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[Linguofreak]

I would be interested in knowing how you dealt with that experience afterwards. Did it make future events even more traumatic, and did it make you resent your parents, or could you file the whole thing under "needed to be done" and move on?

Pretty much the latter. I'm not sure I'd word it just like that, but I'm not sure quite how I'd word it at all. Insofar as there was any resentment towards my parents, it was more for scheduling the surgery in the first place. It's the concept of general anesthesia itself that hits something primal in my brain, not any experience I've had any time I've been under. I also had really bad emetophobia in childhood, and I knew that general anesthesia had caused my brother to get sick while recovering. I was basically fine in the first place once I was awake again and in the second once I was beyond the nausea window, but even though I've been through it and survived, the concept of being knocked out cold like that, so quickly from full consciousness, just feels like death to me, and that's repeated every time I've been under. There's been no trauma afterward from any of my surgeries, just a visceral terror beforehand.

 

[jedidia]

I was wondering... could one use the concept of a maglev rail in reverse (i.e. attracting instead of repulsing) to make something like a rotating gravity section for a space station? Or would the forces become too strong?

On second thought, if you have an entire ring, I guess you should be able to still work with repulsion... As long as it's getting repulsed in all paces of the ring the same, everything is fine. Basically an (almost) frictionless "rail" for the ring to turn on...

 

[Urwumpe]

I was wondering... could one use the concept of a maglev rail in reverse (i.e. attracting instead of repulsing) to make something like a rotating gravity section for a space station? Or would the forces become too strong?

On second thought, if you have an entire ring, I guess you should be able to still work with repulsion... As long as it's getting repulsed in all paces of the ring the same, everything is fine. Basically an (almost) frictionless "rail" for the ring to turn on...

Well technically, they work by both repulsion and attraction, but how fast do you want the section to rotate to make it worth it?

 

[jedidia]

Not faster than ordinarily assumed for such purposes. I'm just thinking about systems for gravity sections that are easily extendable, and the thought of providing a rail for "habitat trains" to drive around a wide enough central hub crossed my mind. The next thought was "what about a maglev rail", and here I am...

Onboarding and Offboarding might be an issue though, now that I think about it...

 

[DaveS]

There is still a lot of rather outdated info on Google Earth at Kennedy Space Center (and I guess likely elsewhere around the globe). While using street view in vicinity of the VAB, one can discover an orbiter in high bay 4 (no OMS bods?) and a crawler in high bay 3 And I guess the mobile service structure in the background is from the Constellation-era? (not seen on the image)

Anyway, virtually touring the Cape is fun in any case.

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All of those images were taken in 2012 when the orbiters were undergoing the Transition&Retirement (T&R) processing. At the time, Atlantis was being stored in the VAB transfer aisle while Endeavour was in HB4. Crawler Transporter#2 was in HB2 receiving the upgrades necessary to carry SLS. All OMS pods and FRCS modules had been sent to the White Sands Test Facility for decommissioning by removal of all of the propellant lines and tanks including the nozzles in order to make them safe for long term display.

Reason for storing one orbiter in the VAB was due the decommissioning of OPF-3, so only the two original OPFs were available for T&R processing of the orbiters, this lead to quite a lot of "shuttle shuffling" where two orbiters would meet each other outside.

 

[Urwumpe]

Not faster than ordinarily assumed for such purposes. I'm just thinking about systems for gravity sections that are easily extendable, and the thought of providing a rail for "habitat trains" to drive around a wide enough central hub crossed my mind. The next thought was "what about a maglev rail", and here I am...

Onboarding and Offboarding might be an issue though, now that I think about it...

Yes, also I think such a "cabin-based gravity section", like used in some sci-fi (at least Battletech mentions some) could also be done at least cheaper with teflon bearings for the same performance.... powering the cabins would also be a problem.

 

[Matias Saibene]

Quick question:
Since my add-on is MIT and I can't use UACS (because it's GPLv3)... can I relicense my add-on to LGPL and use UACS?

 

[n72.75]

Quick question:
Since my add-on is MIT and I can't use UACS (because it's GPLv3)... can I relicense my add-on to LGPL and use UACS?

You can re-license your own work.

 

[jedidia]

Quick question:
Since my add-on is MIT and I can't use UACS (because it's GPLv3)... can I relicense my add-on to LGPL and use UACS?

The usual way is to fork off into a new project and leave the code with the old license as is, and continue developing under another license in a new project, to mitigate backward compatibility issues of the license. If nobody is using your work as a dependency, that's not really an issue, though.

 

[Notebook]

The 'Galeón Andalucía' visits Blyth - Fundación Nao Victoria | Tickets El Galeón & Nao Victoria

Unique replica of the legendary Spanish galleons Stopover during its tour 2024 It will open for public visitation from 19th to 23rd June June 19, 2024.– The Galeón Andalucía is already in Blyth and dock at Dun Cow…

www.fundacionnaovictoria.org

Just down the coast from me, and a joy to see. Gone down South to Newcastle Upon Tyne for a few days.

 

[Urwumpe]

The 'Galeón Andalucía' visits Blyth - Fundación Nao Victoria | Tickets El Galeón & Nao Victoria

Unique replica of the legendary Spanish galleons Stopover during its tour 2024 It will open for public visitation from 19th to 23rd June June 19, 2024.– The Galeón Andalucía is already in Blyth and dock at Dun Cow…

www.fundacionnaovictoria.org

Just down the coast from me, and a joy to see. Gone down South to Newcastle Upon Tyne for a few days.

A Spanish galleon approaching England? What could go wrong? Does the Royal Navy know they come in peace?

 

[Matias Saibene]

Introducing Universal Cars For Orbiter (UCFO).

But didn't we have GeneralVehicle? Yes, but I can't port it to Linux for licensing reasons.

So far the project loads a mesh and applies it correctly.

 

[francisdrake]

Flight test of this new atmospheric decelerator!

 

[Matias Saibene]

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Flight test of this new atmospheric decelerator!

As a programmer I wouldn't trust that thing. From here it looks like it has a bug.

 

[Frilock]

 

[jedidia]

That would all sounds very funny if it weren't for the concluding "Go to hell"... Who exactly do they have beef with, and what is it about?

 

[Frilock]

Not sure about that part. Its obviously a fake tweet (we still call them that?). Was funny up til that point, not sure why its there or obviously any context to it.

 

[N_Molson]

Went through my first Linux install today. And it went pretty well, along with an 11-years-old-crash-disked-budget-PC revival. Actually Ubuntu feels like it has been thought by people. Windows 10 looks like a mess in comparison, lol.

 

[jedidia]

Actually Ubuntu feels like it has been thought by people.

I'm really not a big fan of the 24 edition. Too many itsy-bitsy issues and weird things (Electron-based applications just don't work anymore. That includes visual studio code. That was one of the biggest WTF-moments. But there's also UI and driver issues that were just not around before...)

 

[N_Molson]

Interesting. Well, all I wanted is a machine that can do text-editing, web browsing and printing for an aged relative. Given that the system has no GPU and an AMD E1-1500 as a CPU, it runs really well. Much better than with the bloated Windows 10 install that was on it before (the PC was sold with Win8, that upgraded to Win10). And for someone that isn't from the computer era, the desktop layout is rather simple and friendly.