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Lol
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# ? May 30, 2012 05:56 |
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DNova posted:banned for anime how dare you sir, this is fine american artwork.
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# ? May 30, 2012 06:58 |
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Martytoof posted:boiler explodes and scalds his friend's remaining arm I don't think people realize taht steam and all that contains is actually important for the "steam punk".
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# ? May 30, 2012 07:43 |
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yeah "steam powered" is basically pneumatics but you use fire and boiling water instead of a compressor or vacuum pump because it was way easier to boil water than create a vacuum turbopump or compressor if you are restricted to 19th century manufacturing tolerances and materials it's pneumatics but way easier for things to get rusted and corroded because everything has loving steam in it and then it will get stuck and then it explodes because of all that pressure and even after it explodes it covers everything in a mixture of scalding water and fire
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# ? May 30, 2012 07:59 |
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tahts punk as gently caress
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# ? May 30, 2012 08:01 |
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steam poo poo is fuckin scary but even scarier is when you're working on a cooling system that runs pressure high enough that steam never forms gently caress ever getting close to a PWR
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# ? May 30, 2012 08:13 |
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lolll Following shutdown of the primary nuclear reaction, the fission products continue to generate decay heat at initially roughly 7% of full power level, which requires 1 to 3 years of water pumped cooling. If cooling fails during this post-shutdown period, the reactor can still overheat and meltdown. Upon loss of coolant the decay heat can raise the rods above 2200 degrees Celsius, whereupon the hot Zirconium alloy metal used for casing the nuclear fuel rods spontaneously explodes in contact with the cooling water or steam, which leads to the separation of water into its constituent elements (hydrogen and oxygen). In this event there is a high danger of hydrogen explosions, threatening structural damage and/or the exposure of highly radioactive stored fuel rods in the vicinity outside the plant in pools (approximately 15 tons of fuel is replenished each year to maintain normal PWR operation).
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# ? May 30, 2012 08:21 |
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kwinkles posted:yeah "steam powered" is basically pneumatics but you use fire and boiling water instead of a compressor or vacuum pump because it was way easier to boil water than create a vacuum turbopump or compressor if you are restricted to 19th century manufacturing tolerances and materials Yea victorian era industry was pretty cool.
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# ? May 30, 2012 08:26 |
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even more cool is how far we've come with miniaturizing steam power i mean you can make a steam powered iphone charger now that will fit on your average kitchen table
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# ? May 30, 2012 08:33 |
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Powercrazy posted:Yea victorian era industry was pretty cool. they really knew how to build poo poo back then too. there are steam engines that ran 24/7 for decades without ever requiring a single component replacing.
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# ? May 30, 2012 12:58 |
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our engineering precision and tolerances have gone up rather exponentially since then though, not hard to keep a steam engine running if it's fine having 1/8 inch of cylinder gap and robber barons are paying to run it
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# ? May 30, 2012 13:04 |
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You joke about steampunk arms being totally useless but DARPA actually funded and built a steampunk arm powered using highly concentrated hydrogen peroxide and a catalyst to produce stupidly high temperature and pressure steam fairly easily, which could then be used to actuate a bunch of pistons. In the original design it was going to have a giant heat exchanger thing in the place of the skin to stop it burning everything but in practice what actually happened was it vented superheated steam everywhere because lol. And they wanted this to be used in the army so that guys who lost an arm could still be in the army I think, because the arm would meet the military fitness requirements or something idk. Also lol that "iXtender" poo poo. No Manufacturing or mechanical engineers on the team? Have fun with your stupidly flimsy design that costs 3 times as much to make as anything remotely competing.
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# ? May 30, 2012 13:26 |
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Sweevo posted:they really knew how to build poo poo back then too. there are steam engines that ran 24/7 for decades without ever requiring a single component replacing. They were also horribly ineffecient and expensive to operate, lukcily no one gave a gently caress because there wasn't anything better. Also britain still had coal back then I guess which helped (before we mined it all)
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# ? May 30, 2012 13:27 |
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lol
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# ? May 30, 2012 14:30 |
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Drone_Fragger posted:You joke about steampunk arms being totally useless but DARPA actually funded and built a steampunk arm powered using highly concentrated hydrogen peroxide and a catalyst to produce stupidly high temperature and pressure steam fairly easily, which could then be used to actuate a bunch of pistons. i bet they spent more than $500 on that (typical govt waste)
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# ? May 30, 2012 15:12 |
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i love that we have a government agency that does nothing but fund fuckin' crazy ideas.
