Well, the trailer makes it feel like a cross between NMS and Factorio or something. No indication of actual gameplay loop. Cautiously optimistic.

It’s also a really fun example of operator overloading. __div__ is overloaded to allow this syntax.

>>> p = PurePath('/etc')    
>>> p    
PurePosixPath('/etc')    
>>> p / 'init.d' / 'apache2'    
PurePosixPath('/etc/init.d/apache2')    

That’s not a lot. Three to five F35 equivalents, depending on configuration.

I know one of the developers on this game. They would call me to ask about the science of Aurora Borealis while working on the game, and other similar things. They decided that they were going to reject some of the science in favour of gameplay, and fair enough. The game is quite good.

Sreaming “weeeeeeeee!” the whole time, occasionally pausing to catch his breath. Those close enough to hear him wheezing can hear “hillary’s emails” under his attempts to exhale.

This is how I imagined “decks” when reading old cyberpunk (Snowcrash, etc.)

Good for gaming, good for linux, good for a lot of the other open source projects involved. It’s so close to being critical mass :)

Only if your hockey players play for our national team.

Checkpoints will now included everyone having to pee on this stick. Yeah, it looks like a COVID test, but making you get those tests in insane fascist government overreach, but these other tests are totally legitimate.

You are clever. I like you.

Based on the bark debris around it this morning, she is definitely using it immediately.

Glass has a side effect of requiring the top to be actually flat. I used the rotary sander to chew down enough of the surface to get rid of the chainsaw marks (60 grit, then 220), but it certainly isn’t level or flat.

Good suggestion though. If we end up doing a version two. Probably could go with a narrower log and centre mount a wider flat glass surface. Make it removable so we could replace the log after the cat shreds it up too much…

Definitely absurd. But if you were a sci fi author trying to make a consistent world building thing, it would actually be a useful video.

… I see you Neal Stephenson, hiding behind the couch.

Pool. Floating dock. Strapped on scissor lift. Definitely in the SOP binder ;)

This is definitely unstable – a lever arm that long is going to sway like hell.

Additionally, normally when working at heights you should be harnessed and clipped on. But if this thing tips over, you’d spend precious moments trying to unclip while underwater. A conundrum to be sure.

This is an experiment – if she prefers this over the couch, we may strategically locate a few before re-covering the couch. But ideally they double as end tables, so the top should be “finished” somehow.

https://opennebula.io/

Their website speaks corporatese. Not immediately clear what their business model is.

My understanding is that the payload bay had to be accessible while stacking, so tank on the other side wouldn’t work.

Because no one does any actual engineering in space. At best you’re a technician running other people’s projects; at worst, you have to MacGyver something. But every ISS crew needs a medical specialist on it, and a backup specialist in case they need to work on their medical specialist. So it gives you the highest odds.

Now if you wanted to work at JPL designing probes, that’s a different story. But you’re not going to space.

Spain is part of the ESA. If you have citizenship there, there’s a nearly-zero (but not actually zero) possibility of getting into their astronaut selection class. But more likely SpaceX starts taking passengers and the whole question is moot.

I decided that my own path was also unlikely, but I chose a field of study that would take me to some pretty fun places on Earth. Can’t explore Mars, so might as well do the high arctic, the Atacama desert, etc. :)

Not true, really, presuming we’re talking about “working for a space agency” versus “becoming an astronaut”. There are at least 100x more opportunities if you’re willing to sit in a desk and review regulations for a living – but at a space agency.

Really, the minimum barrier is being good enough to get into a STEM focused undergrad program, and qualifying for student loans. Assuming you make it through and are smart enough, grad school is typically wholly funded by the universities (or their funding agencies). Which means the barrier of requiring wealth was already passed.

Source: I made it to grad school and I am from a farming family that went bankrupt when I was a teenager.

I don’t think melting is the issue here. I think it literally disintegrates at those speeds. Like, this is Mass Effect mass driver level of impact with the atmosphere.

For reference, RICK ROBINSON’S FIRST LAW OF SPACE COMBAT: “An object impacting at 3 km/sec delivers kinetic energy equal to its mass in TNT.”

Assuming the lid is travelling 55km/s, it’s well beyond that point. The atmosphere it’s travelling through is basically a solid at that speed. Even if it isn’t heating due to the friction (and waiting for heat flow), it is heating due to the compressive force of being slammed into the atmosphere. It’s very likely the whole thing vaporized.

But I could be wrong, and some alien SOB is going to have a bad day when the manhole cover slams into their ship in interstellar space.