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[Urwumpe]

Large fire in Hamburg in the harbour area, a warehouse for fuel oil has caught fire.

 

[Koloss]

Did somebody see "Europa Report"? If so: What do you think?

 

[Urwumpe]

Did somebody see "Europa Report"? If so: What do you think?

Is it about Europa or about Europe?

 

[kamaz]

Did somebody see "Europa Report"? If so: What do you think?

My immediate thought was that I could do a better job than their writer.

Spent the next month writing half of the novel, then got stuck because my world construction led to some contradictions I could not resolve. (Remember, the goal was to do a better job than they did). NB my story was built around an actual Jupiter/Europa flight plan tested in Orbiter

 

[Fabri91]

Flight delayed after passenger becomes suspicious of equation.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Flight delayed after passenger becomes suspicious of equation.

Al Gebra and their weapons of math instruction! Damn them! Where will they strike next?

EDIT: Seriously, we seem to be slipping back to an age where the illiterate see the learned as threats, witches, etc.. In the end we're all still monkeys that fear our differences more than rejoice in them.

 

[Urwumpe]

What DHL is doing in Germany:

Developing pretty cool tilt wing UAVs for automatic package delivery.

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meld...r-selbststaendig-be-und-entlaedt-3198938.html

 

[jedidia]

When I was a kid, we were shooting at birds with slingshots and bows.

I guess my kids will have more attractive targets. I just hope their aim won't be any better... :shifty:

 

[Frilock]

 

[Andy44]

What DHL is doing in Germany:

Developing pretty cool tilt wing UAVs for automatic package delivery.

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meld...r-selbststaendig-be-und-entlaedt-3198938.html

I bet it still won't find my house.

 

[Artlav]

History about to repeat itself?
In the 19th century people hunted mail pigeons.
In the 21st they would hunt mail drones?

 

[Matias Saibene]

Experimental nuclear fusion symbol

I do not know why, but I think that there should be a symbol for nuclear fusion. Then I did this:

The asterisk represents usable energy (heat for example) to generate electricity.

Is the symbol well? It correctly transmits the idea?
:idk:

 

[Quick_Nick]

Quite a few tornadoes. One even formed close enough to Norman to be seen; everyone of course was leaning over balconies to watch it rather than taking shelter as the siren wailed.

Some people like getting disturbingly close to them:
https://www.facebook.com/TheWeatherChannel/videos/10154267934675921/

 

[Urwumpe]

Quite a few tornadoes. One even formed close enough to Norman to be seen; everyone of course was leaning over balconies to watch it rather than taking shelter as the siren wailed.

Some people like getting disturbingly close to them:
https://www.facebook.com/TheWeatherChannel/videos/10154267934675921/

The curse of all the storm chasing for tourists. It makes it look like a harmless fun. Seen the video of the two tornadoes near a power plant in Iraq? The camera was only about 300m away from where the tornado formed, right during the 14 minutes of the video, very educational.

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More tech from Germany - In Rottweil, a 246m high turret is finishing construction, which will be used by Thyssen-Krupp for testing new elevators, which have a surprising similarity to the Turbolifts in StarTrek.

http://testturm.thyssenkrupp-elevator.com/

 

[Artlav]

Remember the game i posted not so long ago?
Here is the browser version:
http://orbides.org/apps/the_bits.html

I'm curious whether it's playable this way or not - seems like it lags in some browsers and you can't turn in others.

(Controls: W and S to accelerate/deellerate, points to wards the mouse cursor, mouse button fires, space pauses. Goal: Blow up the reactor on the mini-death-star).

usable energy (heat for example)

Don't they plan to generate it directly from the magnetic field's rotation? At least in the magnetic confinement schemes.

 

[Quick_Nick]

Remember the game i posted not so long ago?
Here is the browser version:
http://orbides.org/apps/the_bits.html

I'm curious whether it's playable this way or not - seems like it lags in some browsers and you can't turn in others.

(Controls: W and S to accelerate/deellerate, points to wards the mouse cursor, mouse button fires, space pauses. Goal: Blow up the reactor on the mini-death-star).

I was hoping for a browser version!
Unfortunately, I'm looking at about 5 FPS, maybe 10 when I die.
Browser: Chrome, CPU: FX-6300, GPU: Radeon HD 7850, RAM: 8 GB

 

[Fabri91]

Runs much better in Edge and Firefox than Chrome, but still low FPS on my tablet PC (<20).

CPU: Intel Core i3 4020Y, integrated GPU, 4GB RAM. This evening I'll test it on my desktop.

 

[Artlav]

Unfortunately, I'm looking at about 5 FPS, maybe 10 when I die.

Yeah, tons of physics and inefficient compiler...
I was doing debugging/delagging passes along the day, so if you tried it more than an hour or two ago it might be faster now.

In any case it's only a proof of concept i thrown together over the week, so there is still hope.

 

[Matias Saibene]

Don't they plan to generate it directly from the magnetic field's rotation? At least in the magnetic confinement schemes.

From what I have understood (I can be wrong), the nuclear fusion reactor ITER (the ITER experiment will not produce energy, but it is the concept) would heat a plasma of tritium and deuterium 50MW, and begin to fuse deuterium and tritium, increasing heat (such as starting a chain reaction), and in that heat would heat water, which produce steam that would move turbines and produce electricity.
https://youtu.be/cCkp2SEsfao?t=2m16s

It would be a form of thermonuclear energy, but instead of producing steam by heating water heat product of nuclear fission, fusion reactor would produce steam, with the heat from nuclear fusion.

 

[Fabri91]

Tried it on the desktop (i7 4790K @4.5GHz, GTX770) and can confirm that performance is much worse on Chrome than on Firefox or Edge.

I think I have a bug to report:
when some of the units are reduced to two triangles, they seem to become unstable in size and rotation.

Example of when this happens: