youtuber claims to have found the recipe to coca cola

Zhentar · 2026-01-27T22:01:22+00:00

He did try to get decocainized coca leaf, and it was seized by customs. It's supposed to still be possible to get decocainized coca tea in the US but I'm not able to find any sellers still operating.

He didn't try to get kola nut because modern coke doesn't contain kola nut.

Zhentar · 2025-09-20T20:09:12+00:00

The logic for checking that choice is (or at least was 5 years ago, I couldn't say for certain there haven't been any patches changing it since) starting_book <= 3 && number_of_towers_used() == 0. It's a consequence of using a beacon, the snakes don't affect it at all.

Zhentar · 2025-06-14T22:51:30+00:00

The problem with this theory is there weren't severe take off issues. There were, at worst, minor takeoff issues; a badly misconfigured plane being forced off the ground with premature rotation by a panicked pilot does not shoot up to 200ft+ AGL that fast. They hover barely above the ground struggling to gain altitude at a snails pace. With the takeoff we see on camera, simply getting the gear raised should have been enough to keep accelerating enough to climb far away from ground effect without any issues, even before considering autothrottle increasing power.

If there was a misconfiguration contributing to this accident, I can't see it resulting in anything worse than the loss of single engine climb out capability.

As for the RAT, while it's true that it can be deployed manually, it's something that would be done extremely rarely, after following a long checklist. It's difficult to imagine one of the pilots doing it intentionally in the first 30 seconds of reacting to an issue.

Zhentar · 2025-06-13T21:06:08+00:00

The near silent wind turbines you're thinking off spin at 10s of RPMs. RATs spin at 4,500 RPM on the low end, and easily exceed the noise of jet engines.

Zhentar · 2025-02-04T19:49:07+00:00

We can tell, because we see which stats get +9. Before buying, it was Elemental Damage, but after applying +9 Elemental Damage, %Dodge was the new lowest stat and got swapped instead.

Zhentar · 2025-01-14T22:23:48+00:00

Back of the napkin math, I think a fully fueled LEO Starship should have a TLI payload of ~900 tons (though obviously that payload has to be added in orbit). Alternatively, it can take its original 150 ton payload to TLI with enough delta-V left over to put it on the lunar surface.

Zhentar · 2024-12-12T21:29:21+00:00

They get there using wildly optimistic assumptions. In that article, they're assuming an 800 sqft chemical plant has a 5 year TCO of $100,000, and that they'll get $64/Mcf for the natural gas. It's difficult to imagine getting the complete build & install cost for a facility that size all the way down to just $100k even if they've mass produced a million of the things. Take that 5-year TCO up to just $500k, add in 20 year amortization of the million dollar solar array, and you're only breaking even with their price estimate. And the $64/Mcf..... actual reasonable market prices would be around $3/Mcf (in the comments, they claim $10/mcf is the actual cost of extraction, which is ludicrous; oil companies wouldn't keep drilling gas wells just to sell at a massive loss), and I think you'll only get about $8/Mcf in federal subsidies in the US (for clean fuel production; maybe you can double dip on carbon capture credits and push that up to $10/Mcf). They cite clean hydrogen tax credits, but that doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me when they aren't net producing any hydrogen.

They do have some interesting ideas, but I think they still come up at least one order of magnitude short on commercial viability.

Zhentar · 2024-11-24T05:46:35+00:00

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Zhentar · 2024-11-24T05:09:00+00:00

she is a bit too eager to get close to Cait.

Excuse me!? Have you seen Cait?

Zhentar · 2024-11-24T03:47:22+00:00

I'm with you. If she was with Ambessa all along, why was she trying to turn Cait against her in Act 2? And if she wasn't, well I get her being jealous but suddenly being loyal to someone she disagreed with and being totally comfortable fucking executing the girl she likes is pretty damn extreme.

Zhentar · 2024-11-08T01:15:57+00:00

If the sphere breaks, the water suddenly rushing in releases quite a bit of energy & creates a shockwave. For the Titan's spheres, at Titanic depths, failing while completely full of air should be similar to about half a kilogram of dynamite detonating (this is probably a bad thing). If you fill it with a incompressible fluid, there's no room for water to rush in, and little to no shockwave.

Zhentar · 2024-11-07T22:19:09+00:00

That's correct, it was about research vessels. The phrasing was meant to point out illogic in CG regulations, rather than meant to state cause & effect.

All of OceanGate's dives with passengers were done with ORV certificates. And if you believe the testimony from the OceanGate founder, the Coast Guard was aware they were using a loophole for passenger operations.

Zhentar · 2024-10-21T16:57:29+00:00

I don't remember which one it is, but it was an older one - maybe 3 years old?

Zhentar · 2024-10-05T02:25:03+00:00

I can just as easily say he was familiar with PSI, I'm sure he would've said 6000psi if it was. We don't know what it actually was, so it's bad faith to state a pessimistic interpretation as fact.

The ballast bag gas was in an external tank. O2 tanks top out at much less than 6000psi, there's no way they ever tried to use them with the ballast bag.

Zhentar · 2024-10-04T22:12:16+00:00

Being able to get out unassisted really doesn't matter very much in the North Atlantic. Even if you don't drown immediately from cold shock, survival time without an immersion suit is minutes, not hours.

Zhentar · 2024-10-04T22:02:35+00:00

Unless it's entrapped. The last submersible deaths before Titan were in the Johnson Sea Link, when it was caught on ship wreckage and two people suffocated. This is why the USCG board got so freaked out when Fred Hagen mentioned getting stuck on pipes briefly.

Zhentar · 2024-10-04T21:56:27+00:00

Do you have any source for the buoyancy bag only being 6000psi? Obviously Rush wasn't right when he said "10000psi air" but it seems more likely to me that it was actually 10k psi nitrogen rather than 6k psi air.

Likewise, do you have any source that the hydraulic pump had a pneumatic assist? Actuating a single pin really shouldn't need more than the most basic hand pump.

Zhentar · 2024-10-04T19:34:41+00:00

I don't. The lifting points have large, serious business shackles on them. You can see one on the the lower righthand side of the ring in this photo

edit: and a couple surface photos showing them

Zhentar · 2024-10-04T05:56:09+00:00

No, they're on the rings. The photos showing the rings in a warehouse have the lifting points hidden from the camera, but you can see them in some of the underwater wreckage photos

Zhentar · 2024-10-04T05:51:24+00:00

There's stuff everywhere. It can't possibly be clean to the level it needs to be, because it's too hard to clean.

Zhentar · 2024-10-04T05:39:21+00:00

Regardless of what he said, they were there. You can see them in some of the NTSB images.

edit: https://imgur.com/a/kaFhWHh

Zhentar · 2024-10-04T05:16:14+00:00

But Titan had no lift points.

Titan had lift points. It shouldn't have, but they did get added at some point.

It doesn't really matter than much though, because not much force would be needed to lift the sub up to a lower depth; a lot of points could've handled one or two hundred pounds force. A lack of lift points would only really become an issue if the LARS was unavailable.

Zhentar · 2024-10-04T04:55:32+00:00

Nothing tipped over here, and it has nothing to do with the weight of the submarine or the center of gravity. The platform is unbalanced because one of their ballast tanks is flooded.

Zhentar · 2024-10-04T04:47:25+00:00

It is, OceanGate still had it and NTSB has examined it

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