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Panfilo posted:What's amazing about this photo is how much it looks like a place from earth. I think part of our fascination with Mars is that to a degree it feels 'familiar' to people; it's not some airless world or gas giant. Just a reminder that that photo has been color corrected to make it look like what you'd see if Mars had Earth's atmosphere.
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HawkHill posted:Just a reminder that that photo has been color corrected to make it look like what you'd see
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freelop posted:It looks so nice and peaceful and yet is utterly deadly to humans (without a device to keep you alive) Just a friendly reminder that you described 70% of planet Erf
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Bad rear end vehicles, if by bad rear end you mean large, black and angular:      Bad rear end spaces:   
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HawkHill posted:Just a reminder that that photo has been color corrected to make it look like what you'd see So what is the actual colour of Mars' land & sky?
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spookygonk posted:So what is the actual colour of Mars' land & sky? RustRed and rust redbrown.
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HawkHill posted:Just a reminder that that photo has been color corrected to make it look like what you'd see if Mars had Earth's atmosphere. What, why would they do that? Where can we see the actual picture?
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Phlegmish posted:What, why would they do that? Where can we see the actual picture? What they do for color correction is really interesting. http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/spotlight/spirit/a12_20040128.html
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I never really asked why but the wings are reversed for what reason? More lift? Seems like it would make for some stranger handling. shadow puppet of a posted:
Japan? I saw this thing on EDTalks where this guy bought this land for like 3,000 dollars and it had a house that was "worthless." It was actually like 300 years old and he ended up restoring it and making it look beautiful. Japanese archers tires is always one of my favorite building types, of which there are very few. Also where is that last place because holy poo poo.
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Phlegmish posted:What, why would they do that? Where can we see the actual picture? You, being a human, see more detail if it's presented in a familiar color scale. Seeing red on red on grey is literally harder to look at. It looks more like a vista with depth then a wall of rocks.
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Soulex posted:I never really asked why but the wings are reversed for what reason? More lift? Seems like it would make for some stranger handling. I believe it improves the aerodnamic performance, but at the cost of making the airframe much harder to engineer. Someone who know's more about aeronautical engineering could correct me though. quote:Japan? I saw this thing on EDTalks where this guy bought this land for like 3,000 dollars and it had a house that was "worthless." It was actually like 300 years old and he ended up restoring it and making it look beautiful. Japanese archers tires is always one of my favorite building types, of which there are very few. Yes, Japan. The last place is a neutrino telescope (in Japan). Basically, you need a space with a very clean/consistent medium to detect neutrinos because they don't interact with matter much. Having a huge cave with very pure water is a good way of doing that.
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Soulex posted:Also where is that last place because holy poo poo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Kamiokande
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shadow puppet of a posted:Bad rear end spaces: Isn't this the building where Platinum works? I always thought it was appropriate that it looked like a place that a crazy boss fight could happen on top of it.
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Buckets posted:Isn't this the building where Platinum works? I always thought it was appropriate that it looked like a place that a crazy boss fight could happen on top of it. You're right. https://www.platinumgames.com/official-blog/article/6449 A whole level and hopefully an interesting gimmick boss fight on top.
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:I believe it improves the aerodnamic performance, but at the cost of making the airframe much harder to engineer. Someone who know's more about aeronautical engineering could correct me though. Basically a forward swept wing should theoretically increase control at high angles of attack. However the downsides (engineering complexity, instability during yawing, worse control in a stall) seem to have outweighed the benefits, since thrust vectoring gets you similar high-AOA control but can be done with "conventional" aircraft configurations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpm7oWAe9Dg
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shadow puppet of a posted:Bad rear end vehicles, if by bad rear end you mean large, black and angular: And no SR-71? For shame, shadow puppet of a. For shame. 
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:What they do for color correction is really interesting. Isn't that a description of what NASA does to get 'true color'? This image isn't true color. http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/pia20332/full-circle-vista-from-naukluft-plateau-on-mars The text for the image says: quote:The scene is presented with a color adjustment that approximates white balancing, to resemble how the rocks and sand would appear under daytime lighting conditions on Earth.
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The Midniter posted:And no SR-71? For shame, shadow puppet of a. For shame. The SR-71 is truly cool as gently caress.
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Rough Lobster posted:The SR-71 is truly cool as gently caress. Someone has that Sled Driver excerpt about radioing in a speed check saved, right? That thing is always an enjoyable read.
