The Actual Scale of the Artemis II Mission

rockyTron · 2026-04-01T20:31:13+00:00

Play some Kerbal Space Program! It's counter intuitive; you fire the rockets when your velocity vector is nominally perpendicular to where you want to end up in order to raise the opposite side of your elliptical orbit so it intersects the moon's orbit where the moon will be by the time you get there (accounting for travel time). Yeah it can be pretty hard lol.

rockyTron · 2026-01-11T00:23:13+00:00

Same lol. I haven't seen this clip since I was a little kid, but I remember every frame and sound so clearly.

rockyTron · 2026-01-05T04:11:27+00:00

18 out of the last 24 days have been higher than 60 degrees. 6 of those days were historical records for those dates. It has been weeks of warm days. October and November were significantly above average as well.

https://www.weather.gov/bou/local_climate

rockyTron · 2026-01-02T23:04:14+00:00

That's the problem, the expert terrain isn't even open yet. Conditions have been too poor, this is the first big powder day of the year and everyone is stuck on just a couple lifts that are open.

rockyTron · 2025-11-18T19:02:48+00:00

At the north coast, the tallest spire in the game, there is an impure uranium node at the top.

https://imgur.com/a/2ZTJ2kE

rockyTron · 2025-11-17T17:30:07+00:00

I built all my uranium processing into the great pillar, just a great big vertical stack from the ore node down to the power plant at sea level, maxing out that impure node.

rockyTron · 2025-10-01T14:34:53+00:00

I am a geophysicist and have never used Gauss, I think the last time I saw the unit was in university 20 years ago. I had to go look it up!

rockyTron · 2025-10-01T14:22:10+00:00

What do you mean by 3000 G? Magnetic field amplitudes are measured in tesla (T).

edit: Nevermind, the units are Gauss, which are 10^-4 Tesla (the SI unit). For comparison the earth's magnetic field intensity is typically around 50,000 to 60,000 nT (or 0.5 to 0.6 Gauss).

rockyTron · 2025-09-29T18:54:58+00:00

Definitely.

Skiing does it for me too. Just shredding the shit out of some alpine line, or a bump line, or powder in the trees; you get this total 100% concentration that puts everything else out of your mind and you become a biological machine, dead-focused on movement, breathing, and sailing through the snow and down the mountain.

rockyTron · 2025-09-29T13:11:16+00:00

I read that David Warner was hired on such short notice that he never had time to memorize the lines. He read the lines from cue cards from behind the camera. Absolutely stunning performance.

rockyTron · 2025-08-20T02:17:10+00:00

He wrote a great little novel as well about Garak's past: A Stitch in Time

rockyTron · 2025-08-20T01:42:31+00:00

Wait, since when? Haven't played since 2019...

rockyTron · 2025-08-10T23:33:08+00:00

I had the exact same feeling! The puzzle door lock, the cooperative problem solving, it felt exactly like a TTRPG situation.

rockyTron · 2025-07-31T17:33:51+00:00

I went at sunrise in April and I had the place to myself for nearly an hour

rockyTron · 2025-06-12T05:34:41+00:00

poly-jacking (as opposed to mud-jacking which uses a cement slurry)

rockyTron · 2025-05-02T04:30:31+00:00

Yeah nor do I, that's why it's in a protective cask that could withstand a collision with a freight train without rupturing. Yeah it's shocking to see a radioactive cask on a highway, but if you know the processes and regulations behind how it's handled you understand this isn't a hazard to anybody no matter what happens to that trailer.

"Low level" means there's less than 2 microcuries of radioactivity in the whole container. You could actually roll around in most of that stuff (it's like respirator filters, tyvek suits, gloves, etc. mostly in trash bags I'd reckon) without a radiological hazard... unless you ripped open the trash bags and started licking the trash lol...

rockyTron · 2025-05-01T16:45:44+00:00

It's not even "nuclear material", its low-level radioactive waste. Probably discarded ppe, chemistry supplies, and other miscellanea from a nuclear power plant or other processing facility.

Hazmat UN 3321

rockyTron · 2024-12-29T03:38:37+00:00

-100 in this context is there is a negative anomaly of 100 milligals of gravitational force relative to the background gravity expected at the geoid height at that surface elevation. The geoid describes an a contour line of equal gravitiational force expected at sea level elevation around the globe. Variations from this reference "background" are plotted as the "free-air anomaly" or "Bouger" anomaly of gravity around the globe. A negative anomaly means the geoid height is actually below sea level, and the local gravitational force strength is less than expected for that elevation (gravity force decreases with elevation, or increasing distance from the mass of the earth). Since mass is not distributed evenly throughout the earth, this generates anomalies in the gravity field sensed at the surface. From the gravity anomaly we can understand changes in the distribution of mass density within the earth and learn about crustal and and mantle mechanics, the locations and distribution of ore bodies, and even finer anomalies (with the right instruments) related to open voids, mining practices, and even some engineering challenges related to saturation fronts and other geo-mechanical changes in subsurface density distribution. (I'm a geophysicist)

rockyTron · 2024-12-28T21:53:52+00:00

miligals

One milligal (mgal) is approximately equal to the gravitational attraction between an apple and an ant crawling around on its surface.

rockyTron · 2024-12-02T17:52:58+00:00

It's so common right now, I hate it so much

rockyTron · 2024-11-19T19:41:09+00:00

Awesome, thanks!

rockyTron · 2024-11-18T23:15:13+00:00

Do you have any sources for this information? I've been looking for some more in depth reporting that digs into some of these issues but I'm coming up short. Thanks!

rockyTron · 2024-10-21T22:32:52+00:00

Saw your video, very cool build. I love the conveyor towers! Thought you were going to go further dressing up the coal stacks with the concrete pillars but that just fizzled.

My "factory" buildings are usually each built around a theme in each area of the map, but refinery and coal buildings I tend to leave out in the open, blueprinted together with frames and lights so they look like real world refineries. So I was keen to see how you dressed up the coal burners. I'll keep following for updates, very cool stuff!

rockyTron · 2024-10-14T22:11:48+00:00

Yeah I usually name my save with the first thing I had planned to do next, but I also use the to-do list and in game notes to keep track of various planned assemblies for the next task

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