roll pin enthusiast, fire mage, dragon chaser, jerryrigger extraordinaire
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engineering school be like "welcome to shapes and colors class" and the median grade is a 37%
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you're not going to believe what kind of stuff engineers spend their spare cash on
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capitalists love capitalism until the invisible hand tells them "skill issue"
MKBHD bankrupted a company in 41 seconds
A slight criticism from a big Youtuber, let alone calling the product HORRENDOUS, is enough to make a company go bust
Creators are so much more powerful in 2024 than you think
This clip will be the gravestone for Humane
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zoomers are incredible like i witnessed a club meeting yesterday and they kept getting sidetracked and every time the lead would just yell "lock in" and they all Locked The Fuck In
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USPSIS about to murk a guy so fucking dead it's not even funny
Arizona ballots damaged after USPS collection box set ablaze in Dem-leaning county: report rawstory.com/maricopa-ballot…
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Here's @ycombinator 's playbook for hard tech companies based on this awesome conversation (highly recommend watching)
Here's the TL;DR:
-Start Small to Demonstrate Feasibility and Gain Traction
-Secure Early Commercial Validation
-Focus on Solving a Significant Problem
-Think Like a Software Company
-Innovate Strategically and Use Off-the-Shelf Components
-Leverage Regulatory Changes and Incentives
-Build a Mission-Oriented Team
-Prepare for Intensive Fundraising
-Embrace and Manage Technical Risks
-Cultivate Resilience and Flexibility
The full breakdown below 🧵
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send the anti-nuke greens to a labor camp grinding up fiberglass turbine blades
THAT'S IT? This is what 20 years worth of spent nuclear fuel looks like safely stored at the former Maine Yankee nuclear plant.
The energy produced from this fuel helped avoid 70 million metric tons of CO2 emissions.
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has anyone found any *good* use cases for titanium outside of very specifically mach 3 aircraft and scamming consumers of sporting goods
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if i wake up to broad daylight at 3AM because my neighbor bought this i'm triggering a kessler event
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you're kidding me, red dye causes aggression and bue dye is an antidepressant? the fuck kinda looney toons ass bullshit is this
Methylene blue is seriously slept on.
Just 15mg a day of this blue clothing dye REVERSED depression in 3 weeks. (!!!)
MB is a potent antidepressant, let me tell you.
No wonder people feel like they’re on top of the world when they take it daily.
I’ve been taking Methylene Blue daily for approximately 3 months now and noticed:
⚡️ instant energy boost (feeling on top of the world, dancing, and feeling joyful)
🧠 brain fog disappears immediately
💡 cognitive function through the roof (immediately, you can feel like you’re thinking more clearly, like you can achieve anything you put your head to)
🌈 heightened senses (colours are more vivid, almost like seeing in 4K)
🩵 feeling…wholesome, happy; even on a very gloomy day, immediately after taking it
I keep it in my purse and take it with me everywhere.
‘Highly recommended’ doesn’t give it justice. I’d say… run, don’t walk:). 👅💙
Community note
Methylene blue is used as a medicine for multiple treatments, however it should not be taken carelessly.
Usage might include side effects including:
- Serotonin Syndrome
- Hypertension
- Dizziness
- Confusion
- Headache
- Fever and many more.
Please ask a doctor before use.
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hi! jet propulsion engineer here: if you can hear your spool over your plume, you're not actually creating jet propulsion
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The CEO confirmed that they intentionally used very low pressure and made very little power because it would otherwise be dangerous to have a crowd so close to the jet engine: nitter.app/k2pilot/status
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genuinely extremely curious about the psychology behind turning your own suicide into a four year bureaucratic battle
JUST IN: 29-year-old Dutch woman who is perfectly healthy has been granted to k*ll herself by assisted su*cide.
Insane.
Zoraya ter Beek will soon be dead after officials in the Netherlands granted her request to take her own life.
Ter Beek has been wanting to take her own life since 2020. She says she has been suffering from chronic depression, anxiety, and trauma.
"In the three and a half years this has taken, I’ve never hesitated about my decision. I have felt guilt. I have a partner, family, friends and I’m not blind to their pain. I’m absolutely determined to go through with it."
Ter Beek's says she is relieved to know that she will not exist in a few weeks.
A medical team will come to her house on the day of her death, give her a sedative to put her in a coma, and then give her drugs to stop her heart.
"For me, it will be like falling asleep. My partner will be there, but I’ve told him it’s OK if he needs to leave the room before the moment of death."
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they beatin your ass on metallurgy twitter
This is the wild story of how I made $1,036,175 during the COVID lockdowns by rapidly creating a new physical product in 7 days.
In April 2020, during the lockdowns I created 2 things that changed my life:
1. – I launched Shepherd (eventually renamed Somewhere[dot]com). 4 years later we sold it for $52,000,000.
2. – I created a new physical product that made us $1,036,175 in 60 days.
This is the untold story of #2.
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300 pound "anti-ship missile"😭😭😭
these motherfuckers have absolutely NO idea what league they're playing in, how do I short this company
Ares is building anti-ship cruise missiles that are 10x smaller and 10x cheaper than current ones. Current anti-ship missiles weigh 3,000 pounds and cost about $3M each. Ares will sell them for $300K.
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there's "pop sci" and then there's slop sci
The best argument against rejecting nature completely is that we keep inventing advanced algorithms and running them on hyperscale supercomputers to find the most optimized solution for a problem and the end result is just like. A bird. You could've just drawn a bird instead
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"yeah sure I'm fine with letting this computer straight up fucking lie to me" is a shockingly common sentiment
NTIRE is the coolest conference you’ve never heard of.
Deleting motion blur? Sure.
Night Vision? No problem.
Every year, labs compete on categories like hyperspectral restoration, satellite image enhancement, even raindrop removal (think car sensors)! Some highlights ->
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i feel like we have a "guy on twitter who severely underestimated how heavily stressed gears are in regular use" dogpile every week nowadays
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i don't think you people understand how little one million dollars is
The @USGSA IT team just saved $1M per year by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes (70 yr old technology for information storage) to permanent modern digital records.
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Despite its age, magnetic tape is still highly favorable for long-term, static data archives. It offers cost-effectiveness (cheaper than disk/cloud), longevity (outlasts disk drives), offline security (resists cyber threats), and high capacity (up to 50TB per tape). research.ibm.com/blog/tape-dens… corodata.com/tape-backups-s
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guy whose mental image of "federal employee" is a TSA agent
you have no idea how terrifying "federal employees" are in the science and technology sector, not even just as technically trained individuals but also as <economic entities>
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if you ever begin to think you have a novel idea, just remember that some coked out aerospace engineer from the 50s had had that same idea 70 years ago, and the only difference is that you have cheap computing power at your fingertips
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aerospace controls engineers have been some of the hardest mfs in history for the past 80-odd years and techbros are only now learning about sophomore level signals processing 😭
Using noise cancellation tech on control flaps to turn turbulence off using software.
The 20th century really is over.
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i love how the f35 did actually turn out to look how evangelion-era sci fi illustrations predicted war machines would come to look like
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mechanical engineers are just a bizarre and particularly fucked up subset of art hoes by the way
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>go to art exhibit
>look inside
>its fucking materials science shitposting
it also involved significant experimentation with paint combinations and formulas (when they used off-the-shelf paint, it didn't have the same effect or vibrance, and people noticed). and, the lack of distinct brush strokes or colour variation is really difficult to do (cont.).
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>society has a problem
>ask if it's political or technical
>"it's a technical problem sir, the wonders of science will save us all"
>look inside
>it's political
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the ultralighters will literally put toothpaste back in the tube just to shave two ounces
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i know that flight computer was mad as hell being built to circumnavigate the globe but being tasked to clonk a target three hundred miles away
BREAKING: Russia Launches Non-Nuclear Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Against Ukraine
In a shocking escalation, Russia has reportedly deployed a non-nuclear Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) against Ukraine, targeting the city of Dnipro. This marks the first use of such a long-range missile in the ongoing war, demonstrating a significant increase in the intensity of the conflict.
The strike has caused widespread alarm, with emergency response teams deployed to the area. Reports are still emerging on the extent of the damage and any potential casualties.
#BreakingNews #Russia #Ukraine #Dnipro #ICBM #WarInUkraine #Geopolitics #Conflict
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the UK is a failed state because what the fuck do you mean this is the work of a PhD student bro an american middle schooler could do better than that
🇬🇧 #UK: A PhD student at Birmingham University has been found guilty of 3D printing a kamikaze drone for use in an ISIS attack. The man, named Mohamad al-Bared, had been sending weekly updates on the drone’s progress to ISIS members.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2023…
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you'd think this is a joke but oil and gas engineering firms usually have an R&D team or two cooking up proposals for like, tidal generators and desalination plants and other cool doohickeys that would Solve Real Problems but they just never get funded
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"stainless isn't actually stainless" is like, sophomore-level mechanical engineering man
I thought the best paint was “no paint”
They @cybertruck looks like it has full cheetah print from all of the Mag Chloride on our roads in Colorado
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people are gonna sue so hard after being sold a genius then feeding it lead chips its entire childhood
The latest embryo selection company is live, and guess what:
They're publicly letting people select for IQ!
If you want to see what they can do for your family for a variety of traits, go check out their website where they've got a calculator app available.
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we need to talk about the fact that quarterhorse has an aerodynamic design reflecting the state of the art of approximately 1950
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oh hell nah they broke my fuckin heat transfer physics
you'd think this is a joke but Funny Paint is like, an actual thing that actual scientists devote a surprising amount of attention to purdue.edu/newsroom/releases…
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love the disparity between aeronautical and astronautical engineering because while the latter keeps designing the same fucking rocket engine five hundred times in a row the former is smoking Crack and keeps pumping out the strangest unholy shapes
US-made jam-resistant drones helped Ukrainians cut through Russia EW - Defense One
The company's V-BAT drones "were launched 40 km from the front line, they flew 100 km, detected 11 Buk anti-aircraft missile systems, aimed at them and triggered HIMARS missile strikes," - Brandon Tseng, who founded Shield AI
Ukraine ordered more than 200 vehicles from Shield AI after it demonstrated its capabilities in combat conditions in August according to another article in WSJ.
defenseone.com/technology/20…
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these morons burnt "hypersonic weapons development program" money on that piece of shit?
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a mechanical engineer really worth their salt should know their fundamentals well enough to bring ancient roman society up to about the mid to late 1800s at least
If you travelled back in time, supplied with all the modern day knowledge that you have (but no technology), do you reckon you could defeat the Romans in battle if given command of another ancient army?
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the europa meme is burning so hard and fast because all the top poasters are Space and War Autists
i'm small fry dude i can't keep up with these mfs
europacels love to act like a a slapfight on a snowday was the pinnacle of intrasolar warfare but none of them would have lasted an hour in a venusian skytrench.
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US likes putting spooky science in random bumfuck towns across the country en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Ri…
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update: these guys *do* know what league they're playing in, but that league is *not* "anti-ship" but rather anti-USV
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yall don't understand how unbelievably fucked this is. America's top propulsion groups are currently wracking their heads over plume-ambient interactions yet these guys aren't even generating enough pressure to reach into that regime
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research scientist with zero published papers vs research engineer with zero published papers
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we've been flying rockets with 0.5mm welded stainless walls since 1962
software freaks coopted the term "engineer" and now people think "materials selection studies", "talking to blue collar workers", and "having some balls" is some sort of esoteric wisdom
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reminder that a lot of old scramjet papers from the 1960s were purged from the NASA technical reports server sometime between 2010 and now
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fun fact: nascar races occur at up to a quarter of the speed of sound, just fast enough that aerodynamic compressibility effects barely begin to show their head
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im breaking the sound barrier on these. i can make it across the entire length of laguardia in thirty four seconds flat.
