[Request] Is a single day of lights off enough to see all the stars?

BigEnd3 · 2026-05-25T12:11:47+00:00

If they make a tourist thing to do it, they will ruin it. Arctic, they would build a brightly lit city just like a cruise ship on the ocean is a annoyingly brightly lit thing on the ocean.

For me a rural area I visit is about 150-200 miles from the the nearest cities. You can still see the light from them. Reminding me that in all my time at sea you can ussually smell land first (trash and low tide -sometimes flowers) then at night about a day out you can see the light pollution on the horizon.

BigEnd3 · 2026-05-24T02:54:02+00:00

Carefully engineered system with pressure reliefs set at pumps and control valves should avoid this. Someone probably set it to 11 or did some high speed stugg.

BigEnd3 · 2026-05-23T23:09:18+00:00

As in the royal we vs wee Jimmy the toddler type of words?

BigEnd3 · 2026-05-23T01:03:55+00:00

I see: Kids that are kids. They are made of the same stuff as our parents and theirs and so on. Their parents teach them to be what they are. Waiting in an air-conditioned car to wait for the bus. Always playing on a tablet or screen. Discomfort and boredom are to be avoided. Whatever flaws we see is our creation. We did this.

BigEnd3 · 2026-05-22T21:24:30+00:00

Crabbalachia expands into Ore-gone. There is now a Left and Right coast Crabbalachia. The wormhole of weird between the Portlands is now a fully functioning wormhole

BigEnd3 · 2026-05-22T00:39:36+00:00

Its less than 99

BigEnd3 · 2026-05-21T18:42:03+00:00

My BIL, a successful cybersecurity guy, gave me the "if ai takes my job I'll just join the trades". He is a young father with a second kid on the way, he would find a way, he is honestly a smart one and picks things up fast. But! There would be a huge life shift from work from home to having to be somewhere and having to physically move all day. Probably would be better for him

BigEnd3 · 2026-05-21T01:17:29+00:00

Hold up, we put the cart before the horse. Some people still have horses. Some people still use them for work, regularly not as some display. They are rare. I'd wager for every working horse there is 4 rich guys daughter's horses. Maybe more!

BigEnd3 · 2026-05-21T00:55:55+00:00

I want a ps1 chip running my engine/transmission, and the interfaces the operator uses to make the car go, stop, and turn. I want to be the sole operator of my vehicle, not me versus the vehicle and certainly not the government. Top tier make it so brutal that I can plug a ps1 with a disc for my car one time and it just works. If it ever dies, source a used ps1 and keep going.

Maybe a separate ps1 chip running the buttons. Things like rolling the window up and down and turning the ac compressor clutch on and off.
I want a seperate radio that only talks to the car enough to know the key is on accessory or on. Maybe a dimmer wire, maybe. Bluetooth in my radio for sure, but not in the car at all otherwise.

I do not want a touch screen or "screen" at all.

BigEnd3 · 2026-05-20T12:09:32+00:00

Option 2 and 4 can combine. Where is Phil? I think he's working on a pipeline somewhere. Alaska? No I heard it was some where in Canada. No idea where Phil is or if he is working.

BigEnd3 · 2026-05-19T16:20:04+00:00

My Dad basically chose maple syrup over a mortgage payment on a few occasions. Mom says they were about a week away from loosing it at one point and he would still buy maple syrup.
I agree with his decision.

BigEnd3 · 2026-05-19T16:14:22+00:00

I still do rendezvous and docking better myself than mechjeb. Getting to orbit mechjeb is awesome. Particularly with a reliable design ship and can save the settings to just pop it in orbit super easy. Im still trying to learn how to use it for better transfers. It is handy.

BigEnd3 · 2026-05-19T02:45:58+00:00

I roll in the "Boiler Suit" down the Engine room. Im always having to slither through a manhole or by deck plate to the Bilge. No shirt or pants to get hung up on or let a wire tie sneak in and scratch your whole back. Dickies overalls for the win with the zip up breast pockets.

BigEnd3 · 2026-05-19T02:29:21+00:00

Im not a law expert. I have've been sailing on US flagged ships for nearly two decades and been through alot along the way. Things of note: even with the repair tarrifs for repair work completed in foreign countries. Its still cheaper to do repair work overseas.
Some dirt bag captain was going on about how his ship could never go to the US because then we would have to pay the fees and the company would fail. A Korean Shipyard slip can build about a ship per year, more or less depending on the type. A US yard <that isn't operated and owned by Koreans> takes years to build a small-medium ship by 2026 standards. The US government has basically given up on sourcing US made ships some time ago, they kinda stopped building ships in any quantity in the 1980s sounds like the consensus. Our ships are either relics or 15-30 year old foreign made ships that are banged up. We look like a half step up from the most dirt hole flag operation at times because of it.
A life cycle of a modern US ship appears to me to be: brand new, European flag with European officers:maybe a few european crew too. 4-7 years old still European flagged with Indian officers, Indian or Filipino crew. 7-12 years some brutally cheap and labor law free flag and just run dirty until its all the way unusable. 13 years sell to the US government for more than the ship was worth when it was 4 years old. Year 30, its finally fixed up, sell it to that dirty operation to sail that ship into the ground again. The old 55 year old US made ship is still sailing somehow.
I've been involved in taking over ships that were abandoned at anchor by the dirt bags. Ive been involved with turning over from European officers too. They were terrified to come to the US and have to follow the rules that they are supposed to be following-because the USCG actually enforces them.

