Good... and also "bye".
sleet01
joined 1 year ago
Yeah, have you tried just... being @rosymind@leminal.space ? Their experience is obviously superior, why would you want to be anybody else? /s
I've been listening to "Blowback" and, like, duh.
Seattle media come in three types:
- Sinclair, so, unabashedly authoritarian; they actively lobby for more cops no matter what.
- Incapable (sorry KING 5, you guys ain't evil but you ain't competent either); they just pass on whatever the SPD has to say.
- Independent / Fringe; they don't support the cops but they're on shoestring budgets and have limited effectiveness.
So we're pretty much screwed on the media front.
I'm hoping to someday buy a computer that can run Squadron 42. Can Social Security help with that?
It doesn't help that the news focuses on murders and gun crime over anything else, and provides a megaphone for copaganda with zero analysis. If it bleeds, it leads, even if it's a lie.
I put my first model up on Cults, Thingiverse, and I think one other site... so far only the Cults one seems to have gotten any traction, so I'm focusing on that.
New season announced, comic volume 9 next month: it's a good season.
Being able to act hypocritically, flout the rules and regs, and get away with it is political Viagra to these assholes. It's what they live for. It's impossible to "catch them" in flagrant acts of hypocrisy because the act of you noticing them being douchebags but not being able to stop them gives them massive power boners.
This part is half-right: the work of the engine is going to accelerating the plane forward, or (when thrust and drag are in equilibrium) maintaining the current velocity. But in level flight, the engine is not "keeping the plane in the air" - it is impossible for it to contribute to lift directly because it's force vector is 90 degrees from the lift vector.
Therefore, some of the engine’s energy is going into keeping the plane in the air, and some is going into accelerating it forwards, or keeping it at the same speed (fighting air resistance).
This is where you make an unsupported leap:
Therefore, if the plane points straight up, the engine should be able to support it hovering in the air. If it didn’t have enough power to fight gravity when pointing straight up, it wouldn’t have enough power to fight gravity when moving horizontally, either.
A car can accelerate horizontally because its engine can rotate its tires to apply horizontal force due to friction and mechanical advantage; does that mean it can drive straight up a wall? Of course not (outside of some specialized bouldering vehicles). The engine lacks the power to lift the car straight up, and the tires lack the grip to hold on to a vertical surface. The drivetrain is designed for efficient road cruising, not high power and grip
It's the same for aircraft, generally: a given engine usually has enough power to accelerate the aircraft horizontally, and applies this through some kind of prop or jet rotor. But this combination is tuned for efficient cruising, not vertical climbing. The engine won't provide enough power, and the prop can't move enough air, to sustain vertical flight indefinitely.
"But Sleet01," you cry, "helicopters exist!" Just so! They trade cruise efficiency for vertical thrust by greatly increasing the size of the prop, increasing the mechanical advantage so that less engine power is needed to hover or climb vertically. That's like putting 4" wheels covered in suction cups on your car - now it can go straight up, but you can't go very far or very fast!
"But Sleet01," you exclaim, "F-15s exist and can fly vertically almost to space!" Indeed they do, but in order to fly an F-15 vertically you need to burn immense amounts of fuel, almost 400 gallons per minute. That's like putting two turbo V8s in your Jeep - now you have the power to go vertical, but only for a couple minutes!
I'm a big fan of C. J. Cherryh's Chanur series, where humans are on an at least equal footing but mainly incidental (except for a few parts). The nice part is you can then read her Cyteen and Foreigner series to find out how being technologically advanced doesn't necessarily always work out well for the humans.
Other male actors I can pretty much instantly recognize:
Some female VAs I can spot regularly, although I have a harder time here as many female VAs have excellent ranges: