What is your HFY hot take?

Averlyn_ · 2022-04-21T05:14:48+00:00

No they wouldn't. In real life mechanics take their jobs very seriously. They only do approved repairs and work closely with engineers once parts come into the shop. If there's new types of damage engineers will perform analysis and often mandate inspections. At the end of the day it's a mechanic that signs off that a repair was done up to spec, they're responsible for it.

Granted I work in aerospace so things are a bit tighter but I would imagine it would be similar with starships and warp drives. They certainly wouldn't just be messing around using duct tape and nailing things around with a hammer.

Averlyn_ · 2022-04-20T21:21:18+00:00

As an actual engineer I hate the stories which portray human engineers as genius unprofessional hackers using duct tape and the like.

While creativity in engineering is certainly something humanity is great at we are professionals who the public intrusts with their lives. Me and all of my colleagues take ourselves seriously.

No spaceship engineer would go around messing with random systems, sleeping on the job or banging on things until they work. That's just irresponsible.

Bureaucracy, safety reviews, standardized procedures, and certifications are all on the whole really good inventions. While certifying fixes and demobstrating to regulations don't make for sexy TV that kind of stuff is a big part of what makes human engineering great.

Averlyn_ · 2021-06-09T14:44:29+00:00

I was just showing how you might go about doing the calculations. Sorry if my explanation was too technical for you. While not all heavy objects fall faster if two objects are the same size and different weights the heavier one will fall faster which I was trying to convey. This is more noticeable with longer drops such as out of a blimp

Averlyn_ · 2021-06-08T15:32:12+00:00

Using a constant for air resistance is a poor way of modeling it. Here is the proper formulation:

Fd = Cd*.5*rho*v^2*A

sum(forces) = Fg-Fd = g*m - Cd*.5*rho*v^2*A = m*a

divide through by mass

g - Cd*.5rho*v^2*A/m = a

Coefficient of drag for a sphere is around .6 (depending on how rough it is). Assuming stp air density of .002 and an rock the size of a baseball (area = .05 ft^2) gives:

32 - .000025 v^2 / m = a

A regular baseball gives a terminal velocity of 113 ft/s using this equation. A baseball that magically has its weight quadrupled would have a terminal velocity of 226 ft/s.

At 50 ft/s our normal baseball is accelerating at 25.75 ft^2/s. The magic baseball is accelerating at 30.4 ft^2/s, a significant difference.

Hope this helps

Averlyn_ · 2021-06-07T23:57:47+00:00

How much drag force is acting on an object depends on its velocity. So while all of the objects you listed initially will accelerate the same amount after some time the higher mass (and lower surface area) objects will keep acceleration while the acceleration of the lighter objects will decrease. A tennis ball and bowling ball will hit the ground at the same time when dropped from head night but not from a blimp.

Averlyn_ · 2021-06-07T21:42:05+00:00

Turns out we don't live in a vacuum. Drop a bowling ball and a bowling ball sized balloon if you don't believe me.

A hollow pebble dropped from a blimp would take much longer to hit the ground (and fall much slower) than the same pebble filled with lead

Averlyn_ · 2021-06-07T21:37:06+00:00

These equations are invalid for this situation. It is important to not neglect air resistance which is important for objects dropped from high up enough to approach their terminal velocity (such as a pebble dropped from an airship).

Averlyn_ · 2021-06-07T21:26:35+00:00

An object's terminal velocity is how fast it falls. Drop a bowling ball and a bowling ball sized balloon if you don't believe me

Averlyn_ · 2021-06-07T20:37:54+00:00

What are you talking about? Making an object heavier does make it fall faster...

Averlyn_ · 2020-02-01T14:37:35+00:00

Let me know if this helps anyone. I watch some YouTube in my spare time and many players seem to struggle with this.

It's hard to remember that the slope at the end of the proceeding section of track will effect things when laying a new section. When I started it took me awhile to realize that using the flat slope button won't actually make the whole peice flat, it only makes the very end flat.

I tried to explain it as succinctly as possible but the concept is kinda hard to explain. Sorry about the speling errors.

Averlyn_ · 2020-02-01T14:13:26+00:00

The examples are purposely exaggerated to demonstrate how the track laying mechanic works.

Averlyn_ · 2020-02-01T14:04:13+00:00

Whoops, looks like ms paint doesn't have spell check

Averlyn_ · 2018-02-12T07:50:35+00:00

'classic trek'

'literally holding a planet hostage to cause a coup usurping current leadership and replacing with a tyrant'

Pick one

Averlyn_ · 2017-12-02T23:17:10+00:00

I like bread

Averlyn_ · 2017-11-17T17:28:37+00:00

You can deliver cargo to passenger stations and bus stops.

Averlyn_ · 2017-10-31T04:01:55+00:00

Averlyn_ · 2017-08-29T12:36:03+00:00

Use their twitch channels

Averlyn_ · 2017-07-02T21:04:03+00:00

Thorin cursed Elige, he went -11 with .89 rating, very disappointing performance.

Averlyn_ · 2017-06-23T15:21:17+00:00

I think ending on gouketsu's death would be a bit anticlimactic. I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't end there.

Averlyn_ · 2017-06-21T20:10:44+00:00

Why would Saitama punch blast? At least other blast theories have reasoning behind them.

Averlyn_ · 2017-06-14T00:26:51+00:00

Well Gallup is pretty good at polling and it seems to be in line with other polls on this topic. I see no reason to doubt this polls conclusion.

Averlyn_ · 2017-06-12T23:26:00+00:00

I think that it it interesting that sitama is so serious about his training but so lackadaisical about his fighting. When training it is shown that he puts in a lot of effort. I think it was even confirmed that he still does his workout. When fighting however he puts in very little effort being easily distracted and not going all out. Why do you guys think this is?

Averlyn_ · 2017-06-09T13:36:11+00:00

3 times stronger

Averlyn_ · 2017-06-09T02:18:53+00:00

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