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Elder Postsman posted:oh man I wanted one of those so bad back in the day. instead I got a mousestick II.
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Mr. Apollo posted:speaking of old joysticks, anyone ever play descent with a gravis Phoenix? I remember a friend of mine had one and it seemed so cool to 16 year old me had the firebird 2 for essentially the same reasons, it was perfect for descent
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how to hypnotize a pibble http://i.imgur.com/WdTXiZN.gifv
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Sagebrush posted:Ceramics do melt though, right? If you had one that was electrically conductive I suppose theoretically you could tig weld it? much of the point of ceramics is that they do not, in fact, melt at temperatures attainable with an arc welder or by any other easy means maybe if you had a dicyanoacetylene torch or an atomic hydrogen torch but at that point you might as well go commit heists or something
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KoRMaK posted:*tugs at collar* eoooeuuueeeeeee excellent
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too bad the 46 other anna kendricks beat her to setting up her account
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big scary monsters posted:the secret to a harmonious and happy university experience is to realise that your support staff are the most important people there, and get in good with them. you can probably afford to piss the odd professor, but if you upset the departmental accounts team then good luck getting your expenses handled on time ever again hell, this is true even as a student. i did a fair amount of student union & club stuff in college, having an idea of the actual physical, manpower & infrastructure ressources in the building meant that when i wanted to run a thing instead of going to the school admins with "i'd like to (event) to take place, can you help me?" aka please spend half your day researching the feasibility of something that's not in your job description, i could show up with a straight up bill of materials, room & asset availability plus a accurate cost breakdown if i needed funding school admins usually like to help students take on projects that have a positive impact and if you position yourself to be as zero friction as possible, you'll leapfrog everyone else i even managed to weasel my way into having an office for a while, it wasn't in the pool of available real estate because there was no network cabled but what the gently caress did it matter with wifi having access to most of the building was also a huge plus, there's something very zen about reading a book on a roof support staff in pretty much any environment are a massive ally to leverage and in most cases they're good people
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atomicthumbs posted:much of the point of ceramics is that they do not, in fact, melt at temperatures attainable with an arc welder or by any other easy means the core of an electric welding arc is more than 10,000 degrees celsius. part of the reason we use electric stuff instead of gas welding these days, besides convenience and safety, is that it's way faster cause the metal melts almost instantly there are refractory ceramics that can withstand molten metal temperatures but 10,000C is twice the boiling point of tungsten. i think the issue is that most ceramics are great insulators, not a lack of heat
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yeah p much, i also organised club stuff as a student and if you are friendly and polite and always have your paperwork in on time suddenly you have a team of experienced, trained professionals working on your problems for you rather than a bunch of other idiot students. it's the difference between sending a single email and spending a whole day on the phone lmao give whoever wrote that credit a serious promotion 
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Sagebrush posted:the core of an electric welding arc is more than 10,000 degrees celsius. part of the reason we use electric stuff instead of gas welding these days, besides convenience and safety, is that it's way faster cause the metal melts almost instantly wanna make a super hot coffee with boiled tongsten
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echinopsis posted:wanna make a super hot coffee with boiled tongsten 
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how much does one of those cost and can you run it out of a plug in your garage? asking for a friend
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Beast of Bourbon posted:how much does one of those cost and can you run it out of a plug in your garage? unfortunately lightsaber factories are highly regulated by occupational safety boards and UN weapons inspectors
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Sagebrush posted:the core of an electric welding arc is more than 10,000 degrees celsius. part of the reason we use electric stuff instead of gas welding these days, besides convenience and safety, is that it's way faster cause the metal melts almost instantly what about using... i can't remember the name of it, the really runny clay they use for repairing statues and stuff, with something electrically conductive added, and using the welder to effectively fire that clay? (i know there are a million and one better ways of fixing a broken cup, but i love coming up with ridiculously complex ways of solving problems that already have simple solutions. yes, i am a manager, why do you ask?)
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for something to be decently electrically conductive it has to have a a decent metal style electron ocean, and ceramics are proper ionically and covanelty bonded materials no? by the time you've added enough electrically conducting compounds to make it decently conductive overall i suspect you will have changed the structure of the material significantly idk just spitballing here
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Mr. Apollo posted:speaking of old joysticks, anyone ever play descent with a gravis Phoenix? I remember a friend of mine had one and it seemed so cool to 16 year old me that bit on the left swivels so you can do a hip pivot in your direwolf the m$ sidewinder integrated that into the stick though
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The buckling and resulting cavity in the back is interesting
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Moist von Lipwig posted:The buckling and resulting cavity in the back is interesting that reminds me, has your mother been using the neosporin i gave her?
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uh, what kind of wizard technology are they using to shoot balls at mach 20?
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Improbable Lobster posted:that reminds me, has your mother been using the neosporin i gave her? lol drat dude
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Moist von Lipwig posted:The buckling and resulting cavity in the back is interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spall#Mechanical_spalling surebet posted:uh, what kind of wizard technology are they using to shoot balls at mach 20? there's like half a dozen ways of doing it as long as the thing you're firing isn't moving and you've a load of space
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surebet posted:uh, what kind of wizard technology are they using to shoot balls at mach 20? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-gas_gun worth noting that the steel ball in the pic is a representation of the projectile. the actual steel ball is probably all the dark smears on the inside of the hole
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SON OF A BITCH ^^^surebet posted:uh, what kind of wizard technology are they using to shoot balls at mach 20? I looked this up and they used a helium hydraulic system. Basically there is a gunpowder charged piston that has a 40mm face, and it shoves on the helium. There is a cone that tapers the 40mm down to whatever size the ball is, and that creates the force needed.
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pram posted:
it kinda looks like a sci fi riding lawnmower to me
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Salt Fish posted:I looked this up and they used a helium hydraulic system. Basically there is a gunpowder charged piston that has a 40mm face, and it shoves on the helium. There is a cone that tapers the 40mm down to whatever size the ball is, and that creates the force needed.  jesus christ
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Sagebrush posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-gas_gun that's what i was going to ask. would have to be one special ball to still exist afterwards
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Mr. Apollo posted:I had two of those for playing falcon on my macintosh ii si. you had to daisy chain them since there was only one adb port i used mine for playing F/A-18 Hornet over the internet using IPRemote. do y'all remember that poo poo. wow.
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i had a mad catz memory card for my n64. it worked.
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Improbable Lobster posted:that reminds me, has your mother been using the neosporin i gave her? 
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