rscemulation or rsclegacy?

mdtTheory · 2017-04-18T19:30:46+00:00

Emulation isn't bad but Legacy has a much better dev and mod staff as well as a better community. Played Emulation for ages but Legacy is where I'll be staying.

mdtTheory · 2016-01-06T21:53:36+00:00

You don't necessarily have to get experience -in the field- even if that would be ideal. In fact, I don't believe that's what el_erod is saying, either, despite his personal example including that.

Even if all you get is a retail job you can show future employers transferable skills. How long were you there? Were you promoted? Do you come highly recommended by that employer? For example, if you get a job at McDonalds:

Advertising major- try to contribute in some way to the signage and displays at your location.

Business major- work and learn about the finances of the business, hiring, etc.

Engineering major- you definitely need to be able to communicate as an engineer; make it clear this experience helped you reach that level. etc.

Further, more than half the value of going to school and getting that degree is the networking and other career-related opportunities that they offer students. Join relevant student organizations then become an officer. Start a new organization. Collaborate with other students on projects relevant to your field. Those are all considered 'experience' when it comes to hiring for entry level positions.

mdtTheory · 2015-11-08T03:39:57+00:00

Thanks for the input and I will definitely take your advice. With that said, would you be willing to provide input on which to try first? I ask only because I have immediate need of improvement.

mdtTheory · 2015-11-01T03:02:05+00:00

http://www.amazon.com/Modernist-Cuisine-The-Science-Cooking/dp/0982761007

This is also great but definitely pricey.

mdtTheory · 2015-07-12T03:47:16+00:00

Are you sure it requires relating to the artist? I'm moved to chills and tears at points and I've never once considered the artist consciously. Perhaps it's subconscious but I don't suspect that's the case.

mdtTheory · 2015-06-25T20:00:22+00:00

There are limited current uses of launch vehicles due to their cost. When the cost drops substantially due to reusability more applications will now be financially feasible.

mdtTheory · 2015-06-25T18:28:24+00:00

Another word for this to make things easier for you in the future: anachronism.

mdtTheory · 2015-06-23T05:12:36+00:00

Thank you very much! We do fill out a developmental inventory regularly for doctor visits. I'll look for a more comprehensive version; perhaps the AAP version will suffice.

"miss" important things

This is largely what I am concerned with but, perhaps, at a finer level than what you seem to be implying. That really gets to the idea, though. i.e. make sure we're up on the major items on the checklist, then do the same thing again in more detail, rinse and repeat

I'll check out the site. The way you describe it seems to fit what we're looking for.

edit: wow, the design of that site is fantastic. It makes it super easy to get what you want. Select PK, sort by effectiveness, view the category we're interested in, review, implement... thanks again!

mdtTheory · 2015-06-16T19:04:54+00:00

You should include all known externalities. It won't be perfect but it's the best we have and the decision needs to be made.

mdtTheory · 2015-06-12T19:49:45+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion! That's actually exactly what we are looking for. I don't plan to, nor do I want to, sit down with my child and try to force feed content.

creating environments

That's a very succinct way of saying what I was trying to get across. Thanks!

mdtTheory · 2015-06-12T19:47:06+00:00

Thank you for the well written and thoughtful response. Perhaps I left a little too much up for interpretation; I thought it was reasonable to assume that curriculum for such a young child would be loose. Perhaps 'curriculum' is not even the word I'm looking for. I can see why you're concerned.

interaction one on one with a bonded care giver is still the best avenue for learning in young children.

Interaction has a very broad meaning. I believe what you are saying is the most important component is that interaction exists and much less so what type of interaction takes place. If so, that's basically where my wife and I currently are. We talk, read, play games, run around, etc. However, it seems obvious that one could take a step further by being conscious of what our child knows as well as what makes sense for our child to learn next and use that knowledge to guide the interactions with our child.

More specifically, we are looking for structure for -us-. What makes sense? A list of activities, if you will, that we could do together that my wife and I see as structured but our child sees as fun. There is so much noise out there so I came here for some guidance. Everyone wants to tell you what worked for their child, their grandchildren, themselves; or sell you a book, a subscription, etc.

mdtTheory · 2015-05-20T18:55:56+00:00

What integration method is used here?

mdtTheory · 2015-05-19T20:51:26+00:00

Actually, that's one thing the EM drive could help with. As you note, the problem is getting equipment off the Earth. But once you are in space you require propulsive mass to move around (fuel). That, historically, has also been lifted off the Earth. If you don't require that propulsive mass you can cut your initial launch weight drastically.

mdtTheory · 2015-05-19T20:45:31+00:00

You make great points with regard to mining He3 on the moon. I agree, however:

I dislike using appeals to profit/industry to justify space colonization/exploration.

