there is absolutely a right and a wrong answer
A Scion of Many Worlds
Magrica glances over to the side as they fly. The Grand Midwives were more than a little stupid during night flights and...
“We’re being followed.” Horace says in his bizarre accent. He speaks the words but there is nothing to signify where he is from. The natural trill of a Urthani is there, but suppressed so ruthlessly that it barely can be heard.
“Where?” She asks turning to him and he points over his shoulder and upward. She glances back and sees a winding shape along the stars. It crosses the ribbon of the world and she can see that it is an Aerial Nagasha. Her flattened body easily cutting along the rising warm winds from below.
“Oh cute! She’s going to try and track us.” Magrica says with a daredevil smile. So there was more than just a rabble of barely organized idiots at that temple? Good.
“I think more are coming.”
“She’s just the forward scout. She hunts by heat though, we need to dive and get under the trees. We’re torches in the dark to her.”
“Oh thermal senses, that’s easy enough to toy with.” Horace responds and begins studying the forest below.
“What are you seeking?” Does he have some strange method or magic from beyond the stars to help?
“Mud.” He says simply and she nearly starts to fall in amusement. Great stranger from beyond the stars, unknown magic and forced into an odd body. Still knows the best way to hide from a Nagasha is with mud.
“Well reasoned! Follow!” She commands and dives down to the forest below. She darts down between the trees and through sheer instinct weaves through the towering plants as she glides closer and closer to the ground. There is a whistling sound behind her and she can tell its Horace, unused to his Urthani self he clearly does not know how to properly swoop in silence. “Clench the antenna!”
The whistling stops almost instantly and she suddenly brings out her wings to stop herself as she lowers to the base of a grand baragas tree. The slick bark catching the already slowly forming dew and directing it down to its roots. In ankle deep mud she lands and there’s a slight sloshing noise as she turns to witness the odd Urthani lowering himself soundlessly to the water.
Without hesitation he lands and looks to her, his wings folding backwards and dipping ever so slightly in the muck. If his frankly bizarre appearance and utterly foreign way of speaking hadn’t convinced her he was unlike any Urthani she had ever heard of his willingness to dirty himself sealed the deal. She s
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Chapter 12: Power plant
The Torch. (6 months after pulse)
“So this here is Turbine one. We have four of them, each outputting about a megawatt of electrical power continuously using the radiators.”
George Johnson was doing a video tour of his power plant for the Quertians, who were very curious about the design philosophy behind each part of the ship.
Carr spoke. “So the ship normally produces four megawatts of power through the turbine, then expels the waste heat through those radiators on the side of your ship. What does it run on? Also, out of curiosity, what’s the maximum theoretical power you could push out of the ship?”
“Well, three of the turbines are our standard magnetic confinement fusion design which run on deuterium tritium and the last one runs on a heavier analogue fission design which requires no electricity to start up. As for maximum theoretical power, the entire system can handle a 100 percent overload for about five minutes by dumping the heat into the ship and boiling off the water tanks. (About Eight megawatts of power). This is not a desirable solution due to that water being used for shielding, so we don’t do it unless it’s an emergency.”
“Wait, your ship is actually designed for two times normal power? It doesn’t appear to have any weapons or extremely energy intensive systems on it besides your normal running operations so that’s a bit strange”
“Well, emergency overload power is a very unlikely thing to be required of the ship, however the fact that we have the ability to use the water as coolant gives us more operational flexibility. We solved multiple problems at once by putting this system in place, and every aspect blends in with another part of the ship. For example, the system acts like a slosh baffle to prevent a thousand tons of water from gaining momentum and hammering the ship every time we make a hard maneuver from 0 G, and it adds to the overall structural integrity of the ship. Also, this system isn’t only used for overload power. If we somehow lose our radiators, we can remove the whipple shielding from the sides of the water tank and allow the entire ship to be used as a massive radiator, but this also has problems such as being limited to 100 kilowatts and needing to point the nose forwards.”
“That’s very… interesting.”
