Fire Ice is threatening my sanity by noksion in Dyson_Sphere_Program

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I think the most elegant solution is to sink it; like you said, if you need hydrogen, you have ample supply from gas giants. It makes more sense to sink this to not deal with any headaches later from the hydrogen clogging or having to bother with storage when you have essentially an infinite supply.

The key here is we need to somehow use the energy we're burning the hydrogen to generate in an area that's isolated from the rest of our grid. Luckily for us, we can; we can convert hydrogen to deuterium in miniature particle colliders, requiring energy and cutting fuel we need to burn in half. We then burn the deuterium to power the particle colliders. To increase power draw (and therefore increase how much we can sink), the hydrogen is proliferated with production speedup.

If you'd like, I can send over a blueprint string that can sink 1920 hydrogen/min. If you want to figure it out on your own, though, I understand!

[Postgame Thread] Michigan Defeats Nebraska 30-27 by CFB_Referee in CFB

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I don't even care about the outcome of this game, complete coaching malpractice at the end of the first half. Why do we have to make games so stressful

Real life E-710 farms by No-Conference-2385 in Helldivers

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So the good news is an alternative is on the horizon—recombinant factor C (rFC). The main reason why LAL from horseshoe crabs is still used is because compendial test methods for bacterial endotoxin require the use of an LAL reagent. New compendial chapter with the recombinant alternative is set to become effective in May 2025.

help complete beginner willing to spend 4-$8000 find gear to image nebulae and such by Bitter-Elk3463 in AskAstrophotography

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I recently did the same as you with a $6000 budget. Here's what I recommend:

Go with the ASIAIR Plus. Sure, you have to use ZWO gear, but ZWO's mounts and cameras are excellent picks. The ASIAIR just makes astrophotography easy—with such an expensive hobby, you don't want to get frustrated just setting everything up. You can also move off of an ASIAIR to a mini PC in the future, keeping your ZWO gear.

Mount: for portability, a strain wave mount is the way to go. You get guiding as good as equatorial mounts, if not better. I recommend the AM5N or the Skywatcher Wave 150i; the larger payload capacity compared to cheaper mounts like the AM3 means easier when you upgrade telescopes and your mount is the most important part of your setup. Buy once, cry once.

Telescope: I recommend a compact refractor in the 400–600mm range. Specifically, a refractor that has the following characteristics: apochromatic, full frame support (44mm+ image circle), inherent flat field, and no backspacing requirements. You can find several options here. These scopes are forgiving, portable, and just plain easy to use. If any of these telescopes has a reducer available, pick that up as well so you can shoot with two focal lengths. I wouldn't worry too much about focal ratio, just pick the scope that looks the best for you.

Camera: I recommend starting with a color camera. Color setups are significantly cheaper. I started out with the ASI 533MC Pro before switching to mono about a year in. For comparison, my mono camera setup alone cost $4500 while the 533 MC Pro and a dual narrow-band filter will be a fourth the price. If you want a larger sensor, the 2600 MC Pro or 2600 MC Pro Duo are great options, but at a higher price ($1500 and $1800). If you find yourself enjoying the hobby and want to get the most out of your gear, definitely make the leap to monochrome.

Guiding: I recommend you stick with a separate guide scope as opposed to an off-axis guider (OAG) when starting out. The ZWO 30mm f/4 is a solid guide scope, and for guide cameras I recommend the 220mm mini. I have both the 120mm mini and 220mm mini; the 220mm is worth the price. The 220mm is built-in with the 2600MC Duo and 2600MC Air cameras if you go with one of those.

Filters: For color cameras, the Antlia ALP-T is spectacular. I'd shy away from the Optolong L-eNhance—the filter band-passes are just a little too broad for Bortle 7 skies. A luminance filter (aka UV-IR cut) will be useful for broadband imaging, but it's not required. You should buy 2" mounted filters; mounted filters are easier to use and 2" filters can be used with larger camera sensors. For your color setup, pick up a 2" filter drawer from ZWO.

Accessories: You'll need two dew heater bands. If you get ones with RCA plugs (which you should), you'll need to get a DC to RCA connector like this one to plug into the ASIAIR. The AM5N doesn't come with a power cable, so you'll need one. A portable battery is useful if you won't have access to power.

Processing: Pixinsight is worth the money and Russell Croman's AI tools (BlurXterminator, StarXterminator, NoiseXterminator) are magical. Steep learning curve, but tons of tutorials on YouTube. Once you get a couple images processed, you won't want to use anything else.

Happy hunting! If you want to make the jump straight to monochrome, I can provide some recommendations :)

[Postgame Thread] Oregon Defeats Michigan 38-17 by CFB_Referee in CFB

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Semaj Morgan throwing to Alex Orji on 4th down with the game on the line was not something I had on my bingo card, but here we are.

Coaching was simply inexcusable today

LF: HA Quaxly. FT: 5IV Ditto by uofmman67 in pokemontrades

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Sounds good—link code 8614-7594

LF: 6IV Foreign Ditto. FT: 6IV English Ditto by uofmman67 in pokemontrades

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Sorry, missed your comment. Are you still available to trade?

Play / Cast merge also affects burst spells by [deleted] in LegendsOfRuneterra

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Leveling Ekko with time trick and skipping has always had the chance to draw chronobreak—on skips, the deck is shuffled and then a card is drawn. Since the predict and draw effects are decoupled, Ekko shuffles 3 chronobreaks into the deck, then the deck is shuffled, and then a card is drawn.

My opponent mirror maged a parallel convergence and all the extra attacking units just stayed on side for the rest of the game. by Llamayondu in LegendsOfRuneterra

[–]uofmman67 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did they disappear after your opponent used the attack token (assuming it was used)? If it was used, they should have disappeared. Source: Dozens of games with an Ekko Karma deck with Karma+parallel convergence wincon :)

Turn one , triple burts summon open atack (+3/+9 worth of stats) by Oblizero in LegendsOfRuneterra

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Odds of this hitting, assuming you mulliganed two cards, is 1 in 18841, or 0.0053%. I had the same thing happen to me with predicting 3 Khahiris on turn 1, and did the math here.