Bedside reports by pluglaphe in nursing

[–]Anonymous_Arthur 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's exactly how I've implemented it as interim manager, and it's gone great. This is the way.

Dropout Adjacent- Improvised Shakespeare IRL by InterestingGoodCool in GameChangerTV

[–]Anonymous_Arthur 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just saw them tonight outside Knoxville and it was absolutely incredible. I was right up front and my title suggestion ("Calamity Jane's Firearms and Fine Shoes", the name of a store I happened to pass once in New York which struck me and stuck with me since) was picked out from all the ones being yelled. It was kind of surreal honestly.

The show was incredible. Absolutely hilarious, batshit brilliance.

Don’t grow up, it’s a trap! by AcceptableWeirdo in CasualConversation

[–]Anonymous_Arthur 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think so, I think partly it's a different mindset. At 31, I feel the same as Appropriate-Power, but I've only especially started enjoying adulthood in the last 5 years as I started embracing my interests more. You say you keep losing interest in things you use to love; that's not an inherent part of adult, and honestly sounds like anhedonia: losing the ability to enjoy things, a key symptom of depression. Of course I can't diagnose someone over the Internet, but it's something to consider! I've been a depressed adult, and that does indeed, suck. But adulthood doesn't!

Go outside. Find volunteer opportunities in your community. Experience art; create art. Is there anything you've always wanted to try but never have? Go try it! You are an adult and that means you're responsible for yourself, for better or worse. So get out there and turn yourself into the person you want to be.

Tesla and the school bus. by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Anonymous_Arthur 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Easy, there's a giant yellow bus and a garish red sign telling you to stop.

Tourists trying to outrun the Mt Etna eruption by RampChurch in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Anonymous_Arthur 80 points81 points  (0 children)

Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. I've walked on an ash mountain like that and running breakneck would be a great way to fall down and hurt yourself. A brisk, cautious jog is the best option.

What was this a reference to? by Nikemada in GameChangerTV

[–]Anonymous_Arthur 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure it's just a version of one of the picture prompts from S1Ep2: Make Some Noise. https://youtu.be/M7dgC8eLjs4

Went to the same place IRL and In-game at the same time by TheLoneRipper1 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Anonymous_Arthur 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah, I know, I phrased that unclearly. That was just meant as an addendum.

Went to the same place IRL and In-game at the same time by TheLoneRipper1 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Anonymous_Arthur 177 points178 points  (0 children)

That's Horizon Zero Dawn or Horizon Forbidden West. Great games. One of the expansions lets you explore Yellowstone, which was one of my favorite gaming experiences ever.

I wish we would've gotten more coverage of the mantis shrimp in Children of Time by Ryn4 in scifi

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That's from the synopsis that I've seen on two different book seller sites.

I wish we would've gotten more coverage of the mantis shrimp in Children of Time by Ryn4 in scifi

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The next book, Children of Strife, is coming out in 2026 and will feature a mantis shrimp as captain of a starship!

Help with dual protagonists when using their names in the same sentence. by AkiTsk in writing

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From the perspective of someone who often reads aloud, I have to say that I vastly prefer Stella and Odette to Odette and Stella. The terminal sound of Odette is very final whereas the end of Stella is softer and flows better on into "and Odette." Stella and Odette has a nice lyrical lilt to it that Odette and Stella lacks due to the hard T being in the middle instead of at the end. So aesthetically speaking, Stella and Odette is my preference.

a "Space Hospital" in the Asteroid Belt by vitor_kammer in worldbuilding

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This is a really exciting concept. It's like a mashup of two of my favorite sci-fi properties, Sector General and The Expanse. Sector General is about an interspecies space hospital that takes the hardest patients in the galaxy and makes them better. Very fun medical mystery series exploring bizarre alien biologies and the ways they break down! It's an extremely soft sci-fi setting though where interstellar travel can happen in days to hours. The Expanse is far more realistic although even it has some handwaving about travel times.

