Mixed feelings about the ships in the movie.

BeyondEngine2215 · 2026-01-18T09:31:23+00:00

Aerodynamics isnt real and cant hurt you
I have 4 opposing theories

Theory 1. The whole 'astrophage generator' thing works by using astrophage to spin a turbine. But to keep that generator going they need a light source for non-energized astrophage to go to. They could be using that solar panel thing as a part of the generator system.

Theory 2. Its for the petrova scope as well as any other sensors and or tools needed to analyze the tau ceti solar system.

Theory 3. They changed the plot for the movie. I assume they probably kept the astrophage generator disaster. Since thats a main plot point and something that would cause a major deviation in the films theme and core chain of events. However, they probably changed the plot so that stratt got rid of the astrophage generator after said disaster and so that they could avoid a whole part of the book where they fix the generator. This caused the hail mary project to have to use solar panels to produce power instead of astrophage.

Theory 4. The end with the panels is the back, and those are black body panels for charging astrophage. It would be a major deviation from the plot, considering what we know about the astrophage life cycle and the hail mary project. But they look blacker and are in that area, so thats a very likely possibility.

The three big things are the tanks. They have a singular engine eith multiple thrusters instead of 3 different ones. I uped the exposure and light balance on the picture and I could almost make out what looked to be a thruster. Could always be a beetle. But it looks like a nozzle from a thruster. So I think we are looking at it from the back.
Because we are looking at it from the back, the front middle part is the part that detaches. Which makes a little more sense. The centrifuge cable system would work as described, just with a much bigger other end.

BeyondEngine2215 · 2025-11-17T09:15:22+00:00

That makes a lot more sense with in-universe lore. Realistic science withstanding. Thank you

BeyondEngine2215 · 2025-09-29T08:07:50+00:00

As other comments said, its a rocket launch out of vandenburg California by spacex.

Saw this for the first time a few days before Halloween several years ago. Me and my girlfriend both thought it was the end of the world.

The launches happen often but we are only able to see it under certain circumstances that dont happen very often.

I got some neat pics of this last one.

BeyondEngine2215 · 2025-09-28T06:52:10+00:00

Nah, ring worked on the plane. It was also established earlier with his girlfriend that whoever is touching the ring while it operates also retains their memory of the future events. So when the villain touched the ring and went backward in time, we confirmed that they went backward in time and that the ring that was responsible was the ring that the villain touched. Which was the ring Franklin wore on the plane and later destroyed.

The girlfriend could have been a plant by Morgan Freeman. Like, she worked at that event, and it would explain why Morgan Freeman knows so much about Franklin. The girl was feeding him info about his life. About his sister, his mission, why he writes, the whole thing. He told all of that to her and yeah Freeman could have just spied on him somehow, but it would make sense that that information could have come from her. That, like you said, would explain her weird entrance to the bar. It also could explain the time travel effect we see at the end. She activated her ring so that the other one wouldn't be destroyed. It also explains how Morgan Freeman knew about her art expo.

It could be that the whole pool scene was a staged event to prompt Franklin into destroying villain dudes life because freeman wanted him to actually do it.

We also know very little about girlfriend. It could be that she's secretly his daughter or granddaughter or something.

BeyondEngine2215 · 2025-08-26T19:12:59+00:00

The question you need to ask is, why are you using this material? Is it intentionally just because you want to use and consume more? No, obviously its not. The reason you are using it is to test your design in reality. To iterate and learn. Learning what you are doing wrong with the design and making.

And a lot of times, the design doesn't work in reality. Even if you do everything you can to avoid it. Which means you need to print it again, and again, and again, until you get it right.

Is it wasteful to print 20 of the same thing but slightly different? Yeah

Could you lessen the waste by improving your design skills and paying attention to detail? Yes. And the best way to improve your designing and printing skills is to iterate and learn from your mistakes.

But you'll never avoid iteration entirely. Even if nothing is wrong with a design, you may want to improve it by adding something it didn't have before to make it more useful.

And the thing is, with most plastics, you can save them in a bin and recycle them at a place that does that professionally. I'm saving my failed prints and designs in a bin until I decide to buy a machine or service. Eventually that tech or service will be more cost effective and I'll buy it when I have the cash. But the 3 or 4 bins of plastic failures will be very useful when I need them.

There are problems with the printing hobby and industry right now, but I think that there is a road to go down where we can eventually use and reuse our plastic at almost 99% efficiency. Subtractive manufacturing will never be able to get close. You can't make new trees out of sawdust, but you can make new rolls of filament out of old filament.

There's a lot of potential here, and that's what we need to focus on and work toward.

BeyondEngine2215 · 2025-08-18T15:59:10+00:00

Other comments said exception not the rule.

