Factorio.
Because the factory had to grow and I would try to think of logistic solutions to the factory problems and bottlenecks. I remember thinking about it at work, eating, dreaming about it. The early days of factorio always bring a smile to my face for a feeling I cannot replicate again.
While I agree with you, Nuclear is also roughly location dependent. It needs a big enough body of water /River to dissipate the residual heat.
Nuclear plants aren't cars, this isn't nearly as feasible as it sounds.
Small modular Reactors are a step forward towards your idea, standarized modules that can be deployed to meet local demand.
But old 1Gwatt reactors? Fat chance. Each river, lake, sea, climate, supply chains, local regulations on safety and health requirements require lots of changes on the original design to "fit". Besides, we only "need" 1 type of car to move, yet we have 50 manufacturers and 500 new models each year. Westinghouse and General electric or Rolls Royce have wildly different approaches to generate the energy. From the eternal difference of Boiling water reactors VS Pressure water reactors, to more experimental designs like Canadian CANDU or others.
It would have been nice
Always from yourself, a wand you had in your hand while dying
You are already paying more than I am IN TAXES, but with none of the benefits of a functioning free healthcare system. On top of it, whenever you go for necessary healthcare procedures, you gotta pay on top, both insurance and whatever procedures and copays and medication, everything. You guys are getting shanked without even realising.
Imagine if you could even take the day off to visit your doctor, to check on you and make sure you actually are not developing some nasty disease and not "some cold" instead. You get still paid and if it turns out you actually have a cold, he gives you 5 days off so you dont infect your coworkers. While getting paid. And paying nothing for visit, medicine, or insurances.
Im baffled sometimes at the mental gymnastics you guys have to go through to cope with the fact that you are eating the propaganda.
USA pays more taxes per capita for their own absolutely abysmal free healthcare than most European countries with fully free healthcare. You are free to think your paycheck taxes are low. But don't try to argue with facts.
Of course we pay out medics with what's taken out of our Paychecks. But that's it. Even for open heart surgery, the worst expense in my country healthcare would be the parking at the hospital. In The USA you pay more per Capita, for the privilege of getting a beautiful 100k bill on a heart surgery because, of course, the 1k monthly insurance doesn't cover that particular heart problem, or you used an "out of network" doctor.
The mental gymnastics...
Yeah, I didn't even bother to reply myself.
New sheppard as competition is laughable at best from blue origin. Blue origin being awarded the contracts on NASA HLS without even an orbital capable rocket is laughable, without even mentioning the hypocrisy to even doubt why SpaceX was awarded the contracts in the first place and not stopping to think what even Blue origin can bring to the table.
Progress on the HLS from blue origin, another shiny MOCKUP of the lander last november. While spacex is out there blowing complete starships after starship to get shit done.
I would love to see actual competition on the new space race. But as things stand right now, Spacex is so, SO far ahead I seriously think they are going to establish a monopoly on launch systems for the next decade at least. Even if New Glenn doesn't fail on its maiden flight, it will be a competitor for Falcon Heavy, but not by a large margin. And we have yet to see that reusability
And despite all those problems they have to solve still, they can blow up a hundred starships in the cost and time span it took the goddamn SLS to launch once.
Its going to be late, you are absolutely right about that, since Spacex Elon always aims for impossible deadlines. But you can't argue it's going to be more expensive than any of the competition, since the competition doesn't even exist, other than the crazily overpriced SLS.
Hell, they managed to develop reusable Falcon 9 in a fraction of the cost that it took NASA to develop their "reusable" vehicle. And they made their own reason to keep launching them recouping the cost of both development and failures, Starlink. Originally Starship was a new method to launch even more starlink satelites per launch.
Mate, even using google to the maximum extent of your capabilities, you will never fully learn Path Of Exile. My advice is to use google heavily and freely, since the game mechanics are deeper than Marianna's trench. Been playing for more than 10 years and they add mechanics faster than i can learn them. So i just limit myself to "learn something new" in each league, and focus on having fun.
If it's for lore reasons, I don't think i even know what the game is about yet... The gameplay loop is too satisfying for me to care about the lore haha.
Barely visible, mandatory, in many times the worst times during mechanics that wanted you to split instead of getting closer. The % overall damage buff was less than the 10% increased health on mobs to compensate. Required addons/weakauras to track when and also how to get rid of it.
So everything was negative about it, unless you were a class that could synchronize their cooldowns with the buff... And even then...
Im all for seasonal affixes, but they always end up falling flat, like the miniboss from S1 shadowlands ending up incredibly punishing from over/under pulling anything. Id wish they made better kiss/curse affixes
If my opinion counts as something, i loved the new direction World of Warcraft has taken this expansion. The grind is gone. There is no more thread mill past the first couple weeks at worst, so all that is left is to enjoy whatever content you like without the fear of missing out or even thinking you could always be better. I had a blast for a whole year and I'm kind of looking forward for next expansion.
I work with machinery designed to do inspection on nuclear components. Where a human cannot realistically survive long enough to inspect the component due to radiation.
It is insanely difficult to design the robot to perform the inspection as if it was a human just passing a probe to check the component. Where if the component is not radioactive, a human can perform the inspection in just several hours, a robot can be insanely tricky to mimic the movements or have it be able to for simple things like changing a tool, it has to carry it and have it be able to change it on the fly without human intervention. The exponential nature of how many different tasks you have to perform reliably in one single machine makes this very very difficult to pull off.
Humans are very good at single unique and varied tasks and very bad at single simple repetitive tasks.
All I Can imagine of the future civilizations is that children will ask how they built the burj khalifa, with our ancient concrete and building techniques, and there is some excited professor eager to start using the slides to show the shit trucks leaving every day the skyscraper. As if it was a common occurrence for skyscrapers of our age
Most likely scenario is that the single cell that is modified doesnt even work and dies. ATP to ADP energy exchange is the building block of like... Half the biological machinery
Yeah, and average 38h workweek in USA my ass 🤣 .
Pyanodon is like having endless Factorio. You keep figuring out shit even at the endgame with really cool technologies and mechanics. The challenges never end, from power to logistic to complexity along the whole playthrough. Took me 1300h with the previous modpack if you two can work independently to figure out solutions it can be way faster
The earth is constantly bombarded by much higher energy particles than those collisions made on the LHC. "They" knew that before construction. if a high energy particle collision could cause... a black hole somehow, it would have happened before I ended typing this comment.
I was that student. When classes were designed so your grade was literally 90% of the last exam of the year? Why bother doing or turning a ton of exercises I knew already i could do?
Id get a 9 on an exam and pass with a 8.1/10 You just had to not get cocky and think you would 100% know it all on the exam, just do whatever you need to perform, not whatever bullshit amount was "mandatory"
One of those finals worth 95% of the grade
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