What's on your mind?

[steelpanther24]

2 hours ago, 2dk2c.2 said:

You make this place better.

Lots.

And my (where are we) thing that was weighing on my mind is all the posts you've been doing (which I appreciate), and I was hoping it wasn't shaky-hands determined not to reach for that bottle of wine (wine, lol) 

Now I know it's teeth.

 

I'm playing a game I'm totally sick of but it engages me, like some job you hate but keep going to anyway.

One day (maybe) I'll spring for a game and I hope to not be here as much.

 

 

 

I almost bought Hogwarts as it seems to have good reviews, but.....I, too, can't break out of a rut on Mount and Blade, and Ultimate General.   Both games that I rage quit...but for some reason keep coming back to "try it again." 

 

Oh and while we are sharing, I fucked up at work telling the person who will pick the next production supervisor that she has a hard choice, that I am not going anywhere, but we have several younger people (most with Masters degrees) who are looking for the next promotion anywhere, so in order to keep them, she should consider them for the position  as well.     Yea...even as I was saying it, I was thinking wtf am I doing????  So that fuck up I have to look forward to when/if I don't get the promotion.

 

 

[KoolHndLuke]

30 minutes ago, steelpanther24 said:

Why can't everything be easy.....the hole in my muffler is on the flex pipe which means .....tape won't cut it as a temp fix.    If I put the replacement pipe on, it will break the seals at the end because this is to take some of the vibrations from the road, and just putting sealing paste on a part that will "flex" will also break after it has harden.    Maybe one of you mechanics on this gaming site will know of another solution, otherwise I will have to bite the golden bullet and take it to a shop.

 

Sorry. Thought I had it all figured out and then I read it again. Hmm.... if you can't weld it, replace it or patch it, then I really don't know.

 

Yeah, looking it up and it seems your only option is to replace it.

 

 

Edited March 18, 2023 by KoolHndLuke

[Miauzi]

Vor 1 Stunde sagte steelpanther24:

Warum kann nicht alles einfach sein ... das Loch in meinem Schalldämpfer ist am Flexrohr, was bedeutet ... Klebeband schneidet es nicht als temporäre Lösung. Wenn ich das Ersatzrohr aufstecke, bricht es am Ende die Dichtungen, weil dies einen Teil der Vibrationen von der Straße nehmen soll, und nur das Auftragen von Dichtungspaste auf ein Teil, das sich "biegt", bricht auch nach dem Aushärten. Vielleicht kennt einer von euch Mechanikern auf dieser Spieleseite eine andere Lösung, sonst muss ich in die goldene Kugel beißen und damit in einen Laden gehen.

 

 

My wife (tool mechanic and car tuner) and I (graduate engineer for mechanical engineering and specialist engineer for welding technology) both say -> scrap and no repairs except part replacement possible

 

 

The middle layer is leaking - this seals the system.

In order to want to weld something there (high-temperature soldering would be better) ... you have to remove the outer wire mesh ... how do you want to put it back on afterwards?
That can only be absolute botch!

Edited March 18, 2023 by Miauzi

[Guest]

> To all LL fathers

[steelpanther24]

14 hours ago, Miauzi said:

 

My wife (tool mechanic and car tuner) and I (graduate engineer for mechanical engineering and specialist engineer for welding technology) both say -> scrap and no repairs except part replacement possible

 

 

The middle layer is leaking - this seals the system.

In order to want to weld something there (high-temperature soldering would be better) ... you have to remove the outer wire mesh ... how do you want to put it back on afterwards?
That can only be absolute botch!

 

Thanks and I was pretty disappointed when I found where the leak was coming from.   So, I figure the shop will cut out the flex connector, drop part of the exhaust and replace the flange gasket (required), while welding the replacement flex pipe in place.    Estimate the cost will be at least $400 vs $100 doing it myself, however I don't have a welder.

[Miauzi]

Vor 1 Stunde sagte steelpanther24:

 

Danke und ich war ziemlich enttäuscht, als ich herausfand, woher das Leck kam. Ich denke also, dass die Werkstatt den flexiblen Verbinder ausschneiden, einen Teil des Auspuffs fallen lassen und die Flanschdichtung (erforderlich) ersetzen wird, während das Ersatz-Flexrohr an Ort und Stelle geschweißt wird. Schätzen Sie, dass die Kosten mindestens 400 US-Dollar betragen, gegenüber 100 US-Dollar, wenn Sie es selbst tun, aber ich habe keinen Schweißer.

 

 

I had written that I was also a specialist engineer. for welding technology.
During our studies, great importance was attached to being able to practice various welding processes ourselves - so I have various welder qualifications...

...I then expanded this practical knowledge in my first years of work.

