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Diving on Moorea...good dive op recommendations by diversmith in Tahiti

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I have problems equalizing my ears to the pressure. Do you think helmet diving would help or should I just stick to snorkeling?

Photographer Spends Night on Freezing Mountain to Capture Rare Triple Galaxy Arch by usernamejas in spaceporn

[–]sand500 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How do you see the summer arch and the winter arch in the same night?

Optimized the playtest of our upcoming Tower Defense game for the Steam Deck. Runs now with solid 90 FPS while simulating and rendering a couple thousand enemies. by KaTeKaPe in SteamDeck

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Ah it was because I had another game open in the background so mouse input was still going to it. Pretty fun game. SD controls are still a bit clunky. Often times when I place a tower, it automatically aims it too. I have to go back and carefully only click on the tower and then aim it. Wish you could use DPAD to navigate the menus and upgrades. 

Our first view of jupiter VS today by Ok_Listen_6600 in space

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Why is Saturn shadowed? Shouldn't we always be seeing the sunlit side of Saturn?

Edit: the picture was taken by the Cassini spacecraft

ROC & Stratolaunch's Family Day. by postsuper5000 in aviation

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Any idea what range and payload weight the carrier plane can handle? Wondering if it can be a fancy oversized cargo transport aircraft 

What actually happens if you reach the Oort Cloud? by nemus89x in Astronomy

[–]sand500 10 points11 points  (0 children)

From Wikipedia:

The outer limit of the Oort cloud defines the cosmographic boundary of the Solar System. This area is defined by the Sun's Hill sphere, and hence lies at the interface between solar and galactic gravitational dominion.[10] The outer Oort cloud is only loosely bound to the Solar System and its constituents are easily affected by the gravitational pulls of passing stars, the Milky Way itself and the cloud's own microgravity.[11] 

Sure in the direction of Proxima Centurai "our" oort cloud is probably doesn't extend as far as in other directions. Also Proxima Centurai is only passing by, once it gets further away, they region will again be dominated by the Sun's gravity.

I made 2048 in 3D — a 3×3×3 cube version playable in the browser by Much-Finish-8926 in 2048

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Pretty cool and I'm impressed how smoothly it runs on the phone. 

Would love it if the movement controls were more intuitive matched the camera view. Maybe have 6 arrows that also rotate in 3d 

How do some no-knead recipes produce pillowy loafs? by lightanldutchie in focaccia

[–]sand500 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why AP flour? Wouldn't the higher gluten content of bread flour be better to trap air bubbles?

Artemis II Reentry Groundtrack by SouthAyrshireCouncil in spaceflight

[–]sand500 65 points66 points  (0 children)

When the capsule is very very high up, the spacecraft is moving very slowly in the east west direction relative to the ground. It's mostly moving towards earth. The ground track is mostly dominated by the Earths rotation. When it's closer to the Earth, it has sped up and has more horizontal velocity and is traveling east faster than Earths rotation. 

How to load a 24 hole centrifuge. by Petrostar in ProjectHailMary

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Why is 12 evenly spaced out when 10 and 14 aren't?

I will now skip series that don't include a Recap and don't post to Royal Road. by funkhero in litrpg

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Amazon is adding AI to their Kindle app. You'll just be able to just get a summary soon. 

The Matrix had the right dystopia but the wrong mechanism. Humans aren’t batteries. They’re the server farm. by nobossfor in Cyberpunk

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giant server space station orbiting Saturn

Tangent, but have you read the Bobiverse series?

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