05:34 <Greys> so, in a movie, that takes place in space, where there are wars, there is a scene where one ship "bombs" another ship, like carpet bombing, in space.

05:34 <Greys> does educating the populous on niche topics like orbital mechanics, that arguably will not be useful to their lives, make movies worse

05:37 <Greys> if I hadn't gotten into KSP, I don't think it would be readily obvious to me that you can't fucking bomb a thing in orbit from another thing in orbit, you can't drop shit from orbit A to orbit B, where A and B are similar; you might be able to drift slowly between them, sometimes, at certain parts of the orbit, but that's not going to be in a general downward direction

05:38 <Greys> so if I didn't know all of this stuff that's not useful to my life, I would be capable of believing that scene

07:27 <TheKosmonaut> The Star Wars bombing thing?

07:27 <TheKosmonaut> It was accurate to the extent of the technology in Star Wars

07:27 <TheKosmonaut> The bombs are electromagnetically driven

07:28 <TheKosmonaut> As for why they wouldn’t launch them from a distance it was because they had to fly through the shields first.

17:47 <Greys> if the magnet was strong enough to pull it to the other ship, it would be strong enough to collapse the ship launching it

19:07 <Greys> SilverFox, a while back you asked a question I don't remember about "direct drive", and I gave a dodge answer; I just learned that direct drive is a type of 3D printer filament mechanism

19:08 <Greys> I imagine that even with appropriate filaments direct drive is more accurate than the other kind that I don't know the word for

19:09 <Greys> does anyone make a 3D printer that uses a liquid material which coagulates in response to being pushed through the hot end?

19:17 <SilverFox> I probably wouldnt ask you about direct drive mechanisms in 3d printers, tbh

19:17 <Greys> mmkay

19:17 <Greys> then there was AvE's belt grinder, it was direct drive

19:19 <Greys> in the beld grinders I've used most of them have been belt drive; this is a choice exclusively made to allow the motor to be in a better position to make the machine as a whole smaller; but his belt grinder is way more of a grinder where the smaller ones are more like huge belt sanders

19:19 <Greys> I've never seen a belt drive belt grinder that had significant gearing ratio; so the direct drive would perform the same except it wouldn't have a belt that could slip

19:21 <SilverFox> that was the direct drive i was on about

19:22 <Greys> makes sense; short of it; direct drive will operate correctly at higher torques, which let you use higher speeds; but the machine gets a lot bigger

19:22 <SilverFox> whats the benefit of high speed grinding?

19:23 <SilverFox> me thinks there'd be a maximum useful speed

19:26 <Greys> cutting speed is a huge deal in machining, with a single belt going different speeds will remove different amounts of material in a not quite linear way; it'll have wildly varying surface finish, heat generation is a big deal but that's mostly about going slower

19:27 <Greys> as a pretty distant example, if you run a drill bit too slow, even at the correct feed rate for that speed; it'll just explode

19:32 <Greys> you may enjoy to get a physical or digital copy of the Machinery's Handbook, my copy is 29th edition; it's the industry standard encyclopedia of how and why to do any machining from the formulas and tables of thread profiles to how fast to spin the thing when you're going to touch two things together for the purposes of removing material; to specifications of various G-code formats

19:35 <Greys> here is the relevant table https://i.imgur.com/3HwIPDe.png

19:41 <Greys> there's also fun stuff like this https://i.imgur.com/YJaHXSC.png

19:59 <TheKosmonaut> Greys: no it wouldn’t be. Also, I don’t mean they’re magnetically drawn to the target, but the rails they’re on were supposedly magnetic rails that propelled the bombs.

20:03 <Greys> ok so they're more like magnetic mortars, thrown at first and then later guided

20:08 <Greys> some youtuber should make a mortar-launch FPV glider

20:08 <Greys> no onboard propulsion, it just gets thrown out of a tube and then the wings flip out like peter sripol's replica javelin

20:10 <Greys> basically peter's javelin but instead of being launched near-horizontal with an onboard rocket, shot straight up from a cannon

20:25 <Greys> who wants to be a smallbusinessaire

20:25 <Greys> buy a very small retail storefront and a laser cutter, sell the service of people bring you a file, some material, and you cut the file out of the material; 30$/hr or whatever

20:26 <Greys> then buy more lasercutters as profits allow

20:52 <Greys> SilverFox, what's a typical wattage for the kinds of laser cutters that normal people might buy

20:52 <SilverFox> dunno

20:52 <SilverFox> laser cutters arent my business

20:52 <Greys> does 2200 watts sound close to that?

21:17 <SilverFox> dunno, laser cutters arent my business

21:17 <Greys> what if the laser cutter had a great butt

21:18 <Greys> or a mild infection

21:22 <SilverFox> 1) I'd look at it 2) call doc to order anti-biotics

21:25 <Greys> the laser cutter is allergic to pennicilin; what's the dosage for a 2.2kW cutter?

21:26 <SilverFox> notify doc of allergy

21:26 <SilverFox> done

21:26 <Greys> patient probably ways 7 tons

21:26 <Greys> weighs*

21:27 <SilverFox> why do you want a 7 ton laser cutter?

