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CommieGIR posted:The escaping a black hole via a Hohmann transfer is not realistic. No amount of energy is going to get you out of the grips of the black hole, unless you are the size of a star. The first planet: it would've been pretty obvious that you do NOT want to land there from orbit, the waves would've been evident from space, even more, the physicists could've predicted them with ease, you really don't want to land on a planet of water that has some massive gravitational sink next to it. Surviving a black hole.....its really hard to say, chances are nothing can survive it, Cooper would've died, but for the story at least the black hole has been 'modified' by future humans to allow for the scene where he tells his daughter the data. I wonder if the Kip Thorne book would explain things to your satisfaction? It's called "The Science of Interstellar" and it's by a prominent physicist. He was an executive producer of the movie. I haven't read it though. Physics won't explain the characters acting stupid of course; you have to accept it is just a story. This is my favorite movie though. I'm glad my friend told me to go see it in 70mm IMAX, I don't usually get into movies much. NitroSpazzz posted:I did the 48 hour rental through Amazon, have a feeling I'll be watching it again tomorrow afternoon or the day after. It's funny I used to give my Dad poo poo for getting emotional at movies...now I get emotional as hell at movies. This one really got me. If you watch it I recommend the Bluray if possible. I don't think the streaming copies have the full-frame in the IMAX scenes. The Vudu one doesn't, at least.
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angryhampster posted:What's interesting about the PowerWall is that the concept isn't new. For years you've been able to use batteries to store excess solar energy for use during peak or no-sun times. However, Musk is creating a marketing opportunity and a sexy new storage unit. Energy storage is now going to be a cool and fashionable accessory to a house, much akin to the Model S sitting in the driveway. CommieGIR posted:The escaping a black hole via a Hohmann transfer is not realistic. No amount of energy is going to get you out of the grips of the black hole, unless you are the size of a star. The first planet: it would've been pretty obvious that you do NOT want to land there from orbit, the waves would've been evident from space, even more, the physicists could've predicted them with ease, you really don't want to land on a planet of water that has some massive gravitational sink next to it. Surviving a black hole.....its really hard to say, chances are nothing can survive it, Cooper would've died, but for the story at least the black hole has been 'modified' by future humans to allow for the scene where he tells his daughter the data.
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May 11, 2015 00:37
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angryhampster posted:What's interesting about the PowerWall is that the concept isn't new. For years you've been able to use batteries to store excess solar energy for use during peak or no-sun times. However, Musk is creating a marketing opportunity and a sexy new storage unit. Energy storage is now going to be a cool and fashionable accessory to a house, much akin to the Model S sitting in the driveway. although the old school system was a wet lead acid system with batteries that weigh about 100kg each and occupy half a room to get a meaningful amount of capacity- My old neighbour was off grid for power (cheaper to set up a RAPS than get cables dug in) and has a system big enough to supply three phase to his workshop, but the battery bank he has would be 40-50x 6V Wet acids, weighs tonnes and costs tens of thousands to replace every 6 years- its in its own sheds and EVERYTHING in and out is intrinsicly sealed in case it gets too much hydrogen buildup! The new PowerWall stuffs making storing power DOABLE for the average joe, thats the game changer.
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May 11, 2015 00:52
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LloydDobler posted:I'm refinancing that into a 15 year at 3.125% so I can really grow the equity. I should have at least $100k equity for a down payment on my next place within 5 years Two things: Unless you have some insane interest rate, refi is a bad idea. Pay it like 15 instead. Do the math on the amount of interest payment difference and see how many months that would be to make it up on the cost of the refi. Unless you are at 5.5% or higher, it's probably not worth it. When you make a payment, you have to specify that the overage should count towards the principal. Second, the equity on the first house/loan won't count towards the down payment to another place unless you borrow against that equity in which case you will get PMI on the first loan (if it puts it over 78% LTV). Down payment should always be cash on hand and not attached (ie borrowed against another source).
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May 11, 2015 01:01
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NitroSpazzz posted:this and The Martian book are great. The Martian had an interesting concept and by God I read the whole thing pretty much straight through in two days, but from a writing point of view it was kind of bad. Lazy characters ("the German", "the one who likes disco") and terrible dialog were the two biggest problems
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May 11, 2015 01:14
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Tide posted:Two things: Yeah I'm at 5.62% on my first and 8.375% on my 2nd. I've done the math, I'm making out really good on this deal. Going from sub-prime sucker to smart with money. And as for down payments, I'm talking about selling and buying a new place, 5-10 years from now. I could keep this place as a rental but I'm pretty sure I don't want to play landlord.
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May 11, 2015 01:25
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BoostCreep posted:This being AI, there probably aren't many NASCAR fans here, but I'm doing research for a project and I'm trying to find a Nascar expert. Anyone here a fan or know someone who is? I'm a fan but not a long time one. I've only been following it (and IndyCar and F1) closely since 2012. The thread in SAS would be a really good place to go for information.
