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Finally upgrading my win 10 T530 to Ubuntu to match my x230 tonight! Desktop is still windows but someday...

Before the next earthquake hits WA, we need to fix our bricks | Op-Ed An earthquake like the 2001 Nisqually quake will strike again, and it could be more damaging. What is certain is that we can make structures safer.

“If Washington has the will, we certainly have the means to make our state safer and better before the next time an earthquake strikes.” Read this op-ed from PNSN director @haroldtobin@bsky.social in today’s Seattle Times about how we can #FixtheBricks: www.seattletimes.com/opinion/befo...

Since it's changing both the surface texture and flexibility I can't see how it wouldn't

If you have foam to spare that would be an interesting test though

Hey Styropyro, we found another fun thing to do with 400 car batteries!

Oh hey I got that notification this morning too (I have myshake setup to notify me about basically anything that happens in the Puget Sound area lol)

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The color of the sky in Seattle is pastel gray #ced0cb

I looked on their site and they don't specify how much fuel goes into it but even if you assume it's 10x the weight of the evinci (which it isn't...because it fit on the plane) you still get ahead of diesel in a couple weeks

Instead of condescending why don't you do some actual math!

Even accounting for neutron activation (the reactor parts become slightly radioactive over time) uranium is so so energy dense that if you had to treat the whole weight as high-level nuclear waste you still come out ahead of burning diesel. All that diesel doesn't just disappear!

Diesel Generator Fuel Consumption Chart | Worldwide Power Products Worldwide Power Products provides fuel consumption chart of a diesel generator based on the size & load of generator. Download diesel fuel consumption chart.

Generator fuel requirements: share.google/fQ8R8taRocBU...

A similar design uses no water for cooling: share.google/21KyC8bOTcTu...

It weighs about 15 tons and lasts up to eight years, you burn that much weight in fuel in like 3 days in a diesel generator 1/2 the size running at 50%

Of course I think it's a really bad idea to put a reactor in a war zone where it could get blown up and I can't speak to what safety measures this specific design includes or does not include, although modern designs are much more fault tolerant than they used to be

It's the math. A reactor this size uses like 10s to 100s of lbs of fuel and has to be refueled in 1/2 a yr to years. A megawatt diesel generator will easily burn through 100s of lbs of fuel in a day, and each lb turns into ~6lbs of CO2 + NO2, particulates. Etc. and that's not in a convenient package

This thing generates about as much waste in a couple years as a diesel/nat. gas generator vents into the air or leaks onto the ground in a few weeks

Not to say this is a good plan for emergency use (need more info) but you've gotta look at the actual alternatives

Read more books!

Trans rights are non-negotiable

Yeah I'm used to road paving where that gets you like two parking spaces worth if you're lucky lmao, apparently you can get away with thinner for parking lots

But I just did the flagging/shoveling so I don't have as much of a sense for how much that'll cover without converting to truckloads first

If my math is right that's around enough to pave 4 parking spaces (or two plus a bit of driveway) so yeah not very much haha

10 tons sounds like a lot until you remember asphalt is really heavy

You can see the bridge flex a bit especially at the ends!

No! My apple strofe

Yeah! The second and fifth longest floating bridges in the world! #1 is just a bit north and #3 is just a ferry ride and a quick drive away

I can't wait to actually ride a train across next month when they open it to passengers

* they're

Augh

The i-90 floating bridge as seen from the west shore of lake Washington. A sounds transit light rail train can be seen running along the tracks

The I-90 floating bridge with a light rail train near the middle of the bridge on a sunny day looking east

Confirmed there running trains across the bridge! Also great to see the decreased headways from interlining

Train Misconductor on Steam Train Misconductor is a railroad switching puzzle game, inspired by model railway shunting puzzle layouts like the Inglenook. You operate a modern steam engine on an alien planet, moving cars between ...

Wishlist and play the demo on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4097480/...

At long last, Train Misconductor (demo) is finally ready to play! We've been working on this game for a long time now and we're excited to finally put it into players' hands!

#IndieDev #GameDev #TrainMisconductor #Demo

Oh I think I might have seen one of those a couple days ago, I was trying to figure it out!

We have tons of the rivian vans around here

First we have to deal with people calling Texas "the west," now Washington is in the Midwest?! Enough already!

Underpromise, overdeliver! Love to see it

Four drawings of a mars base lab, counterclockwise from top left: -The base in daytime, seen from close by at standing height. It is composed of multiple cylindrical modules. The nearest module has a windowed cupola. Further away is an airlock module with two suitports, one occupied. To the left is a docking port door. -The same point of view but at night, as if see through a night vision camera. Light emanates from several windows and lights around the lab, spilling onto the regolith. Green heads-up display text is overlaid onto the image as well as navigation waypoints. -A top-down sketch of the plant growing, biosafety lab, and general lab modules of the lab, each attached at one end to a corridor module. -A cutaway sketch of a single module, showing the HDPE radiation protection, miscellaneous HVAC equipment, the floor, and a single potted plant for scale

A series of sketches showing the mars base lab module. One shows a way to cover the sub-modules with regolith. Another shows a top down view of the whole lab, with four lab modules branching off from a connecting corridor. A thin walking tube stretches to the right over a rover track. Two airlocks are attached to the lab modules. Another sketch shows two cutaways of the plat growth module, one with a gantry-style robot servicing plant trays with walking corridors on either side, and the other with a robot arm and a single corridor. The vibration-isolating supporting structure is also visible underneath the modules. The final sketch shows how the modules can be landed on the surface, unpacked, inflated, and fitted out with radiation protection and stiffening rings without exposing the inside to dangerous mars dust.

Mars Base Lab module for discord drawing event!

Four drawings of a mars base lab, counterclockwise from top left: -The base in daytime, seen from close by at standing height. It is composed of multiple cylindrical modules. The nearest module has a windowed cupola. Further away is an airlock module with two suitports, one occupied. To the left is a docking port door. -The same point of view but at night, as if see through a night vision camera. Light emanates from several windows and lights around the lab, spilling onto the regolith. Green heads-up display text is overlaid onto the image as well as navigation waypoints. -A top-down sketch of the plant growing, biosafety lab, and general lab modules of the lab, each attached at one end to a corridor module. -A cutaway sketch of a single module, showing the HDPE radiation protection, miscellaneous HVAC equipment, the floor, and a single potted plant for scale

A series of sketches showing the mars base lab module. One shows a way to cover the sub-modules with regolith. Another shows a top down view of the whole lab, with four lab modules branching off from a connecting corridor. A thin walking tube stretches to the right over a rover track. Two airlocks are attached to the lab modules. Another sketch shows two cutaways of the plat growth module, one with a gantry-style robot servicing plant trays with walking corridors on either side, and the other with a robot arm and a single corridor. The vibration-isolating supporting structure is also visible underneath the modules. The final sketch shows how the modules can be landed on the surface, unpacked, inflated, and fitted out with radiation protection and stiffening rings without exposing the inside to dangerous mars dust.

Mars Base Lab module for discord drawing event!