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mlmp08 posted:Please keep your anime airplanes to an acceptable level of anime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwNRv-lubCg
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The Wind Rises is a gorgeous movie and the writing's not half bad. Also the voice of the main character is famous director Hideaki Anno.
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That Works posted:I am just laying down to bed seeing this, remind me and I can elaborate. I went into a little more than that but it's the basic principle. It's a really good starting point to break down what a lot of separate organ systems do though. Poke poke inkjet_lakes posted:The Onion AV Club just began a new series on movies that depict nuclear war, good timing Miracle Mile sounds...interesting. Denise Crosby as a 80s power yuppie 
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pthighs posted:This. Also Fail-Safe. Fail-Safe is underappreciated, I think
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Miracle Mile is very good.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Poke poke I'll try not to write a whole essay on it but it's a fun teaching tool. Your 1st assumption is right, without energy, cells die. Muscle fibers need ATP to contract to let things move. To make ATP you need mitochondria to undergo respiration. To undergo respiration you need oxygen and glucose (for human cells). To get oxygen and glucose to muscle cells you need a circulatory system. But, that's not quite correct. Muscle cells can undergo fermentation (producing lactic acid) instead. However, this only lasts for the most part until blood glucose supply is exhausted. Actually, you can start breaking down proteins and other components into short carbon chains to ferment as well. So a couple of assumptions, zombies don't need a circulatory system, they don't 'bleed out' so, they must be undergoing fermentation. Queue an entire segue into how your body processes fermentation end products and cleans up stuff from that out of your cells via the liver and kidneys. Again, this kinda doesn't work well on a system level without circulation and breathing. So, without those its up to the individual cells to function and last as long as they can, cannibalizing themselves. Some back of the napkin math works out to even a slow moving shambling zombie only lasting an hour or less at absolute maximum conditions before so many individual cells cannibalize their own contents down into inactivity. This would require an aggressive reprogramming of normal cellular metabolism that we currently don't do. There's a lot of sidebars there I use to get into other metabolic stuff, ie how the body uses CO2 normally to buffer the blood and ensure a fairly constant pH, and how your breathing rate affects that to keep that pH balance in a very narrow range. The end result is that if you forced cells to individually do something they are evolutionarily not built for they could run for~1h in overly ideal situations but would leave behind a completely destroyed husk of half pickled dead human flesh.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Strangelove is good, but not as good as every college sophomore who watched it for the first time thinks. It's great satire and it's got some iconic as gently caress vignettes but it really works better as a dark comedy than any kind of movie about the cold war, nuclear war, or the apocalypse. Also  at your new avatar.
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Sep 16, 2017 00:11
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That Works posted:The end result is that if you forced cells to individually do something they are evolutionarily not built for they could run for~1h in overly ideal situations but would leave behind a completely destroyed husk of half pickled dead human flesh. Yeah but that's like busting out the square/cube thing to explain how a kaiju would be crushed by its own weight and incapable of moving, or even of sustaining its metabolic activity, let alone rampaging through Tokyo. At some point you just have to accept that Zombizilla just doesn't care about our understanding of physics and biology.
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"A wizard did it"
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Sep 16, 2017 00:33
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"A lovely writer did it"
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Dead Reckoning posted:Also It doesn't include the phrase "civil discourse you loving savages." Utter failure. 
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Sep 16, 2017 00:56
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Just found out that the Mig-21 spike was able to extend and retract to be the most effective as speed changed. I honestly feel pretty dumb, I assumed it was a small radar cone...I'm embarrassed. Are there any other aircraft which used this method to increase aerodynamics? Not talking about variable geometry wings.
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Cat Mattress posted:Yeah but that's like busting out the square/cube thing to explain how a kaiju would be crushed by its own weight and incapable of moving, or even of sustaining its metabolic activity, let alone rampaging through Tokyo. At some point you just have to accept that Zombizilla just doesn't care about our understanding of physics and biology. I'm not using it to say that Zombie movies aren't awesome. Just more to dryly point out it is fiction and here are all the amazing linked metabolic and circulatory systems your body requires to function that make it fictional. It's a good starting point to talk about what can be a boring and dry subject but is really fascinating when you understand it in more detail. Hell the fact that your own body starts putting out more acid when it runs low on oxygen and then compensates for this by retaining more dissolved CO2 in the bloodstream, buffering the pH a little higher to counter the acid and that in turn makes your hemoglobin change affinity for oxygen, etc is all really cool. Remarkably adaptive system.
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Coldwar timewarp posted:Just found out that the Mig-21 spike was able to extend and retract to be the most effective as speed changed. SR-71 intakes did this as well iirc.
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Coldwar timewarp posted:Just found out that the Mig-21 spike was able to extend and retract to be the most effective as speed changed. I don't think it was for aerodymanics as much as it was for making the engine work properly at various speeds.
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Sep 16, 2017 01:55
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Variable inlet geometry was definitely a thing, though it didn't always take the form of an adjustable spike like the MiG-21.
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Sep 16, 2017 01:57
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Phanatic posted:Is The Wind Rises any good? I mistook this for When the Wind Blows at first, which is near Threads level of  . I will check out The Wind Rises the next time I feel good about life.
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Coldwar timewarp posted:Just found out that the Mig-21 spike was able to extend and retract to be the most effective as speed changed. Wait where the hell was the MiG-21's radar then?
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goatsestretchgoals posted:Wait where the hell was the MiG-21's radar then? Also in the cone. I think.
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goatsestretchgoals posted:Wait where the hell was the MiG-21's radar then? On the ground
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Flikken posted:On the ground not emptyquoting a reply
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inkjet_lakes posted:It might be just that simple, yes. Seven Days in May is very good
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That Works posted:SR-71 intakes did this as well iirc. Thanks, and bad wording with regards to aerodynamics i suppose, but making the engine work at different speeds by changing the inlet geometry must fall under aerodynamics broadly.