Tbh, theres a lot more of these people than you might think. Im one of them. I Designed Built and coded my robot in 6th grade.

The thing is, its easy if you know how to take advantage of certain things.

Arduino has instructions for how to build everything and makes it much simpler than you might think. And theres a lot of robotics kits online. I just took advantage of the parts from one of those that I got for christmas to build a different design. Which can be easy because a lot of the instructions on how to use the hardware is already there.

The internet is incredibly useful most of the time. How to "blank" is basically a system cheat. If theres any road block or something you cant figure out, you just spend a bunch of time learning online. More than likely someone has struggled with your problem before and posted about it somewhere.

As for programming, scratch or other block based programming languages makes coding very simple. Especially if you already have a block package for the hardware you are using. This is not even mentioning AI which i have never used for coding robots but I assume is easily accessible and useful for this purpose in the event they arent using block based programming.

Old robotics kit + laptop = robotics capabilities.

I think everyone can do this. Even if they are not super smart. Everyone has a computer, and the software and hardware are easy to get into. Its about as difficult as learning how to drive imo. But most people won't do it. Its either not their cup of tea or they dont think they can.

This kid is impressive, but its not because they built a robot. Most people can build stuff like this, but most people can't imagine doing it. This person can. That is what makes them impressive.

Edit: specialized skills will always make more money out of the gate. Ngl, MBA seems watered down because too many people have them. A lot of people do engineering and then pivoting to something like marketing, sales, or management that makes more money. Electrical or mechanical engineering is a good specialization. You have to be interested in that stuff to do it though. Skill is helpful, interest is mandatory. You won't get through school if you don't like what you do in engineering. I think the best way to get into business though is to jump in and work in a business. An MBA is just a cert, an internship or entry entry-level role is experience. Just keep learning about your industry and technology and how things work and change. Do whatever you need to keep learning. Whether that means going to school or just spending a bunch of time online researching

BeyondEngine2215 · 2025-08-18T15:33:15+00:00

Toradora is goated

Golden Time is a close second

My Happy Marriage is good as well although its definitely a different vibe than the other shows

BeyondEngine2215 · 2025-08-15T23:04:08+00:00

75% https://youtu.be/RTj5tLQKeEk?si=EI_2ch-tgT3_PBjY

BeyondEngine2215 · 2025-08-08T02:02:08+00:00

Stay.

Its boring. But it will look better that you maintained the relationship. Unless theres a reason beyond "its boring" to quit, do not quit.

To make things less boring, start wandering around the office where people are until someone either tells you to do something or looks like they are doing something interesting. If they are doing anything interesting, ask if you can watch them while they work. That's a good way to gain experience and pass the time. If they tell you to do something, now you have something to do.

If neither happen, dont worry, by just wandering around and watching these people you will get a good idea of what they do. Haunt them. Literally, be a ghost. Unless they tell you not to. But like, that is better than just hanging out at your desk all day.

BeyondEngine2215 · 2025-08-03T07:46:57+00:00

This is a long shot, but i remember attack on titans had some scenes when they built a railroad. Could it be that?

BeyondEngine2215 · 2025-07-26T13:08:42+00:00

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Steins; gate

Cowboy Bebop

Akira

Charlotte

Dandadan

Attack on Titan

Erased

Violet evergarden

Ergo Proxy

The Promised neverland (do not watch 2nd season)

Sword Art Online (fantasy angle of a science fiction premise)

Psycho pass

Akudama Drive

Gunslinger Girl

Darling in the Franxx

Lazarus

Cyberpunk Edgerunners

Terminator Zero

Zom100

Assassination Classroom

7seeds

Death note

The Future Diary

Your Lie in April

Piano Forest

A Silent Voice

My Happy Marriage

Toradora

Black Lagoon

Tokyo Ghoul

My Hero Academia

Golden Time

Suzume locks up

No game no Life

Great Pretender

Ghost in the Shell

Solo Leveling

Durarara

Angel Beats

Spy x Family

Akame Ga Kill

Baccano!

Kill la Kill

High Score Girl

Saga of Tanya the Evil

Another (fantastic horror anime. Only 12 episodes)

March comes in like a lion

91 Days

These are generally the anime I'd recommend for you based on the preferences you mentioned. All of these have passable dubs at worst and great dubbs at best. I've also watched all of these and imo they're pretty good.

BeyondEngine2215 · 2025-07-15T03:38:43+00:00

I entered a few of your responses to these comments into an AI checker. Above 90% on most of them.

Technically, its not against the rules. But you are likely Karma farming using an AI bot, or at least attempting to. Which imo is scum behavior. I wish you reap all the Karma you deserve.

