Random thoughts thread

[kanundrum]

I should really drive my car more to figure out any issues before i void the shit out of the warranty lol

[Luis_GT]

I Like Trains

[Dimman]

Originally Posted by serialk11r

Dude @Dimman, check this out:
http://liquidpiston.com/technology/how-it-works/

FAIRY TRIANGLES FLIPPED INSIDE OUT

This is actually pretty clever, though I wonder how you'd cool the rotor so that the seals still work seeing how you have fresh air coming in right next to the exhaust, so the rotor would be expanding on one half only. Maybe Or maybe they just do the whole spring loaded thing again like on the Wankel engines. Also it probably loses a shitload of efficiency at low speed since it essentially has the piston equivalent of 180 degrees dwell at TDC, unless of course you're doing a compression ignition setup. Would be great for a motorcycle engine though, I'll have to get this custom machined someday if I get rich.

Ow, my brain...

Parts that look horribly inefficient to me are the flow through the ports (two sharp 90° turns? No thanks...) and how combustion pressure seems to also push partly against the direction of of the rotor

My conclusion, (based on not being an engineer, briefly viewing the vid, and generally disliking EVERYTHING to do with rotaries), us that BMEP will be atrocious, the lack of 'overlap' control (? Rotary cam phasing) is the same issue as wankels, and rotor temp control point to this being just another virtual motor that won't get past (or even to?) the prototype stage.

From your friendly neighbourhood, highly opinionated, traditional, change-fearing pessimist.


Heh...

[Asterisked Accolade]

"I lied to you, William-- and I lied to myself. I told myself that I could beat the corporations, the money pushers and the shadow politicians at their own game. I thought that way I could save the world on the world's terms. That was my greatest mistake and our home paid the price. Our friends, our families paid for it. Jason, Marcum, Alexander Grey, and yes, even your parents paid for my childish resistance to the obvious.

William, the greatest truth ever kept from you is this: the real danger was never doctors infused with OBX, or prisoners involved in secret pharmaceutical trials. The real enemy always was the Government-- they started everything and I'd known for years what they hoped to gain from the Applegate Project. I thought I could trick them. I thought I could infect their corrupt system and tear them down from the inside, non-violently. William, I was wrong. I have spent the better part of this decade preaching to you about beating them at their own games, but I was wrong and you have to do what I never could.
You'll tear them down, and raise the people. No Government is better than corrupt Government, and it took my whole life to realize it. Show them no mercy, if they raise their guns to you, if they send their commands, if they all but grovel before you-- dissipate them into the ether. To liberate the world, you must destroy the immiserating few.

William, I am sorry I could not have done this for you. I was foolish and hopeful for a phantasmal victory. Please believe I never meant to expose you to such treachery and squalor. I am sorry, but I trust in you and leave the fate of Second Earth in your hands. You couldn't have made me any more proud, William." - Wade (Felix Miles), White Rook III, Chpt: Letter to the Heir

[wrxgoose]

Why is it that when im finally ready to go, dad decides he needs to go out and get coffee, and delay our drive.back to charlotte more than it already is gonna be? Still need to top up the tank and get sodas and m&ms

[IntotheOcean]

14days and still no day off. Only 1 more week to go

[M-17]

Weaving in and out of traffic at over 100mph, when traffic suddenly stops. Don't be this fool

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151704961399289

What a dumbass.

[Dimman]

Originally Posted by IntotheOcean

14days and still no day off. Only 1 more week to go

So how's the job search going?

[7thgear]

Originally Posted by Dimman

Ow, my brain...

Parts that look horribly inefficient to me are the flow through the ports (two sharp 90° turns? No thanks...) and how combustion pressure seems to also push partly against the direction of of the rotor

My conclusion, (based on not being an engineer, briefly viewing the vid, and generally disliking EVERYTHING to do with rotaries), us that BMEP will be atrocious, the lack of 'overlap' control (? Rotary cam phasing) is the same issue as wankels, and rotor temp control point to this being just another virtual motor that won't get past (or even to?) the prototype stage.

From your friendly neighbourhood, highly opinionated, traditional, change-fearing pessimist.


Heh...

i could be wrong but i don't see how they expect for the gasses to travel efficientyly through a tapered triangle shape, wouldn't that create extreamly unequal pressures and temperatures?

[IntotheOcean]

Originally Posted by Dimman

So how's the job search going?

Procrastinating... I'm a bit nervous that I'm gonna fuck up a lot, my friend said I can't bartend because the hours at my morning job is 6am-2pm
I think I could make it work even if it was just a few hours a week.
I really don't qualify for anything else... Damn it sucks not having any talent or smarts
I'm good at sculpting and selling people stuff... Wonderful

[Giccin]

Originally Posted by M-17

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151704961399289

What a dumbass.

Wow. lol

[IntotheOcean]

My new goals in life should be marry rich, have a kickass studio with a kiln, sell my art and own 6 dogs and 10 cats

[M-17]

I used to think that.

To marry a girl who's family is very wealthy or has businesses that can tie in to mine which would be a smart choice. And believe me I could do this, but I think it wouldn't be right.

As I get older I'd probably rather find real love over money. Call it cliché or stupid, I don't care. I know I would be happily satisfied in the end.

If not. Buy giant piece of land, build a giant barn, get losts of cats, call it M-17's Cat Farm.

[HeubergerMotors]

I'm wondering right now, as red cherries sit in front of me, why do white cherries taste better?