21:28 <Greys> oh no, it's not for me, it's a local company, they have this thing

21:28 <SilverFox> great, they'll figure it out then, not my issue

22:25 <Greys> hey look, a bunch of words that don't really make much sense together and then a video about a cool device (but not the pornographic series cool devices) https://youtu.be/nSE3GmUdxoQ

22:25 <kmath> YouTube - 16 Cylinder Gas Powered Stirling Engine

22:25 <FoxBot9000> yt: 16 Cylinder Gas Powered Stirling Engine | JohnnyQ90

22:32 <SilverFox> this makes perfect sense

22:32 <SilverFox> there's 16 cylinders to a sterling engine which is heated by gas power

22:55 <Greys> if you had a brother and then your brother died and then you shot his ashes at a crowd, how would you feel

23:01 <lpg> if that was his wish, then... fulfilled?

23:14 <Greys> his wish was for your mom to kill your neighbor

23:23 <Djohaal> goddamnit KSP is becoming an expensive hobby(addiction?)

23:23 <Greys> how?

23:23 <Djohaal> going to buy more 8GB of RAM to keep it from crashing during memory spikes

23:23 <Greys> at least 8gb of ram is a cheap item these days

23:24 <Greys> I got 16gb of ram for 50$ last year

23:24 <SilverFox> "cheap" it's not

23:24 <SilverFox> 16GB is like, 200$

23:24 <Djohaal> I'm in brazil shit is overpriced here

23:24 <Djohaal> for starters we have 100% customs tax

23:24 <SilverFox> noice

23:25 <Greys> you should move to any place that's not worse than brazil; like.............

23:25 <SilverFox> venezuela lul

23:25 <Djohaal> I'm a doctor, doctor unions everywhere are xenophobic cunts that presume I learned how to cure people with leeches

23:26 <SilverFox> that's pretty true

23:26 <SilverFox> rip

23:26 <SilverFox> leech doctor 19xx-2017

23:26 <Greys> I mean, I'm sure that's true and that you could get over it; but I can't suggest moving to america for many other reasons, and canadian dollars are worth like 4 trees at the moment

23:26 <SilverFox> ;wa 1CAD to USD

23:26 <kmath> SilverFox: convert C$1 (Canadian dollar) to US dollars: $0.78 (US dollars)

23:27 <SilverFox> stable so far

23:27 <Greys> ;wa brazillion money to CAD

23:27 <kmath> Greys: Wolfram couldn't understand your gibberish

23:27 <Greys> ;wa brazil to CAD

23:27 <kmath> Greys: center of Brazil to Wexford County Airport: 6748 km (kilometers)

23:27 <Greys> of course

23:27 <Greys> SilverFox, go fly that

23:28 <SilverFox> you go fly that

23:28 <SilverFox> fuck you

23:28 <Greys> I don't do flight sims

23:28 <Greys> ;wa 1 BRL to CAD

23:28 <kmath> Greys: convert R$1 (Brazilian real) to Canadian dollars: C$0.39 (Canadian dollars)

23:28 <Greys> SilverFox, how much does a big mac cost at mcdonalds

23:28 <SilverFox> Djohaal, did you have to take a class called healthcare consumer or some shit?

23:29 <SilverFox> how american of you, comparing big mac prices

23:29 <Djohaal> we had a couple of courses we jokingly called health and socialism

23:29 <Djohaal> where they kept bullshiting that cuban healthcare is the best in the world

23:29 <SilverFox> pfffffffft

23:29 <SilverFox> good shit

23:29 <Greys> Cuba has healthcare?

23:29 <SilverFox> yes

23:30 <Greys> according to 2014, a big mac costs 5.25$ in canada

23:30 <Greys> ;wa 5.25 CAD in 2014 to cad in 2017

23:30 <kmath> Greys: Wolfram couldn't understand your gibberish

23:31 <SilverFox> anyways, we have a healthcare consumer class and it's basically a nursing history class and which reports led to what health bills and its totally useless to us practically because knowing the healthcare act came in like 1984 isn't going to prevent my patient from getting out of bed

23:32 <Greys> according to statista canadian big macs are currently 4.66CAD, american big macs are 5.30USD, and brazilian bigmacs are 5.1BRL

23:32 <Greys> wait

23:32 <Greys> all that is in USD

23:33 <Greys> ;wa 5.3USD to CAD

23:33 <kmath> Greys: convert $5.30 (US dollars) to Canadian dollars: C$6.75 (Canadian dollars)

23:33 <Greys> ;wa 4.66USD to CAD

23:33 <kmath> Greys: convert $4.66 (US dollars) to Canadian dollars: C$5.94 (Canadian dollars)

23:33 <Greys> ;wa 4.66USD to BRL

23:33 <kmath> Greys: convert $4.66 (US dollars) to Brazilian reais: R$15.42 (Brazilian reais)

23:47 <Greys> ;wa 163080BRL to USD

23:47 <kmath> Greys: convert R$163080 (Brazilian reais) to US dollars: $49290 (US dollars)

23:48 <Greys> I think it's safe to say, even if america fucks you over you'd end up with a sizable raise

23:48 <Greys> https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/brazil-doctor-salary-SRCH_IL.0,6_IN36_KO7,13.htm

23:49 <Djohaal> heh

23:49 <Greys> also when I signed up for health care recently there were literally no doctors I could select as my PCF that were educated in america

23:56 <Greys> PCP, because PHzzzzician