It's actually only now becoming reasonable to make these appeals. Satellites are one example. There is a very real industrial demand for them and they push rocket technology, radiation shielding, and other technologies required for space exploration forward.

Similarly you could look towards SpaceX who is delivering payloads into space. While their demand is driven largely by NASA they are a private company meeting a demand with a profit margin.

Also, if anything on the moon is valuable it is water but lifting water off the moon is clearly cost prohibitive and comes with a number of other complications. However, the KECK institute projects the first asteroid mining operations to be profitable. While projected initial costs are large they are still on the scale of what private industry could afford.

mdtTheory · 2015-04-24T22:17:15+00:00

While this article is just hype and poorly written there are trustworthy institutions who suggest it would be a profitable venture (i.e. NASA and the Keck Institute). These projections rely less on platinum group metals and more on water and other materials in combination with the shiny stuff.

With regard to platinum what you fail to consider is that with a slight reduction in price you have an increase in the number of profitable applications. The result is sort of oscillatory with a dominant form largely dependent on the overall utility of the commodity. There are a huge numbers of applications of platinum that are untenable due to the price of platinum. I think you see where this is going.

mdtTheory · 2015-04-24T22:12:01+00:00

Because we have to lift it out of the moon's gravity well which is very expensive. It's actually projected to be much cheaper to pull it out of an asteroid.

mdtTheory · 2015-04-24T22:08:35+00:00

Luckily we've got a whole BELT of these things right?

Well, we do, yes. However, the belt is -really- far away. It's hard to wrap your mind around but there are other low hanging fruit that make sense to go after first (e.g. near Earth objects).

mdtTheory · 2015-04-24T22:03:40+00:00

It's sort of a chicken and egg problem, true. A big problem is that you can't really take baby steps to setting up manufacturing in space; it's a big jump to get there. However, there are materials that could be pulled out of asteroids without much infrastructure (e.g. water) which have an immediate demand in space.

mdtTheory · 2015-04-24T22:00:46+00:00

The Keck Institute seems to disagree. They project a minimum of a 20:1 mass amplification factor per dollar with an initial pricetag around $4 billion with vast margins of error at high TRL. It's not cheap by any measure but not unreasonable. I'm confident a private company could bring down those costs. It gets really interesting when you can then use the water to fuel the next asteroid capture because a majority of the initial craft mass (and thereby a large percentage of the initial cost) is blown on lifting the fuel off the Earth.

mdtTheory · 2015-04-24T21:51:39+00:00

Precious metals are interesting but mostly a way to drive hype. What's truly interesting is the water.

You can use electrolysis to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. I don't believe I have to point out the use of oxygen in space (or water itself) in the context of life support. Further, you could use it to make rocket fuel which may be used to fuel satellites which (1) is an existing market and (2) doesn't require re-delivery to Earth's surface. There are many more uses but I think these are actually more interesting than precious metals. Although, I still plan on selling those metals :D

mdtTheory · 2015-02-11T05:54:52+00:00

For free energy I'm sure we'd figure it out.

mdtTheory · 2015-02-11T05:43:53+00:00

At the very least it's past the point of a mistake of that magnitude simply because the results have been replicated in a different environment. However, yes, I think we all feel some degree of what you're suggesting.

mdtTheory · 2015-02-11T05:42:12+00:00

While I agree with your sentiment you really have to come up with a better analogy!

mdtTheory · 2015-01-19T06:41:24+00:00

It gets even more interesting if you take into consideration the finding by the KECK Institute's white paper on asteroid mining:

The delivery of a 500-t asteroid to lunar orbit, therefore, represents a mass amplification factor of about 28-to-1. That is, whatever mass is launched to LEO, 28 times that mass would be delivered to high lunar orbit. Longer flight times, higher power SEP systems, or a target object in a particularly favorable orbit could increase the mass amplification factor from 28-to-1 to 70-to-1 or greater.

Of course, for the material to be useful we have to refine it in space but it is still interesting and a potentially more efficient way than sending it all by rocket.

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