I used to be a stranger

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Fine grit warm sand: Coarse wet cold aggregate:

For years I told myself Math was hard. That I'd never be able to grasp high level math like Calculus. I thought even that topic was insurmountable because a cartoon character I was familiar with, who seemed incomprehensibly brilliant, was named after it. Then I decided "nuts" to the challenge and learnt it. And now I'm most of the way through Mechanical Engineering school. It goes to show that if you put your mind to it, nothing is impossible to learn.

It snowed a lot in Vancouver today. Traffic was up in a snarl as if they didn't see it coming, even though the forecast saw it 10 days in advance.

Should I be glad that I've never seen The Star Wars Holiday Special?

"I told you I was sick!" "Always remember don't never I what?" "Common sense isn't. Use wisdom instead." "It's okay there's beer here too"

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Do people make new languages of Machine Code nowandays?

You reposted in the wrong neighborhood.

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Probably an orca. I'd like to see more of the ocean, and it would be pretty fun to be an apex predator while lookin' pretty stylin' at the same time.

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And so I wake in the morning and I step outside, I take a deep breath and get real high and say at the top of my lungs "What's going on?"

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I'm currently making two wooden promise rings for my girlfriend and myself. They're cherry and in the process of being finished with walnut oil. I think I need a protective coat overtop but I don't know what.

The actual thing that's making the rounds on news is that the PhD thesis submitted for peer review has passed its first round. That means that relevant experts are assenting that the method used to test it is valid, but it has still yet to be determined if the device actually does anything. That said, I'd be willing to see if they show a new fundamental understanding of physics. But it's starting to annoy me how stories about the EM drive make their rounds on social media. Everyone loves an underdog but the nearly conspiratorial interest lay-space enthusiasts on the internet seems to have about this technology can be rather exasperating. 1mN of thrust is a terrible trade-off for 1kW of energy. While this thrust level is better than photon thrusters (aka solar sails or flashlights), Ion Engines can produce far more thrust per time (~25km/s per year versus ~8km/s per year), and photon thrusters have a specific impulse of lightspeed. It would take a LOT of optimization to bring a nascent and exotic technology like the EM drive to hold a candle to existing technology. The EM drive as far as we know it would just be another technology in a niche field which doesn't help us reach the stars much (yet). Even though ion engines are superior performance-wise right now, no one wants to get a satellite to Pluto in 80 years. They want it there NOW. Ion engines are efficient (EM drive less so) but their thrust is pathetic compared to conventional chemical propulsion. The proponents of the EM drive theorize that the force is coming from virtual particles drawn from the quantum vacuum state, but quantum physicists think that explanation is a load of bull. Hmm... Some daunting problems to overcome. And on the note of Delta-V: no you can't reach mars in 80 days with that. The advantage of Ion Engines and like technologies (such as the EM drive potentially) comes from their ability to burn efficiently for extremely long periods, not generating rapid thrust. An ion engine couldn't push away a piece of paper covering its thrust duct, but it could thrust with the force of milliNewtons for decades on a fuel tank the size of a pop bottle and not run out of fuel. A chemical rocket could produce a hundred tons of thrust but it would burn off an Olympic swimming pool out in a matter of seconds. In an application where time is not of the essence, the ion engine would always win in producing more thrust (eventually).

Bronies have existed for a little more than 6 years now and you're not the first to think of it.

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I think a better question is "will there be another Fandom?" To which the corporate marketers in the world all chant in unison "I damn hope so!" My Little Pony is unusual in where it came from, but thanks to Stapp's Law pretty much every fandom isn't all that different from one another, with humble origins of word of mouth, and usually unfortunately conspiring towards risque stories and gross fan art. But I say that fandoms are inevitable because OLD franchises, like Star Wars and Sailor Moon have proven to big media companies that fostering and pandering a fandom is extremely profitable, and therefore should be something they hope to build with every new intellectual property. It would not surprise me in the slightest if there were people working for Hasbro when Transformers became huge, and felt that the whole Brony phenomenon felt like lightning struck twice.

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Yeah. But the one about the Beechcraft Piper was pretty good too. I bet you didn't know even small airplanes carried so much mechanical redundancy.

I most certainly am not the Great Papyrus.

I don't have a reputation until someone mentions me.

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