He then stopped and clicked back into a recording of the conversation
“Could you explain ‘Whipple shielding’*? It’s translating into a ‘bacterial gastrointestinal disease
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I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
I'll be attending school soon and graduating in august (with my class A + all endorsements), I already have 3 years of exp with different class B trucks (some grossed over 90k on scales).
I'm going to focus on the tanker side straight out of school,
Who earns more $ (fuel drivers or chem drivers)?
I've read about the sloshing liquid / tanks with baffles and without baffles, how slow do you usually drive (under speed limit)?
Do you smell like chemicals or fuel after work?
Do your worst!
Intro: Hello, something that can bother me sometimes me is water sloshing in my bottle when I'm on the move, especially running. I've thought of different solutions to this over the years including wild ideas like having a giant sponge in my bottle...
Design: Pictured is a simple conceptual drawing of my latest idea. Essentially here are the major characteristics:
- The lid + straw + flexible cones are a single assembly, similar to a lifestraw type bottle.
- There is a small gap between the edges of the concave down cones and the wall of the bottle. This allows gravity to take the liquid down to the bottom easily.
- The bottle should work like a typical squirt athletic bottle and the water should flow down the straw toward the spout when tipped upside down rather than flowing through the minimal gap available along the outside.
To Conclude: If you feel inclined, I'd like to hear your feedback on two primary things.
- Do you think this design would work well from a physics standpoint?
- Any material recommendations for prototyping the cone setup?
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I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Hi guys (and gals), I'm on a traction job tonight and the company who's trailer I'll be pulling has tankers as well as reefers. Might end up being given a tanker and was wondering if you guys had tips for pulling the things safely? It will be milk or similar so no baffles inside. I'm aware I'll need to take it easy and watch out for sloshing but having never pulled one for real I'm completely in the dark about how it will feel. I spoke to my office about this and they just said it'll be fine. They're not the ones driving the things though. Might end up just having a fridge which is fine but I'd like to be prepared just in case. Any advice gratefully received, thanks. 🙂
This one was difficult. So, I will put the details of how I felt about it towards the end of this text.
First let's see how I went about doing it, successfully.
I got Granger's Down Washing Kit and basically followed the instructions given on the box. During this however I took some precautions and did face a couple of issues. I will share that experience here.
- I started the wash in a gentle cycle (shown as wool on my washer) with one full green cap of Granger's detergent. The cycle was 28 minutes long. After 18 minutes I noticed that the jacket had still not soaked in the water/soap and was kind of floating while the machine fins and water sloshed below it. I terminated the cycle, opened the lid and manually soaked the jacket by pressing gently all around. I did this 2 or 3 times before I could see the jacket getting tossed and rolled in the drum properly.
- I found the Gentle (wool) cycle to be too gentle on my washer. It was doing probably 2 turns ever 20 seconds only! So I switched to Standard Wash cycle and washed the jacket for about 10 minutes in that mode. I had to pour one more full cap of detergent with fresh water as I had to drain previous wash water batch during this process. After that I did another one full Gentle cycle with this same wash water at the end.
- Then I ran three Rinse cycles manually and let the machine do its low/medium speed spin for extracting soapy water in between rinse cycles. I ended rinsing cycle just mid of one such mid speed spin.
- I then took the jacket out and laid it flat on a towel on a table and dried with the towel without compressing the jacket too much.
- Finally I started the tumble dry on low heat / Gentle cycle again in the drier. I put all three green drying balls that came with the Granger's down washing kit. I stopped the drying cycle and checked the jacket by taking it out every 10 minutes in the first hour and then every 30 minutes later on. Every time I took the jacket out, I manually separated the down clumps in the baffles using my fingers, as much as I could. After about 3 hours the outer fabric had all dried and the down clumps start to separate baffle by baffle.
In total, the wash took about 1 hour and 7 hours of continuous drying in low heat in the drier. A total 8 hours long process. More, if you count the preparations part.
By the end of drying, I could feel that down in one of the baffle at the lower back side and the collar side had still not fully declumped or fluffed. I ho
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Pilot on me!!
