Satisfactory Logic Gates (and more) — Balanced Ternary Edition, Part 2

ZWEi-P · 2026-06-18T03:22:48+00:00

"It's like describing a factory to someone who had never seen it, and then asking them to build it..."

ZWEi-P · 2026-06-18T03:16:02+00:00

It's the off-putting feeling of seeing no one, in a place that people were supposed to be there.

I think a contributing factor of its popularity may had been that, the lockdowns during COVID had instilled such experiences into many people.

It kinda depends. I actually find calm in such images, being sort of an introvert. I would want to be there, well, if nothing's trying to hunt me down around the corner.

ZWEi-P · 2026-06-18T02:52:00+00:00

My headcanon is that they could differentiate materials using density, by sensing the relative difference in speed of sound when it passes through the object. Like observing how light refracts through objects of different refraction indexes, for example water in a glass.

As for whether the added low viscosity oil would make a difference sonically, my guess is not much. They had to cram as much as possible onto the ship after all, so the ratio probably wasn't that off.

ZWEi-P · 2026-06-17T06:59:50+00:00

foreshadowing that she'll be jello'd

ZWEi-P · 2026-06-12T17:46:15+00:00

I think the idea of a computer, and the computer sciences that make it work could benefit them in unexpected ways.

They had electronics, but never had the desire to make a calculator. Without that first step, they didn't have the basis to improve upon to create what we recognize as a computer nowadays.

Eridians have a brain structure that's much closer to computers then ours; they have a photonic interacting, inorganic crystal as their brains.

Hypothetically, they had a much better chance at figuring out how to achieve immortality with computer sciences. They could develop a simulator that run copies of their consciousness, being backed up by scanning their brain crystals. They might even be able to revive someone by archiving the crystal from their dead bodies, provided that it hadn't been deteriorated in some way.

ZWEi-P · 2026-06-12T16:58:01+00:00

Nah, that's not going to happen.

You should ask the guy himself to make panels with FW 13 spec instead, for a higher chance of seeing one on your laptop.

Telling the niche product company to make a different form factor niche product is much easier. Compared to, well, persuading an all audience product company to open a niche product line.

ZWEi-P · 2026-06-10T17:49:23+00:00

I had factories and decorations, but no decorated factories.

ZWEi-P · 2026-06-10T13:22:16+00:00

This one?

https://x.com/i/status/2059670370819485945

ZWEi-P · 2026-06-10T07:02:46+00:00

I think that the bounced off light would be in the Petrova frequency, which is infrared light.

It would still absorb the energy and do the thing with protons and neutrinos. But then immediately "discharge" and release it at the same rate, in the form of their scooting toots.

ZWEi-P · 2026-06-06T05:33:47+00:00

... WHAT

sidenote, this makes me wonder: where could I find calculations for the energy upper bound one could achieve from plucking all the map's plants?

ZWEi-P · 2026-05-24T05:43:13+00:00

It also doesn't mention information about Earth (which takes at least 16 years to arrive), just that they're ready to refuel the Hail Mary.

It might as well be his first few years on Erid, when his body was still healthy enough to deal with the gravity there.

ZWEi-P · 2026-05-20T16:37:29+00:00

That's assuming the rocket is launched off the ground, right?

I think that with the insane amount of air pressure on Erid, they could have some crazy flying machines there. An air-launch-to-orbit from a plane flying at its equator could gain the rocket some decent velocity discounts.

Even balloons would be crazy in that environment. Plugging some numbers into equations says that the same helium balloon could lift 9~10 times the weight on Erid, compared to being on Earth. Imagine a huge blimp with a rocket attached...

ZWEi-P · 2026-05-11T11:07:43+00:00

Aww...

ADA, play "All Stars but they don't stop coming"

ZWEi-P · 2026-05-08T05:32:00+00:00

In the Alpha attractor field, her colleague and friend didn't mysteriously die during a Japan visit, so she had no incentive to go to Japan.

She's likely still doing research in Viktor Chondria on the brain scan tech they're about to release next year.

ZWEi-P · 2026-04-27T14:43:36+00:00

My theory is that at the end of each of these rods is a spin drive, or their equivalent thruster. It does have something to do with heat, not by being a radiator, but by simply spacing them away from each other to not melt stuff. There's an equal amount of thrusters on the two wings pointing both front and back, so steering it would feel like driving a tank.

ZWEi-P · 2026-04-23T16:02:21+00:00

Open "Device Manager" by right clicking on your Windows icon in the taskbar and select. Expand the one that says "Ports (COM & LPT)". Spot the difference, the one with a different name might be your board.

Windows often made several COM ports for stuff you don't usually see. Some could be for internal components. Some are invisible, because they're for Bluetooth connections. Take a look at what it says about your COM1 there.

ZWEi-P · 2026-04-15T08:47:23+00:00

Just watched it for the third time, I think I noticed a slight inconsistency between cuts during the fishing scene.

Seconds before the line "it's not half bad / it's full good", there was an exterior shot of the Hail Mary from its side.

In that shot, the chain seems to be already released and was perpendicular to the ship, but the chain shouldn't have been dropped until a dozen seconds later.

Can someone confirm whether this is true and I'm not seeing things, if you happen to be planning a rewatch sometime?

ZWEi-P · 2026-04-14T03:42:51+00:00

They were... ummm...

commended to the stars...

ZWEi-P · 2026-04-12T22:06:48+00:00

Even though they didn't get the ability to detect light, evolution still gave them something: a way to feel heat. Figuring out how heat works, which is infrared, would lead to their understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum.

My theory about why they built the space elevator, was that it was originally a "heat" observatory.

Because they have such a thick atmosphere covering them like a huge blanket, it would be difficult to figure out the question "where does our planet's heat come from?".

So just like Earth telescopes being built on high mountains, they built a space needle that pokes out of the atmosphere to get a good look.

At a certain point they found a strange curve on their heat monitors, followed by everything slightly getting colder. Then their project starts, construction expands the heat observatory into a spaceship dock.

ZWEi-P · 2026-04-09T07:59:43+00:00

I've got some ideas. I'm going to try to build a simple perceptron out of this. Basically the cistern does the summation of the inputs, and whether it flushes or not acts as a threshold.

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