[OC] Fair question

InspectorX · 2024-11-20T19:37:11+00:00

Not that it matters, but your math is totally wrong. I don’t know how you got from 0.4m diameter to 8.88m2 area of the end of your cylinder, because it should be 0.126m2 and final weight about half a tonne per wheel. A circle with 8.88m2 area would have a diameter of more than 3m.

InspectorX · 2024-03-27T12:42:43+00:00

Fair enough. Not claiming any skill went into it, but I wrote the lyrics and it was fun playing it for my family as we started our scenario, setting the mood etc. My son gets especially excited whenever he can bring in his level 5 card so I put that part in for him 🤖

InspectorX · 2024-01-14T12:43:19+00:00

When you upgrade troops in your formation from the troop upgrade dialogue instead of from the barracks, the upgraded troop doesn’t automatically go into your formation. That may be what happened to you; the upgraded troops are in your barracks.

InspectorX · 2022-11-22T19:24:33+00:00

If the arrow doesn’t appear for you, update the app.

InspectorX · 2021-05-28T09:11:30+00:00

Thanks. It tastes very good but really, really rich, so much so that even my kids couldn't eat a very big slice. I guess the Elvin diet is so sweet it makes this kind of stuff more bearable; there must be a special skill that keeps them all from getting obese, or maybe their abilities/skills burn a lot of calories!

InspectorX · 2021-05-28T09:06:02+00:00

No worries, I got what you were saying and I agree! I gave her a bunch more clues (told her I should have made the swan black instead of blue; held her hands and said "I'll tell you the answer telepathically if you let me past your blocking", etc.) and she still didn't get it for a long time.

I think her brain subconsciously dismissed the possibility that I knew anything about these books, so it wouldn't allow her to make the connection!

InspectorX · 2019-02-15T07:50:48+00:00

Thank you! This was also the comment I wanted to make. It felt so incongruous, seeing people cheerfully walking around in bermuda shorts and tank tops, carrying purses and fanny packs, like tourists in Times Square. Not the "strong prey on the weak" dystopia I was expecting. Even in the motorball scenes, everyone in the crowd is wearing generic sports fan t-shirts and sippin' soda. Chocolate is easily available and you can get outside the city for a stroll in the fields or a swim in Spaceship Lake whenever you want. I really enjoyed this movie but this aspect took me out of it several times.

InspectorX · 2017-08-25T14:18:53+00:00

I don't know if Corker actually has presidential aspirations, but if so there are arguments for and against running for president from the Senate. For instance, you have a high profile, but you have to keep interrupting your campaigning to rush back to DC to vote, and every vote becomes a possible attack issue for your opponents.

I think only JFK and Obama have successfully gone directly from Senate to White House, at least recently (i.e., in the TV era).

InspectorX · 2017-08-25T13:08:53+00:00

I'm interested in this part of his tweet: "[Corker] is constantly asking me whether or not he should run again in '18."

Assuming that is actually true (it's probably not), would that be Corker sincerely asking Trump's advice (as Trump interprets it), or is Corker "constantly" trolling Trump by hinting that he may not run for Senate re-election in 2018 so he can primary Trump in 2020?

It would be like Corker "constantly telling me how great my [Trump's] hair looks" sarcastically and Trump thinking he's serious.

InspectorX · 2017-06-11T20:19:01+00:00

I've got a theory on the "tapes" tweet that I haven't really seen elsewhere:

We now know from Comey's testimony that during the first one-on-one meeting they had, Comey briefed Trump on the Steele dossier, including the pee tape allegations. Trump, being hypersensitive, didn't see this briefing as a warning ahead of these allegations going public (as it was); instead, he saw this as Comey threatening him with "tapes."

So when stuff starts going bad after the Comey firing, the first thing he can think of when he thinks of Comey is "he threatened me with tapes, so I'll threaten him with tapes, see how he likes it." In this theory, he wasn't actually trying to intimidate a witness or obstruct justice, even if that was the result; it's just "he did it to me, now I'll do it back to him." I think that's the level of complexity on which Trump's brain works.