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i love aerospace tangential conspiracy theories because "the US builds and operates secret aircraft" is one of the most rock-solid facts you could possibly state
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metallurgy really does pull some serious dungeons and dragons fantasy shit because what the fuck is invar bro, if you told me our bunker busters were made of "eglin steel" i'd tell you to get out of here with that star wars shit, fuck do you mean weathering steel just Does That
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there's such a quaint poetry about the fact that heavy dirty kerosene and complex polymer chains serve best for getting off the earth while the celestial bodies are best served by the more ethereal fuels
reminder everyone, hydrolox is peak chemical propulsion, especially for the moon.
methalox for mars
hydrolox for moon
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to clarify: proficient powerplants exhaust gas at velocities well exceeding the muzzle velocity of a speeding rifle bullet; if you can track large flame structures with your eyes you are not generating extremely little appreciable thrust
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engineers are so funny because you'll meet the most milquetoast, mild-mannered middle class normies wearing bluejeans and button downs but their hobbies will be stuff that will Literally Kill You while the dressed punks do shit like, crochet
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anduril moved into our office building and i fucking kid you not ever since then there has been zyn litter all over the common spaces you dirty fucking animals
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we should have gatekept this issue harder because now people are losing their minds over the stupidest shit like chintzy plastic molding doing chintzy plastic molding shit while the real issues are <control algorithm malfunctions>
Oh hey I am boarding a plane haha funny jokes yes it’s a 737 haha yeah what do you mean the window frame literally fell off nah I’m sure it’s fine ha ha haaaaaaaa
Community note
As many in the replies have pointed out, the overhead lights and air vents match an Airbus plane, not a 737
Airbus: l450v.alamy.com/450v/f15jdt/ov…
Boeing: c8.alamy.com/comp/E3R4FA/ov
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we're going to war in space
the space force just posted solicitations for extremely aggressive technology development for on-orbit warfighting capabilities
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there are two types of "government agencies": barely-functional mobs of bumbling fools (the FBI, Secret Service, DHS), and then there are the shadowy underworld of Scientific High Speed Killers, the Tip Of The Spear (NAWCAD, AFOSR, DARPA).
"Feds" are a bimodal distribution
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sending up a 3U cubesat full of tungsten balls and half a pound of RDX as a "research payload"
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every hypersonic airbreathing vehicle starts out looking like this but ends up looking like a wooden doorstop
Excited to announce that Hermeus has been awarded a multi-year contract by the @DIU_x to mature hypersonic aircraft subsystem and mission system technology.
The contract endorses our iterative, hardware-first approach which will accelerate the development of operational hypersonic aircraft.
Read the full announcement here: hermeus.com/press-release-di…
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it's already happening. the best fresh aerospace graduates are flat out refusing to go to SpaceX and are instead opting for the apolitical spinoff companies
the real ""high IQ"" candidates know spaceX aint worth the hassle, and mediocre hypebeasts are taking their place
I rarely, if ever, put my personal political views up like I'm about to do here. Just not my cup of tea. And I know for certain some people are going to take issue with said opinion purely just due to the nature of this community, and that's fine;
This is getting BAD. Musk's involvement (if you can even call it that) in his companies has been continually poising their public perception due to his questionable actions. Personally I am not a fan of Musk or his ideologies at all, so this may be slightly biased but I think needs to be said and considered. We're reaching a tipping point now. This is beyond simply public perception. His actions are actually harming the operations of the companies themselves too.
It's so difficult to put this into words that make sense but I think it's far past time for him to step down, be it from specifically SpaceX and/or all of his companies. I know this post won't do anything on that regard. But it's worth it to raise awareness on at least some of the major problems.
We're at the point where the quoted post below depicts the perception of the majority of the population. This not only is directly counterintuitive to the mission of the company (to inspire and explore, or whatever other philosophical jargon you could think of) but is also incredibly demoralizing to both fans of the projects but the people who work to make those projects happen.
There's been several internal conflicts over this topic in the past few years, even a few (failed) coups. Something must change, y'all. This has been a thing for a few years now and it's only going to get worse.
Hope y'all still stick around after this. Some things may be worded weirdly here as it is sometimes difficult to dance around topics like this. Likely never posting about politics again lol but I believe that this needs to be said. Because like, man. Just look at that photo. What has this all come to?
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electric power systems engineering: wow recent advances in motors and batteries may mean we can begin to approach the power densities of combustion systems :D
meanwhile, in arsonland:
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