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Eat This Glob posted:Someone has that Sled Driver excerpt about radioing in a speed check saved, right? That thing is always an enjoyable read. I now prefer reposting this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3ao5SCedIk Rather than that. It blows my mind that they were able to figure all that stuff out starting back in 1958 with that era's level of computerization.
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shadow puppet of a posted:Bad rear end vehicles, if by bad rear end you mean large, black and angular:   I have a 1GB folder of pictures of interesting and esoteric aircraft.
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The Midniter posted:And no SR-71? For shame, shadow puppet of a. For shame.  And its badass ejection-testing protocols: quote:In an unusual test program, live bears and chimpanzees were successfully used to test the ejection system.  They made a Pez dispenser for live bears.
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Tiberius Thyben posted:I have a 1GB folder of pictures of interesting and esoteric aircraft. 
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shadow puppet of a posted:Post any and all that involve planes engaged in sensual foreplay. "Do you even lift, bro?"
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shadow puppet of a posted:Sorry but my Ameri-plane heart forever belongs to the Convair Hustler.  There was a proposed passenger variant, too! 
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Eat This Glob posted:Someone has that Sled Driver excerpt about radioing in a speed check saved, right? That thing is always an enjoyable read. There were a lot of things we couldn't do in an SR-71, but we were the fastest guys on the block and loved reminding our fellow aviators of this fact. People often asked us if, because of this fact, it was fun to fly the jet. Fun would not be the first word I would use to describe flying this plane. Intense, maybe. Even cerebral. But there was one day in our Sled experience when we would have to say that it was pure fun to be the fastest guys out there, at least for a moment. It occurred when Walt and I were flying our final training sortie. We needed 100 hours in the jet to complete our training and attain Mission Ready status. Somewhere over Colorado we had passed the century mark. We had made the turn in Arizona and the jet was performing flawlessly. My gauges were wired in the front seat and we were starting to feel pretty good about ourselves, not only because we would soon be flying real missions but because we had gained a great deal of confidence in the plane in the past ten months. Ripping across the barren deserts 80,000 feet below us, I could already see the coast of California from the Arizona border. I was, finally, after many humbling months of simulators and study, ahead of the jet. I was beginning to feel a bit sorry for Walter in the back seat. There he was, with no really good view of the incredible sights before us, tasked with monitoring four different radios. This was good practice for him for when we began flying real missions, when a priority transmission from headquarters could be vital. It had been difficult, too, for me to relinquish control of the radios, as during my entire flying career I had controlled my own transmissions. But it was part of the division of duties in this plane and I had adjusted to it. I still insisted on talking on the radio while we were on the ground, however. Walt was so good at many things, but he couldn't match my expertise at sounding smooth on the radios, a skill that had been honed sharply with years in fighter squadrons where the slightest radio miscue was grounds for beheading. He understood that and allowed me that luxury. Just to get a sense of what Walt had to contend with, I pulled the radio toggle switches and monitored the frequencies along with him. The predominant radio chatter was from Los Angeles Center, far below us, controlling daily traffic in their sector. While they had us on their scope (albeit briefly), we were in uncontrolled airspace and normally would not talk to them unless we needed to descend into their airspace. We listened as the shaky voice of a lone Cessna pilot asked Center for a readout of his ground speed. Center replied: "November Charlie 175, I'm showing you at ninety knots on the ground." Now the thing to understand about Center controllers, was that whether they were talking to a rookie pilot in a Cessna, or to Air Force One, they always spoke in the exact same, calm, deep, professional, tone that made one feel important. I referred to it as the " Houston Center voice." I have always felt that after years of seeing documentaries on this country's space program and listening to the calm and distinct voice of the Houston controllers, that all other controllers since then wanted to sound like that, and that they basically did. And it didn't matter what sector of the country we would be flying in, it always seemed like the same guy was talking. Over the years that tone of voice had become somewhat of a comforting sound to pilots everywhere. Conversely, over the years, pilots always wanted to ensure that, when transmitting, they sounded like Chuck Yeager, or at least like John Wayne. Better to die than sound bad on the radios. Just moments after the Cessna's inquiry, a Twin Beech piped up on frequency, in a rather superior tone, asking for his ground speed. "I have you at one hundred and twenty-five knots of ground speed." Boy, I thought, the Beechcraft really must think he is dazzling his Cessna brethren. Then out of the blue, a navy F-18 pilot out of NAS Lemoore came up on frequency. You knew right away it was a Navy jock because