I’m curious if this includes those who died in the internment camps or if this is just those gunned down in the street.

“It is imperative that the cylinder and the larger structure remain unharmed” always kills me. I don’t think I’ll ever forget that thread.

I was gonna say, that flies in the face of like everything I’ve heard about Korea, haha.

Love seeing this when it’s posted but that one about oil prices is aging like milk lately, hahaha.

I’m sorry, he was adroit a few months ago? Did I miss this?

Wait, wait, wait, you have weed in south Korea???

If you combine them, you sometimes also get a degradation kink from your partner commenting on it.

“Good girl.”

uncomfortable/excited reaction

“Pathetic. You can’t even accept a compliment?”

even more ridiculous reactions

Unironically, this is based as fuck

No. :( But I wish I did.

I think the problem with this kind of thing is that a new user coming by doesn’t get the benefit of all those blocks you accumulate. For you, it’s a curated forum of comics. For them, it’s a stream of whatever content wholesale.

What that usually means is that users who don’t like it don’t stick around, and users that do, stay. That’s how communities slide in different directions.

At least with Stonetoss (the one I’m familiar with), if I’d seen their comics here when I came to the platform, I would have simply left because I am aware of what type of audience consumes that person’s comics. You can guess the type that sticks around.

Det är samma för sköldpaddor.

But also my Swedish is terrible, so that might be completely wrong.

Not to poke extra fun, but they even give examples to better visualize it. 😅 I have to think this post is just a bit of trolling anyway, though.

That’s a tough one. Holding all the TTRPG books has gotta be quite a bit, but it really depends. I think Kobo’s max out at 32GB, which could be overwhelmed pretty quick depending on what hundreds of books actually entails.

If you end up getting stumped on it though and consider a fixed storage reader, look into Calibre-Web. You can set up book shelves (say, one for all of your D&D or one for all of your Pathfinder books) and then select which shelf to synchronize with the reader. So it’s literally just popping into your website, changing a checkmark, then pressing sync on your device and it downloads the entire selected catalogue (that feature might only be Kobo, though, I don’t know how other readers might work).

I went with a Kobo Libra Color for that same reason when I was looking for an ereader. Between being able to sideload whatever I want, the ability to self-host books and sync them with Calibre, and solid support with Koreade for .cbzs, it just seemed perfect in comparison. I don’t really bother with storage or expansion slot options, though, so you might have to poke around and see what’s there if that’s a main selling point.

I wasn’t sure if a flywheel would be good for something like this given just how much mass needs to move and how fast it needs to move to produce close to 1G of force. If it can manage something like that, that would be a super good solve for this.

That said, even if it wasn’t a good solution for the actual ring, it might be a perfect solution for the core’s movement. Given that it can be much less mass as it’s pretty much exclusively used for docking, it could basically just be a pressurized tunnel with attachment points for the ring. Spinning that up and down with a flywheel seems super reasonable.

This is already quite a bit beyond where I have any definite knowledge, but I guess if you had a core completely separated by magnets that might work, but you’d still need points of connection for people who docked to join the actual ring from.

If you did that, the core would also need its own propulsion system to spin down and spin up so that anyone docking could actually go out into the ring.

It’s worth noting here, too, that the inner core would need to spin like crazy fast for a small station to have anywhere close to 1G in the ring, so that would be its own fun thing in the core.

For clarity: I don’t know for certain. I am not involved in the community, not an engineer.

Opinion: It’s incredibly difficult to do. A spinning station needs to be designed to do such a thing. It needs to be balanced and have thrusters positioned in such a way to both spin up and maintain the rotation as it goes. The ISS has been built and expanded over decades by tons of new science modules over time as new breakthroughs happened.

Spinning objects can behave in strange ways and having a regularly shifting center of mass can be a challenge by itself, and that’s before you start planning for yet uncertain experiments to bring aboard.

In addition to this, it would be an ENORMOUS challenge to dock with a station that is spinning, and the added danger to do this (or increased fuel consumption of spinning down and then spinning back up) just isn’t worth it. The alternative of maintaining a central core that is static relative to the spin wastes power and creates a massive risk (more moving parts, especially those which might create friction against metal aren’t easy to maintain in space).

Also, a small spinning station is much harder than a massive spinning station because it would have extremely noticeable differences from normal gravity to the people on board. Your head and feet would likely be moving at noticeably different speeds, which by itself is disorienting, but moving either towards or away from the direction of the spin would feel different (dropping an object would mean it falls away from the direction of spin).

Lastly, maintenance would mean that every single EVA either wastes a tremendous amount of fuel to spin down/up again, or risking flinging a person into space every time they exit.

Realistically, on a much larger station, artificial gravity via spinning might be a fantastic idea, especially for longer-term living aboard, but for the ISS, given its history, its goals, and especially where it’s at, it’s just not a great idea.

On a very similar note

Can you please mark this nsfw? Your slug is VISIBLY horny.

It kinda seems like he’s just feeding women to the apartment.