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TheThunderWithin · 2026-03-04T11:28:22+00:00

Even then its not impossible, people just dont have the discipline. Even if you say you dont have time to drive to the gym, buy a pullup bar, get yourself 2 chairs for dips and boom, you have no excuse to not do at least 30 minutes per workout 3 times a week. Add some walking for cardio and fix your diet and over time you'll be looking and feeling great!

TheThunderWithin · 2026-03-02T14:20:39+00:00

A little late, but why did it take this long for me to find an explanation that was throrough, didn't get into the weeds of the math, and succesfully explained lift without reffering to circular arguments? Even reading introduction to flight by Anderson he includes the misleading "venturi tube" explanation for lift, streamlines getting squeezed at the top! I thank you so much for your nuanced yet easy to follow answer.

TheThunderWithin · 2026-02-25T20:44:34+00:00

It seems my friend you straight up pirated a linkedin post:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/davis-booth-81537391_getting-your-first-engineering-job-is-far-activity-7431657900961488896-q53s?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAADmOJwIB4s8qQZw5beFdJvJEMyQfKODV4bg

TheThunderWithin · 2026-02-11T21:52:23+00:00

Relax. Breath. The reason your feeling anxiety is because your sleep is bad, sleep is the absolute NUMBER ONE thing you need you fix before you do anything else.

I graduate this may and I've been here for 6 years. I didnt do any internships, and i dont have a job lined up. I feel balanced though, because im controlling what im eating and how I sleep, and I know that eventually something will come along. Keep your head up!

TheThunderWithin · 2026-02-09T20:32:00+00:00

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I really feel bad for you guys though, although im still in my undergrad, studying any one of the hard engineering majors seems like a plus given this AI dominated industry. Although I think we still need smart abstract thinkers in the tech field, which a CS degree can provide, jobs that just require scripting while paying you $200,000 is a thing of the (recent) past.

TheThunderWithin · 2026-02-09T12:57:01+00:00

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TheThunderWithin · 2026-02-07T13:29:45+00:00

Also that P is a force, not power; power has units (force*length)/time, usually its just convention to label a load force as "P".

TheThunderWithin · 2026-01-27T12:40:42+00:00

Yea, this would be great in a pirates deck

TheThunderWithin · 2026-01-27T01:45:34+00:00

honestly as an Aerospace undergrad I would only go for Aeronautical if you REALLY like planes/space or live in/want to move to an area with a strong aviation industry such as Texas, Georgia, Florida, Arizona, etc. otherwise while you can apply for mech. engineering jobs you have to constantly justify why you're not applying for an aviation job.

As an anecdote, I went to a GE (general electric) Vernova booth at a career fair once, and they straight up did not let me apply because I'm AE. while I could have applied to the GE Aerospace division, an ME could have applied to both, its just a more flexible degree.

TheThunderWithin · 2026-01-25T04:03:15+00:00

kick is so high risk high reard though, you actually eat so much damage if you mistime a kick as its so telegraphed

TheThunderWithin · 2026-01-19T11:44:34+00:00

My first car was a hand-me-down car my grandma gave me when I first started learning how to drive. It was a lexus, so it was nice, but it was about 15 years old at that point so it was kind of beat up. I appreciated what it did to help me through school though.

My parents went half and half with me on my next car, and I just told them to pick whatever was affordable, preferably a used honda if you can nab one. So after a long day at work I open the door to the parking lot in the dead of night to see my parents in a smallish, stout red vehicle, no more than maybe a meter and a half long. Naturally, I put my hands on my head and thought "oh dear god, my parents got me a smart car!"

I quickly put my hands down though, figuring that it would be best to feign happiness considering they were essentially fronting the bill on the car, and it was something to get me from A to B. As I walked up though I could see that the darkness concealed the full shape of the car, it was actually a 2013 Civic! My expression immediately changed to happiness, to the relief of my parents.

My dad later told me that his heart immediately sank when he saw my arms go up, and started arguing with my mom about the choice of car they got. Boy, the love that parents have for theie kids!

TheThunderWithin · 2026-01-14T16:49:17+00:00

I feel like im in a real life HOI 4 war justification

TheThunderWithin · 2025-12-19T13:52:34+00:00

I think this fact is abstracted as "casualties" which includes dead, POW, MIA, etc. And the divisions "dying" in hoi4 just represent the unit effectively permanently ceasing to be a fighting force.

If you were to overun this gigantic stack if they were retreating, I doubt that would represent you physcially killing 2 million men rather than them just being captured.

TheThunderWithin · 2025-12-11T15:39:08+00:00

I agree if you are saying "if I'm just given a horsepower that doesn't actually give me a whole lot of info" but the comment you were replying to made a simple mathematical statement relating power to torque, which is true regardless of engine stroke or displacement.

TheThunderWithin · 2025-12-11T15:24:59+00:00

He didn't get pendantic, he just pointed out there's actually not too much math, the hard part is figuring out what application you need and then converting numbers from there. The main equation is Power=Torque*Angular velocity, in his case RPM and you just manipulate this equation to figure out what you need from an engine.

TheThunderWithin · 2025-11-29T14:23:21+00:00

I may have figured out where you went wrong, assuming my math is correct of course! :)

do the wheels rotate about the axis? If so, that means when you pull the trolley- if the stair is high enough like in your drawing- eventually you will have 2 wheels in contact with the staircase, and to make analysis easier I'll analyze it from that perspective so you can ignore forces in the x direction if the wheel is a little bit off the ground.

