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Potato Salad posted:we need more energy technologies that nobody will actually want to spend money on using nuclear powered trains boats that catch fire for no reason submarines that only go down maglev hovercraft that only work so long as the ocean is full of liquid nitrogen
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silentsnack posted:nuclear powered trains People had ideas for nuclear powered aircraft at one time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_aircraft The main drawbacks were that they would irradiate absolutely loving everything they flew over, and also the crew/passengers.
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not seeing the problem. more atoms is better, right?
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Mozi posted:All we need is some sort of room-temperature superconductor. If we could get that we'd probably end up focusing on coilguns vs railguns.
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We need to decide as a species what our war gimmick is gonna be. Are humans gonna have a big gun, or swarms of small guns? we gotta decide before we find aliens so we can counter their units and get our rush strategy down
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Stoatbringer posted:People had ideas for nuclear powered aircraft at one time. All you have to do is choose a mission where that is acceptable or even a bonus
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holtemon posted:https://i.imgur.com/tTztKQO.mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMODPOmB-cA
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A Moose posted:We need to decide as a species what our war gimmick is gonna be. Are humans gonna have a big gun, or swarms of small guns? we gotta decide before we find aliens so we can counter their units and get our rush strategy down All anyone needs is a Powerbook to hack into the ET's computers.
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A Moose posted:We need to decide as a species what our war gimmick is gonna be. Are humans gonna have a big gun, or swarms of small guns? we gotta decide before we find aliens so we can counter their units and get our rush strategy down swarms of expendable units with one highly intelligent and powerful overmind (i volunteer to be overmind) vv 
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Mozi posted:swarms of expendable units with one highly intelligent and powerful overmind (i volunteer to be overmind) The overmind needs to be highly intelligent and powerful.
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Mozi posted:swarms of expendable units with one highly intelligent and powerful overmind (i volunteer to be overmind) Only if you agree to rig everything so the swarms of units instantly go catatonic or explode when you die
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McGavin posted:The overmind needs to be highly intelligent and powerful. It's like you've never played a computer game. It needs to be ineffably infantile with a glowing weak spot on its scrote.
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i'm a shoo-in
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Also, you need to periodically flash your opponent for no apparent reason during combat
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Stoatbringer posted:People had ideas for nuclear powered aircraft at one time.  There's even a novel about them that is absolutely hilarious.
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silentsnack posted:boats that catch fire for no reason
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Wait. That was the intended outcome? Are they trying to rebuild a flooded road with trucks full of dirt? Are they filming double insurance fraud?
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iirc it was something of a temporary makeshift levee repair measure
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Stoatbringer posted:People had ideas for nuclear powered aircraft at one time. Nah, the crew was shielded. You couldn't carry enough weight to shield the entire reactor, but the NB-36 had a big lead shadow shield in between the reactor and the crew. For testing what they'd do is taxi over a big pit in the ground, lower the reactor into the pit, and now it was safe(ish) for the ground crew to approach and hook up a tug. Granted, that solves nowhere near all the problems. And it never flew under reactor power, but they did fly it with the reactor operating for 90 hours. A lot of that poo poo was back-burnered when ICBMs turned out to be easier than anyone else thought. So far as nuclear trains go, my favorite idea was the one with horizontally-opposed piston engine where the cylinders were filled with enriched uranium hexafluoride gas, and you'd go supercritical on the compression stroke. THE NUCLEAR PISTON ENGINE AND PULSED GASEOUS CORE REACTOR POWER SYSTEMS By EDWARD T. DUGAN
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CzarChasm posted:Wait. That was the intended outcome? Are they trying to rebuild a flooded road with trucks full of dirt? Are they filming double insurance fraud? https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/flooding-farmers-truck-levee-video-17841260.php They’re protecting their pistachios from flooding.
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I love the smell of engine oil in my pistachios. It smells of victory!
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Mozi posted:iirc it was something of a temporary makeshift levee repair measure This was done on a bigger scale with this boat:  That dike is close to a densely populated region of the Netherlands, much of which is below sea level. Those dudes saved probably millions of people from homelessness.
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Leandros posted:This was done on a bigger scale with this boat: that guy is a hero, but only by contrast with the guys who designed the dike.
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Foxfire_ posted:We already have those. They're called Russian boats.
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I am a fan of two ill-advised projects: Nuclear shaped charges: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casaba-Howitzer Nuclear powered missile - with bonus fallout-generating engine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto
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Phanatic posted:Nah, the crew was shielded. You couldn't carry enough weight to shield the entire reactor, but the NB-36 had a big lead shadow shield in between the reactor and the crew. For testing what they'd do is taxi over a big pit in the ground, lower the reactor into the pit, and now it was safe(ish) for the ground crew to approach and hook up a tug. Didn't that project use literal tons of mercury as a moderator? I remember reading that afterwards they spent several years slowly putting the remainder back into circulation to avoid crashing the price of it.
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Drove my chevy in to the levy cause the levy weren't dry.
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Phanatic posted:Nah, the crew was shielded. You couldn't carry enough weight to shield the entire reactor, but the NB-36 had a big lead shadow shield in between the reactor and the crew. For testing what they'd do is taxi over a big pit in the ground, lower the reactor into the pit, and now it was safe(ish) for the ground crew to approach and hook up a tug. NM, I was totally mistaken Pigsfeet on Rye fucked around with this message at 02:38 on Feb 2, 2024 |
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ComradePyro posted:that guy is a hero, but only by contrast with the guys who designed the dike. Nah it was a team effort, the mayor actually commandeered him in name of the queen and he initially refused. They made a good plan and it worked out. Besides that, this happened during a catastrophic storm with the water going 5m+ above MSL, the dikes were solid but not made for this level of abuse.
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DarkDobe posted:I am a fan of two ill-advised projects: Casaba howitzers, ill-advised? Come on! That's as close as we're gonna get to a wave motion gun in real life.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:Didn't that project use literal tons of mercury as a moderator? I remember reading that afterwards they spent several years slowly putting the remainder back into circulation to avoid crashing the price of it. Certainly not as a moderator, mercury would make about the worst moderator possible. We've used it as a coolant in liquid metal-cooled reactors, but no, the NB-36 didn't use liquid metal coolant. There were two early reactor designs for the program. In one, the indirect cycle, there would have indeed been a liquid-metal cooled reactor, with a primary and a secondary coolant loop, the latter of which would have routed the coolant out to the engines to transfer their heat to the air, heating it and propelling out the back of the engine. That never went anyway, the B36 scheme was for a reactor directly cooled with air.
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Jesus, am I missing something, or could they have not lowered the bucket before dumping the dog?
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Ironhead posted:Jesus, am I missing something, or could they have not lowered the bucket before dumping the dog? Dirt looks real loose at least but yeah probly dropped him so he wouldn't jump out at height again.
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They were in too big of a hurry for it to be a 'heartwarming rescue mission' imo. More like 'fling the dog out of the pit pronto'
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Ironhead posted:Jesus, am I missing something, or could they have not lowered the bucket before dumping the dog? They're used to rescuing cats.
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Ironhead posted:Jesus, am I missing something, or could they have not lowered the bucket before dumping the dog? It's often hard to control where the dogs dump occurs.
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