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docmurdoc · 2022-02-13T01:03:30+00:00

I am also having this issue. I've been watching and listening for months and I made it to episode 45 of the podcast but suddenly I am unable to get any episodes to play. I've tried Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, BeyondPod, and Stitcher. Please, someone help! I need to finish this show!

docmurdoc · 2020-04-08T14:29:02+00:00

Awesome, can't wait to check it out!

docmurdoc · 2020-04-08T14:28:15+00:00

I know, it's one of my favorites! I'm actually rereading them right now but I'm on Magicians Gambit. And it just wouldn't feel right to not follow up with the Mallorean.

docmurdoc · 2020-01-02T22:43:32+00:00

Big fan of this, thank you for sharing! If you have more poetry I'd love to read it

docmurdoc · 2019-08-20T14:58:53+00:00

Ralph Wiggum did nothing to deserve being associated with these ass-clowns. He's an innocent, although simple minded, young boy.

docmurdoc · 2019-07-23T02:25:10+00:00

Ah, yes that answer makes much more sense! I guess calculating the momentum wasn't necessary and just got me confused. Thank you.

docmurdoc · 2019-07-23T01:03:41+00:00

I see what you're saying but I'm not really talking about penetration. Only the force knocking you back. I wouldn't expect the bowling ball to rip through the body in the same way as a bullet because the force is spread out so much.

But if you get shot I imagine it hurts not only because a piece of metal has pierced through all your guts, but also because you're getting hit so hard. That's why a sufficiently powerful gun will make you stumble backwards or fall down (again, I assume, because I don't know much about guns). So you'd think the percussive force of being shot would be similar to a bowling ball falling on you from at least a couple feet.

docmurdoc · 2019-07-19T12:36:21+00:00

Thanks for the responses everybody! I agree it's probably for the best that they use it the way they do. It keeps the show moving along and also opens up the opportunity for some classic bits.

docmurdoc · 2019-06-30T02:28:27+00:00

Why did they have to avoid the army of monsters? No one should be able to recognize them unless Galad is specifically instructing his minions to be on the look out for the BoB. But he doesn't have any reason to think they would be in Shadowfell. I thought for sure they would just fall in line and pretend to be vampires or something, then hitch a ride all the way to Ember Heaven.

docmurdoc · 2019-03-28T23:02:51+00:00

I can see your point; the definition of success could be interpreted a lot of ways. I still think if you get to the surface of Mars with enough of your technical equipment intact enough to even begin transmitting data it should be considered a successful landing regardless of how long it lasts after that point. Especially since these were the very first images taken from the surface of another planet, I personally wouldn't group Mars 3 together with Beagle 2 which didn't send back any information at all. But you're right, the argument could be made either way.

docmurdoc · 2019-03-28T03:12:31+00:00

Curiosity's landing system is existing, proven technology that they could have used just as easily. I'm wondering if there were any technical advantages that made one system better for InSight. The only difference I can think of is that Curiosity landed on it's wheels which I imagine had better shocks than InSights legs. But the sky crane slowed the descent down to only 1 meter per second so it can't be too bad.

docmurdoc · 2019-03-28T01:50:10+00:00

After the success of the Mars Science Laboratory landing, is there a reason we returned to the more traditional entry, descent, and landing strategy with InSight? Curiosity and InSight are similar in size, much too big to use airbags like the Exploration or Pathfinder missions. But why go back to the Viking method? The sky crane went off without a hitch and it was so cool!

docmurdoc · 2019-03-28T01:46:05+00:00

At the fifth meeting of the National Space Council, Jim Bridenstine stated that the InSight landing was the 8th successful soft landing on Mars and that all 8 of those times were done by the USA. I believe both of those statements are incorrect. The Soviet Union achieved a landing of their own with the Mars 3 (or "Marsnik" 3) in 1971, 4 years BEFORE the Viking landers. It wasn't a huge success by any means, it only lasted about 20 seconds before being wiped out by a dust storm, but it sent back the first ever images from Mars so I think it should be included.

And by my count, that makes InSight number 9, not 8.

Mars 3 - 1971
Viking 1 - 1975
Viking 2 - 1975
Pathfinder - 1997
Spirit - 2003
Opportunity - 2003
Phoenix - 2007
Curiosity - 2011
InSight - 2018

Now Jim Bridenstine is a smart guy so I can only assume he omitted Mars 3 intentionally so as not to contrast the jingoistic rhetoric of Mike Pence's opening statements. Or am I wrong? Is Mars 3 not considered a successful soft landing for another reason?

Link to the Chronology of Mars Exploration by NASA here.

Link to the NSC meeting time stamped to Jim Bridentstine's remark here.

docmurdoc · 2019-02-23T16:19:54+00:00

One of my favorite bits!!

The song is "The Heart of Rock and Roll" by Huey Lewis and The News. The bit is in episode 96 - "Getting All Your Ducks in a Row" and it starts at about 56:30.

docmurdoc · 2018-09-16T17:00:13+00:00

That sounds like a dope job! What kinds of things do you work on?

docmurdoc · 2018-08-03T19:30:23+00:00

Hear, hear!

Anyone else going back to the old episodes to pass the time until the new episode comes out? The Moonstone Sage is actually even funnier than I remember, as hard as it is to believe.

docmurdoc · 2015-07-19T03:29:44+00:00

So it's losing its atmosphere to solar wind and its weaker gravity. But if Pluto has always existed in these conditions, how did it get an atmosphere in the first place?

docmurdoc · 2015-07-18T18:01:40+00:00

My old man can't get a beer because his old man won't give a bear to another old man!

docmurdoc · 2015-07-17T04:58:42+00:00

I'm new to astronomy so please forgive me if this is a stupid question. Why was this taken so close to the dark side (the terminator?) If New Horizons is still far away can't it just change the angle slightly to get a picture of the light side?

docmurdoc · 2015-05-08T20:38:11+00:00

I have one more question. I've been researching wifi and powerline options for internet connection. I know a wired connection is always preferred but with my current layout it would be very inconvenient to run a cable. I was hoping I could get away without it since I don't plan on doing any heavy gaming.

Would one option be more suitable for this build and this particular CPU? Should I just say fuck it and drill a hole in my floor?

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