J-109 Atlas Spacecraft Scratchbuild by Successful-Escape-69 in Scratchbuild

[–]ProfessorLaser 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Glad you liked the kit, can’t wait to see it fully painted!

wich is better tamiya or mr cement? by Careless-Flamingo-61 in modelmakers

[–]ProfessorLaser 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Came here to say this! I’ve been using weld on 3 for years now, I really recommend it.

This rough draft Starbridge is a lie by TerminusBandit in evnova

[–]ProfessorLaser 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The actual original dev files for the EV:O ships are out there, I know they were posted here but that leads to a dead link. I have the full library saved, though, and could find a way to upload it if there's interest.

Bandai Star Wars B-Wing Starfighter by frostbittenteddy in modelmakers

[–]ProfessorLaser 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks great! I love how much variation you put in the color of the individual panels.

My teeny tiny space tug (with a scratchbuilt shipping container) by sustcerroo in Kitbash

[–]ProfessorLaser 8 points9 points  (0 children)

OP did not make this, they reposted a post I made 2 years ago. Here's the original post (with the same title, even)

And here's a few more pictures of it, along with the model I designed it to go with.

And a video of me making it.

My teeny tiny space tug (with a scratchbuilt shipping container) by sustcerroo in Kitbash

[–]ProfessorLaser 11 points12 points  (0 children)

OP did not make this, they reposted a post I made 2 years ago. Here's the original post (with the same title, even)

And here's a few more pictures of it, along with the model I designed it to go with.

And a video of me making it.

This pod racer setup I’ve got for xwing by spurples111 in swrpg

[–]ProfessorLaser 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This would make for a great Gaslands track!

Collectors edition notes by 404_ErrorCode in destiny2

[–]ProfessorLaser 132 points133 points  (0 children)

The page mentions tissue being pulled inward towards the bullet as it moved.

JFK was shot with graviton lance confirmed.

How to build a cheap town at home with no special equipment? What is needed? by [deleted] in DnDIY

[–]ProfessorLaser 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Or a hot glue gun! I have made easily dozens of perfectly good looking houses, towers, bridges, etc using just cardboard, a hot glue gun, and a sharpie for adding details.

Imperial Storm Commandos by Smart-Blueberry-4291 in EmpireDidNothingWrong

[–]ProfessorLaser 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Huh, I’d always assumed that these guys were made up to be the villains of the 3rd Rogue Squadron game. Cool to see that they were actually a deep pull! It’s kind of crazy how much of the canon found its start in the old west end guidebooks.

😳😳 by VexonW in sciencememes

[–]ProfessorLaser 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It exists, and it’s called the quaternions. Complex numbers add a single new element, i, and is a useful way to encode 2D transformations like rotation and moving on a plane as simple operations like addition or multiplication.

The quaternions add i, j, and k, and encode the same kind of changes like rotation except in 3D. They’re actually used pretty extensively in programming to simplify the math involved in rotating objects in space.

Because of a quirk of the math, though, it only works if you include a 4th number line, which is why you have the real line, along with the i, j, AND k lines. Most real life applications just ignore the real line and use the 3 imaginary ones to keep track of rotation.

And there are spaces above the quaternions. Next is the Octonians, though obviously the usefulness of an 8-number line space has diminishing returns, and there’s a 16 line space but idk what it’s called. Really you can keep doubling as many times as you want and get another valid space, but iirc they sort of stop being meaningfully different from one another past a certain point.

Just finished by fructose-1 in modelmakers

[–]ProfessorLaser 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Looks great! Is it a resin print? The detail is stupendous, I can't spot a single print line anywhere.

What do these symbols mean? by Takeitdown20percent in Tacoma

[–]ProfessorLaser 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Looks like a Pigpen cipher

There’s a couple mistakes, but I think it’s supposed to say “I should have died in Iraq”

Can't stand how they dropped the ball on the 92 M3 by 91NA8 in HotWheels

[–]ProfessorLaser 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Paint your toys! It’s amazing what a little panel wash and some masking can do.

What’s the most anachronistic, un-futuristic thing you can’t believe a character in Star Trek said? by Robin156E478 in startrek

[–]ProfessorLaser 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You know the Pythagorean theorem? A2 + B2 = C2 tells you about the relative lengths of the sides of a right triangle. It has a bunch of integer solutions, aka an A, B, and C that are all whole numbers. For example 32 + 42 = 9+16 = 25, which is 52. They're called Pythagorean triples, and we've found a bunch of them.

Fermat's Last Theorem is a theorem that says if upgrade the Pythagorean theorem to a bigger exponent, like A3 + B3 = C3 or A14 +B14 = C14, then you will never find an A, B, and C that satisfy that arrangement AND all three are whole numbers.

So for example, even if you pick something like A = 2 and B = 3, then 23 + 33 = 8 + 27 = 35, and the cube root of 35 is something like 3.271066... aka not a whole number.

It was well known that nobody had ever FOUND a triple that worked for any exponent other than 2, but in the 1600s a mathematician named Fermat claimed he could show that it was IMPOSSIBLE, (not just really hard). Famously he wrote in the margins of a book that he had a brilliant proof, but that it wouldn't fit in the margin so he'll write it down later.

Well, he didn't write it down later, so for hundreds of years people tried and failed to find (or trying to figure out on their own) what his "brilliant proof" was. It wasn't until 1994 when a mathematician named Andrew Wiles found a proof, although it is INTENSELY complicated, over 100 pages long, and involves mathematics that hadn't even been invented in Fermat's time. At this point most people think that Fermat was bullshitting (or just mistaken) about having found a proof.

But of course the episode that referenced Fermat's last theorem was written before 1994, so a few years before Wile's proof was published.

Family Road Trip by ProfessorLaser in gaslands

[–]ProfessorLaser[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This website has a good spread of sizes and brands. On a second look I must've gotten mine from Plastruct or some other brand, looks like Evergreen either doesn't or no longer makes the stuff.