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Plotting how "Okay, if we're serious about making this realistic, how would it look/work?" also results in some interesting thought experiments/films/etc. I got curious about what the absolutely largest living organism can be and uh, glancing around it might be possible to get a planet sized ball of cancer with a symbiotic ecosystem of creatures evolved from cancer tumors? Assuming accuracy in that thread, Lovecraft isn't far off and that's pretty hosed up to think about. You could quite possibly have some alien planet sized thing that's impossible to communicate with and impossible to kill without being much higher up in Kardeschev ranks.
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Coldwar timewarp posted:Thanks, and bad wording with regards to aerodynamics i suppose, but making the engine work at different speeds by changing the inlet geometry must fall under aerodynamics broadly. Concorde is a good example of variable inlet geometry other than the spike type.
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mlmp08 posted:Please keep your anime airplanes to an acceptable level of anime         And here's some Walt Disney as a palate cleanser  
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That Works posted:SR-71 intakes did this as well iirc. Coldwar timewarp posted:Thanks, and bad wording with regards to aerodynamics i suppose, but making the engine work at different speeds by changing the inlet geometry must fall under aerodynamics broadly. I can add a little detail to this: the variable inlet geometry was needed to allow the SR-71 to transition between 'turbojet' and 'ramjet' modes of operation. At subsonic it's a very inefficient turbojet with a high-pressure internal combustion reaction. When it converts to ramjet mode that moves to the low-pressure outer bypass. Fuel efficiency goes up significantly, though the exact amount has never been published, AFAIK. And the SR-71's inlets were designed by my grandfather, so there's that! 
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The tonal difference of the Patlabor series and movies is neat. In one you've got a lighthearted police drama about cop robots that carry 37mm K-frame revolvers and hit T-34 mechs with stun batons, while the movies are far more serious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xaFTjl4JCU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOrbHOueDn4
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Coldwar timewarp posted:Just found out that the Mig-21 spike was able to extend and retract to be the most effective as speed changed. The half-cones of the Mirage family can move. They're called "souris" (mice) because it's like a mouse poking its head out of its hole.  In the Mirage 2000, variants aimed primarily at air-to-air (2000C, 2000B, 2000-5) have mobile mice and a service speed limit of Mach 2.2 while variants aimed primarily at air-to-ground (2000N, 2000D) have static mice and a service speed limit of Mach 1.5.
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C.M. Kruger posted:The tonal difference of the Patlabor series and movies is neat. In one you've got a lighthearted police drama about cop robots that carry 37mm K-frame revolvers and hit T-34 mechs with stun batons, while the movies are far more serious. 
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Sperglord Actual posted:"A lovely writer did it" Zombies are a religion thing. Evil spirits really are just as good as anything for explaining it.
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Area 88 is easily one of the most anti war things I have ever watched That one scene where that guy broke down because he didn't want to get shot for desertion
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The purpose of the intake come in all cases is to ensure that the oblique shock produced at the tip of the cone hits the lip of the intake diffuser. Air passing through the shock decelerates from a high supersonic speed to low supersonic speed. One (or more) further shocks inside the diffuser decelerate the flow, with a normal shock at the diffuser throat, such that there's eventually high pressure subsonic flow by the time you get to the fan/compressor or combustor. This is necessary for a ramjet, but also important for supersonic turbomachine engines. As the free stream Mach increases, the oblique shock occurs at a narrower angle, such that the cone must move forwards to keep the shock attached to the inlet diffuser in the right place for it to work optimally. It's a good problem for an introductory compressible flow class! Variable geometry intake ramps have the same goal, but can be slightly more complex. Packaging constraints and the need for larger radar in single engine aircraft were the main reasons inlet cones fell out of favor; aerodynamically , they work great, probably even better than ramps because they're axisymmetric. Tetraptous fucked around with this message at 14:45 on Sep 16, 2017 |
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Murgos posted:Zombies are a religion thing. Evil spirits really are just as good as anything for explaining it. We're in a strange area where Dungeons and Dragons can make something more plausible, not less
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This isn't anime, but close enough and fits the thread. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyMNIFZTQkg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjJmTeBSEzU
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Arglebargle III posted:No it's star trek VI Also Rocky IV.
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The East German secret police went to extraordinary lengths to track down people who wrote letters to the BBC during the Cold War. One of those arrested and jailed was a teenager who longed to express himself freely - and paid a high price.
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Sperglord Actual posted:The East German secret police went to extraordinary lengths to track down people who wrote letters to the BBC during the Cold War. One of those arrested and jailed was a teenager who longed to express himself freely - and paid a high price. Interesting article.
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Sperglord Actual posted:The East German secret police went to extraordinary lengths to track down people who wrote letters to the BBC during the Cold War. One of those arrested and jailed was a teenager who longed to express himself freely - and paid a high price. quote:In the end it was the letter writers they really knuckled down on, and the Stasi were extraordinarily fastidious in their pursuit. Germans do not gently caress around.
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I knew a guy while I was in Germany who was arrested by the Stasi and did 5 years in jail when he was 18 for basically being a dumb, rebellious kid. The kind of guy who would have just been a stoner metal fan high schooler in the US but ended up running afoul of the authorities. He was a guy at a local bar I went to a bunch when I was in Berlin, so I'm not going to swear by any of his stories, but all the other regulars vouched for him. He was released after the wall came down as they started emptying the jails of dudes like him and had some hosed up stories about how confused and paranoid he was at people telling him he could do all that poo poo he got arrested for back in '84 or whenever as much as he wanted. Needless to say it royally hosed up his life. He wasn't exactly the most adjusted, contributing member of society when I was drinking with him.
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