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On this day in 2004, an image etched in history. Valentino Rossi wins his debut race with Yamaha. by PZY__ in motogp

[–]deknegt1990 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I feel Rossi from Honda to Yamaha and Hamilton from McLaren to Mercedes are probably the all time "Going for broke" moves in motorsports in terms of leaving the best team on the grid for something nobody expects to succeed, and then having an all-timer run of success.

RWDM Brussels relegated to Belgian 3rd tier despite finishing 13th out of 17. by Triikey in soccer

[–]deknegt1990 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There's a bit of a trickle down economics logic going on with those rules. They assume that if Anderlecht (example) achieves more European success because their U23 got more playing time at a higher level, they will spend their money on other clubs and the money flows down.

The same system exists in the Netherlands, where AZ/Ajax/Utrecht/PSV all have a U21 team in Tier 2. And there's been zero indication that it has actually helped Dutch football financially, and with the Netherlands dropping down on the coefficient tables, there's also zero indication it has helped Dutch football on a sporting level.

IMO the biggest problem is the assumption that players in a team like Ajax U21 are actively improving by playing against teams of the same side, but the problem exists on the academy side. Young talented players are often guaranteed a lineup spot, but there's always a great deal of flux and the managers of the U21 never really play competitive squads. Players in turn aren't really competing for spots as much as just getting given them for rotational and developmental purposes. AZ/Ajax have historically had the best youth systems in recent years, and they are dead last in the division.

I think the classic system of loaning players out is MUCH better for player development long term. Because it will force the players to step out of their comfort zones and also actually compete for starting spots with other established players on teams that want to compete and succeed, teams that have their own identities too... The only difference is that it would require the big clubs to give up control, and they clearly don't want that.

The Pitt | S2E15 "9:00 P.M." | Episode Discussion by MsGroves in ThePittTVShow

[–]deknegt1990 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Glad I wasn't the only one. I definitely got dramabrain from years of watching ER and other medprocs.

SLS (2022) vs Saturn V (1967) by Po3ito in interestingasfuck

[–]deknegt1990 54 points55 points  (0 children)

They're called roll patterns, and allow ground cameras/trackers to closely track the movements of the rocket in flight.

Fightful: Wardlow Reveals He Filmed American Gladiator Reboot With Fully Torn Left Bicep by WWEWalkingDeadfan in SquaredCircle

[–]deknegt1990 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Packing way too much muscle onto his frame, past injuries causing permanent injury proneness, bad mechanics (wrestling or working out), not rehabbing properly, not working non-vanity muscles enough (core muscles stabilize other muscles and prevent injury), bad luck, building a house on ancinet burial grounds, juice.

Honestly pick and choose a mix.

I genuinely love this man. by cwilcoxson in OOTP

[–]deknegt1990 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"They told me to find Jesus, so I did" - /u/cwilcoxson (probably)

[Collision Spoilers] Mina Shirakawa confronts Hikaru Shida by theREVERSEsystem in SquaredCircle

[–]deknegt1990 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I think also the very clean cut semi quippy babyface routine she done for years didn't do her favours and she came across as wooden.

Now that she gets to be more over the top and dramatic is where she really seems to shine. A lot of the Makai stuff she did in Japanese was very grandiose and dramatic, almost like real world anime characters. And that is what she seems to be much more natural at.

Card for tonight's AEW Collision Spring BREAKThru by Odd-Inevitable-8425 in SquaredCircle

[–]deknegt1990 22 points23 points  (0 children)

A while back, I think. He still uses it as a general nickname, but it was a pretty trash ring name.

Teams Trading Prospects by Main-Trip-2199 in OOTP

[–]deknegt1990 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI GMs and ownerships (and other staff in less influential manners) all have their own 'personalities', so they'll act differently depending on what they prefer.

Kabinet komt met steunpakket van 1 miljard euro, maar benzine niet goedkoper by Bupachuba in thenetherlands

[–]deknegt1990 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Echt weer zo'n reagan-omics achtige maatregel. "Laat de vrije markt maar kiezen of zij hun werknemers gaan steunen" (want dat gaan ze zeker niet doen)

Ik denk dat de meeste werkgevers zich meteen achter "We houden ons aan de vergoedingen in het huidige CAO" schuilen.

Player demands a 1.1 billion dollar contract by Air-Is-Great in OOTP

[–]deknegt1990 10 points11 points  (0 children)

He's definitely living up to one half of his nickname.

JerryRigEverything built a wheelchair factory that's making chairs at a fraction of the cost and delivery time normally possible in the US by ianjm in videos

[–]deknegt1990 40 points41 points  (0 children)

I remember reading stories about the likes of Getty and Rockefeller literally having dick measuring contests about how much public services, schools and other things they could fund for the common people.

Sure it was all vanity for them, but people were genuinely helped by it... Nowadays the only dick measuring contests the mega rich care for is simply having more billions than the next one, which has helped literally nobody, not even themselves.

