QuinceDaPence
@QuinceDaPence@kbin.social
- Comment on Stephen Fry wants King's Guard to ditch bear fur 10 months ago:
People do eat bear meat. I'm sure some just skin it and leave it but it is plenty edible.
- Comment on Stephen Fry wants King's Guard to ditch bear fur 10 months ago:
SCOBYs (Symbiotic Cultures of Bacteria and Yeast) could have some possible applications as fake leather but I don't know if anyone is working on it or if it could actually be made strong enough.
One example where we just do not have an equivalent is motorcycle gear. Yeah we have textile jackets, and I have one because where I am the risk of heat stroke in a leather jacket is more of a concern, but if you want abrasion resistance, leather is the best you can get. Can SCOBYs compete with that? I don't know.
- Comment on Air quality in there isn't too good 10 months ago:
He comes from a land down under.
- Comment on You can only pick one 10 months ago:
Yeah they bought some food company
- Comment on How to remove smell from lunch box? 11 months ago:
I'd start with washing and letting it sit in the sun a couple of days. If that doesn't work I'd go nuclear with an ozone generator just be easy with it or it will turn the food smell into an off-gasing plastic smell.
- Comment on The perfect morning 11 months ago:
I love operating heavy machinery as long as I don't have to get out/off the heavy machinery.
If I have to get off to fix it when it breaks then I'm unhappy.
Using an airconditioned tractor for literally anything, fun. Unjamming the fucking hay bailer when it's over 100F and 95% humidity and there's dust everywhere, not fun.
- Comment on talk shit, get bit 11 months ago:
In the US there is the 'Ghost Flower' or 'Indian Pipe' which is parasitic to fungus which is parasitic to the host tree. It is totally white with no chlorophyll.
It's parasites all the way down.
- Comment on UK workers ‘should get day off’ if workplace is hotter than 30C 11 months ago:
Y'all got windows though right? You could throw some portables in.
- Comment on Does anyone know what to call this sort of fan optimization or have any reading material on how it works or how to design them? 11 months ago:
Ah. So yeah like the other person said those static blades are stators. I havent found a good name for the cone aside from "aft cone" but that's more for turbines. The stators should help it make pressure (that's what they do in turbines) but the only reason I see for the aft cone is reduction of turbulence and since this is for cooling the hot end turbulence is actually a positive thing because it reduces the skin of hot air that sits against the heatsink fins.
If you're pusing enough air you may benefit from a nose cone but it should probably be more hemispherical. Also an intake cone that's like a trumpet bell might be beneficial.
For noise, most is probably in the blades but you may see some reduction by adding a sweep to your stators and/or adding a jaged pattern in some places like all the new jet engines do. Like this: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/qtd2_sunrise_3024x2016_0.jpg
- Comment on Does anyone know what to call this sort of fan optimization or have any reading material on how it works or how to design them? 11 months ago:
What exactly are you trying to do, if you don't mind my asking?
Just trying to quiet those loud fans?
- Comment on Does anyone know what to call this sort of fan optimization or have any reading material on how it works or how to design them? 11 months ago:
The cone shaped hub in the middle? Same reason you'd see a pointed nose or tail on a plane, to reduce drag and turbulence and possibly noise. With some fans it doesn't really matter but at high enough flows it'll become worth it to spend the extra money on that part to make it cone shaped.
Look at airplane propellers. On them that part is called a spinner. On an old, slow, biplane with tons of cables and other draggy parts, it likely wont have one because it'll make no difference anyway. But on anything that's the slightest bit sleek you'll have one because it will significantly reduce drag.
- Comment on 24/7 solar towers could double energy output 11 months ago:
Photovoltaic doesn't require water. What are you talking about?
- Comment on Fishing 11 months ago:
Gotta get that "y'all all" or "all y'all" going if that's what they're going for.
- Comment on Researchers predict that eventually all memes will be Trek. 11 months ago:
Closer
- Comment on warning 11 months ago:
Yeah definitely. Keep it in and adjust to match.
- Comment on Air: Where did that bring you? Back to me. 11 months ago:
And get more surface area to the air than you could with straight air cooling.
And control the temperature more acurately if desired through a thermostat.
- Comment on Air: Where did that bring you? Back to me. 11 months ago:
My grandpa has a Vanagon but it's in kinda rough shape.
Body is pretty good but the interior is pretty much gone and it has electrical grimlins so it either starts and drives perfectly or just screams at you doesn't even attempt to start.
Super cool vehicle though.
- Comment on warning 11 months ago:
What was the original sign?
- Comment on Brave truth teller. 11 months ago:
In addition to that. It's probably mocking these places where it asks if you want to leave a tip when you didn't see a single employee your entire visit. Or counter service/fast food etc.
- Comment on Do I need a license to kill a squirrel? 11 months ago:
You just gotta add a sign that says "Warning: trapping wild animals without a license is illegal. This trap is for feral cats only. Any wild animals found in this trap will be shot on sight."
- Comment on Dumb question: Is it safe to use extension ladder on interrior wall? 11 months ago:
We have pool noodles split in half and zip tied to the part or the later that touches.
Near the frame of the windows it should be strongest unless the corners were done wrong. They should have metal things there to support the corner under the texture, and it should have double 2x4s all around it.
- Comment on A good boy with good grades. 11 months ago:
Wait 'till they meet Charlie B.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 11 months ago:
That's because it's a made up number that they add on instead of just pricing the vehicle accurately. So then they advertise it as $60K and then add the market adjustment of $40K.
If I was Attorney General I'd be shutting dealers down if the price before TTL was even $1 higher than the advertised price.
- Comment on Incident in the parking lot 11 months ago:
I was going to say the same thing.
The first two parked vehicles look like the Pessima and the LeGran
- Comment on When Horses replace electric is the circle complete? 11 months ago:
There's a few reasons for that. One is obviously the having to get off the horse to deal with it but also dog poop smells way worse and doesn't degrade the same as horses does. It really doesn't take that long for horse poop to turn to pretty much dirt.
-someone who's shoveled or mowed over my fair share of both
- Comment on Are you REALLY a fan? 11 months ago:
Planing vs displacement.
An aircraft carrier is limited by its hull speed to about 45 pretty much no matter how much power you give it.
A slow jetski will do 65. I've heen on ones that would do that with the "slow" key where supposedly the fast key would let you do 85-90.
I've also been on a tri-tune that did 75.
An aircraft carrier is about the fastest displacement vessel but when you move into planing hulls its a different ball game.
- Comment on Are you REALLY a fan? 11 months ago:
I can shoot a pistol from a jet-ski and go faster than an aircraft carrier. Is that a ship?
- Comment on Are you REALLY a fan? 11 months ago:
They're vessels but I don't think they'd qualify as ships.
If I ask you to name every ship in the Navy I do not want RHIBs, dinghys, tenders, lifeboats or rafts included, but if I ask for every vessel, then if the Navy owns a kayak I want it listed.
- Comment on Can anyone confirm? 11 months ago:
I'd expect the crushed up bones of their enemies to be more of a Finnish thing. Which is also why I'm glad they're on our side.
- Comment on Take one! 1 year ago:
Correct. If you take a totally clean, disinfected nail, stick it in some lab grade brine until it gets rusty, and then stab yourself with it, there is a 0% chance of getting tetanus.
You could technically have tetanus on something without it being covered in dirt. My point is tetanus bacteria lives in the dirt. But the rust has nothing to do with it other than making the metal more likely to cut or pierce you.
People tend to think the rust is what causes it.
