This might be a silly question, but is that a NOTAM saying that NOTAM system is down? How does it get out?
This is an Air Traffic Control System Command Center (ATCSCC) advisory: https://www.fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_otherdis.jsp?advn=28&adv_dat...
Readit Newscapekwasright commented on FAA NOTAM System Outage fly.faa.gov/adv/adv_other... · Posted by u/chucksmash
Am I the only one who found the physical unit of kWh/day really confusing?
If there's anyone else like me who prefers Watts, this equates to an average power consumption of slightly over 4W (100watt*h over 24 hours).
It's a little awkward, but it makes sense in the context of determining an energy budget or the daily operating cost on grid power.
why the downvotes? the original design was trying to use 3x turboprops, and i can see articles on google about them switching to 4x turbofans after the xb-1 work
edit: see parent edit, i was wrong. you guys are pretty good at making someone with misinfo feel bad though
The original design was meant to use 3x turbojets, not turboprops.
capekwasright commented on Quake on the Game Boy Advance [video] youtube.com/watch?v=R43k-... · Posted by u/turrini
Even Doom itself had the engine rewritten to work on some of the consoles it was actually released on. Most people consider "it runs Doom" to be "it runs the PC version of Doom, modified" but there were other engines.
The most famous may be SNES Doom, https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Super_NES
Which, as it turns out, was written by the same person as features in the OP, Randy Linden
capekwasright commented on US Army's Land Trains (2020) thedrive.com/news/33645/t... · Posted by u/lbrito
Since it's not defined in the article, the "DEW Line" is the Distant Early Warning like, a string of radar stations in the far northern regions of Canada designed during the Cold War to provide early warning of incoming planes or troops from the Soviet Union.
In an episode released a few years back, Omega Tau spoke with two individuals who had worked on the DEW Line back in the day: https://omegataupodcast.net/248-dew-sage-and-the-f-106-delta...
capekwasright commented on A passenger with no flying experience landed a plane cnn.com/travel/article/fl... · Posted by u/Tomte
It's a Cessna though, so probably the easiest plane to land? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk-down_aircraft_landing
If it was a jet plane, the ending might have been quite different.
To be fair, the Cessna 208 is a significantly larger aircraft than your run-of-the-mill Cessna 172
capekwasright commented on What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922) loc.gov/resource/sn830457... · Posted by u/rzk
When he mentions the lack of cables, he's pretty close with most of them being underground. But also he's incredible close if you consider the mess of cables that was the Stockholm telephone tower, functioning until 1913 https://www.amusingplanet.com/2017/09/the-stockholm-telephon...
That's wild, thanks for sharing. I'd have to imagine it's served as some level of inspiration for Simon Stålenhag's work.
Ex: http://www.simonstalenhag.se/bilderbig/by_procession_1920.jp...
capekwasright commented on Vegetable Oil for Lubricating Chainsaws (2008) fs.fed.us/eng/pubs/html/9... · Posted by u/meristohm
Tangentially related: Boston Dynamics' BigDog, which utilizes hydraulic actuators, would constantly leak hydraulic fluid while operating, be it through normal weepage or catastrophic leaks (e.g. burst hoses). Initially, they used petroleum-based hydraulic fluid, but as they began to operate out in the woods etc, this proved to be untenable, so they eventually switched to using a vegetable-based hydraulic fluid that would biodegrade within a month.
Bonus: when catastrophic hydraulic leaks inevitably occurred and sprayed hot hydraulic fluid over the hot exhaust, you would be rewarded with the lovely smell of a deep fryer!
capekwasright commented on The Czech Play That Gave Us the Word ‘Robot’ thereader.mitpress.mit.ed... · Posted by u/xiaodai
R.U.R is a fantastic work that unfortunately has been perpetually shrouded in obscurity, despite its outsized popular influence. I highly recommend reading it.
For myself I have a pile of bike maps, that I admit I don't use as much as I used to (partly because I have all my regular routes in my head now). The nice thing about those maps is that they marked elevation changes, and also the location of ice cream shops. You know, the essentials.