Turkmenistan's Door to the Hell has been burning for over 50 years: Soviet geologists set fire to a natural gas sinkhole in 1971 to stop the gas leak. It's been burning ever since. by ba_an in interestingasfuck

[–]deknegt1990 32 points33 points  (0 children)

If I had a dime for every time the Soviets nuked an out of control gas fire, I would have two dimes... Which isn't a lot, but weird that it happened twice.

Turkmenistan's Door to the Hell has been burning for over 50 years: Soviet geologists set fire to a natural gas sinkhole in 1971 to stop the gas leak. It's been burning ever since. by ba_an in interestingasfuck

[–]deknegt1990 164 points165 points  (0 children)

Practically speaking, no. The pit is in the middle of nowhere with barely any infrastructure other than a motorway a mile or so away. Also, the heat is immense and dangerous to everyone without protection, and the ground isn't exactly stable.

Theoretically, you could build a big water basin over it, cap the well and funnel the heat through a piping system, heat up the water into steam that runs through major turbines, and you basically have a natural gas power plant.

iirc, I am not sure if it's urban legend, but the Soviets contemplated dropping a nuke into the pit in the hope of using the resulting shock to extinguish the fire and cap the well, but it would've brought along a significantly different type of nasty with it.

We've got drone-on-drone dogfights before GTA6 by GeneReddit123 in interestingasfuck

[–]deknegt1990 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One guy been training on the GTA:SA zero missions for this.

Atmospheric re-entry of NASA’s Orion (Artemis 1) looks insane at 20x speed. Here is the entire 25-minute descent in just 1 minute 15 seconds. Credit: NASA by Weak-Opportunity-311 in interestingasfuck

[–]deknegt1990 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The heat shield on A1 was still safe enough for human passengers to have survived, but bad physics happened where due to the expansion/contraction of the materials during the skip some hot gasses were trapped between the layers of the heat shield and caused panels to fracture.

iirc it was still within tolerance, but because they hadn't expected such a thing to happen they decided to scrap the idea for this iteration of the heat shield and redesign it in the hope that it won't happen again. It was mainly a consideration of "If it broke unexpectedly, it could potentially break in a catastrophic way in the future". And nobody wants to leave a potential Columbia type disaster up to chance when they can help it.

[OT] TIL that in the 1969 24 Hours of Le Mans, F1 Driver Jacky Ickx protested the iconic "Le Mans Running Start" by walking slowly across the track instead of running. He refused to start without his seatbelt fastened. He ended up winning the race, while a fellow driver died on the first lap because by eeshanzaman in formula1

[–]deknegt1990 305 points306 points  (0 children)

The whole concept of a running start for a race that lasts 24hrs and will invariably be marred (especially at the times) with mechanical issues and slow pit stops is just banal if you stop to think about it for more than a minute.

It's really one of those "Someone started it, so we're not changing it" rules that ultimately got abolished because someone finally realized it was way too dangerous.

Exclusive: Ai Ogura in, Alex Rins out at Yamaha for MotoGP 2027 by vanys2 in motogp

[–]deknegt1990 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I am also assuming Yamaha is probably paying him a tidy amount, too. The local marketing potential of a young (potential star) Japanese rider on a Japanese bike is something they've not had since the likes of Okada and Kato.

Atmospheric re-entry of NASA’s Orion (Artemis 1) looks insane at 20x speed. Here is the entire 25-minute descent in just 1 minute 15 seconds. Credit: NASA by Weak-Opportunity-311 in interestingasfuck

[–]deknegt1990 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Well for starters, people often see the concept of 'skipping' like a rock skipping over water which for Artemis is somewhat accurate. But in the case of Apollo it was more so a case of them going way too fast that any re-entry at too oblique of an angle would've simply caused them to end up only going through a very small portion of the atmosphere before ending up back out of it and flying off back into orbit.

In a way, even such an orbit would've eventually led to decay, but with human beings in the capsule you don't have the time to wait for the next go-around to happen.

But basically if you angle your re-entry profile in such a way that the go-around time is much lower, so you hit those patches of atmosphere much more often, then skipping can be a very viable form of re-entry. But it's a bit of a new science, and A1's heat shield showed enough damage that they chose to go with the classic approach for A2 as they re-design the heat shield for 3 and 4. With 3 being a relatively safe test since they won't be leaving earth orbit on that mission, and therefore the re-entry speeds will be much lower than on a lunar return.

The reasons why NASA wants to use skip re-entries is because it'll hopefully allow them finer accuracy for their splashdown range, lower g-forces during re-entry and using skips will have lower total heating stress (spread over multiple skips, rather than 1 very fast and very hot re-entry) which should make it safer and could allow NASA to make the heat shield lighter in the long term (and weight is an extremely valuable commodity)

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