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  1. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    Cool breakdown on the different rocket versions: Falcon 9’s History Explained – The Specific Design Changes that Led to a Rapidly Reusable Rocket I guess SpaceX has to run the same version 7x times before they can do manned missions, so they're trying to design freeze this Block 5 rocket. But I...
  2. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    mandrel that's going to be used for the big fucking spaceship. Elon Musk just unveiled tooling to build the first manned spaceship to Mars
  3. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    Life comes at you fast Northrop Grumman may be to blame for botched satellite launch in January
  4. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    I dropped keto for a standard high-carb lifting diet and started taking creatine. I feel like a fucking blimp. I gained some 15lbs in 2 weeks.
  5. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

  6. Tuco

    Everquest - Live Servers

    I don't know much about rogues and what they can offer utility/dps/adps wise. Right now my group is war/brd/ber/sha/bst/rng. What do you think would be best to replace with a Rogue?
  7. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Got my rack, set it up last night and did a squat / bench press / pullup work out, I really liked it! I ended up getting https://www.amazon.com/Valor-Fitness-BD-7-Power-Attachment/dp/B002EJC990
  8. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    rofl. This is like an america's funniest home videos where a guy is pitching balls to a small boy with a plastic bat. You know the hit to the nuts is coming, it does and it's funny. And then a hawk swoops down out of no where and grabs the guy's toupee. In the mean time, I'll take a...
  9. Tuco

    Everquest - Live Servers

    EQ devs are so underfunded that I wouldn't want them to even try that. There are a few things they can do to improve boxing without specifically making tools for it though. Ex: improving /follow and improving the way abilities / discs / socials fire.
  10. Tuco

    Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Shadow of Mordor Sequel)

    fucking morons, lol. Nobody bought that shit. But huge numbers of people didn't buy the game because of the real cash fuckery and they aren't buying it now. If they want to do MTX, they need to go MTX free, virtue signal about being MTX free, build up a community for the game, and then add MTX...
  11. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    Tesla says that those complaints are #fakenews.
  12. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    RIP. Besides the operator ignoring the autopilot warnings, I wonder what caused the autopilot failure in the first place.
  13. Tuco

    VR Gaming - Oculus Rift, Playstation VR, HTC Vive

    I enjoyed skyrim with a vorpx when the Rift came out, but I thought the textures were too low res and the melee combat was too uhh, up close. I can definitely seeing Skyrim VR being an absolute dream for an archery and magic character though.
  14. Tuco

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    What, in your opinion, is the most impressive example of these ancient structures that would necessitate a power greater than ancient humans to manage? Would you say it's carving out these blocks, transporting them, raising them or setting them?
  15. Tuco

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    I'm kind of disappointed that it doesn't seem like he's done much more in the last ten years. I was hoping that he'd remake stonehenge, complete with bridged concrete blocks on top of the upright ones.
  16. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    I think for a long time the value in Starlink will be giving access to fast internet to rural areas, not delivering better internet to urban or suburban areas. The big downside to LEO is that the satellites will have their orbits and mechanical parts degrade due to atmospheric drag. So it's...
  17. Tuco

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    I dunno. I feel like growing up anytime I learned about space stuff whether it was from a book, movie, being at a science-type museum, whatever, everyone tries to impress the audience with saying how big space is. It's like, Calc I first lecture, "Newton invented this shit offhand to answer...
  18. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Did my first barbell deadlift a couple days ago. Kept it light but it felt great.
  19. Tuco

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    What you said is fine, but you're going to have to play nice in this thread if you want to stay here.
  20. Tuco

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    The video sucks but isn't that what a meteor looks like? we had one in Michigan a few weeks ago, shook my dad's house
  21. Tuco

    Far Cry 5

    If this isnt a bug im getti g this game.
  22. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    Oh and to speak against what I just said: last year I started getting a swelling feeling in my left knee when I ran/walked too much. I couldn't talk my doctor into getting PT for it because he's a toolbag, but when I tried that limber 11 program I discovered I got a lot of pain/pleasure from...
  23. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

