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  2. Papa Rat
    @slide @derex3592 Thanks. She’s a dirty bird that’s for sure. Oh and Derex3592, the ship is looking outstanding! Also when you go to test fit the Gundam RX make sure and trim down the pegs so you can separate the parts easier for paint etc… it was recommended to me and seeing as the fit on those kits are super precise you will save yourself a lot of headaches if you reduce the pegs by half their length. I built a Bandai LGaim recently and shortened the pegs, cut them at an angle and it really helps for disassembling @Return To Kit Formlooking great!
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  4. JB0
    Just a few minutes ago on the comms: "Toilet is go for all uses." "And the crew rejoices! Thank you!" Ground looked through all the sensors available and didn't see any variances in voltage or current on any circuits that would indicate an electrical issue. They are obviously still looking, but they think it's probably not an electrical issue. Their current theory is it is an off-gassing problem from one of the materials used. A similar smell was apparently reported by assembly crew on the Artemis I capsule(we obviously have no idea if that smell was observable in-flight).
  5. Seto Kaiba
    Ascendance of a Bookworm S4 started its broadcast run today. This is kind of my make-or-break title for this season. I really want this to be a good adaptation of Part III of the light novel. One thing I will say for it is that we've definitely entered the part of the series where the characters start to become difficult to tell apart visually because they're all related and they're all following the same style trends in clothes so they all look the bloody same except for the ones with non-standard haircuts or facial hair.🤷‍♂️ Still, I'm here for it. I can hardly wait to see Elvira or Hartmut start to go ham.
  6. Big s
    Maybe they should just jiggle the handle
  7. M'Kyuun
    I liked flying on the old Hercy-birds. They could be a little cramped when fully loaded, however. The worst part of flying on 130s was the noise- you have to shout to be heard, even when sitting next to somebody. Just really loud. I always get a chuckle when they show people on Hercs in movies and they're all speaking in normal conversational tones in a nice quiet environment- definitely not the reality. All of my flights overseas have been on military aircraft, although the quality of the ride depends on the airframe. KC-10, L-1011, and C-5 I'd rank as best- nice and smooth, very comparable to civilian flights. C-10 wasn't too bad either, although we were in seat pallets in the cargo bay. C-130 was ok- just loud with a lot of vibration, and the KC-135 has the aforementioned hot/cold issues that can make for a very uncomfortable flight. The 135 isn't too bad, however, if you can climb up on bins or baggage pallets above floor level where it's nice and toasty, perfect for a nice nap. As to Integrity and her toilet issue, it's an unfortunate issue, but the description of the smell is one of electrical burning. That's perhaps not as unpleasant as a urine or feces smell, but it's worrying as there could be a more serious underlying problem, like a short somewhere, which could develop into a fire hazard, not to mention incapacitating the toilet. One hopes they're prepared for such an unsavory eventuality. Christina Koch is an electrical engineer, so it's extremely fortuitous for the crew that she's there, as she has the expertise to troubleshoot and hopefully repair whatever is causing the burning odor. That's my hope without further issues, at least from the toilet. This is one of those cases where simplicity may be preferable to an overly sophisticated piece of hardware that can break down spectacularly and irrevocably without the resources necessary to affect a proper repair. While they can vent their urine overboard (apparently the vent froze up and they had to rotate towards the sun to defrost it), apparently their poop makes the round trip with them. That seems odd to me, as exposure to space would desiccate it and they could just eject it overboard, too. Perhaps they want to limit the number of avenues for decompression, but I'd still think ejecting the fecal matter would be preferable to keeping it in a storage bin that could potentially develop a leak thus contaminating the interior of the capsule. Anyway, once they sort out the toilet, one hopes it'll maintain its, ahem, integrity. I'll see myself out.😁
  8. rsvictor1976
    It would match, but that Tornado pack is so poorly designed unless you're not planning on keeping the back strip/big cannons on it.
  9. rsvictor1976
    I hope this trip doesn't turn into a meme like the poop cruise.
  10. Dynaman
    Worst I have done is Twin Cities to Hawaii in coach, bad enough. My last flight from Florida to Indiana to Nashville (stupid airlines) nearly did me in. The older I get the more claustrophobic I get.
  11. TangledThorns
    In space no one can hear you fart... but they can still smell it!! 🤣
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  13. azrael
    Comes on the heals of Google's memory compression algorithm announcement. Unfortunately, compression means shifting the work to the CPU/GPU 'cuz now you're making processors do more work and spend time decompressing. And this does nothing to fix current supply woes or drive down prices. Thanks to everyone buying up all the stock, supply and price stabilization may not happen until next year.
  14. Thom
    Well, if that's their biggest problem!😁
  15. PointBlankSniper
    Random sacrilegious thought: Anyone think Alto's Tornado pack might match this scheme?
  16. Return To Kit Form started following Whats Lying on your Workbench MK IV
  17. Return To Kit Form
    G'day guys, I just thought I'd drop a few images of my Ninja that I finished last year. It is the first MaK kit in years and went together pretty well except for the large rear tank
  18. JB0
    They've got bags to pee in, they'll be fiiiiiine. (They've rotated the ship to get more sun on the urine vent and it seems to be working.)
  19. derex3592
    @Papa Rat Alaska Base looks fantastic to me! I like my Valks dirty! @Big s ok, thanks for the recommendation, I'll see if I can find that! Over here the shipyard was very busy this morning! 6 more PE stairs, main railings and 3 other microscopic PE parts plus the flag and I think we can call the Texas DONE sooner than later! It's been a journey! Can't wait to get her across the finish line! 😁
  20. davidwhangchoi
    NVIDIA shows Neural Texture Compression cutting VRAM from 6.5GB to 970MB "The easiest example was Neural Texture Compression (NTC) NVIDIA showed its Tuscan Wheels scene dropping from about 6.5GB of VRAM with traditional BCN-compressed textures to 970MB with NTC, while keeping image quality close to the original. The company also said that at the same 970MB memory budget NTC preserved more detail than regular block compression. That kind of optimization means smaller installs, smaller patches, less download bandwidth, and more room for detailed assets on the same GPU."
  21. Big s
    So it went from burning to freezing. This might be the first crew killed off by toilet issues
  22. Black Valkyrie
    Just saw it, fun movie, I really liked it, the highlight was Star Fox.
  23. Black Valkyrie
  24. JB0
    It has been described as having 60% more volume than Apollo's command module. It also has 33% more crew, but still a net gain. It has also been described as having the same amount of volume as "two minivans". I am thinking of it as a family of four in a motorhome for two weeks. Also, Apollo did not have a bathroom with a privacy door. Or a toilet. Speaking of: The latest with the toilet is that the urine vent has iced up and it is poop-only. As in I have the live stream open right now and they said it as I was typing.
  25. Big s
    I guess the toilet drama continues
  26. TangledThorns
    Yeah, military flights sucks and probably why its good experience for astronauts. Never been in a KC-135 but did fly from Kodiak to Attu island in Alaska in a Coast Guard C-130 with some island hopping in between yet somehow I still feel like flying economy overseas is worse, lol.
  27. Big s
    That 3.0 is a good score. Very intricate. Don’t use lacquers on the ABS parts unless you paint them before assembly. But from what I remember, it doesn’t really need paint and seams are very minimal. if you’ve never seen Gundam, I’d highly highly recommend 08th MS team. It’s a short side story to the og one year war and doesn’t really have a big connection to the main series, so you won’t get lost and it’s probably the best looking of the Gundam franchise while also being short, so you don’t have to spend 50 something episodes on the story. It’s also pretty easy to find streaming since out here it’s on Hulu and a few other spots. It’s also one of those shorter stories that’s better and feels more complete than most of the longer ones. Again I can’t stress how highly I’d recommend that one.
  28. TangledThorns
    Amazon offered me a month of PRIME for free so I signed up for a month of ad-free video. This season of INVINCIBLE is one of the best yet!
  29. twich
    Just pre-ordered this as a birthday gift, as it is slated to come out in October, my birthday month. I am excited! I really like the color scheme! Twich
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