Recent content by .Scott

Me too. LEO tech support. Will it be done in house or will it get farmed out to an "Accenture on Orbit", "Tata on Orbit", or "IBM on Orbit"? Someone offering 360/7 service.

Hello Mike. From one cool peep to another, welcome to PF.

Given those reviews, I won't bother checking it out.

Speaking roughly, a solid oak door 12m x 3m x 0.2m with a specific gravity of 0.75 would be 5.4 metric tons. If you use a turntable, it could be handled with this McMaster turn table for about $600. For hinges, you might consider at least two of these weld-on hinges ($1515 each). Clearly, the...

I have done this kind of thing before, in some ways cruder, in some ways more elaborate - and using the "C" language. I was looking for the pixels/line count (from hsync to hsync) in analog video signals. So I over-sampled the video signal, looked at the sample-to-sample transition "delta"s...

@OliverStJohnMollusc will need to know of the mass of door and an estimate of the maximum side forces (including strong winds) before he can select exactly how the axis will be supported at the top and especially at the bottom.

I might move the axis of rotation (the hinge axis) a 2 or 3 inches inward away from those walls. Then I would support the entire weight of a door on a post that was about 3 inches in diameter and centered on that rotation axis. That post would be supported below ground by a foot or more. That...

Thanks for that info. As I said, it was topic number one for all of the initial readers of that press release. I presumed it to be an accurate criticism - but I take your post as authoritative. My first reaction (shared to no one) to those initial posts that mentioned the PhD issue but nothing...

Stay well and welcome back.

You've likely never had a daughter - or if you have, you never tried to buy anything for her that she would wear. In the default mundane cases, where there is no dress code or other explicit expectations, and with the most typical adults, men will dress for utility and women will dress for...

I've made a handful of posts to PF where I have used an LLM to assist me with the post - always with attribution (always ChatGPT). And I have remarked in a couple of cases how I needed to present several questions to the LLM before it finally caught on to what I was asking. In those cases, I...

Yesterday, issued a press release announcing (in part): Today, we’re sharing early results from one of our first research programs, in which Claude autonomously discovered a novel enzyme system that is associated with an array of DNA repeats, a pattern reminiscent of CRISPR. Although we don’t...

There a silent assumption here - that you would need your biological brain to remain the person who you are. Von Neumann computers (what most of us are using daily) include nothing that could support hard consciousness. But if you want a durable consciousness engine, one that can go millennia...

I will go one up on this. A possible, perhaps likely, way of understanding human consciousness will be to: 1) model human thoughts, emotions, decision-making, etc. on a computer; 2) implement the design in hardware, including quantum processing components; 3) compare it to human responses and...

About that discussion on energy from tidal energy systems. There are tidal effects, primarily from our orbiting moon. And there are waves, primarily from meteorology. And, just to avoid any word play, there are tidal waves, from geology. If you dammed up a section of ocean shore and installed...