That's where I followed on as well, but it kept seeming like I was finding mixed results on the articles. I don't know enough about which studies are funded by which groups, and I'm pretty sure I'm finding biased stuff. It's okay, though, I'm not asking you to look things up for me, I just was curious if you had some kind of insight into the industry or not.
I'm having a bit of trouble understanding what it's saying about how bad it is, but I get the impression less is just better always? Either way, though, you can for sure swap out Nutella with anything else vaguely in the same ballpark. What makes the sandwich so good is the cheese and vaguely chocolate flavor. If you do try something else out and decide it's good, please let me know!
I'm gonna catch hate for this, but I don't care. I have a thing that physically looks awful, but also seems conceptually awful.
Sometimes, if I have the money and I wanna get a little treat, I'll buy a block of cheese, Nutella, and bread, and make a Nutella and cheese sandwich. I do not know why or how I got to the point where I ate it, but I did and I love it.
Usually, I'd get like a pecorino romano cheese, cut a couple slices of dark (full grain) bread, and just paste it in place with Nutella, and that would be a little desert for me. If I have a lot of cheese on there, I might add raspberry jam (not too much or it gets waaaaay too sweet).
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.
Is it weird to like this? I feel like this would be hella comfortable. Does it have buttons on the side for the fingers? Because that would be cool as hell.
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.
I'm fairly certain the RAM is soldered and capped, but it has 16gb, so more than I could reasonably touch anyway. It has a 500gb soldered SSD, but I know there's a slot for another. The only reason I wanna 'start' by getting a rack and hard drives is because I watched my friend lose his mind one weekend while he migrated multiple terabytes of data and he has since repeatedly recommended keeping the storage separate and plug and play, haha.
I'm 100% down to give all this a shot, though. As soon as I upgrade, this laptop is immediately getting recycled into the first step server (and very probably the final step unless something drastic changes in my life).
The unfortunate reality is 'what I've got' is a 6 year old laptop that represents 60% of my net worth. 😅 Hopefully soon that will change, but for now, I'm taking the free/borrowed friend's setup.
My game plan in the future is just to turn this laptop and a couple hard drives, though. I think comments like yours and a couple others have convinced me I really don't need to invest all that much to get started, or really finished with the setup.nif you're running all that on 8gb of RAM, I think the only thing I'm missing is the storage.
That's where I followed on as well, but it kept seeming like I was finding mixed results on the articles. I don't know enough about which studies are funded by which groups, and I'm pretty sure I'm finding biased stuff. It's okay, though, I'm not asking you to look things up for me, I just was curious if you had some kind of insight into the industry or not.