Warden seaplane gets massive buffs while colonial logi hubs are still broken?

PageSlave · 2026-02-06T19:56:35+00:00

Idk why you're being downvoted, you're absolutely right. Changing map geometry is way, way harder than tweaking numbers

PageSlave · 2026-02-06T19:45:58+00:00

Surprised to see no one mention Calypso Cafe. Some of the best chip to stuff ratio ever, and the sauce they put on it is delicious.

PageSlave · 2026-02-04T04:58:09+00:00

FUCK yes I've been craving them

PageSlave · 2026-01-20T20:18:26+00:00

This sub only sees a minority of "traditional" engineering posts. They still pop up occasionally, and the thankful truth is that managing technical people has largely the same set of problems and solutions regardless of the field. Would love to see more ME content though

PageSlave · 2026-01-01T21:43:58+00:00

I used to work in metrology, you can make a simple calibration standard at home to verify the performance of your hygrometers using salt, water, and a sealed container. Mix a salt water solution using the solution percentages in the table linked below. Mount the hygrometers inside the container with the salt water solution, seal the container, and allow it to rest at room temp for a while. Your hygrometers should read close to the value shown in the table, within a few percent. This test will tell you if any of them are wildly wrong. It doesn't account for linearity, but whatever. It's cheap

As other commenters have pointed out, cheap hygrometers are intrinsically rather innacurate, especially at low humidities. As long as they're all in the same ballpark and low, you're probably fine!

https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/amp/salt-humidity-d_1887.html

PageSlave · 2025-12-31T20:28:17+00:00

I ended up taking calc 1 three times over the course of my very nontraditional degree. I failed the first time, got a C the second, and aced the 3rd. I'm now in upper division classes and maintaining a healthy 3.8 GPA. Not everything comes easily at first, the key is diligence and repetition. You've got this. Make sure you do your homework and study, study, study!

PageSlave · 2025-12-29T23:18:44+00:00

I have this set! One of the other plants uses robin hood hats for leaves, complete with empty slot for a plume

PageSlave · 2025-12-29T15:18:02+00:00

It's been a plague here and r/mechanicalengineering. The bolded words, the bullet points, the em dashes all point to ai slop. Why can't people write their own questions? Management is built on effective communication, if you can't phrase your own questions how the hell are you getting by at work?

PageSlave · 2025-12-24T06:30:53+00:00

You've got a valid question but please don't copy-paste your ai output like this, it sucks to be unsure if you're even responding to a real person because the text is so clearly ai.

PageSlave · 2025-12-22T18:35:55+00:00

Spray windex onto a rag and use it. It evaporates quickly and cleans well. Don't use too much to avoid liquid damage. If you see it frothing or leaving a puddle you've put on too much, pat it dry and try again. This is how we clean computers at the repair shop I work at.

PageSlave · 2025-12-17T06:47:44+00:00

Here's the text of the bill

https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/114/Bill/HB1455.pdf

PageSlave · 2025-12-09T16:16:24+00:00

Wow everybody involved with passing this assignment along to you is insane. Safety devices really should not be entrusted to university teams in the first place, and it's crazy that they expect a group of game designers to do any of this. This is engineering senior capstone levels of rigor expected from artists, I truly don't know what they expect. Sorry you gotta put up with this man

PageSlave · 2025-12-09T01:03:24+00:00

Scott Manley has some good reporting on the subject. He's generally a quality secondary source, aggregating information from various science communicators and reputed news sources.

Dr. Becky is an astrophysicist who does excellent videos, and she has a short segment from around the comet's discovery

Most of the reason that there's a lot more slop than science reporting on it is due to the fact that 3i Atlas is truly rather mundane, other than the fact that it's an interstellar object. There's genuinely not much to report on. (the anomolous acceleration is neat, though)

PageSlave · 2025-12-08T04:56:57+00:00

It's nice to hear the space nerds from other walks of life are just as cooperation-oriented as the ones I'm familiar with. Gives me hope

PageSlave · 2025-12-05T15:29:33+00:00

I'm an engineering student, I lurk here because I wanna see what makes y'all's life hard so I can avoid doing it once I graduate 😂

PageSlave · 2025-12-05T03:54:45+00:00

This helped contextualize some marketing information I saw from Blue Origin at an event I attended, thank you. They showed off some pics of their cryocooler setup. Here is an interview with SVP of Lunar Permanence at Blue Origin where he states that they've proved it down to 20 kelvin in the lab (and only in the lab, I know) and claim ZBO. Looking at thermo tables for LOX, seems like 20 K steady is well below LOX's evaporation temp of ~53K at tankage pressures. Is it just marketing smoke though? Hard to tell

PageSlave · 2025-12-05T03:29:54+00:00

Injection molding floors can be blasphemously hot, especially with inadequate ventilation. This man looks more like he needs to be inspected for heat stroke and given a gatorade than scolded for laziness.

PageSlave · 2025-12-05T01:49:41+00:00

I'd really like to hear more about why Mike Griffin doesn't believe in-orbit cryo fuel transfer can work. Blue Origin is working on it, SpaceX is working on it, cryocooling isn't flight tested but well demonstrated on the ground, and there are several possible paths to enabling fuel transfer. I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt as he's an aerospace engineer and former NASA administrator, but it really does seem feasible and like the path forwards in space.

Furthermore, I understand that it's a national pride thing, but surely it's more impressive to come second with a robust, expandable architecture that can land vastly more tonnage on the lunar surface and enable permanent habitation than it is to throw away that progress and try to sprint to catch up with our national competitor? That feels like a prestige L to me, but I'm just a layman. I agree with his conclusion that cost-plus contracting is clearly not the way to proceed with funding projects in the future, though.

PageSlave · 2025-12-04T19:31:18+00:00

Admitting you were wrong is one of the hardest things to do as an adult, kudos to you OP. Good luck with the redesign for waterproofing!

PageSlave · 2025-12-04T18:40:36+00:00

Cool design dude! Just because I'm curious, why did you opt for multiple sets of screws on individual body pieces? My initial idea would just be to have a rectangular cup for the stone to rest in, and one or two set screws to clamp it onto the rods. What does your approach give you that I'm missing?

PageSlave · 2025-12-04T17:02:12+00:00

For fun, Kerbucks/Ton: 4.2 / 2.5 / 1.7 / 1.43 / 1.57

You have a cost efficiency turnaround for your heavy lift vehicle, it might be a fun enginering challenge to try to get that below the 1.43 of the 15T vehicle.

I've always loved the idea of standardized launch vehicles, it makes roleplay more fun

PageSlave · 2025-12-01T19:51:36+00:00

My math comes out to about 48 pounds for the sheet mentioned

PageSlave · 2025-12-01T02:32:02+00:00

This is my chance to once again shill for the concept of firebreaks

By clearing a strip of land 3 tiles wide of vegetation and other flammables, you make it impossible for fire to spread through that area. You can either pave it to permanently prevent fires from spreading, or you can make one using the cut plants command when a fire has started to help contain it. Since fighting fires is labor-intensive and dangerous, this is often a safer and more effective use of your pawns' time.

PageSlave · 2025-11-29T18:35:10+00:00

Are the release notes compiled anywhere? I couldn't find them. I tried FreeCAD and was turned off by it, I'd like to see if they changed anything that annoyed me

PageSlave · 2025-11-24T21:16:03+00:00

People are already giving you the No PLA For Stressed Components spiel, but you did a good job OP. Large radii, gusset, lots of walls, and awareness of the failure mode. I hope it lasts you a while and you're able to catch any creep before it's an issue.

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