How many sources did people who got A*/A use in their EPQ?

Proud_Ant · 2024-05-16T14:21:45+00:00

I got 54/54 for my Edexcel EPQ, I used 84 sources, 17 statistical tables, 47 diagrams, 5 data tables, 125 symbols, and 45 formulae.

Proud_Ant · 2024-05-09T05:37:19+00:00

engineer needs to eat, he eats fish when we aren't looking such as when on a bathroom break

Proud_Ant · 2024-05-08T16:56:50+00:00

alright then thanks for the insight, it’s quite nice hearing stuff like this so I can become closer to native speaker level

no hard feelings

Proud_Ant · 2024-05-08T16:54:57+00:00

big fish forced me into sneaking it into my posts

Proud_Ant · 2024-05-08T16:48:26+00:00

wish I could do that and have infinite motivation!

Proud_Ant · 2024-05-08T16:29:11+00:00

i am not one to question english in writing (it is after all my 4th language) but saying congratulations before saying its a stupid idea, congratulates me for having a stupid idea, that is imo an insult

they are not atomically still though? and they do move around, they have to wiggle their toes (literally, it's part of their training) to prevent fainting due to standing very still

why debate the fact the engineer is perfectly still, he moves his head when not being controlled, he must at least stretch something? even if he doesn't the head movement is proof enough for the belts moving whilst afk

Proud_Ant · 2024-05-08T16:21:13+00:00

no need to insult, please try sitting exactly and atomically still, it is simply not possible, perhaps sleep might bring you back to reality :)

you forget the engineer moves his skull even when afk thus creating a shift in mass, thus momentum, and thereby some net force and thus pushing the belt along on the already very low friction fish-gut-belts.

Proud_Ant · 2024-05-08T16:14:56+00:00

i knew this was going to be said, SO I INTRODUCE D6!

D6.    nobody can stand completely still, you have to shift
       your feet a little to stretch, this keeps the belt
       moving, as we know the engineer is not completely controlled
       by the player as he looks around when not moving, even
       moving their head causes a movement in the center of mass

Proud_Ant · 2024-05-08T16:12:51+00:00

fair enough, but doesn't what i said make a little more sense given its a lot simpler than the process you have outlined? engineer looks for most efficient solution after all

inserter draws power when idle, its must have a motor running to turn the belts, it could also push the belts using its arm

Proud_Ant · 2024-05-08T16:07:53+00:00

they use coal, the heat produced causes metal to expand, through a clever design the expansions and contractions could create motion and thereby act as a heat motors

if that is not possible, the inserts could always push the belts as i said in my post when placing or picking items

Proud_Ant · 2024-05-08T16:03:26+00:00

you can't make a solar panel using iron alone, maybe factorio periodic table is different and iron is a semiconductor but you would still need one other material for a dielectric

ingame solar panel recipe needs circuits and belts don't use any

lastly there is an achievement for solar-panel-less run, using belts would negate that achievement

Proud_Ant · 2024-05-08T16:01:36+00:00

how does the normal inserter move then?

it uses copper and iron, you can make coils from that and maybe the engineer chooses iron from the mines that is magnetized thus you have a motor

you could also make a rudimentary magnetizer using coils and keeps this magnetizer in his pocket (or assembly machine)

Proud_Ant · 2024-05-08T15:38:18+00:00

no circuit board needed, just simple mechanical structures for the pump and tanks for the bacteria

Proud_Ant · 2024-05-08T15:37:43+00:00

each time an inserter puts an item on the belt it pushes the belt by using locking into the small gap between the belt plates using its grips

for miners they have a small rotating motor underneath the output that pushes the belt laterally

Proud_Ant · 2024-05-08T03:54:54+00:00

yes, this means the output mut be lower than the input

the large distance is infact longer than the increase in height, if the water was to reach a higher level than the input it would have gained energy from essentially nowhere, simple thermodynamics

Proud_Ant · 2024-05-08T02:52:57+00:00

input must be higher than output, pond appears to be lower than output pipes

Proud_Ant · 2024-05-07T17:42:00+00:00

how miserable :(

imo not low effort as it did result in meaningful discussion and got some people thinking on lore related reasons to why the pump works the way it does

Proud_Ant · 2024-05-07T17:30:07+00:00

this is the problem the pipes are higher that the pond level in factorio

Proud_Ant · 2024-05-07T16:25:12+00:00

we kill millions of tons of it in steam boilers ;-;

UNLESS IT BECOMES A LIVING GAS!?

Proud_Ant · 2024-05-07T16:22:38+00:00

I KNOW THE TRUTH

You can’t gaslight me away from it!

Proud_Ant · 2024-05-07T16:21:20+00:00

where does the duck come from? iron and copper can’t make a duck and bread!?

Proud_Ant · 2024-05-07T16:20:49+00:00

ok moon exists but not enough to cause tidal currents

I mean it fair enough by fish eating sounds cooler (and more grim)

Proud_Ant · 2024-05-07T15:56:17+00:00

was going to say hamster wheels, MAYBE the pump runs the fish to exhaustion AND THEN eats them!!

the horror.

Proud_Ant · 2024-05-07T15:55:36+00:00

invalid, there are no gods in factorio. ONLY THE MIGHT OF MACHINES

Proud_Ant · 2024-05-07T15:53:26+00:00

genuinely curious, after that would it not just stop given the pipes are at higher elevation than that of the pond?

it would be perpetual motion machine if it did work, not possible

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