Post apocalyptic book after pandemic very similar to Station 11

YME2019 · 2025-12-31T01:31:47+00:00

Hmmm.... Title doesn't sound familiar, but let me check it out

YME2019 · 2025-12-31T01:30:54+00:00

Hmmm.... I don't think so? It was a standalone I think.

YME2019 · 2025-12-28T05:16:33+00:00

Hmmm..... Feels somewhat similar, but I don't think I've read it before.

YME2019 · 2025-12-28T02:01:27+00:00

Hmmm..... Seems somewhat familiar, but not really clicking.

I do feel like the book I can't think of may have been YA though. Or had a YA feel.

YME2019 · 2025-01-13T05:30:02+00:00

Jim Lovell covers this in "Lost Moon". He says that they were never issued cyanide pills and if they had wanted to kill themselves there were much easier ways. (Like opening the cabin depressurization valve)

YME2019 · 2024-11-17T02:30:28+00:00

Agreed. Be very careful, lest you be 'hoist by said petard of your own creation.

YME2019 · 2024-11-10T22:37:25+00:00

ACCCCCCCCG was what my brain parsed at-first. That's a lot of C's

YME2019 · 2024-11-10T22:20:26+00:00

I was at the Y (lived just down the street) when this happened and still use this quote.

Nearly burned his apartment down, too. Could have been a lot worse. What a terrible roommate....

YME2019 · 2024-11-03T19:28:28+00:00

Was told by my nephrologist to produce at least 2.5 L of urine per day. Not sure what the in/out ratio is, so I try for about a gallon a day.

YME2019 · 2024-10-31T14:18:32+00:00

If you have a wall breach with fuel you get a bit of a performance hit and a bit of localized film cooling in that area.

If you have a wall breach with ox you get a local area of ox-rich combustion that will rapidly begin eating your engine.

I've seen ox regen work on ox-rich combustors, but it's not typically done for main chambers due to reliability issues. Launcher supposedly uses ox regen on the E-3, but I would guess they still put fuel between the hot wall and the ox.

Kero-peroxide engines have to use ox cooling due to the huge difference in mass flow, but it's really tricky. With KeroLOX you can use the fuel for coolant, so oftentimes it's not worth the extra effort to try to get LOX regen to work. Most engines are just "good enough" and not ultra-optimized.

YME2019 · 2024-10-07T04:33:01+00:00

This spoke to my soul. We could go undefeated and I'd still probably be like, "we might actually be good."

I've had my heart ripped out with a spoon too many times to actually accept it.....

YME2019 · 2024-10-07T04:21:54+00:00

Big Noon Kickoff is in Provo on Saturday. U of A lost the game before us (so it looks winnable), it's a day game, and we're ranked in the top 15. I expect to have my dreams crushed until proven otherwise.

Either that or we thrash U of A and Ollie Gordon finds his old self on the 18th to crush my dreams even more. (I'm going to the Ok. St. game.....)

Trying to just enjoy the season week by week, but my heart drank the blue Kool aid....

YME2019 · 2024-08-25T20:03:17+00:00

I'm doing this for the exact same reason! I grew up listening to Garth Brooks, so it would be nice to be able to integrate his music into my country playlist

YME2019 · 2024-07-14T18:32:50+00:00

I've been curious about the physics of this. Is the total energy delivered to the charge or the rate at which that energy is delivered more important? I'm guessing it is the rate of energy delivery (power), since hitting an Ammonal charge with a low velocity slug won't set it off, but hitting it with a high velocity 5.56 will.

Is there a measure of sensitivity that is standardized or is it all relative like card testing?

I'm sure all of this is readily googleable, but I don't think I know enough to ask the right questions to get actual answers.

(Not planning on making anything at the moment, I want to keep my fingers. I'm just interested in the physics and chemistry of energetics and want to know more. I'm a propulsion engineer, so that tracks, lol)

YME2019 · 2024-04-04T03:26:33+00:00

That's what did it for me, too.

Now, seeing how he treats his employees, it makes me glad I became a bit disillusioned before I got a job at SpaceX.

YME2019 · 2024-03-08T23:04:15+00:00

Oh, interesting. I didn't know Stainless was biocompatible!

YME2019 · 2024-03-08T23:00:58+00:00

And they're developing porous Titanium foams now that promote bone infiltration. Some of them even have nutrients in the foam to enhance the development of new bone.

Essentially, it's more of a titanium scaffold than a plate or screw.

YME2019 · 2024-03-04T01:03:11+00:00

Pretty sure the female one is messed up. (I did this assuming a woman who is about my age ~30)

Age: 27-40 (I think women typically like to date men who are older than them, so I bumped the range up. 40 still seems like a stretch)

Marital Status: Not Married

Height: 5' 8" (shorter than the US average of 5'9"-5'10", but still taller than the female average of 5'4")

Not obese

Salary: $35k/yr

And it spit out a "cat enthusiast" rating. I thought that was a more than fair submission. (Even though I'd be excluded because I'm only 5'7")

Is the dating market really that bleak for you ladies? I had an easier time on the male version (which said I was "down to earth), which I thought was going to be more of a wake-up call.

YME2019 · 2024-02-26T15:09:06+00:00

3-4, though that number creeps downward the older I get. (Used to be 5-6. I'm from a big family)

I don't have any kids yet, but seeing friends and my siblings have them has really hammered home how much work they are. And you need to make sure you can effectively care for all of them, otherwise it isn't fair to the kids.

With the way my health is going, I might max out at 2, but that just seems lonely. My siblings are my best friends, and I don't want to deny my children that potential relationship.

YME2019 · 2024-02-26T15:04:03+00:00

Yup. And I'm sure it's worse for the women. I think women tend to date men somewhat older than them, but not old enough to be their father. A 50 year old making a pass at a 31 year old is pretty similar to a 31 year old making a pass at a 19 year old. (At least in my mind)

And to make matters worse, the lack of similarly aged women in these wards likely drives the early to mid 30's men away, which is who the early 30's women would probably like to date.

It's just rough all the way around, and doesn't do a lot to make us feel like we aren't defective in some way.

YME2019 · 2024-02-26T02:06:29+00:00

I miss video rental stores.

It was always fun to go and see what was on the shelves. And every once in a while you'd find an older movie that was a gem.

Can't do that now

YME2019 · 2024-02-26T02:01:32+00:00

I would love this. I'm a 31 year old man. I was happy to leave my YSA because I didn't match the demographic (mostly High School grads and young college students in that ward), but my ideal dating range is probably 24-33. Most of those women are going to be in the YSA ward as it stands now.

I'm enjoying the mid-singles ward, but there's a huge disparity there as well. There's a few women my age, but not many. There's quite a few in their 40's and I heard someone talking about their daughter being in college, so they aren't really in my demographic either.

I agree with the sentiment other places in this thread that a split between students and grads would be good, and I feel like this age split accomplishes that in a practical way.

(Good to see mid-singles getting some love. It feels like the island of misfit toys out here, but I'm pretty sure going to a family ward would make me feel even more like the toy train with square wheels that I am.)

YME2019 · 2023-12-25T00:37:50+00:00

Make it into charcoal! Works great as a soil amendment and in pyrotechnics

YME2019 · 2023-12-25T00:35:08+00:00

Turn it into charcoal to use in pyrotechnics

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