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[22:43:49] <katsmeow> rue, how badly will these spall and toss cement into one's optical sensors? :
http://pop.h-cdn.co/assets/16/34/480x240/placeholder_landscape-1472230406-giphy-21.gif
[23:11:52] <rue_shop3> oh my
[23:12:01] <rue_shop3> I hate that
[23:12:08] <rue_shop3> my hot work table is cement
[23:12:23] <rue_shop3> *ping* *pew* *pizz* *wing*
[23:12:28] <katsmeow> yep
[23:12:42] <rue_shop3> "what just flew by my ear at the speed of sound?"
[23:13:19] <katsmeow> i'd had pieces of spalled rock puncture 1/4 osb from 15ft away
[23:13:45] <rue_shop3> but you have to admit your fire was hotter
[23:14:34] <katsmeow> yeas, i was intentionally busting large boulders
[23:15:14] <katsmeow> 10" square steel tube packed with wood, doused in diesel, a blower on one end, hell of a fire out the other end
[23:15:28] <zhanx_> computer is screwed hence 3 log ins
[23:15:39] <zhanx_> too lazy to fix it
[23:17:04] <katsmeow> more than once, the 1/4 thick steel tube simply sagged down into the dips in the ground it was sitting on
[23:33:53] <katsmeow> " We don't have the engineering capabilities or the materials, and can't even really fathom having them. But to accomplish the same basic concept, you could blow up Mercury and build autonomous bots to use its corpse to build a massive swarm of one-kilometer mirrors that orbit the sun in hundreds of criss-cross patterns. " <cough>
[23:50:30] <katsmeow> http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a22469/nasas-free-research/
[23:51:02] <katsmeow> Aug 21, 2016
[23:51:44] <katsmeow> Research relating to national security or to patents is exempt from this new rule. But there are already 850 articles of fascinating discoveries up on the site for the taking, and that number will increase with time.
[23:53:38] <katsmeow> http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/robots/a22514/octobot-soft-chemical-robot-fluid-circuit/
[23:55:33] <katsmeow> "Tesla Model S P100D Is Now the Quickest New Car
[23:56:54] <rue_shop3> disneys fluid actuators?
[23:58:04] <rue_shop3> all my shot 12V lead acid batteries are failing
[23:58:13] <katsmeow> quit shooting them
[23:58:15] <rue_shop3> the retirees from work
[23:58:37] <rue_shop3> below 85% they ahve to be pulled from fire alarms, etc, some of them have life left
[23:58:50] * katsmeow nods
[23:59:20] <katsmeow> hard to find that 85% level too
[23:59:25] <rue_shop3> not many of the battereis I take out of service have much if any kick left
[23:59:46] <rue_shop3> the alternate rule is to just replace them every year
[23:59:52] <katsmeow> still get $5 each as scrap?
[23:59:53] <rue_shop3> we dont pull that one