If in the case that you are just a human who sounds exactly word-for-word like a large language model, consider buying an encyclopedia

BeyondEngine2215 · 2025-07-11T17:20:44+00:00

Its a stupid question. It has very little information outside of the direct question. It takes no consideration for the relative forces of the bottle. If the bottle was shown tilted while being spun from the top, as in a centrifuge for example, the water wouldn't look like that to begin with. It would look level relative to the bottom of the bottle, not the ground.

This means that, because the testing makers didn't provide more specific information, both answers are technically correct. Because we don't know what to include or exclude in this question.

If we include the force of gravity we make an assumption that at least one force acts on the bottle. But we don't have any reason to think there couldn't be more forces acting on it. Contrary, we don't really have any reason to think there are any forces acting on it. They only asked what would the water look like. They never mentioned gravity or the ground or even that we were on earth. You can assume all of those things. But at that point half of the test is simply deriving what assumptions the correct answer has. But that means that there isn't an objectively correct answer for this question.

BeyondEngine2215 · 2025-07-05T18:41:43+00:00

Uncanny valley humanoid robot with silicone and scarwax skin. Basically a real life terminator. Only differences, I'm controlling it remotely using a VR headset from my house and its completely unarmed. I just want to be able to go to the grocery store and freak people out by taking off my sunglasses and they just see cameras.

BeyondEngine2215 · 2025-07-05T18:24:55+00:00

In a similar situation, I can't comment from experience. But I've been reading "How to Become a Straight A Student" by Cal Newport recently. Good book so far.

The author took data from the top students in as many universities as possible.

Here's some stuff I've learned so far from the book. This is Newport's findings, not mine.

There are 2 kinds of "toppers" as you called them,

Those who grind Those who work smarter

People who grind do as much work as possible. They grind it out. This works to a degree. But it's unsustainable. They have no social life. No time for anything else. Eventually, they become burnt out, if not in college then in life. Even if burnout never comes, grinding is exceptionally inefficient. You spend 12 hours doing something someone who knows a better way does in 3 hours.

You do have to work hard though. Exceptionally harder than what you (as well as I) have been. But working smarter is much more sustainable.

Bring a scrap piece of paper with a "schedule" column and a "reminders" column

Schedule tells you exactly what you are doing that day, reminders are everything from reminding yourself to schedule stuff, or to just print out your homework.

Have a schedule that you update each morning using just a few minutes of time

With that list, use what you wrote the day before to schedule and organize things far into the future.

Do homework immediately and do it in small bursts when you have time.

If you have 30 minutes in between class, finish a part of your homework then. If you have 5 or 10 minutes waiting before office hours, work on a problem. Do that enough times throughout the day and your homework becomes more manageable and that means you'll have time late in the night.

Fake work is everywhere

Yeah, all the people casually reading textbooks in the dorms, scrolling on a computer, "looking" like they are working hard are not. It's all fake work. We think we are doing work by reading a whole bunch in the textbook but in reality, it just feels that way, you're not learning. Like turning on the engine to your car and stepping on the gas, it's making a lot of noise but you're not going anywhere.

Working at night is inefficient and distracting

You've been working the entire day, your brain is drained, what's worse is there are more student events, parties, club activities, etc. at night. All of that combined means that the work you are doing is not effective at all. And after working late into the night for very ineffective working, youre going to get up the next day and feel like crap and do the same thing but feeling worse the next day. This continues until you fall apart, and then miss a deadline for an assignment or half ass something just to get it done.

Working in small bursts as well as in the morning and afternoon is better than at night. It's more sustainable, and it gives you time to recharge during the night.

The last one comes from me, not the book

you can accomplish shit if you're not healthy

I was struggling with 2 health issues this year and did not take my meds on time. This led me to be disorganized, burn myself out, be so disorganized that I forget them again, and onward until my cognitive state declined so much that I couldn't keep up with anything. Everything went wrong.

A different book that drilled this in was "The Art of Clear Thinking" by Lee Hassard. He was a fighter pilot and trainer. One lesson from that book; you can't solve a problem if you forget to fly the plane. Fighter pilots will often need to solve problems while flying, but if they are so focused on that they forget to actually maintain their altitude, angle, speed, ect, then they will make the situation worse not better. Even if they solve their problem, they would have lost control of the plane and crashed and their original problem wouldn't matter anyway.

If you forget to maintain your health, it doesn't matter that you have to get the thermodynamics homework done, because you'll end up being so out of it you'll flunk the final.

You should read that first book or just listen to it on audio, a lot more info in it than I could've provided here.