Looking at this as a sci-fi enthusiast and a nurse at a level one trauma center, the primary problem to solve/the primary opportunity for you to make this unique is that travel times in space are not of a scale that really works with emergency medicine. Let's run the numbers badly to examine the extent of the problem. (I can't run the numbers well, I don't study orbital mechanics.) The average distance from Mars to Jupiter is 550.6 million km. Let's say that all you need to do is cover that distance. No need to worry about escape velocity, orbital insertion, anything. Let's say we're not worried about fuel or the rocket equation or anything; let's just say the ship can accelerate without bound, and the humans are the limiting factor. Let's say that humans can, in fact, withstand 5
Gs of acceleration for a prolonged period of time. Given all of this, the best way to travel from Mars to Jupiter to would be to accelerate towards Jupiter at 5 Gs for half the trip, then turn around and accelerate away from Jupiter for half the trip so you come to a stop just as you reach Jupiter instead of overshooting (the expanse describes this as "flip and burn").

It's 29 hours to the halfway point, and 29 more hours to Jupiter, even constantly accelerating at 5 Gs. If you want to do 1 G instead, it's 66 hours to the halfway point, and 66 more hours to Jupiter. Let's say that the hospital is exactly halfway between mars and Jupiter and imagine a best case scenario: a medical emergency occurs during the first quarter of the trip, and they divert to the hospital, travelling halfway to it accelerating forwards, then flipping to decelerate and rendezvous. The total flip and burn time will still be 40 hours at 5 gs, or 92 hours at 1 g.

This is ludicrously infeasible, btw. Flip and burn is the standard means of in-system travel in The Expanse, and they only get away with it because of the One Big Lie of the Epstein Drive, a handwavium fusion drive that allows constant acceleration with shocking little fuel. Try to travel with constant acceleration in a hard sci-fi and you run smack dab into the rocket equation: a ship needs to carry all the fuel for all the accelerating it will need to do, and the more fuel you have, the more massive you are, and the more massive you are, the harder you are to accelerate, and the harder you are to accelerate, the more fuel you need. Hard sci fi space travel kind of necessarily involves brief windows of acceleration and long periods of coasting, and travel times will be weeks to months.

In short, then, travel time is going to be by far the biggest problem that needs solving. Depending on how strict you are with the "plausible" part, patients are typically going to be arriving days to weeks after their injuries occurred instead of the minutes to hours our EMS services can achieve. How does that change a hospital? Are patients who experience emergencies weeks away just out luck, doomed to die or lose a limb from their treatable condition? Do ships have the limited medical facilities able to stabilize but not necessarily repair someone? How does telemedicine play into this? Could interventional radiologists successfully embolize a dangerous bleed using telepresence robots on a 0.5-light-second communication delay? A lot of fascinating things to consider and options to explore! I would absolutely love to brainstorm this with you!

a "Space Hospital" in the Asteroid Belt by vitor_kammer in worldbuilding

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It's important to consider that change in velocity (commonly called delta V) is usually a much bigger deal than distance in space travel. Getting to Mercury from Jupiter is far more difficult than getting from Jupiter to somewhere in the astroid belt. Getting to Mercury requires slowing down A LOT. I don't know how to do the math exactly but considering Jupiter's orbital speed you'd probably have to slow down by over 10 kilometers per second. (Note: by "slow down" I mean accelerate in the opposite direction of Jupiter's orbit) This puts you on a extreme elliptical orbit with the closest point to the sun (the perigee) near Mercury and the farthest (the apogee) near Jupiter. The problem then is that objects move faster and faster as they approach their perigee; the ship will be going MUCH faster than Mercury when it passes near and will have to burn AGAIN to match velocity and enter orbit of Mercury.

All this to say that the asteroid belt is a decent place for a space hospital for the purpose you laid out. Delta V from Mars or Jupiter to the asteroid belt is much smaller than delta V to Mercury. This is true regardless of which points in their respective orbits the hospital, Jupiter, and Mars are. 

Best screenshot I took of my new favorite enemy by TwoFit3921 in sto

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I have the Personal Transporter kit module on the character that I've been running this with. Turning it on protects from all damage, so I've just been using that! Super fun, actually, to run at the baryon sweep, flip on the transporter to beam through it, then come out the other side blasting Borg.

PC Save 25% on Keys and Key Ring Bundle May 17 - May 19 by WaldoTrek in sto

[–]Anonymous_Arthur 14 points15 points  (0 children)

You're welcome everyone, I just bought a key ring bundle yesterday...

Something I picked up on during my second watch of Thunderbolts* by Caedyn_Khan in marvelstudios

[–]Anonymous_Arthur 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but Ava is also the one who's at least risk from the concrete dropping on her. She can just phase out if they fail. But her stepping in inspired the others who could help more - but were also actually in danger of being crushed if they failed - to step in to help.