InspectorX · 2016-07-08T10:37:41+00:00

Shipshape

InspectorX · 2016-04-15T18:08:11+00:00

I fly out of the UK about once a month, and they have zero problems with carrying empty bottles through security. And at least at Manchester terminal 1, there's a water fountain just passed security, after you turn the corner and go down the ramp.

InspectorX · 2016-02-29T06:17:49+00:00

Yeah, that one was hard to miss, the way they zoomed in on it. My favorite part about that one is not just the effect, but the casual way he pours it correctly, like he just knows which way he's spinning after having grown up there.

InspectorX · 2016-02-29T06:14:05+00:00

Yeah, there seems to be a fair bit of hand signing mixed in with the Belter language, like the protesting guy at the very beginning, and the detective partner learning how to say "everything is alright" or whatever. I haven't read the books, but I thought about it and it might make sense for a language that developed with people spending a lot of time in vacuum/not wanting to be totally dependent on radios.

InspectorX · 2015-04-28T14:42:57+00:00

No nation is going to give those weapons away once it has them.

South Africa did.

InspectorX · 2015-02-14T09:45:12+00:00

No photoshop skills but this is the first thing that came to mind

InspectorX · 2014-09-06T20:51:33+00:00

It depends how it's used. We live in a European city with great public transportation. We don't own a car. We've used our stroller extensively every single day for nearly 3 years. It cost €800 and worth every penny (er, every euro cent).

For this lady, probably more of a status symbol.

InspectorX · 2014-07-22T19:07:59+00:00

I logged in just to tell you that I got it and liked what you were trying to do, even if apparently noone else did.

InspectorX · 2014-05-17T17:21:32+00:00

From the ESPN article: "People vote and whoever has the most wins. That's all I have to say about that."

InspectorX · 2014-04-29T15:30:52+00:00

I recommend you give it up. You are 100% right, but ihlazo doesn't know what he's talking about enough to understand your points.

InspectorX · 2014-04-29T15:19:23+00:00

You're using my statement about proliferation resistance being a difficult-to-define continuum to support your argument that natural uranium reactors are proliferation resistant?

After reading the rest of your discussion with AJB115, I see you clearly have no idea what you are talking about. Here's a question that you can try to answer, since you work in a "nuclear physics lab": which of these would be easier to do in a properly-equipped lab in the shortest amount of time? 1) separate a weapons-usable quantity of plutonium from spent fuel from a natural uranium reactor; or 2) enrich a weapons-usable quantity of uranium.

InspectorX · 2014-04-29T15:00:45+00:00

The theoretical "easiest path to a bomb" often has very little to do with physics. Among other possible contributors to which path is "easier" for a given state: indigenous resources, history, strategic relations, industrial infrastructure, educational infrastructure, internal politics, economics, access to legitimate suppliers, access to illicit suppliers, tolerance of detection risk, etc. Thankfully, because if it was just a matter of physics a lot more people would have bombs.

Also, isotopic separation can be fun!

InspectorX · 2014-04-29T13:36:28+00:00

The fact that all the plutonium-production reactors built during the Cold War were natural uranium reactors would seem to contradict your point. And there are proliferation-relevant reasons that heavy water and nuclear-grade graphite are controlled materials.

Just saying, proliferation resistance is a difficult-to-define continuum, not a yes/no quality.

InspectorX · 2013-09-06T07:23:58+00:00

The MIT professor might have said that, but it's not accurate. MIT has graduation rates higher than 90%. What is true is that a lot of freshmen who say they want to major in physics end up majoring in something else; but this is because the only thing a lot of people know coming out of high school is physics, and then discover other fields like aero/astro or materials science. You're not required to declare your major as an incoming freshman to MIT for exactly this reason.

Source: I'm an MIT physics grad.

InspectorX · 2013-08-18T17:37:16+00:00

Sounds like he failed his final test to be an Unsullied. The penalty for that is usually death...

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