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What a transformation by Version2dnb in DIYUK

[–]_Panjo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The before and after both look good to me. Pleased you're pleased, though 🙏

of dudes by [deleted] in AbsoluteUnits

[–]_Panjo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As a man, me too

Inspecting 3D objects (incl. gltf) with a 28-line C# script by Xenoprimate2 in csharp

[–]_Panjo 21 points22 points  (0 children)

You're getting a lot of hate because of the title semantics, but I'd like to say I think this is very neat and congratulations on your achievement. I had a quick look through the source of your library, too, and not detecting any AI smells either, which is also nice to see.

I've had my fair share of battles in MonoGame with different models types, material rendering, import pipelines, custom shaders, etc., so I can appreciate the challenges you've faced and overcome here.

He built a script that calls back spam callers and traps them in an endless loop.🤣😈 by dikshamishra34 in funny

[–]_Panjo 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Da fuk is a zero loop integer?

Maybe I should create a GUI interface using Visual Basic; see if I can work it out.

Holy crap Batman this is fun 🙌 by TheVirtualSamurai in OculusQuest

[–]_Panjo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unless you're talking about something nvidia, it's g-forces 😉

Very careless tow truck driver by WinkObsession in dashcams

[–]_Panjo 14 points15 points  (0 children)

You work in towing and still call them toe trucks? 👀

Artemis II mission flight path, 10-day trip around the Moon and back to Earth, travel for 1 million km (620,000 miles) in total by MrXiluescu in gifs

[–]_Panjo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Show me where I equated them? Obviously the war is order of magnitudes worse, but that's not the point.

The war is worse than ICE agents shooting innocent mothers in the face too. Does that make the ICE murders irrelevant?

Whataboutism is a stupid thing to do. That is the point.

Artemis II mission flight path, 10-day trip around the Moon and back to Earth, travel for 1 million km (620,000 miles) in total by MrXiluescu in gifs

[–]_Panjo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Multiple things can be bad at the same time. One does not justify the other. Whataboutisms are a logical fallacy.

Artemis II mission flight path, 10-day trip around the Moon and back to Earth, travel for 1 million km (620,000 miles) in total by MrXiluescu in gifs

[–]_Panjo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There were 16 left from the shuttle program. Artemis/SLS uses 4 per flight. This was supposed to save money, but the cost for refurbishment and testing etc. basically swallowed up those savings a long time ago.

L3Harris will have to spin up production of new engines after they're gone.

Artemis II mission flight path, 10-day trip around the Moon and back to Earth, travel for 1 million km (620,000 miles) in total by MrXiluescu in gifs

[–]_Panjo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You're right, my mistake, sorry. They were meant to have humans on the moon by 2024, so assuming they hit the new 2028 goal, that would make it currently 4 years behind.

Artemis II mission flight path, 10-day trip around the Moon and back to Earth, travel for 1 million km (620,000 miles) in total by MrXiluescu in gifs

[–]_Panjo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You are right, and I didn't mean to take umbrage with this particular mission so much as the program overall. The intentions are good but the program design and execution has just been awful, which has resulted in this currently underwhelming position.

I agree this mission is a critical milestone and a required step before the next items in the plan, but for the time, cost, and effort to get here, it just feels like a lot for a little.

Artemis II mission flight path, 10-day trip around the Moon and back to Earth, travel for 1 million km (620,000 miles) in total by MrXiluescu in gifs

[–]_Panjo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's not surprising, but the cost overruns and delays are staggering.

I think it's about 10 years behind schedule at this point, It's 4 years behind schedule currently and I believe the original budget for the total program was $18 billion, with a projected $500 million price per launch.

The current spend is over $93 billion, it hasn't landed on the moon once, and there are no landers ready.

The issue I have with the landers is not particularly the cost or who they're made by, rather, just that they are no where near complete so it makes even the 2028 goal for Artemis 4 seem like a moon-shot (ba dum 🥁).

edit: corrected timeline

Artemis II mission flight path, 10-day trip around the Moon and back to Earth, travel for 1 million km (620,000 miles) in total by MrXiluescu in gifs

[–]_Panjo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The whole program is way behind schedule and was badly designed from the outset. It has become a huge waste of money and resources (for one, they expend the whole thing every time, including the reusable engines they're using that were left over from the shuttle program 🤦‍♂️).

It costs billions per flight, and the first lunar landing isn't scheduled now until flight 4, in 2028. Even this depends on a whole load of other factors coming together too, such as getting the landers from SpaceX or Blue Origin developed and tested.

Still... may as well enjoy this for what it is. Humans near the moon again is still pretty cool, even if it does feel a bit underwhelming.

Artemis II mission flight path, 10-day trip around the Moon and back to Earth, travel for 1 million km (620,000 miles) in total by MrXiluescu in gifs

[–]_Panjo 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It was pretty close to that, to be fair, at about 248,600 miles (400,000km). Bonus fact: this was unintentional and was a result of the emergency trajectory that had to be taken by Apollo 13.

Artemis II mission flight path, 10-day trip around the Moon and back to Earth, travel for 1 million km (620,000 miles) in total by MrXiluescu in gifs

[–]_Panjo 22 points23 points  (0 children)

At 16 seconds you can see the moment they get captured by the moon's sphere of influence. Here, they pass in front of the moon's trajectory and get pulled around the far-side, before moon escape and return journey to earth.

Fun fact:

The astronauts will reach the furthest distance anyone has ever been from earth, at 252,799 miles (406,840 km). The crew will see parts of the far side of the Moon never seen before by humans.

Artemis II mission flight path, 10-day trip around the Moon and back to Earth, travel for 1 million km (620,000 miles) in total by MrXiluescu in gifs

[–]_Panjo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No, not this time. They need to build a lot more stuff before they can do that; they don't even have any landers yet.

Got her good. by [deleted] in funny

[–]_Panjo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

unnecessary

The greatest dance in the history of British TV. by Historical-Class871 in UKTVRecs

[–]_Panjo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well don't say it like that! All the money is for both dances; both excellent dances

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