Might make sense to just have the motor at the bottom of the drill, then you just need to supply power and coolant down. Need to anchor into something though so it actually does anything and doesn’t just spin the cables

mostly the part 4, its just very… inspirational? maybe not the right word but idk how to describe

wow that’s a lot more than i would have thought

Isn’t that like half of cars nowadays?

https://xkcd.com/264/

It’s clear that several people in charge of the youtube livestream have no idea about how to do that correctly. I think the difference is just effort. Viewership was tiny compared to Apollo 11, as was the hype leading up to it. It’s clear that NASA could provide a whole lot better footage if even some random youtuber (Everyday Astronaut) can beat them. So that aspect is, as you said, because as a society we don’t really care about the Artemis launch. SpaceX does put a fair amount of effort into their livestreams, and you can easily tell by watching them.

For the recorded footage, film often has a lot higher dynamic range than digital cameras and usually looks a whole lot better when recording a launch up close.

Far shots are limited by atmospheric distortion and physical limits from diffraction for a given aperture size. None of that can change.

IDK anything about the quality of the original live broadcast of Apollo 11, so i don’t have anything to compare in that regard

Originally, the president did have basically no power. The whole federal government wasn’t supposed to do that much, and the executive branch by itself was supposed to do almost nothing compared to today. They didn’t even think there would be a standing army. States not being willing to put in strong reforms by themselves led to more executive agencies and executive branch influence over the country. (Which is all controlled by the President, since that made sense for the things that they thought in the 1790s the executive branch would be doing.)

The whole system was made around an idea of who would do what, which has turned out to be completely different after 250 years. It’s not really surprising that it isn’t working very well.

I don’t really know where I’m going with this. To even get a sane and effective Congress, we need voters to be aware of the real world, which seems like the largest hurdle right now. In the past, large and effective reforms have mostly been lead and advertised by the President, although it’s possible that with better voting systems and less presidential power parties would be able to cohere behind consistent and strong visions. Conservative think tanks seem to be able to do that currently, but they’re very quiet about it and I don’t know of a progressive equivalent.

Compared to most other countries at the time, it was very democratic.

Yeah, I rewatched the launch from Everyday Astronaut’s livestream and he actually had better footage, he had a tracking camera showing the booster separation

Outside of the launch part, I think it’s mostly because SpaceX has set the standard so high, with tons of high resolution cameras streaming over Starlink even during reentry

it’s a reference to this xkcd

edit: as an april fools thing probably

Still very fond of WBOR from when I was following the Internet Roadtrip

I learned the other day that something can be dubitable but you can’t dubit something. Very sad

yeah, I watched the original video and it’s definitely not in a finished state at the moment, or else they would have actually shown a clip of it working

Yes, but at a set number of iterations, scaling the object will cause volume to grow faster proportionally than surface area.

It’s probably because of the reflection from the front pane of glass. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-surface_mirror

I think with the straight/gay labels, you’re not going to be not attracted to someone just because they say that they’re a guy or girl. So really there’s just some appearances that you find attractive, and some not. For most people, those line up pretty well with femininity and masculinity, with maybe a few other restrictions on top. Any label is going to be a simplification, you can’t describe with one word the whole range of people you are attracted to.

For reference

It does seem still very impressive against other top laptop CPUs.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Ryzen-AI-9-HX-PRO-375-vs-Ultra-X9-388H-vs-A18-Pro_19565_20016_18006.247596.0.html

Although I heard from Jeff Geerling’s review that the neo often noticably throttles after a few seconds.

It also has pretty terrible IO.

I think the biggest attraction is the build quality, screen, etc. Most cheap laptops seem to cheap out on those a lot in my experience, and Apple did not. If you’re not stressing the CPU or GPU, it’ll still feel almost as high quality as any other MacBook.

I’ve seen some pretty good cosine waves made from model rocket launches

Technically it could be whatever, it’s unknowable because the axis aren’t labeled in the original. By convention +y is usually up when graphing lines though. Godot has an X to the right and Y down coordinate system however, as well as apparently html and a lot of image editors

I guess they did show for SpaceY an image of a rocket launching upwards, so that does suggest a Y up coordinate system relative to the screen. And it would normally be assumed that all images would have the same axis orientation