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Why yes, it was very nice of you to comment "wow, it must really suck having to deliver when it's raining so hard". I appreciated that, it does kinda suck, and I was completely soaked head to toe. And thanking me for getting there so fast was nice. Though taking nearly 4 minutes to answer the door when there's no shelter on your front porch was a little assholeish, especially when you knew drat well I was on the way (I had called ahead, since they were a first time customer). But writing a big fat zero on the tip line of a $50 order (my first order of the day) is a good way to piss me off. The storms probably blew the crumpled up receipt off of their front porch by now, but that's an address that will always get their order last anytime I see it again. Super Aggro Crag posted:We need some serious rain soon. The pollen here is out of control. I washed my car two hours ago and its already yellow. We have plenty of rain here, you're more than welcome to take some of it. At least we're finally getting close to being out of a drought - we can finally water more than twice a month, and we can legally use decorative fountains again, as of the 1st of May. LloydDobler posted:Oh I just figure in the next 5-10 years the one I put in 8 years ago might wear out/leak. It's only 10 year warranted, not sure if that means it'll die in 10 years or last 20. But the house is only 32 years old and this is its 3rd water heater. 2nd was dying when I moved in. We had to replace the original one when it was... 13? years old (started leaking). Current one is 12 years old, and makes a lot of nasty popping/creaking noises when it's heating - but that's more because we have hard water, and nobody had ever maintained it until I moved back in. I drained/flushed it several times when I moved back in (then found out the drain wouldn't fully close anymore, it has a cap screwed onto the hose bib for now), and I've been doing so every 6 months since then. It's helped a lot with all of the noise, and some downright nasty poo poo came out of it, but I expect it'll need to be replaced in a few more years. The nasty part is it's in the attic... directly above my bedroom door. At least it's right by the pull-down stairs for the attic, but that's just a recipe for disaster if it has more than a slight leak (it has a catch pan that drains via gravity outside, but that could get overwhelmed easily if it ruptured). And the "plumbers" who replaced it last time made a mess of everything they used solder on. I'd never seen HVAC or water heaters in attics until I moved to DFW, they've always been in a hall closet or garage everywhere else I've lived. Ferremit posted:although the old school system was a wet lead acid system with batteries that weigh about 100kg each and occupy half a room to get a meaningful amount of capacity- My old neighbour was off grid for power (cheaper to set up a RAPS than get cables dug in) and has a system big enough to supply three phase to his workshop, but the battery bank he has would be 40-50x 6V Wet acids, weighs tonnes and costs tens of thousands to replace every 6 years- its in its own sheds and EVERYTHING in and out is intrinsicly sealed in case it gets too much hydrogen buildup! A friend of mine was in IT admin for a large company ages ago (I worked for them as well, but as a helpdesk grunt). He took me into their original data center one time before it got decommissioned. A very, very old data center (several IBM System 390s, nothing PC based), and took me into the basement. Actually I think the only PCs in the entire company at that point were for the help desk and NOC (486s IIRC, this was in 1997 - the help desk was within the NOC) - and the main NOC guys used some SUN stuff instead of PCs. The 3 Dallas buildings they had at the time mostly had dumb terminals. Their phone system was far, far newer than anything IT related (some kind of early 90s AT&T digital PBX, my phone was bigger than my last VCR). Anyway... Told me to look through what looked like a small bullet proof glass window in a very thick door. Looked in. Hundreds of batteries, exposed bus bars, the works, complete with plenty of explosion hazard signs. I never wanted to nope the gently caress out of somewhere that fast before, that room even had its own dedicated exhaust system. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 01:44 on May 11, 2015 |
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CharlesM posted:I wonder if the Kip Thorne book would explain things to your satisfaction? It's called "The Science of Interstellar" and it's by a prominent physicist. He was an executive producer of the movie. I haven't read it though. Physics won't explain the characters acting stupid of course; you have to accept it is just a story. Dr. Thorn admitted that he allowed them some artistic license, but would not allow them to violate the basic laws of physics. When they rendered the black hole, the data was so...good, that they managed to publish two new studies on the physics of black holes just from the rendering of it CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 01:55 on May 11, 2015 |
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May 11, 2015 01:48
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LloydDobler posted:Yeah I'm at 5.62% on my first and 8.375% on my 2nd. I've done the math, I'm making out really good on this deal. Going from sub-prime sucker to smart with money. And as for down payments, I'm talking about selling and buying a new place, 5-10 years from now. I could keep this place as a rental but I'm pretty sure I don't want to play landlord. Landlord seems to be fun at first, but then all the nightmares associated with it if you have terrible renters. And tenant-landlord laws can vary by state, but as long as the tenants continue to pay, there is not a ton as a land lord you can really do. (this is greatly summed up, but the gist of it)
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BrokenKnucklez posted:Landlord seems to be fun at first, but then all the nightmares associated with it if you have terrible renters. And tenant-landlord laws can vary by state, but as long as the tenants continue to pay, there is not a ton as a land lord you can really do. (this is greatly summed up, but the gist of it) In Indiana, if enough fellow tenants file complaints there is a way to get rid of the lovely renters. At our old complex there were three rotten kids who kept smashing beer bottles all over the complex and after a loving year they finally evicted the parents of the two that were brothers.
