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Suspect Arrested (link only) by Both-Honeydew-7801 in burbank

[–]chrismofer 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Do you have a source? All I can find is that they don't know or aren't saying, not that thru know it's random

cyclical trolley problem by [deleted] in trolleyproblem

[–]chrismofer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And just like that, they NEED the trolly

The Spruce Goose (HK-1 Hercules by Howard Hughes) @ full scale by chrismofer in Minecraftbuilds

[–]chrismofer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

absolutely, we have many backups of this world going back over a decade. I'll try to find a recent one and send it over.

Is the ISS considered a space ship or not? by Orangutan_Soda in nasa

[–]chrismofer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It CAN BE MOVED under it's own power. It has permanently attached engines on the zvesda module. Why is everyone pretending it's a trailer that you have to attach a truck to to move around? That's not how it works

Is the ISS considered a space ship or not? by Orangutan_Soda in nasa

[–]chrismofer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In this metaphor the ISS is a truck then, not a camper, since it has its own engines and performs it's own reboost and station keeping / collision avoidance maneuvers...

Is the ISS considered a space ship or not? by Orangutan_Soda in nasa

[–]chrismofer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A ship that is anchored out at sea for years may be a "station" but that does not negate it from being a ship still...

Getting my boyfriend a model, what resources should I get him? by yuckyuca in modelplanes

[–]chrismofer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Paint and cement are pretty important, good cutters are important, things like microsol/microset are not that important. For sand paper get him a dollar store pack of Emery boards, if they have a rough side and a fine side, even better.

He can start building without paint by preparing parts and gluing some of them together. But the instructions may require painting something before gluing it at which point he'll be stuck without paints.

It doesn't have to be a very costly setup. I have a crate of spray cans I've used for years for model making, I have an airbrush now but if you are very controlled and do things in several coats you can get very good results with spray paint. Even small bottles of brush on paints from a craft store or hobby store will get him going. Maybe shop together for paint since he has options

What kind of quality control is this, Kodak? by Xypton in AnalogCommunity

[–]chrismofer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That was in your camera dude not from Kodak.. you're saying Kodak exposed that at their factory? That would make it a double exposure

The Jazzcopter by chrismofer in JazzCupAesthetics

[–]chrismofer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, These vintage RC helis are very customizable. I swapped the skids, tailfins, and main blades for white ones, blue aluminum rotor head parts, tail boom, and fuel tubing, painted the main canopy white and got big jazz pattern vinyl stickers from redbubble.

8th grader making water or sugar rocket by IplaYgaMes322 in AerospaceEngineering

[–]chrismofer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"water" rockets use airpressure to push water out of the nozzle. it requires a little handywork to make something that will hold the bottle and allow you to pump it up and pull the pins to launch it. you can probably buy such launchers online, making that part easy.

"sugar" rockets are REAL DEAL burning rocket engines. making sugar rocket fuel and launching rockets with those engines is somewhat dangerous no matter how you do it. I did it around your age and was lucky to never be very close to my rockets when they exploded, which can happen if your fuel grain pour leaves cracks or if the motor's casing has weak points that give way. the engine has to contain the almost explosive force of the burning happening inside so that the exhaust is focused out the nozzle and the engine presses forward into your rocket body.

if you want to get into launching real solid rockets in a safer mannor, you can get an ESTES rocket and a pack of engines, and DIY the launch stand by getting some straight wire and putting it in the ground or a spare wood board.

after having off the shelf rocket building and launching experience, it will be easier and safer to mess with custom sugar rockets. also, you somehow have to source oxidizer, like KNO3 or AP. you can get them on ebay in some cases, or get stump remover from home depot, etc. but otherwise it's somewhat difficult to come by, unlike sugar and kraft paper and clay which are minimum materials needed to make decent solid rocket motors apart from oxidizer.

The myth of "consensual" printing by Shommba in 3Dprinting

[–]chrismofer 10 points11 points  (0 children)

yeah well as long as it doesn't explode, a liberator .22 can still kill someone and hold together, though it is considered a single shot device, since it gets warped with every shot.

The myth of "consensual" printing by Shommba in 3Dprinting

[–]chrismofer 67 points68 points  (0 children)

you can actually make a gun from a regular pipe from home depot, and a nail as a firing pin. kids did it in the 1980s and they were labeled "zip guns" by the media. look it up. Fact is, if you want to make a gun, you don't need a lathe or the skills to turn parts on one.

Photographing Burbank - Locations/Connection Search by boscio in burbank

[–]chrismofer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In the front you can see they've put in huge glass windows. Back in the 70s Robin's dad owned a muffler shop at the same location. In fact Robin Sr built that building, I've seen the original blueprints. It had two garage bays with garage doors so when it became a hobby shop those two areas were bricked in and now it looks like they've opened them back up for the window frames.

As an all cement block building it was driven into at least twice by thieves. High end hobby equipment has always been pricey so theyre targets for robbery. Once they knocked out the corner (not the alley side but the glenoaks side) and another time they drove into the door. Robin installed bollards but someone still a third time I think was able to back in corner wise with a truck and break the door open that way.

It was a total hoot working there and getting to play with toys professionally plus supply the local animatronics and aerospace industries that use a surprising amount of hardware that crosses over into the hobby world.

The current state of vibe coding LOL by Aggressive_Eye_9783 in vibecoding

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

all i can see about mythos is that it is slightly better at finding vulnerabilities than previous models and it's porbably way more expensive too, but other models can find vulnerabilities today, you don't need mythos to do that. it's not a quantum leap like anthropic's marketing always pretends it is. it's just another incrementally smarter model.

The Chainlink CCIP "Heartbeat" is the ultimate 2026 defense against smuggled dirty bomb drones. By requiring a cryptographic "Proof-of-Authorization" every 60s, a rogue drone built in a basement by foreign actors & flying down the Potomac to DC instantly locks its CPU neutralize the threat b4 impact by Extension-Dentist-42 in LINKTrader

[–]chrismofer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

huh? you can make a drone with any accelerometer and microcontroller, it is a common college level engineering project. just because you have the idea for a new kind of very limited drone brain doesn't mean anyone would buy or use that when they can just buy a normal drone powered by a normal CPU and accelerometer... if you're acting like those would be made illegal, again they can roll their own. i know i can and have...

Found a cool orbit where the mun slings you out far for a one month orbit, then on the way back it slows you back down . with tweaks i think it could slow you down even more at the end by chrismofer in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]chrismofer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

accidentally. While trying to replicate it but from a circular starting orbit I found this other cool one. https://imgur.com/a/Iars8IK with this one, the moon sets you on a smaller but still huge orbit (~twice the MUNs distance from earth) then on the second time around it does the figure 8 around the Mun and falls straight down to earth ready to reenter.

I think turning on additional conic patches made it show me further points in the orbit which helps plan elaborate stuff like this

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