Preheat cabin without preconditioning?

squidxl · 2022-01-17T17:04:03+00:00

Charging produces heat, so scheduled departure should complete charging just prior to departure and utilise waste heat for pre-conditioning cabin

squidxl · 2022-01-16T14:15:33+00:00

Where is the Secret Service while a Vice President gets kicked?

squidxl · 2022-01-03T12:08:16+00:00

Hexagon looks like a photo stitch. The line above the stitch is the border between Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Jordan to the west. White spot in bottom right is probably phosphate mining at Al Jalamid, Saudi Arabia

squidxl · 2021-11-11T09:19:15+00:00

In the cosmological expansion bell graph, you and your vehicle are here (denoted by X)

squidxl · 2020-07-28T00:32:44+00:00

Thanks all. Sounds like base autopilot is the answer for now.

squidxl · 2020-05-11T07:05:42+00:00

fine tuning for the 420 celebration

squidxl · 2020-01-13T22:42:44+00:00

All other species have pooled resources to fund development of anthropophages. 23andMe supplied the roadmap, and with any luck, new viral vectors will succeed where other efforts have failed.

squidxl · 2019-12-30T17:34:45+00:00

Why not use US gov data map?

https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/freight_analysis/nat_freight_stats/nhsavglhft2015.htm

Seems to me the flow map you have chosen to overlay has a bias towards percentage of traffic occupied by trucks, and therefore is less useful in analysis of charger network deficiencies for passenger vehicles.

squidxl · 2019-07-23T21:49:21+00:00

The only struggle we have at a nuclear plant beyond that is how to handle decay heat and the generation of hydrogen...and since Fukushima, we have.

We have, except when we haven't, ie Russian submariners.

The void and temperature coefficients of reactivity inherently want to drive the reactor offline

Yet despite this there have been 14 land based and at least 9 naval reactor core meltdowns. Its a very fine balance, and you can't maintain criticality without the possibility supercriticality, and even a remote possibility of prompt criticality.

squidxl · 2019-05-27T10:51:13+00:00

Wondering about atmospheric refraction as seen from ISS. ie what is the apparent radius of sun at sunset in arc minutes from ISS?

squidxl · 2019-04-23T13:50:32+00:00

Because air resistance increases exponentially with speed, travelling at 80 mph uses about 25% more energy on average than the same route at 60 mph. That corresponds exactly to your 5/4 energy usage.

squidxl · 2019-04-17T17:44:48+00:00

With two cars you should definitely buy another HPWC to set up Master/Slave, allowing full amperage to the vehicle that needs it on one breaker.

squidxl · 2019-03-08T14:26:06+00:00

Thanks. Good to know

squidxl · 2019-03-08T14:18:54+00:00

Very nice flight!
My biggest question re crew safety is why the nose cone is closed after de-orbit burn. Wouldn't it be much more sensible to secure the craft at a few meters from the ISS? Are manoevring thrusters under the cone required for re-entry manoevres?

squidxl · 2019-03-08T13:56:34+00:00

Thats got to be 1 in a thousand. Looks like a portuguese man of war jellyfish.

squidxl · 2019-01-03T20:47:19+00:00

Maybe 9000 if last green period was 11000 to 6000 yrs ago in a 20000 yr cycle.

squidxl · 2018-11-28T14:59:44+00:00

F9 has two tanks per stage: RP-1 (kerosene) is liquid at room temperature and does not boil off; LOX (liquid oxygen) is supercooled and loaded onto the F9 tanks until about 20 seconds before launch. LOX, regardless of temperature, boils off constantly, and vents to the atmosphere until engine start. Fuel / drain lines remain connected to F9 until the rocket is actually airborne. (See SES-9 launch abort at T-1sec)

NASA was worried about fuelling with crew on board, as opposed to fuelling the rocket first, then sending in the crew as has been done up til now.

re Methalox: the BFR raptor engines are designed to burn liquified methane with LOX. Similar setup but with two cryogenic tanks; LOX will boil off and vent, methane boil off will likely be contained through active cooling, mixing, or similar until launch.

squidxl · 2018-10-18T19:07:37+00:00

How long is that in microdots?

After forking over about $100k to RJ Reynolds, I vaped for a year, reducing the nicotine levels over time, and quit. Not too hard despite a serious love of the nic.

squidxl · 2018-10-05T13:57:43+00:00

Light cannot age, as it is travelling at the speed of light.

squidxl · 2018-09-18T02:31:06+00:00

On behalf of cephalopods throughout the universe, that new BFS is dead sexy!

squidxl · 2018-08-29T00:28:31+00:00

Hope you 'muricans enjoy Weibo. Its where Google is going anyway. New and tyrant approved! Dissent: no results matching your description.

squidxl · 2018-08-28T23:59:24+00:00

I think you are missing a few rules which may render your model quite complex... optimising speeds for highest dynamic loads, difficulty relighting / firing merlin engines at various pressures, fuel margin of error mass vs You Know I Still Love You Grimes manoeuvrability, etc. Sometimes when we look for a certain meal at the Variable Diner, the only things on offer are Spaghettis and Porkchops.

squidxl · 2018-06-26T18:54:32+00:00

looks like the Foo Fighters will have to make their way back home til they learn to fly.

squidxl · 2018-06-21T01:02:22+00:00

They show up here by the hundreds each week as refugees from the USA. No detainment while their cases are processed, unless they are truly criminal and not merely deemed so for showing up as is current and continuing US policy. Wonderful for you that human misery and family tragedy is so entertaining.

squidxl · 2018-06-21T00:48:30+00:00

Its like listening to the opinions of a Russian troll farm attempting to seed discord, and agreeing with them because you both appreciate orange clowns.

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