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Watched 'Imitation Game' with my wife. Loved it, but made me very cross to think of what the UK Government forced him to go through.
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Spent most of the last two days unfucking the wiring on that switch panel, and now I've gotta pull the fixtures down and make sure poo poo's not hosed at that end as well. I already know one of them has a hot white wire at the switch panel. And have to replace the bathroom outlets with GFCI ones (and the one in my bathroom is wired backwards!)... This all started with one dimmer switch that stopped dimming and has turned into an ordeal. Definitely met my quota for mothers' day this year, at any rate.
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May 11, 2015 03:38
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Holy poo poo you guys, I got my mechanical engineering degree today  !Packing my stuff up and moving 500 miles south for a kickass career next week. The house I'm renting has a garage which means I can get back to working on my project car and finally finance the twist ending I've been planning.
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May 11, 2015 04:43
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MonkeyNutZ posted:Holy poo poo you guys, I got my mechanical engineering degree today Congrats! Sounds like a good start to a new phase of life. WTG.
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May 11, 2015 04:53
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MonkeyNutZ posted:Holy poo poo you guys, I got my mechanical engineering degree today Congrats! I'm envious!  Who's the lucky recipient of your skills?
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LloydDobler posted:Yeah I'm at 5.62% on my first and 8.375% on my 2nd. I've done the math, I'm making out really good on this deal. Going from sub-prime sucker to smart with money. And as for down payments, I'm talking about selling and buying a new place, 5-10 years from now. I could keep this place as a rental but I'm pretty sure I don't want to play landlord. Oh God yes, refi asap, but there's no need in doing 15. 30s are so cheap, the extra breathing room is nice in case of need. Just pay on it like a 15. Before you ixnay renting, find out what houses are renting for that are comparable to yours. You may be surprised. Be selective in who you rent to (check credit, check with previous landlords, etc). Hell, go thru a rental agency. MonkeyNutZ posted:Holy poo poo you guys, I got my mechanical engineering degree today Awesome news!!! Tide fucked around with this message at 05:32 on May 11, 2015 |
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May 11, 2015 05:30
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MonkeyNutZ posted:Holy poo poo you guys, I got my mechanical engineering degree today That's awesome, I know what it's like and how good it feels to get that piece of paper and be able to say "I'm a mechanical engineer". You're moving a lot faster with the career part than I did though but I gave the place I interned for way to long to hire me before giving up. Where are you moving?
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For those of you not friends with me on facebook,quote:Let us pray. Oh, straight six, our God in charge of 50/50 weight distribution, as we enter into this most holy of weeks, where we begin the sacred rite of SoWo prep, we ask for your guidance and protection, oh Lord. We ask for the wisdom to protect our lips from curbage and the guidance to avoid drops which might damage our diffusers. We ask for your guiding hand over our valve trains, that they might not float, oh Lord, even though we may downshift to redline, oh, greatest God. And also for our clutches, that they might not slip even though they are worn and tired from us beating the ever loving poo poo out of them and that one time when we were drunk and did that one-two at redline and the rear subframe felt funny.
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SuperDucky posted:For those of you not friends with me on facebook, I pray to the lord of 60/40 weight distribution for rallying and the demigod of Audi 
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some texas redneck posted:. That's just weird and I don't think that'd be legal anywhere I have lived. If you replace it and have to keep it there I would see if there's a tankless water heater that matches the performance. As long as you don't have to do that thing where you adjust the pressure. I doubt American models make you do that.
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MonkeyNutZ posted:Holy poo poo you guys, I got my mechanical engineering degree today ONE OF US. ONE OF US. Congrats! What kind of work or industry are you starting in? Tide posted:Oh God yes, refi asap, but there's no need in doing 15. 30s are so cheap, the extra breathing room is nice in case of need. Just pay on it like a 15. In my case my new mortgage payment is lower than my current two, so it's no big deal. I'm actually going to do the 15 and pay on it like a 10. It'll be 5 years or more before I move anyway, so I'll figure out the renting thing then.
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When pulling the gas tank out of a suburban or avalanche, just unbolt the bracket that holds all your evap emissions poo poo in 5 minutes instead of spending 20-30 minutes loving with stupid quick disconnect fittings.  And try not to drop the heavy piece of poo poo onto your face like I did. That hurts, alot. Elmnt80 fucked around with this message at 08:54 on May 11, 2015 |
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CharlesM posted:That's just weird and I don't think that'd be legal anywhere I have lived. If you replace it and have to keep it there I would see if there's a tankless water heater that matches the performance. As long as you don't have to do that thing where you adjust the pressure. I doubt American models make you do that. Unfortunately, our gas service won't support a tankless without a lot of work. 
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some texas redneck posted:Unfortunately, our gas service won't support a tankless without a lot of work. What does it need? Just curious. I don't know much about this kind of stuff. My experience is having one in a European apartment, where it was nice to have it mounted high up and out of the way, not taking up valuable space in the bathroom :P. You couldn't (or shouldn't) do that with a conventional one because it's a safety hazard and of course they're much larger and heavier. I remember with some of the older units you had to look at the gauges and mess with either the water or gas pressure. I don't really remember because I didn't use that apartment much. If you had to do that obviously you couldn't have it in the attic. edit: the name of the heater was Junkers. Funny name, although they made planes for Germany in WW2. Kia Soul Enthusias fucked around with this message at 09:33 on May 11, 2015 |
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From what I understand, we'd have to run a larger pipe into the house. And the gas service entrance is diagonally across the house from the water heater, with no attic access in portions, so it would be pretty painful in terms of cost.
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Hell of a busy weekend in Cambridge, saw a Tesla Model S in the wild for the first time. Can't say it's an amazing looking car but it isn't bad looking either, it's more the gubbins on the inside that make it exciting. Saw a cool looking rat rod type thing someone must be working on as a project car but haven't yet downloaded any pictures.
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some texas redneck posted:From what I understand, we'd have to run a larger pipe into the house. And the gas service entrance is diagonally across the house from the water heater, with no attic access in portions, so it would be pretty painful in terms of cost. Ohhh I understand, because you're heating it all at once instead of slowly. Duh.
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freelop posted:Hell of a busy weekend in Cambridge, saw a Tesla Model S in the wild for the first time. Funnily enough that's why I like them, they don't look stupid on purpose like the prius. Wonder if tesla would ever sell a kit you can work into your donor car, battery, control electronics, charger, motor etc, you handle the conversion but don't have to worry about matching specs.
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freelop posted:Hell of a busy weekend in Cambridge, saw a Tesla Model S in the wild for the first time. The S is just so invisible considering what it actually is, it's actually pretty cool. A friend who works for JLR had one for testing purposes and we went for a ride in it, the interior is really nice and that car loving GOES I love it. You heading up to Motofest at the end of the month? Also this Tesla Powerwall thing looks fantastic but I'm thinking about it from a 'let's take a bunch of DJ gear, speakers and lights out to the countryside and throw a party' perspective as I hate generators.
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MonkeyNutZ posted:Holy poo poo you guys, I got my mechanical engineering degree today
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CommieGIR posted:Dr. Thorn admitted that he allowed them some artistic license, but would not allow them to violate the basic laws of physics. When they rendered the black hole, the data was so...good, that they managed to publish two new studies on the physics of black holes just from the rendering of it Yeah, when I was looking for cool Interstellar wallpapers I read a bit about how they wanted the black hole to look as real as possible but had never done anything on that level, and some individual frames from the movie took over a hundred hours to calculate and render. That's pretty drat impressive.
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Super Aggro Crag posted:I hate everyone and everything. ddddaaaaww, we hate you too 
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CommieGIR posted:Dr. Thorn admitted that he allowed them some artistic license, but would not allow them to violate the basic laws of physics. When they rendered the black hole, the data was so...good, that they managed to publish two new studies on the physics of black holes just from the rendering of it
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ilkhan posted:Black holes being spheres is apparently something that took a lot of people by surprise but to me was so elementary as to be "what's the big deal? Of course they are" level. Actually they're spheres-to-oblate spheres to some degree or another based on rotation. Theoretically.
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May 11, 2015 15:43
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Scanning Mobile Patrol local jail inmate app for M.I.A. (and potentially future) clients and I see that the preview summer prêt-à-porter fashion lineup features wife beater tanks and shirtless-ness. Always safe to build a wardrobe around the classics and accent with neck tattoos of the names of the women and/or kids you just assaulted, I say.
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ilkhan posted:Black holes being spheres is apparently something that took a lot of people by surprise but to me was so elementary as to be "what's the big deal? Of course they are" level. Yeah, it was one of the big surprises. I can't really thing of another big budget film that managed to get multiple scholarly papers published just from the data acquired during production.
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Any interest from any of the TN/GA/NC/SC crew in going rafting either this weekend or next? I'm looking at either the Chattooga Section IV or maybe the Nolichucky outside Johnson City, TN. I know it's kinda short notice, but I have some free time the next couple of weeks and I need a shot of adrenaline. PM me if anyone wants to go be a river rat for a day!
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