he sounded very cool on the radios. "Center, Dusty 52 ground speed check". Before Center could reply, I'm thinking to myself, hey, Dusty 52 has a ground speed indicator in that million-dollar cockpit, so why is he asking Center for a readout? Then I got it, ol' Dusty here is making sure that every bug smasher from Mount Whitney to the Mojave knows what true speed is. He's the fastest dude in the valley today, and he just wants everyone to know how much fun he is having in his new Hornet. And the reply, always with that same, calm, voice, with more distinct alliteration than emotion: "Dusty 52, Center, we have you at 620 on the ground." And I thought to myself, is this a ripe situation, or what? As my hand instinctively reached for the mic button, I had to remind myself that Walt was in control of the radios. Still, I thought, it must be done - in mere seconds we'll be out of the sector and the opportunity will be lost. That Hornet must die, and die now. I thought about all of our Sim training and how important it was that we developed well as a crew and knew that to jump in on the radios now would destroy the integrity of all that we had worked toward becoming. I was torn. Somewhere, 13 miles above Arizona, there was a pilot screaming inside his space helmet. Then, I heard it. The click of the mic button from the back seat. That was the very moment that I knew Walter and I had become a crew. Very professionally, and with no emotion, Walter spoke: "Los Angeles Center, Aspen 20, can you give us a ground speed check?" There was no hesitation, and the replay came as if was an everyday request. "Aspen 20, I show you at one thousand eight hundred and forty-two knots, across the ground." I think it was the forty-two knots that I liked the best, so accurate and proud was Center to deliver that information without hesitation, and you just knew he was smiling. But the precise point at which I knew that Walt and I were going to be really good friends for a long time was when he keyed the mic once again to say, in his most fighter-pilot-like voice: "Ah, Center, much thanks, we're showing closer to nineteen hundred on the money." For a moment Walter was a god. And we finally heard a little crack in the armor of the Houston Center voice, when L.A.came back with, "Roger that Aspen, Your equipment is probably more accurate than ours. You boys have a good one." It all had lasted for just moments, but in that short, memorable sprint across the southwest, the Navy had been flamed, all mortal airplanes on freq were forced to bow before the King of Speed, and more importantly, Walter and I had crossed the threshold of being a crew. A fine day's work. We never heard another transmission on that frequency all the way to the coast. For just one day, it truly was fun being the fastest guys out there. From this book http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0929823087/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0929823087&linkCode=as2&tag=bjw-20 Kilo147 has a new favorite as of 03:36 on May 7, 2016 |
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shadow puppet of a posted:It blows my mind that they were able to figure all that stuff out starting back in 1958 with that era's level of computerization. The Skunk Works guys were no joke. I've mentioned it before but I recommend reading Ben Rich's memoir of his time there (if you haven't already), it's a great look at what it was like to work there as well as the development process of several planes (primarily the F-117A but there's also a bunch of stuff about the SR-71 and the U-2).
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Kilo147 posted:... And on the opposite edge of the speed scale: quote:SR-71 pilot and keynote speaker, the question I'm most often asked is : "How fast would that SR-71 fly ?" I can be assured of hearing that question several times at any event I attend.
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I loving love these stories, I'll never tire of them.
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XB-70 experimental bomber Originally designed to run on HEF-3, a fuel that was highly toxic and corrosive and even produced a toxic exhaust. I've seen the only remaining one out at the USAF Museum at WPAFB, and it's just amazing that something that colossal could fly at Mach 3.3 for the entire flight.
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Who put these bolts of lighting in our air supply? Who put them in our lava supply? Makes you think because you know ten years ago twenty years ago this stuff didn't happen.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Who put these bolts of lighting in our air supply? Who put them in our lava supply? Makes you think because you know ten years ago twenty years ago this stuff didn't happen. Ken, what are you talking about? Lightning bolts are just static electricity. Didn't you ever take a high school science course?
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Volcanic sturm und drang. 
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shadow puppet of a posted:And its badass ejection-testing protocol Shoot down enemy plane. Find escape pod. Carefully open, knowing you have the drop on the unsuspecting pilot inside...
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Kilo147 posted:SR-71 stuff Here it is more formatted: http://wesclark.com/burbank/sr_71.html Also, the story above is excellent as well.
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Rolo posted:Shoot down enemy plane. Find escape pod. Carefully open, knowing you have the drop on the unsuspecting pilot inside... Frankly, I would have thought the Russians to be the ones to come up with the concept of bear bombs.
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