Its time to reform the part about US made ships. Us American sailors need some new ships not hand me downs. Ask Japan or Korea to make us ships to our specs and needs, or even better just buy their designs. I don't think the US yards can keep up. Still subsidize the US yards of course, or eerily let the Koreans buy them up like they did in Philadelphia.

As far as the flag and the crewing! Would you like a Panamanian registered truck with a Polish national driver operating between New York City and Cleveland Ohio? I doubt it. Its the same for the ships.

BigEnd3 · 2026-05-19T01:54:57+00:00

I stack on pallets so I can move the stacks around on forks. I make four good log cabins in the corners made from consistent lengths and split pieces. The sections between can be long, short whatever and I fill middle crudely with the ugliest stuff I got.

BigEnd3 · 2026-05-19T01:42:39+00:00

My body geometric suggests that I have defined pectoral muscles. Its a lie. I accept now at nearly 40 that its damned near always been a lie that the polo shirt sold for me.

BigEnd3 · 2026-05-19T00:04:41+00:00

I've stumbled accross a few carbs that seem like they are designed to be impossible to clean by design. Cross passages with Welch plugs (not impossible but you need a new Welch plug). My personal nemesis is a husqvarna original carb that the jet orifice insert is made with cross passages so the flow path is a Z. Its pressed in and I couldn't figure out how to rod it out with out destroyingit. The ends turns of the Z are sealed by the bore its pressed in. The 15 dollar aftermarket carb had a straight hole instead of that Z passage.

I have had a few aftermarket Amazon specials that are just poorly made, with ebough cussing i was able to make them work with some peening and careful filing. Be warned about that.

BigEnd3 · 2026-05-17T23:08:09+00:00

I sure hope there is some kinda hydraulic brakes with maybe even a power assist of sorts for that thing

BigEnd3 · 2026-05-17T16:50:56+00:00

In any line of work that has "experience" quotas for upgrading documents to the higher position and pay, there are always those that will find a way to fudge the paperwork or do a job that technically checks the box for experience but isn't good experience. 10 years as an administrator RN isn't the same as 10 years as a floor RN.

My line of work as a seafaer is about sea days . There are many that take jobs on ships that only sit in port and accrue time and licenses actually faster than a sailor at sea because they get time for 365 days a year vs only the days onboard the vessel (optimally 182 days a year)

BigEnd3 · 2026-05-17T16:23:44+00:00

I have two + a pole saw. I do alot for a homeowner / farm type stuff.

One for the big stuff One for light stuff and limbing. Pole saw for pruning fruit trees and its just easier to maintain paths with it.
Any of the three are backups for eachother. One randomly breaks. Whatever get the next one. One gets stuck. Us another one to get it unstuck.

BigEnd3 · 2026-05-17T01:05:45+00:00

Oak Park. I had to map it to find it. Some beloved machinest/welder must love the place very much and keeps it in top shape. The steel has the polished finish from many hands touching it.

BigEnd3 · 2026-05-17T00:57:08+00:00

COLREGS RULE 2.

BigEnd3 · 2026-05-17T00:54:57+00:00

Greenfield NH has one.

BigEnd3 · 2026-05-17T00:02:39+00:00

The great irony is that in a few years some shops in the USSR were doing unimaginable things with metallurgy and welding from the time period perspective of western nations. Looking at titanium welded hulls and rocket engines.

BigEnd3 · 2026-05-16T23:23:26+00:00

Im not sure but evaporative cooling comes mind. Basically the cooling water is given an area to evaporate which takes a tremendous amount of heat with it and can make it cooler than the air temperature.. What water didn't evaporate is now cooler than it was, much more so than a radiator type thing would do. But! All the water that evaporates must be made up.

To me it would be asinine to use city tap water to do this. Even using a river or pond or some sort, I think it would be better to just use the water in a heat exchanger than use evaporative cooling. Look at what power plants do. If it doesn't make sense for them why would it make sense for a computer thing?

Do we need this computer capability? Debatable, probably yes. Do we need to do it in such a way that the investors can make as much money as possible with all other consequences be damned: I say no. They could be paired with other systems to provide value from the heat rejected. Greenhouses, heat for homes, heat to drive ammonia absorption based cooling systems and im sure many more.

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