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# ? May 30, 2012 15:15 |
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CaptainMeatpants posted:tahts punk as gently caress
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# ? May 30, 2012 18:27 |
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kwinkles posted:even more cool is how far we've come with miniaturizing steam power i mean you can make a steam powered iphone charger now that will fit on your average kitchen table https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSiVWkk5zaQ
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# ? May 30, 2012 20:59 |
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Sweet steampunk designing skills; a grooved metal cylinder with some string wrapped around it will definitely spin the record at precisely the right speed at all times.
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# ? May 30, 2012 21:07 |
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An ideal place to use a complicated set of gears is ignored, good job idiots
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# ? May 30, 2012 21:09 |
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send em that naval firing computer video where it's all these different gears and poo poo
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# ? May 30, 2012 21:12 |
i wonder what all the crazy old moms that collect my little pony figurines think about all the pedophiles infiltrating their hobby
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# ? May 30, 2012 21:16 |
hm yas lets just shoot hot air over spinning vinyl. this is a good idea
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# ? May 30, 2012 21:17 |
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Also the loud annoying whistling is sure to ad to the warmth and soundstage of the record
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# ? May 30, 2012 21:18 |
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got dat wmd posted:hm yas lets just shoot hot air over spinning vinyl. this is a good idea true story recently i tried playing a record while blowing it with a hot air dryer and it got really warped at first and was skipping around all over the place, but then as the heat evened out the centripetal forces made the whole record completely flat and even. i wanna try it as a way to effectively unwarp records but don't want to risk it with anything valuable
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# ? May 30, 2012 21:19 |
you'd risk warping the tracks themselves or having them fall in on themselves or possibly expanding
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# ? May 30, 2012 21:20 |
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got dat wmd posted:possibly expanding take any tune and make it big
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# ? May 30, 2012 21:24 |
dont like nevergirls hear about that
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# ? May 30, 2012 21:34 |
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Socracheese posted:An ideal place to use a complicated set of gears is ignored, good job idiots Gears are pretty complicated honestly. Even just conceptually they are non-intuitive.
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# ? May 30, 2012 21:54 |
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Dumbledore 64 posted:true story recently i tried playing a record while blowing it with a hot air dryer and it got really warped at first and was skipping around all over the place, but then as the heat evened out the centripetal forces made the whole record completely flat and even.
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# ? May 30, 2012 21:56 |
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yeah probably i just thought it was neat
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# ? May 30, 2012 22:23 |
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Dumbledore 64 posted:yeah probably i just thought it was neat do a kickstarter for "research"
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# ? May 30, 2012 22:28 |
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like the time i thought to shrink up a chip bag super small with a microwave and then it turns out craft moms have been doing it for decades
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# ? May 30, 2012 22:29 |
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CaptainMeatpants posted:i like the people who retwatted him or w/e that have furry avatars it never ceases to amaze me how the absolutele worst furry/anime/mlp idiot fans acknowledge and make fun of the horrible people in their fanbase as if acknowleding that there are worse people than them in the fanbase excuses their creepy weirdness, and yet they are exactly the group they are making fun of to excuse themselves
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# ? May 30, 2012 22:42 |
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Mister Snips posted:it never ceases to amaze me how the absolutele worst furry/anime/mlp idiot fans acknowledge and make fun of the horrible people in their fanbase as if acknowleding that there are worse people than them in the fanbase excuses their creepy weirdness, and yet they are exactly the group they are making fun of to excuse themselves the no true brony fallacy
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# ? May 30, 2012 22:44 |
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This is a real thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq-ckX9m2yg http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2083949967/an-american-search-alternative-to-google $269 PLEDGED OF $100,000 GOAL
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# ? May 30, 2012 23:04 |
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i don't know what's funnier, a search engine that requires a paid subscription or a 7 grand dinner at a cheesecake factory
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# ? May 30, 2012 23:11 |
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they're both things that should never be
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# ? May 30, 2012 23:15 |
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i'm the crappy public domain music, the lego robot with typing sounds in the background, and the dude on the left's eyelids what don't blink at the same time
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# ? May 30, 2012 23:15 |
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CDN Pal rolls off the tounge doesn't it
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# ? May 30, 2012 23:20 |