Recent content by .Scott

The problem with "sharing what you know" is that unless it commonly accepted, you will need citations. Here's an except from the Terms: We wish to discuss mainstream science. That means only topics that can be found in textbooks or that have been published in reputable journals.

If all you want to do it to "cheat" by making last minute adjustments to the balls trajectory, then a gyroscope system might be good. But if you're looking for more control, I don't think a gyro is quite what you want. I would make a small, heavy RC vehicle and put it into a bowling bowl...

I'm not sure I fully catch your drift. But there is more to be observed than just your willingness to claim consciousness. You can ask yourself more detailed questions about the nature of your consciousness and you can ask others to do the same and report what find. Here's the dialog I have...

I was thinking that anything that kept you up was "dynamic soaring". But you're right Dynamic Soaring refers specifically to crisscrossing wind shear. So, it would be most useful when you have windspeed differences of ten+ MPH per hundred feet. Definitely the RC domain. I also have my single...

Yes. Wing wash-out is used to keep the ailerons useful as the plane enters a stall. From what I gather, he is using "washin" (ie, flexing the wings beyond the wing roots) in lieu of ailerons - just to make the mechanics of RC glider simpler. Actually, after re-reading the OP - I notice that...

When last I soared, it was in a Schweizer 2-22 - 3 or 4 decades ago. Sail planes are generally aerodynamically left-right symmetric, so the major performance difference between doing dynamic soaring loops with left and right turns should be operator skill. I have also done some aerobatic flying...

I can certainly make a computer claim to have qualia - that behavior is easy to replicate. But saying that is the source of actual qualia or equivalent to qualia is denying that there is a difference between having the experience and issuing a statement to that effect. The easy problem is only...

For the most part, the load will be applied as a shear force - which is not dependent on the length of the pin. However, as a practical matter, the edge of the shelf against the top of the pin will not align perfectly with the edge of the hole on the bottom of the pin - and that will tend to...

A vertical load applied to a shelf supported by four pins (one on each corner) will be distributed among those pins in proportion to the position of the load on the shelf. So a load placed directly over a pin will be supported only by that pin. A load placed 1/3 of the way towards center from...

Engineering is an exercise in immersion. If you can't manage your time, and you want to get into Engineering, do what many engineers do - neglect the rest of the world while living in science and tech. Of course, some balance would be better. I would suggest that you return home with every bad...

And she personified the Moon. But Artemis was the older of the twins.

I wouldn't use "stern" for this. "Stern" describes something that functions as a stern - not just its position. If you put a boat into orbit, its stern could be either the forward end or the aft end.

I didn't address the term "retrograde" as it pertains to celestial motion. The strictly scientific definition is provided in this wiki article. However, the original astronomical meaning (from the 14th century) and still the more common meaning, is used to describe an apparent westward motion...

In this article, NASA refers to the leading part of ISS as the "forward end". So, I would guess the other end would be the "rearward" end.

This is all about event horizons. Event horizons can occur in three scenarios. 1) The first is the one everyone knows about that's associated with black holes. 2) The second is the cosmic event horizon, the one described in the OP. If the universe continues to expand as it does now, there are...