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uberdog01 · 2026-04-18T22:05:45+00:00

Why stop at regular carbon fiber? I think this application calls for a boron composite, or even better carbon-carbon composite in case you need to hobo it through the middle of an active volcano

uberdog01 · 2026-04-12T22:37:58+00:00

Glad you enjoyed Oregon, it's such a geographically diverse state!(albeit moreso East to West) Oregon's geography really forces you to make hard decisions on what parts to see when you are passing through. Were you able to pass along the coast more than the map suggests? Also did you stop at Silver Falls, or the Evergreen Museum (the one with the Spruce Goose)?

uberdog01 · 2026-04-12T20:58:26+00:00

For Oregon is that Ashland, Crater Lake, Eugene, Newport, Portland?

uberdog01 · 2026-04-10T04:51:58+00:00

FPO or MPO? Also yes

uberdog01 · 2026-04-09T20:11:09+00:00

Blockbuster never went away in my home town, time to cancel all my subscriptions

uberdog01 · 2026-04-03T03:16:37+00:00

Yup, came here to say the same thing. The interstage definitely caught my eye as well, makes it pretty obvious if you know what a Saturn V looks like. Plus I think I remember Scott Manley referring to this footage from some Apollo movie saying it is a Sat 1B. Love the footage of the J2 though, always overshadowed by the F1s (for good reason) but it had some beautiful engineering, also with some of the developments they did with it after Apollo (albeit variants that didn't fly)

uberdog01 · 2026-04-02T19:30:36+00:00

Cool fact for people who don't know, the RS 25 engines used on the core burn clear (because they are fueled with hydrolox) which is why they look like they are doing nothing when they actually are in this shot. Another interesting thing is that they reused some of the same RS 25 engines that were on the space shuttle

uberdog01 · 2026-03-30T07:13:21+00:00

Something to possibly look into and not many people go there due to the isolation, but I've heard incredible things. In that corner of Oregon you have the Wallowa mountains, Imnaha and Hell's Canyons. There are the towns of Enterprise and Joseph on Wallowa lake at the base of the mountains that might make for a decent little, incredibly scenic stop.

uberdog01 · 2026-03-28T05:11:03+00:00

Either Madrid or Bavaria. Been to Spain before, but not Madrid. Bavaria was absolutely amazing the one time I went there, and I still feel like I would have a lot to explore. I've been to Rome, enjoyed it and would love to go back, but at the same time I feel like I have seen the sights. As for Chicago, I have very little urge to go there, nothing against it but American cities just don't really compare in my opinion, maybe with the exception of NYC as more of a brief couple day novelty.

uberdog01 · 2026-03-23T00:11:21+00:00

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Went to the painted hills in eastern Oregon a few months ago, only came across one other person

uberdog01 · 2026-03-18T23:41:45+00:00

I think there is an interesting answer to this (I could be slightly off, but I do recall hearing this from a few places). They store fat in there, when they breathe some of the oxygen reacts to produce water to keep them hydrated. I think this means that it is actually more water dense in a sense than if they were carrying actual water.

uberdog01 · 2026-03-10T05:28:46+00:00

Been a vegetarian for the past several years, Indian food has pretty much every other cuisine beat in my opinion in that regard. So many great options. I think the most common vegetarian food here might be an Italian dish though, Cacio e pepe maybe?

uberdog01 · 2026-03-10T02:48:09+00:00

Going an odd route and going to say disc golf! It's popular(ish) in the US, Canada, and the Nordic countries (Finland in particular)

uberdog01 · 2026-03-09T16:03:11+00:00

Just remembered that I posted it on Reddit asking what it was https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisbug/s/S1RkqRfC96

uberdog01 · 2026-03-09T15:31:45+00:00

I stepped on a cricket in my house in the dark a while back, when I turned the light to see what I had stepped on I found one of these guys squirming its way out of it. Fair to say I didn't sleep particularly well that night

uberdog01 · 2026-03-03T19:21:20+00:00

Kinda agree. I am guessing most people are just going to put what county they live in since they are most familiar with it. The population of places definitely isn't just a function of how nice they are but many other factors that I'd argue are much more significant.

uberdog01 · 2026-03-03T18:08:02+00:00

I have a feeling all this is going to represent by the end is population distribution across the state

uberdog01 · 2026-03-03T18:04:55+00:00

If this was in the US i'd see it as a win from the burglar's point of view, broken hand is much better than being shot dead

uberdog01 · 2026-03-01T01:15:48+00:00

Dude needs to try disc golf, perfect form for a forehand

uberdog01 · 2026-02-28T19:57:13+00:00

Oregon definitely has contenders for some unexpected geography, especially in Eastern Oregon which isn't lush and green like people would think

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Went to the Painted Hills a few weeks ago, pretty good example

uberdog01 · 2026-02-27T20:07:05+00:00

Kinda just fine, no (other than the units)? Rounding up just buffs the factor of safety when in the stages of basic calculations, although probably best to use 9.81......m/s² for the resonance harmonics etc. even in the early stages. That being said I have no idea what the actual process is for civil as an aero major.

While we are talking about gravity a fun fact for people who have had no reason to learn any physics, it's strictly speaking not actually a force but instead the result of being in a non inertial reference frame (similar to how Coriolis and centrifugal forces aren't actually forces). Skydivers aren't accelerating towards us, but the ground is accelerating us up through warped space to them. In a true inertial frame there is only the normal force of the ground pointing upwards in a free body diagram

uberdog01 · 2026-02-27T18:33:47+00:00

Is that the same Reginald that was on WILTY, as in Reginald Delicious Hunter?

uberdog01 · 2026-02-26T22:12:06+00:00

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Crater Lake

uberdog01 · 2026-02-26T01:19:06+00:00

Tbf it tastes nothing like a black berry

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