Pointless Disconnected Blabs, Ramblings and Utterances

[Kaido]

I was recently interviewed for a master's thesis someone is writing about the music scene I'm part of, so that was interesting.

Yeet Skrt?

 

[nakedfrog]

Yeet Skrt?

nah fam we's bout dat folk punk drip fr fr no cap, BUSSIN!

 

[Kaido]

nah fam we's bout dat folk punk drip fr fr no cap, BUSSIN!

Bussin!

 

[Kaido]

 

[lxskllr]

Been thinking about spaceship design. I think a Borg cube would be the pinnacle of efficiency. If a ship were built in space, is there any reason you wouldn't want to make it a cube?

 

[Kaido]

Been thinking about spaceship design. I think a Borg cube would be the pinnacle of efficiency. If a ship were built in space, is there any reason you wouldn't want to make it a cube?

Why be boring?

 

[Kaido]

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Woke up from a nap and it was like 10 minutes before I realized it was late afternoon and not early tomorrow morning.

 

[pmv]

Been thinking about spaceship design. I think a Borg cube would be the pinnacle of efficiency. If a ship were built in space, is there any reason you wouldn't want to make it a cube?

If it's pressurized, surely a sphere would be better? Or am I thinking of underwater vessels (as discussed repeatedly post-Oceangate)? Wouldn't a similar sort of logic still apply for a spaceship? If it's not pressurised, not sure why it has to be a single simple shaped object at all. Could be lots of bits loosely connected, maybe?

 

[Greenman]

Been thinking about spaceship design. I think a Borg cube would be the pinnacle of efficiency. If a ship were built in space, is there any reason you wouldn't want to make it a cube?

A cube will require a lot of internal bracing. A cylinder would be the strongest design.

 

[Greenman]

If it's pressurized, surely a sphere would be better? Or am I thinking of underwater vessels (as discussed repeatedly post-Oceangate)? Wouldn't a similar sort of logic still apply for a spaceship? If it's not pressurised, not sure why it has to be a single simple shaped object at all. Could be lots of bits loosely connected, maybe?

If it's not pressurized, it could be a bunch of parts hooked to a cable. Pressure and shielding are what a hull does.

 

[nakedfrog]

If it's pressurized, surely a sphere would be better? Or am I thinking of underwater vessels (as discussed repeatedly post-Oceangate)? Wouldn't a similar sort of logic still apply for a spaceship? If it's not pressurised, not sure why it has to be a single simple shaped object at all. Could be lots of bits loosely connected, maybe?

Hard to say without getting into the specifics of how the transwarp drive works, or the most efficient projections for shields. No idea if shape has any bearing on either of these, but it could?

 

[lxskllr]

Shields was the big thing I was thinking about. If space travel works like Trek, you need your deflector shields on while at warp so your ship doesn't get obliterated by a little space rock. That's my understanding anyway. I don't get into the details of fiction. A lower profile ship would make it easier to cover with a deflector.

 

[pmv]

Have to assume that the Borg use cubes because their tech is so advanced that they don't need to worry about hull integrity and pressure effects, so they just throw them together as a big cube, because it's the simplest way to do it, and just to show off.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Spheres are the most efficient shape in terms of material usage and available volume inside but much harder to construct. Death Star had the right idea except for forgetting to put a screen on the exhaust port.

 

[nakedfrog]

Had an interesting experience last night at a jam, one of the bar patrons had requested St. James Infirmary Blues, which is one of the tunes I lead. We nailed it, and happened to have a nice brass section (tuba, trombone, trumpet), violin, and viola, so it came out really well. Afterwards a couple came up to me to ask what the instrument I'd been playing was (a banjolele) and complimented my singing. The interesting part was the way they approached me, sort of the air of fans trying not to intrude on a pro musician. I've seen it from their side, but haven't experienced it much going the other way. They didn't look like regulars, we were playing on the patio so they may have just been passers-by who stopped for the music.

 

[nakedfrog]

I just got to see the flyers for Pride this year, apparently I'll be playing as part of "Songbird Hour".

 

[Kaido]

 

[lxskllr]

Grapevines?

 

[lxskllr]

Someone linked a video on ars, and I've been binging physics videos. Time and Space on PBS...

PBS Space Time | Mapping the Multiverse | Season 6 | Episode 16

This is a map of the multiverse.

www.pbs.org

I find these videos kind of annoying. They simultaneously provide too little and too much information. I'm too dumb to understand the quick explanations, and while the equations have groovy looking symbols, I have no fucking idea what they are :^D

Might be just as well. I don't have the disposition to get into heavy math, but it might be nice to see it all broken down, the equations filled with real numbers, and the results given.

The real reason I'm making this post though, is it looks like we're pretty close to doing some really cool stuff, and I'll be dead before it happens. Pisses me off. Also pisses me off that the universe is gonna die. That's bullshit :^D

edit:
I'd also give both my nuts to have Einstein come back today as a 20 year old, and expand on everything that's been done since he died.

 

[Kaido]

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[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

This is probably the 4th or 5th year I've find a Fawn either in my yard or the one next to me. Saw the Mom this morning grazing and spooked the Fawn while mowing. Not much bigger than a beagle.

This is becoming kind of a nursery or dormitory I guess. May have to call the place Fawn Hall.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Why is the 'Save' icon still a floppy disk?

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Why are there so many cars driving up and down this road that doesn't go any where?

 

[lxskllr]

Drug deal