the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

(respectively, the Three Meter Geodynamo, the Proton rocket (or any rocket, really), Super-Kamiokande, vacuum tubes in general, the Kola Superdeep Borehole, and the IceCube Neutrino Observatory)

I love the ridiculous things people make for science.

a giant spinning ball of liquid sodium, a tube-shaped explosive that launches itself upwards, a gigantic tank holding fifty thousand tons of distilled water, a glass tube filled with literally nothing, Just A Really Deep Hole, a giant block of permafrost in Antarctica surrounded by sensors...

or if it even is a quote. maybe I came up with it and thought it was a quote. I dunno

I can't remember who this quote is from

"Every machine is a smoke machine if you use it wrong enough."

We have light-emitting diodes, light-emitting capacitors (EL wire), light-emitting resistors (incandescent bulbs), light-emitting vacuum tubes (CRTs among others), light-emitting gas discharge tubes (fluorescent lights, neon lights), but still no light-emitting inductors

this is clearly a very big gap and needs to be filled

suddenly remembered @Rosemary's description of an FPGA as "sram that someone taught to think"

Oh dear, apparently a *crewed* Soyuz launch failed yesterday(?). Looks like the escape system worked and everyone's okay afawct but that's a frightening thing to hear about!

wikipedia is a constructive use of people's urge to correct people who are wrong on the internet.

ughhh

accidentally got on the wrong bus and wasted an hour of time and a bunch of spoons x.x

Thanks for the notification that something we picked up monday was delivered, amazon

Some very underappreciated video games, for anyone looking for some games to play:

Wild Arms 3
Radiant Historia
Kirby Air Ride
Tales of Symphonia
Suikoden (and Suikoden 2)
Baten Kaitos
Golden Sun (series)
Boktai (series)

people are talking about maplestory 2... we still don't know anything about the original one

There's a book series we remember reading years and years ago that I'd like to find again. Is anyone familiar with a YA novel about an alternate steampunk-ish Victorian society with space travel, where the main characters live on a space station and at some point it turns out their mom was a deity of some sort who created the solar system (but only the solar system)? Some kind of alien spiders come into it somewhere too.

so apparently there's a company, Lansdale Semiconductor, with the slogan "Today's technology, tomorrow.", and their entire business model is producing obsolete semiconductor devices.

I just really like something about this, but I'm not sure what

Suddenly remembered that time when a vending machine decided to give us three small machine screws instead of our change

I still think whoever in sega's marketing team came up with the term "blast processing" was a marketing genius

because it was actually a negative thing; their system design meant they couldn't run the cpu at full design speed and had to reduce its speed most of the time, only running it at full speed in short bursts

we're really not used to power flickers/brownouts causing our computer to shut down, hah

we've used a laptop as our only computer for, well, basically ever, and as bad as this laptop's battery is (about 45 second battery life) it can survive a few seconds of a brownout without shutting down

Feeling like I ruined any chance of getting to know someone I kinda wanted to get to know... x.x

good morning everyone. still feeling kind of crap about yesterday but ugh