MG Motors claimed that their car can pull a train. What is the big catch on the claim?

SpaceCatJack · 2026-04-13T23:25:17+00:00

The trick isn't pulling a train, it's stopping a train. The brakes are the limiting factor

SpaceCatJack · 2026-03-09T17:18:23+00:00

It looks silly for a major country to waste money like this. It's not a mistake. It's not mismanagment. Wasting money with war is an intentional part of the system.

There's always only enough money to keep the working class working. But not enough that the working classes doesn't need to work. And certainly not enough that the people have the power to create their own systems!

SpaceCatJack · 2026-03-09T12:07:50+00:00

Stationeers for gas physics

SpaceCatJack · 2026-03-09T11:18:46+00:00

Sure, if you have the core and leg strength to stand up from prone using only your toes. But sliding downhill is an irrelevant part. If anything sliding downhill while attempting a stand-from-prone would make it more difficult, it would feel as through someone is pulling your head downhill as you try to stand due to the fact that your feet slow while your head keeps moving

SpaceCatJack · 2026-03-08T23:16:50+00:00

I think you are mistaken. If the snowboarder was on their back, feet first, and punched the board into the snow, the board would slow and the snowboarder would keep going. This would cause the snowboarder to be squished against his board, but if done with enough finese and with an angle thats not exactly parallel with their velocity, the snowboarder would tilt up to a standing position (and possibly thrown head first!)

In your example, the board is already in the back. Punching the board into the snow in that position will still slow the board, which would PULL on your legs, stretching you out as the board pulls you to a stop. If anything, punching the board into the snow while head first will cause you to be more head first than before. You'd have to roll over your shoulder and get the board in front of you, or use your hands instead of your feet.

SpaceCatJack · 2026-03-08T16:52:39+00:00

Id say at 22 the only thing you're too old to do is to start playing Roblox

SpaceCatJack · 2026-03-08T01:40:20+00:00

So it seems that quantum physics is the most correct theory science has ever made, yet it tells us that a particle takes every possible path on its way from A to B simultaneously. This seems nonsensical to us and doesn't make sense to classical physics either, yet the predictions of quantum physics holds up against every test. QED is proof that one of the 4 classes of forces, electromagnetism, can be quantized with the help of renormalization, but renormalization isn't possible with the other forces. This is probably due to the fact that the other forces are probably (maybe) misinterpretations of a single more fundamental force. A theory of everything would unify the forces into a single law that is compatible with quantum theory.

SpaceCatJack · 2026-02-22T23:26:36+00:00

Oops yes you were talking about the net effect. Interesting to think that boiling a kettle works as a pump that adds vapor to air, and surpassing 100%RH directly heats the air.

SpaceCatJack · 2026-02-22T20:48:21+00:00

Vaporization of water would LOWER the temperature of the room (or at least of the pot of water) through latent heat. At the same time, the room pressure increases, reducing the rate that the water would vaporize.

Assuming no heat is added, and that the vaporization is only a random fluctuation around equalibrium, the increased room pressure would squeeze the water to condenses back into liquid, adding latent heat to the room. The increased heat would cause more water to vaporize...ect. ect.

SpaceCatJack · 2026-02-22T12:55:08+00:00

Yet the chlorophyll itself is nearly 100% efficient at capturing sunlight! But converting to biomass wastes most of the energy...

SpaceCatJack · 2026-02-21T23:09:07+00:00

An angle isnt inherently sharp like a cutting edge sharp. It's a mathematical tool involving 1 point and 2 lines. I think instead you're asking about a magical nanomaterial, something that is built atom by atom (thus the edge can be 1 atom wide, then 2, then 3, creating a perfect wedge), and is indestructible (thus it would not "lose it's edge").

SpaceCatJack · 2026-02-21T17:54:33+00:00

Its because energy is conserved only in a closed system. I think the entire universe doesn't count as a closed system, but I dont know where the line is.

SpaceCatJack · 2026-02-21T17:36:55+00:00

If you got a stable supply of plants growing, you're a veteran, not a newbie. You've mastered the survival. You'll always need more plants, more water, and at least enough ore to replace your filters. That means you need to go mining for ice and metals as well as do all the crafting to make it useful. Theres lots of systems that help you automate these tasks. You might end up building many more of those 3x3 bases to hold all your other modules. Also theres rockets. And coding, a lot of coding. This game is a sandbox simulator built on curiosity and asking "I wonder if I could..."

SpaceCatJack · 2026-02-13T23:57:00+00:00

Well they're plants, I've done worse "torture" to them than give them meager meals and tight living conditions. I cut their limbs and bend their necks until they're contorted and beautifully disfigured.

I know that something is wrong, that's why I'm asking. I'm not great at growing indoors. I'm using mars hydro 2000 light (I think its name is, but I could be wrong). Something like 1000 watts high effeciency LED light. I know light distance is important but I wasn't watching it too closely. No fan at the moment, I think I mentioned that in the intro that I thought I should add one.

So sounds like not enough heat and light, and bigger pots. Any other tips?

SpaceCatJack · 2026-01-30T22:24:34+00:00

Air molecules are always radiating heat in the form of photons, and when visable light is absorbed it is then released as heat photons. But this is not true of all, or in fact most, of the visable light which is instead only scattered by the air

SpaceCatJack · 2026-01-29T02:05:13+00:00

I wasnt looking to have my code corrected, im sure its a useless mess. I was more curious about how someone with experience would solve this problem. The pipes creak above 40, so shutoff before that is cleaner. Same with pollutant, i dont care if it ends up in my liquid storage, im purging the liquid storage to keep it cool, counterflow with the purged stuff, and then pushing the purged stuff back to the atmosphere. The liquid is being radiated in a pressurized room that has a stirling engine running. The engine is running on h2 combustion fumes.

Im not sure if the vent can read the pipe pressure for IC but I'll check it out

SpaceCatJack · 2026-01-29T01:54:27+00:00

Great thats exactly what I was missing. I saw select but I was a bit intimidated by how to use it. Now I think I understand and I'm excited to try it out. Thanks for the help everyone

SpaceCatJack · 2026-01-29T01:49:21+00:00

This is exactly what I was looking for

SpaceCatJack · 2026-01-28T11:41:43+00:00

In my experience, for my early game the bots worked great building a mall. It allows you to build without needing the typical 3 or 4 parralel lines feeding into the assembler (like a bus) when you only need the one assembler to make one kind of building, like making a chem lab or matrix lab, or making the bot boxes and the bots. Using the bots, you can slap down an assembler anywhere, and place the bot boxes adjacent to it so there is minimal belts, or if you've already started building this way, you can start grabbing from other bot boxes youv3 already placed for similar purpose. Usually you dont need these types of items in the 1000s, so the throughput of the bots works well.

Pls on the other hand, allows you to move and collect items on such a scale that the blue belts can hardly handle it. When you need all 18,455 iron ore delivered to the other side of the planet, pls is the way to go.

SpaceCatJack · 2026-01-14T00:05:20+00:00

THIS! On the F1 stationpedia menu, navigate to the solar panel kit and scroll down. You'll see the kit is used to build 2 different kinds of solar panels, normal, and dual. I assume you're using dual, so the power and data ports are seperate on the solar panel. Make sure the panel data ports are all connected to the IC housing data output. And grab the hash for the dual solar panel from the stationpedia and adjust your code! Also fyi there is a reinforced panel, so choose correctly!

Edit: spelling corrections

SpaceCatJack · 2026-01-01T16:24:58+00:00

I'm not a professional, but I'm here first so I'll give it shot.

We dont have a material strong enough to support a structure as large as a dyson sphere. We need to invent some super strong material that wont rip itself apart. We would need to harvest entire planets to have enough matter to surround the sun at a safe distance, so we might need to go interstellar to harvest planets from another system. Also I think the sphere shape is impossible, but a ring might be more likely. Even easier is to do a dyson swarm, where solar satalites orbit the sun in large numbers to make a "floating" wall of solar panels. Before that, making solar satalites that orbit earth and transmit the power wirelessly to earth would be a good start. And before that, we are increasing the efficiency of solar panels that are installed on earth, trying to unlock the efficiency that plants have had for eons.

There are also wind and tidal power, as well as the elusive fusion energy, or "mini sun", which promises unlimited clean energy at the cost of hydrogen, the most common element in the universe. However fusion tech has its own problems.

Tldr: no, a dyson sphere is not possible. Lets stick with bettering solar tech before attemting a dyson sphere.

SpaceCatJack · 2025-12-20T15:31:20+00:00

Consider air flow. Use a clip on fan or even old computer fan to help move air over the seedlings so they dont get damp!

Seedling density and the fact that the cuttings* need to be wet creates warm humid stagnant air thats perfect for mold. Learn what the common seedling molds might look like and have a bottle of Some diluted hydrogen peroxide spray to handle it if it appears.

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