So I could professionally repair such a tear myself - if it's even possible - but the pre- and post-processing effort is so high - that it would be better - to use the same time to earn the necessary money for the repair in the workshop.. .

..or you can get a spare part from a specialist dealer (or from the "local" scrap yard) and install it yourself.
And that's exactly what I would do.

A few years ago we had a crack in the exhaust system (Subaru "Forester) - connector between the front and rear silencer ... the weld itself broke.
(This occurs once in 1 million welds)

The workshop welded with me - because the car still belonged to my father and I didn't have the required TIG welding machine myself ... and of course no lifting platform to remove and reinstall the exhaust system.

Also a self-help workshop (don't know if there is such a thing in the USA) - wouldn't have helped here - because even the well-equipped ones don't have such a TIG device
(TIG - tungsten inert gas)

 

Spoiler

 

[KoolHndLuke]

19 hours ago, Miauzi said:

My wife (tool mechanic and car tuner) and I (graduate engineer for mechanical engineering and specialist engineer for welding technology)

Interesting. What are your thoughts on mechanical applications in space exploration/colonization? Where do you see mechanical engineers needed most for this? 

 

 

Edited March 19, 2023 by KoolHndLuke

[Miauzi]

Vor 18 Minuten sagte KoolHndLuke:

Interessant. Was halten Sie von mechanischen Anwendungen in der Weltraumforschung? Wo sehen Sie dafür Maschinenbauer am meisten gebraucht?

 

- Turbo pumps for fuel and oxidizer
- Combustion chamber and thrusters
- Fuel and oxidizer tanks
- Support structure

Mechanical engineering is basically the basis for the constructions of aerospace technology...

...that's why I originally intended to get into it after my studies.
Only in the GDR less was made of rocket technology - but more space probes and satellites
and
then more fine mechanics (aka precision mechanics) were needed
The job I was offered... was to work on the last Soviet Mars mission... designing and building a camera platform.

At the time, I was more interested in something else ... it was ultimately only the second-best decision - but it had been made and couldn't be reversed

Edited March 19, 2023 by Miauzi

[KoolHndLuke]

41 minutes ago, Miauzi said:

Mechanical engineering is basically the basis for the constructions of aerospace technology...

Hmm... found this;

 

 

 

Which also begs the question of why we would need refrigeration in cold space anyway? ?

 

I would imagine the logistics of moving supplies over vast distances in space is a major consideration- especially when colonies have been established.

Edited March 19, 2023 by KoolHndLuke

[2dk2c.2]

32 minutes ago, KoolHndLuke said:

Hmm... found this;

 

 

 

Which also begs the question of why we would need refrigeration in cold space anyway? ?

 

I would imagine the logistics of moving supplies over vast distances in space is a major consideration- especially when colonies have been established.

I've read (5 seconds ago) that there's this supply ship that gets emptied out, and filled with trash.
Then the trash gets sent to the really hot part of earth's sky, where it is incinerated.

(IDK, but waste disposal is a biggie promising field in space, maybe)

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+iss+does+with+trash&nfpr=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiq1YeKx-j9AhV5JEQIHd71Au0QvgUoAXoECBAQAg&biw=1878&bih=953&dpr=1.74

 

Google doesn't understand "ISS" and wants to change it to "is", so you might have to change it back.
(or not, nvm)

[Miauzi]

1 hour ago, KoolHndLuke said:

Hmm ... habe das gefunden;

 

 

 

Was auch die Frage aufwirft, warum wir eine Kühlung im kalten überhaupt Raum brauchen würden? ?

 

Ich würde mir vorstellen, dass die Logistik des Transports von Vorräten über große Entfernungen im Weltraum eine wichtige Überlegung ist – insbesondere wenn Kolonien gegründet wurden.

 

Is it cold in space?

Well - certainly not on the sun...

...and not near the sun either.

Besides, where is it not cold?
This question is harder to answer - but let's take the area in which our earth orbits the sun ... it's called the "habitable" zone

One speaks of water permanently in liquid form ... but means ON the planet's surface WITH an atmosphere.

Outside of that atmosphere... let's look at the moon.
What temperatures were the Apollo astronauts exposed to there (and of course all the equipment up there as well).

There is a quasi-vaccum on the moon - i.e. something like that outside of the spaceships and space stations in orbit around the earth:

In the shade (and at night) temperatures are below MINUS 100°C (can drop to -160°C)

In the sun (during the day), on the other hand, these rose to PLUS 120°C.

The problem of cooling one side of the spacecraft (the side facing the sun) and heating the other side (away from the sun) has existed since the beginning of space travel.

Insulating alone is useless - since technical devices give off heat during operation and heat up the interior ... Air conditioning and ventilation technology are essential for both unmanned and manned space travel.