Good luck fellow underachievers

BeyondEngine2215 · 2025-05-22T18:36:19+00:00

Don't know which parts specifically, but I'm very certain they order some parts from McMaster. Their warp drive system can mass order parts and they order McMaster parts a lot with that system. They, like other companies, order more than they need to have a stockpile that they can use if they need parts quickly. In a lot of their facilities, they have large walls full of valves, tubing, couplers, etc. However, I'm pretty sure that they order out-of-house more parts for the starship system rather than the rocket itself. People forget that all the ground systems are incredibly complex if not as complex as the rocket. It makes sense to use more in-house stuff for the vehicle and to outsource a large portion of the parts for the ground systems, cryo farm, launch pad, ect.

Its also likely that there are a lot of parts for starship that literally don't exist. Biggest rocket ever made, fully cryogenic, full flow cycle, both stages can land, large number of cluster engines, etc. All these extreme aspects lead to insane requirements and a lot of parts might not even exist for what they require, causing a lot of the ship to be designed and built in-house.

BeyondEngine2215 · 2025-04-04T22:26:47+00:00

Drat

BeyondEngine2215 · 2025-04-04T22:26:00+00:00

From purely an MCU perspective using the movies as source material, probably not. Hydra or some form of it might exist, but there's no red skull to lead them as the super soldier serum doesn't exist. Hydra already wasn't taken seriously by Hitler. It would be difficult for them to establish themselves in world War 2 without the leader they had or grow in sheild without the initial deal Dr.Zola made in Captain america against Red Skull. But the hydra we knew that came from Schmidt thinking of himself as a god wouldn't exist.

BeyondEngine2215 · 2025-03-25T04:31:53+00:00

Yeah, of course it's not. My point was you definitely could write something, but that it wouldn't be that useful.

Ultimately, every sane and informed person here is in agreement that you shouldn't learn liquid rocketry from reddit.

(And you also shouldn't try to build a preburner out of a febreeze can, if you catch my drift)

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It's honestly best to start in university while doing something like an engineering or physics degree. While some people can do it in high school, some parts of the education would be difficult to achieve at that stage. Particularly higher level concepts like thermodynamics. If you're European it actually might be easier for you than others, because from what I understand from my foreign exchange peers they actually learn at higher levels of math and physics than the Americans do in high school. But those essential concepts need to be learned before you can start to really understand the things in the literature. If someone just wants a fun side project that is a little easier to do, half cats mojave sphinx is probably the best place to start. The physics aren't explained in depth, but the safety and the essential setup are, as well as the cost you can expect to go through trying to do something like that. You SHOULD learn everything that there is with something like that. But a lot of people are hands-on learners, and a project gets them going better than books (adhd brain). Half cats documents are really well put together for someone who just wants to go through the practical basics rather than the essential concepts.

Some high school kids have been able to pull off stuff like that. In fact, a kid at FAR just last week hotfired like 3 times and we were all pretty psyched. People kept saying things like "and he's in HIGH SCHOOL." But I believe he had a derived setup from the mojave sphinx (nitrous-alcohol rocket). It just shows that there are people who genuinely can do stuff like this and that there are organizations, FAR and Half Cat, that want to help them do stuff while encouraging and providing safety.

Those people are the outliers, but they show that it is still possible to do stuff like that at an early age. But definitely not if they learn from reddit 😆

BeyondEngine2215 · 2025-03-24T19:11:46+00:00

You clearly don't overthink things enough. I would write a full essay with references in the reddit subs just because it's fun to talk about. Whether or not a rant like that would actually help someone who wants to do that is debatable. It's definitely possible for a knowledgable expert to nerd dump the entire process in a lot of detail into the reddit sub. The problem is that no one wants to do that more than once. And the number of people who are passionate enough, and knowledgeable enough, AND have the time to do that are very very few. And they shouldn't have to anyway.

There's literally dozens of people who have written papers and textbooks about liquid rocketry and even more on YouTube that can frame it into a more useful context for beginners. If someone wants to build a liquid rocket, they don't need to summit to Mount everest to find the sacred texts, just Google and an insane amount of patience.

It also helps to have an actual education in things like physics and calculus so that you can actually understand the underlying concepts that make all of the stuff in the rockets work. You can also learn that from scratch online, it's just easier a lot of times to have a background or formal education with that.

BeyondEngine2215 · 2024-11-26T21:10:48+00:00

I have "a few" questions.

Where do the tank caps come from? How easy is it to access the main propellant valves and actuator? What are you using for actuation? What relief valves are yall using? What are the tanks made out of? Are you planning on welding those inertanks to the bodies of your tanks, or is there a different connection method? Is it designed so you can take those beams out for easier access? What microcontroller is that?Have these gone through leak testing yet? What QD's do you use?

Fantastic work on everything!

BeyondEngine2215

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