellation is, they'll give the big/small dipper as an example. Less people would have been following along simply by the fact that they didn't know what he was talking about if he took let's say Cassiopea or the Orion constellation as an example.
When watching educational videos on YouTube, I always remind me that this is meant for the "stupid people" (they're not stupid but they don't have the amount of knowledge we have space-related, so assumptions are being made everywhere and things are told so people can relate to their knowledge, so it doesn't feel like a Science Bomb of some sort that gives a buttload of information that they'll forget about 2 hours later.

A similar channel, Numberphile, is what made me fell in love with maths again, because it gives sometimes really technical knowledge while staying on common grounds and making assumptions that can always be later clarified on another video.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

When watching educational videos on YouTube, I always remind me that this is meant for the "stupid people" (they're not stupid but they don't have the amount of knowledge we have space-related, so assumptions are being made everywhere and things are told so people can relate to their knowledge, so it doesn't feel like a Science Bomb of some sort that gives a buttload of information that they'll forget about 2 hours later.

Everyone's like that about something. For example, I can't sew to save my life.

 

[Urwumpe]

Everyone's like that about something. For example, I can't sew to save my life.

I can, thanks to the German Army. :lol:

But I can't sing to save my life...hey wait... I can sing to kill the threat.... OK never mind.

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

Just took my first Orbiter flight on Kubuntu Linux using Wine. I was horrified to realize that I couldnt remember how to switch cockpit modes. May the almighty Probe forgive me

Generally works quite well for me, although a lot of things dont render right, including pretty much every draw call inside the DGs VC. At least the MFDs work fine

 

[Izack]

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The disk stays like this for hours at a time. Thank you, Windows Search Indexer. :facepalm: