sleet01

Horrific civilian death toll as the IDF “mistakenly” bombs the very safe zones where they told people to go in 3, 2, 1…

You’re doing Lord Baphomet’s work here, but I think I’m good. Thanks though!

*tract, apparently.

A blatant lie. In 2020, 66% of the voting population actually voted - and this was a record high! Of those, 46.48% voted for Biden/Harris. So that’s just under 1/3rd, or 30.68% of the voting population of Texas.

Now, do I feel for these folks? Yes. Is it terrible that they’re being disenfranchised by their state and local governments at every turn? Also yes. Is this going to make me feel at all bad if the state whose main claim to fame is keeping slavery going an extra 2 years splits off, only to get gobbled up by Mexico?

Not in the slightest.

Good… and also “bye”.

Yeah, have you tried just… being @[email protected] ? Their experience is obviously superior, why would you want to be anybody else? /s

I’ve been listening to “Blowback” and, like, duh.

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.

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.

We were almost at the “Praetorian Guards Decide Who Rules” stage of the Fall of the American Empire; they just didn’t have the numbers this time.

Other folks had covered the wing aspect, I wanted to discuss the engine portion. Both are cogent.

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!

Yeah… nah.

*Scoff*

This is not how you get Godzilla. This is how you get Hedorah… arguably much worse.

Narrator: “He could not.”

Cops being corrupt, huge surprise there. Glad they’re going down for once, though.

Ironic, since they’re definitely going to make Plan B illegal too.

“So I Married An Axe Murderer.” If you have the means, I highly recommend watching it!

Because these conservative judges are in the bag for the GOP and see an opportunity to hurt two groups of people they really hate:

1. Democrats,
2. Students.

Edit: IANAL, just really pissed off.