  24. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    I also think that Musk has endeared so much public approval for pushing the envelope, moving quickly and also creating a path toward more affordable space travel that deaths are a tolerable cost of progress. Previous to SpaceX we'd have these monolithic space launches (like NASA wants to do...
  25. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    Elon Musk’s Boring Co. chosen as final two in Chicago-O’Hare tunnel project bid I feel like direct tunnels between O'Hare and Chicago's downtown are perfect for the Boring Company if they can pull off the central technology of being able to quickly and cheaply bore holes, and are much more...
  26. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    I'd be willing to give even odds on a 1 month avatar bet that the SRS never flies and is basically shit canned in favor of the BFR or a similar rocket. At this point there just needs to be enough proof that SpaceX can do it, and enough political pressure to blow up the Congressional honeypot...
  27. Tuco

    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    Lumie gets his own thread so when someone strolls in there and gets abused I can ask them why they entered the lion's den and complained about the lion.
  28. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    I went through a couple months of physical therapy for shoulder pain last year. I'm no expert, but my opinion is that while you can guess and experiment different stuff, ther'es so much that can go wrong that you'd have to get lucky to both diagnose the issue and come up with a sensible...
  29. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    somebody fucked something up and now people's games are turning into this mess
  30. Tuco

    Far Cry 5

    So how good is this relative to previous farcry games?
  31. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    I am now the proud owner of the cheapest 300lbs olympic weight set that $189 can buy. http://www.sears.com/weider-300lb-weight-set/p-00615814000P The color can only be described as "apocalyptic grey goo". The finish on the inner rings of the plates is smooth after you file down all the burrs...
  32. Tuco

    Everquest - Live Servers

    I haven't used MQ2 but I know some folks who do. I haven't heard of anyone who uses it but doesn't do AFK automation getting banned. I'd use it myself, but I think if I started using it, I'd go down a dark hole of automation that I'd never be able to crawl out of. And the further I got into...
  33. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    Their license is suspended, not revoked. I don't know what either one means legally, but my guess is that Uber isn't really out as much as a politician reacted to avoid getting any hobo blood on him. Uber probably has a lot of work to do before driving live again whether they have a license or...
  34. Tuco

    Star Citizen Online - The search for more money

    People are saying good things about 3.1 Star Citizen Alpha 3.1.0l PTU.737437 Patch Notes - Star Citizen Spectrum This will turn it around for Star Citizen!
  35. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    I don't know the specifics, but my guess is they bought Volvo's sensor suite, disabled the onboard processing, and used the raw data in their system. This is totally the correct way to do it, but I can imagine this conversation happening at Volvo: CTO: So someone just asked me if our radar is...
  36. Tuco

    Autonomous Systems

    I think some of this stuff could be compression artifacts, but the black blobs and lack of gradient is basically what I was talking about when I said this video footage looked like it had a filter put on it to make it look more challenging than it really was.
  37. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    The small images are probably due to some technical issues with the xenforo 2.0 upgrade, but right now I'm going to assume that you spent $2500 on gear that can only take 100x100 pixel images.
  38. Tuco

    The Astronomy Thread

    I'm really looking forward to the JWST, but fuck if it isn't unsurprising that there's massive delays and budget overruns. I wonder if we'll have some crazy asteroid hunting space telescopes by the time the JWST launches. I'm sure there's a lot of different considerations for searching for...
  39. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    This is the bench I have. https://www.amazon.com/Fitness-Reality-Super-Weight-Bench/dp/B01DYRFW8U It did not come with the blonde, 2 stars.
  40. Tuco

    Arkk's Weight Lifting / Fitness Thread

    The T2 is the other one I'm looking at. It's only $50 more that the other one. It's got worse reviews than the Fitness Reality version, specifically about parts being warped.. https://www.amazon.com/Titan-Power-Squat-Deadlift-Bench/dp/B00GHNLK9E What about the bolt configuration makes you think...