And so you also need areas for keeping food or biological samples cool ... and yes - you definitely have a bigger problem in space than on the ground.

The magic word is -> gravitation
In fact, the function of technical cooling circuits is linked to the presence of gravity (background -> lubrication system)
So a "normal" fridge will NOT work in zero gravity.

 

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But if you start binging food from the earth's SURFACE into orbit and from there into possible colonies on the moon or even Mars...

...you've already lost - the costs blow everything away in the long run!

That's why future scenarios with space freighters full of groceries etc. are complete bullshit ... with today's transport technologies from the planet's surface
(point out the upcoming space fallout game)

[2dk2c.2]

What's on my mind... My game no longer lets me do screenshots of sex scenes, like the one I made where it used to work (Win+Print-screen), the screenshot in the left of my example pics.

I told myself "Use F12" but that's even more useless.

So to summarize, screenshots do work, just not good ones, and it has only stopped working for about a week.

 

This proves nothing (to you) but to me, the generic yada-blah shot on the right proves I know how to screenshot, right in the current running game.

But in the *good* part, it shows a loading screen instead of the action-screen.

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I hate how my post of the day hangs there as the last post in a serious thread...so I'm editing this one.

A guy screaming lyrics above heavy metal music has been done...
My train-of-thought was, what is the most imitated music anywhere?
Has to be, Rap.
And what country does the most imitated music? I don't know, Google won't tell me.

This girl from China is prolly famous, but it sounds so *imitated*....
Sweet, sad, been there, done that.
Still, it's pretty, but I've never heard it before, don't know if it fits either in my train of thought or in a thread. (the "what do you listen to" thread)

 

Edited March 20, 2023 by 2dk2c.2

[Guest]

> It is simply amazing how some exploding devices still can be active even after 80+ years and deep under the sea.

[Guest]

22 hours ago, Miauzi said:

Also a self-help workshop (don't know if there is such a thing in the USA)

Yes, we have those here. Not a lot of them, but some.

[Miauzi]

12 hours ago, Evaloves4 said:

> Es ist einfach erstaunlich, wie einige Sprengkörper auch nach über 80 Jahren und tief unter dem Meer noch aktiv sein können.

 

Now if I write:
"actually harmless"

Doesn't that have the background that such finds are not dangerous - but that they are rather rare down there!

In the Baltic Sea one finds ... in addition to well over 1000-2000 shipwrecks also ... plenty of "ammunition" from BOTH world wars.

Perhaps you still know from history lessons or various TV documentaries that plenty of poison gas was produced and used in WW1 ... including on the "southern" fronts between Austria and Italy - but that's not the case as well known as on the western front (yes - also in the film "Nothing new in the West")

After the end of WW1 there were still millions of bombs and artillery shells full of poison gas - on both sides... but no air to dispose of them properly...

..so they dumped them into the sea - preferably into the Baltic Sea.
Then there were the incendiary bombs, etc.
The incendiary bombs from WWII were also packed on top.

 

A strange white substance can occasionally be found on the beaches of the Baltic Sea today... it is white phosphorus.
Can spontaneously ignite in hand... after picking it up... it's not amber
*sarcasm*

 

For decades, the mine divers of the various neighboring states have been busy removing the worst OUTSIDE the "official" dumping areas - to this day, no one dares to approach the actual ones...
...because you have to "disassemble" the salvaged stuff on land and their capacities are not sufficient for the almost DAILY bomb finds in D-Land.
(yes - we deactivate several WWII bombs every week - only spectacular things get in the media)

In many cities, every building plot has to be checked for ammunition residues (especially aerial bombs) before the excavators arrive - the costs are of course supposed to be paid by the plot owners.
(which is actually an absurdity - but that's a completely different topic)

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, Miauzi said:

 

Now if I write:
"actually harmless"

Doesn't that have the background that such finds are not dangerous - but that they are rather rare down there!

In the Baltic Sea one finds ... in addition to well over 1000-2000 shipwrecks also ... plenty of "ammunition" from BOTH world wars.

Perhaps you still know from history lessons or various TV documentaries that plenty of poison gas was produced and used in WW1 ... including on the "southern" fronts between Austria and Italy - but that's not the case as well known as on the western front (yes - also in the film "Nothing new in the West")

After the end of WW1 there were still millions of bombs and artillery shells full of poison gas - on both sides... but no air to dispose of them properly...

..so they dumped them into the sea - preferably into the Baltic Sea.
Then there were the incendiary bombs, etc.
The incendiary bombs from WWII were also packed on top.

 

A strange white substance can occasionally be found on the beaches of the Baltic Sea today... it is white phosphorus.
Can spontaneously ignite in hand... after picking it up... it's not amber
*sarcasm*

 

For decades, the mine divers of the various neighboring states have been busy removing the worst OUTSIDE the "official" dumping areas - to this day, no one dares to approach the actual ones...
...because you have to "disassemble" the salvaged stuff on land and their capacities are not sufficient for the almost DAILY bomb finds in D-Land.
(yes - we deactivate several WWII bombs every week - only spectacular things get in the media)

In many cities, every building plot has to be checked for ammunition residues (especially aerial bombs) before the excavators arrive - the costs are of course supposed to be paid by the plot owners.
(which is actually an absurdity - but that's a completely different topic)

> They made it explode after they dragged it some 14 km from the shore. We heard the explosion and there was a video of it too. (I didn't post it)

 

Edited March 20, 2023 by Evaloves4

[Psalam]

13 hours ago, Evaloves4 said:

> It is simply amazing how some exploding devices still can be active even after 80+ years and deep under the sea.

I guess they just don't make 'em like they used to. (Thankfully?)

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Psalam said:

I guess they just don't make 'em like they used to. (Thankfully?)

> I would say : it depends.

[Guest]

Making a questions - many people do it. But to make thanks for answer - not everyone. This is kind of sad.. I feel like the unkindness of some people get spreads on me.. 
I'm afraid that it's starting to have increasingly, bad affect / influence on my manners. To become rough / cold to my friends because of that - it would be awful thing!

[2dk2c.2]

 

The rest, Thank you Plus a cookie (virtually speaking of course)

I'm saying it because it's true. Inside of us, we both know you belong with Victor. You're part of his work, the thing that keeps him going. If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.

Ilsa : But what about us?

Rick : We'll always have Paris. We didn't have, we, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.

Ilsa : When I said I would never leave you.

Rick : And you never will. But I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that.

Edited March 21, 2023 by 2dk2c.2

[Miauzi]

Vor 8 Stunden sagte Evaloves4:

> Ich würde sagen: es kommt darauf an.

 

Well - such blasts have been made for about 120 years - so they are not new.

Whether that's always so good for the plants and animals in the sea ... I doubt it ... because part of the explosives is often TNT
and
we already have massive problems on land.
The premises of old explosives factories are often massively tempted by TNT residues and since it would cost an insane amount of money to clean them up (ie professionally remove the toxins) - these premises are closed off and left alone.

Of course, explosive grenades whose shell rusts through in the sea are a danger for the food chain in the same - I'll just say a technical term -> "bioaccumulation"
(from level to level in the food chain, the pollutants and toxins accumulate and ultimately load in humans)

So when we now detonate mines and bombs IN the sea, the entire explosive is never chemically converted - a more or less large part always remains and thus ends up in the biological food chain.
(Why do you think old shooting or blasting sites on land are considered to be massively chemically contaminated?)

Yes - one solves the problem of the existing risk of explosion from this old ammunition "cheaply" - but one buys it with ultimately hardly assessable damage to an already massively polluted environment

 

[2dk2c.2]

speaking of "Games"

An article on the headline's "deadly fungus among us"

Is generally watered down to, if you're close to death, this fungus might hurt you, 

"But this is no 'Last of us' "

Whut?

So I did some digging.

 

But the fungus is very respectful of state lines,
States' rights who can choose to not have the fungus at all, next to morally bankrupt (apparently) states.

"we don't like your kind heah"

 

And the game, which I know nothing about yet (except you prolly kill the infected):

[KoolHndLuke]

Fuck me!!!! Feel like a knuckle-dragging caveman right about now, lol. BTW, we are the guinea pigs from now on.

 

 

Edited March 21, 2023 by KoolHndLuke

[2dk2c.2]

13 minutes ago, KoolHndLuke said:

Fuck me!!!! Feel like a caveman right about now, lol.

 

 

I got as far as "Batman", stopped. Once they ask the AI how to sell itself to you, to compliment your AR glasses, bot Vacuum and sensor watch, You'll start seeing ads, and musk can send another car to Mars.

You'll buy it because it's there, and they told you to.

You'll NEED one, and chicks dig bots.

 

Batman's moustache

Who teaches AI subtext? Old and overweight.

I'm getting errors in the server. Bye

[KoolHndLuke]

3 hours ago, 2dk2c.2 said:

You'll buy it because it's there, and they told you to.

You'll NEED one, and chicks dig bots.

It will be a Utopia for a bit- almost literally anything we need or want without effort. But it will mask something far more sinister I fear. We can't even track how fast A.I. is progressing at this point with the question of ethics being somewhere far down on the checklist.

 

To think I actually believed I would never live to see all this..... 

 

 

Edited March 21, 2023 by KoolHndLuke