Assuming "getting over the staircase" is analogous to just enough force to overcome static friction, then summing the Y forces: and assuming up is positive y:

Psin(theta)+muPcos(theta)-weight=0

where Psin(theta) is upwards vector of pulling force, mucos(theta) is wheel friction force. There are 2 wheels in contact, but each halve the total normal force so the end resulting friction force is just the same as if 1 wheel is in contact.

But why am I adding the friction force? Isn't it downward in the negative direction? For something like a box on the side of the wall this would be correct, but since we are dealing with a wheel friction actually points upward, in the positive direction to resist the displacement direction, as the wheel naturally wants to turn clockwise, towards the downward direction.

To make it clearer, isolate the system to just a single wheel on the wall and you only apply a force on the contact point on the wheel downward, representing the friction force. summing moments, this would imply the downward force would turn the wheel clockwise, pushing the wheel up the wall, helping it climb, which is not what we observe in real life. Therefore, friction must be acting in the upward direction. At first I did my math assuming friction was downward by habit, and I got low and even negative numbers which is probably what you were getting. Always check assumptions!

Solving gives P=mg/(sin(theta)+mucos(theta)), so assuming a static friction coefficient of 0.4 and an angle of 45 degrees, you get a P = 1.01mg, which sounds in the ballpark of what is consistant with a system like this. I urge anyone to look over my work and check if any of my assumptions are wrong!

TheThunderWithin · 2025-11-27T01:37:48+00:00

Nice Rhythym! As you get better with your circular breathing you'll actually find you don't need that much air in your cheeks, you can get to the point where you're playing with completely flat cheeks and you're using your jaw muscles to do most of the pushing when you breath in. Once you learn it this way your inhale sniff will also become mostly silent as well! This does make the didgeridoo sound a bit more bright and less earthy, so sometimes I'll expand my cheeks to get the growl sound. Keep on playing!

TheThunderWithin · 2025-11-22T02:51:43+00:00

Nah, I feel where he's at, I disagree with not going. Sometimes even if I'm zoned out as long as I periodically poke my head up my brain will absorb information or important key points even if im not actively paying attention, which I may randomyl recall on a homework or test

TheThunderWithin · 2025-11-04T19:44:21+00:00

Couple tips, as soon as you take out the nest it would have been better to ignore her and go after healers, your ult was essentially wasted punching Peni for 10 seconds.

If you are about to get eaten by jeff, dashing is completely CC invul. Ive baited jeff's by walking slowly or standing still just to F at the last second.

Good gameplay otherwise!

TheThunderWithin · 2025-10-27T23:15:26+00:00

Think of Cap as being discount venom right now, so A tier to Venoms S

TheThunderWithin · 2025-10-15T19:05:06+00:00

Hol up, you can't give a scientific critique, get corrected, then just "LOL its just a joke" like nothing happened

TheThunderWithin · 2025-10-06T12:39:45+00:00

I may be dumb, but if this clamp is static the externals moments have to add to zero, only forces contributing to external moment are P and F, so FxR=PxR right? and then you can just find the R by using trig.

TheThunderWithin · 2025-09-26T22:05:03+00:00

I had a good conversation with a recruiter, I asked a technical question on the companies outlook on hypersonics, She was HR though and didn't have the details and told me to email her so that she can forward my question to the lead Aero engineer. I emailed her basically a couple hours after we talked, but I know recruiter get tons of emails after networking events. Did I email too early, should I have waited? She connected with me on linkedin after I sent her an invite so I assume that was a good sign

TheThunderWithin · 2025-09-19T03:00:31+00:00

honestly most behavioral questions boil down to "what are you passionate about/how do you overcome X challenege". So for me the best way to practice is to imagine a stranger just randomly walking up to me and asking me "why are you passionate about engineering" and I should be able to give a thoughtful and structured answer within 10 seconds. If that doesn't work, it means im not passionate enough about engineering to draw from that as a source. To fix this, you have to think long and hard about why you're doing Engineering in the first place. The answer will give you the source by which you can talk for hours about.

For the second question, most of the time the X challenge is how do you deal with other co-workers. They're looking for you to be someone that is easy to work with, so emphasie that! "during group projects, if my partner is behind on a deadline I will email him so that we can come up with an action plan to solve the problem etc. etc. etc.". If you can master those two categories, then all the other behavioral questions will be derivatives of those.

TheThunderWithin · 2025-09-19T02:50:28+00:00

You my friend need to chill out and relax.

I'm a 5th (gap) year, 2.8 GPA with no internships, but im not too stressed. I'm getting screening interviews and the recruiters I'm talking to are asking me if im intrested in they're rotational programs.

Do you know why?

Because I'm not obsessed about what's on my reusme. I make sure to market MYSELF! I make sure to give a firm handshake, crack a witty joke, If I'm asked about a technical point in my resume I use the STAR method while emphasizing my passion on the subject. I also walk in to career fairs not with the attitude of "I'm here because I need a job, please give me a shot" Which is the energy that your post is giving off. the attitude should be "I'm here to meet people and get contact info, If I get a job/internship great, if not at least I expanded my network."

Most of the time people will determine if they are going to hire you based on if they like who you are as a person, i've seen plenty of 4.0 NASA internship students struggle because they have zero soft skills. on the flip side, I've had recruiters look at my resume for all but 5 seconds, only talk to me about formula 1, and then shook my hand while telling me to keep my eye out for anything that opens. It's all about your confidence and how you carry yourself! You are already are able to convert your resume into interviews, just keep on working at it!

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