[iamzack]

bored in calculus again

[perihelion]

re: embrittlement.  Shyeah, I bet you are!  Welding causes embrittlement in even the most ductile of metals without proper post-weld heat-treatment.  I can only imagine what is happening here.  Could you try maybe a stress-relieve anneal?  I've no idea how hot you'd have to get for that to work with Tungsten.  Routinely heating up to 3000°F probably doesn't help.

Sounds like a pretty neat project.

[Retsof]

Hold on a second... did you just say you're making a fusion reactor?  Thanks for making me feel dumb now.

EDIT:  You know what would be awesome, an orchestra (or atleast a school band or something that dosen't suck) doing the SoaSE music, dosen't really matter which one, they're all awesome.

EDIT2:  Sorry about all that, I think I was on a bit of a sugar high.

[Gortef]

I was halfway going home... but then my boss called and here I am back at the office again.
I'm supposed to make one of my colleagues laptop ready to go for monday morning and now I'm waiting for some custom Pro/E setup files for it... *sigh*

At least I bought some chocolate.

[Titan]

I managed to beat Armored Core 3 on Tuesday, then my friend came over on Wedensday and let me borrow Armored Core: Nine Breaker, which I reccommend not getting. Now I'm trying to track down a copy of AC: Nexus, and getting pissed off that I don't own a PS3 to play Armored Core: For Answer. Oh god, I think I'm obsessed... which is weird, because the series isn't even stay-up-all-night-playing good...

[Dilmah G]

Got back from a mate's party an hour or so ago. As a devout non-underage-drinker, I instead filled myself with Coca-Cola.

Not recommended.

[Nuke]

i was hoping to take my spitfire out for a spin. so this morning i finished soldering together the wiring. and started work on the makshift power connector. i didnt have any of the right kind of connectors but i had plenty of molex connectors from dead computer parts, so i cut one in half since i only needed two connections. i checked continuity with the multimeter and double checked all the rather confusing electronics specs. anyway i hooked up the battery and got some nice arcing followed by white smoke coming out of almost every piece of electronics in the plane. turns out i fried everything. esc, reciever, all 3 servos. motor is probably still in tact but it looks like im gonna need to spend another 50 bucks on parts. i think the battery i had was abit too powerful.

[Polpolion]

Quick: do I go into computer science or physics? I've only got a year and a half to decide.

[Bob-san]

Quick: do I go into computer science or physics? I've only got a year and a half to decide.

Physics.

[perihelion]

I'd say physics, but you have to realize that there is little prospect for gainful employment unless you stay within academia or find your way into a national lab.  Either way, you have to go all the way to Ph. D. in order to even be considered for the jobs available.  In most cases, you'll probably need some post-doc work as well.  That environment can be rather brutal.  The "publish or perish" workplace was too stressful for me, and I decided I had to get out.  I have only rarely regretted the decision, but as a mech. engineer, I had that luxury (plenty of jobs outside of academia).  That isn't nearly so true for physics, sadly.

[Colonol Dekker]

I've got for answer on 360.
It's the BEST OF THEM ALL! Muahahahaha.
Finished it with an S rating on every mission.

[Aardwolf]

I've got for answer on 360.
It's the BEST OF THEM ALL! Muahahahaha.
Finished it with an S rating on every mission.

WAT.

[SpardaSon21]

Armored Core: For Answer.  Its a Japanese game about giant mechs shooting each other.  Long story short, that by itself makes it awesome.

Dekker:  S rating on every mission?  Damn, you must be one good player.

[redsniper]

Quick: do I go into computer science or physics? I've only got a year and a half to decide.

Engineering. It's like practical physics.

To elaborate, I started college majoring in Physics. Then I realized that I didn't want to teach physics and that the parts of physics that interest me aren't really being researched anymore. So: mechanical engineering. It's applied science. Good stuff.

[Klaustrophobia]

out of the two, physics.  i'm in engineering myself.  it's not completely true about the lack of jobs with a physics degree.  many employers would hire a physicist, but you might find yourself doing work not really utilizing your degree.  it's also rather easy to get into more "practical" graduate programs with a physics undergrad (including law and med, if you desire such a career). 

i'm in engineering myself, and haven't looked back.  i DO enjoy learning the pure physics of stuff, but that's brought down to earth somewhat by the realization that a great deal of what physics teaches breaks down in the real engineering world.  as my advisor put it the other day, engineers are the people who shatter physicsts' dreams

[Nuke]

Quick: do I go into computer science or physics? I've only got a year and a half to decide.

Physics.

Physics

[perihelion]

out of the two, physics.  i'm in engineering myself.  it's not completely true about the lack of jobs with a physics degree.  many employers would hire a physicist, but you might find yourself doing work not really utilizing your degree.  it's also rather easy to get into more "practical" graduate programs with a physics undergrad (including law and med, if you desire such a career). 

i'm in engineering myself, and haven't looked back.  i DO enjoy learning the pure physics of stuff, but that's brought down to earth somewhat by the realization that a great deal of what physics teaches breaks down in the real engineering world.  as my advisor put it the other day, engineers are the people who shatter physicsts' dreams

Which university are you at?  The whole D-D fusion neutron generator thing has piqued my curiosity.  It sounds like something Dr. Freeman at Texas A&M would have cooked up.  He was constantly going on about the Z-pinch.

[Klaustrophobia]

NC State. 

this isn't a very broad-scope research project, it's a senior design that ****ing exploded.  it was oringinally intended as a doable project for undergrads, that actually had a chance at being something useful.  this is one of two projects at NC State that have actually been built and run that i know of, the rest are just on paper and in most cases completely useless.  the guy who cooked this idea up is Dr. Steven Shannon.  our main plasma/fusion guy here is Dr. Borham, who is crazy about the Tokomak.

[Colonol Dekker]

Armored Core: For Answer.  Its a Japanese game about giant mechs shooting each other.  Long story short, that by itself makes it awesome.

Dekker:  S rating on every mission?  Damn, you must be one good player.

 
I bloody am
 
Assault armour is a wimps choice. I've been on armoured core since the playstation early days back in 96 or earlier. I'll just say, the Ravens and originals can eat my pants and i'll eat their smouldering corpses. My primary 'config' has infinite fly before I consider my overboost and long range attack.

[iamzack]

NC State. 

this isn't a very broad-scope research project, it's a senior design that ****ing exploded.  it was oringinally intended as a doable project for undergrads, that actually had a chance at being something useful.  this is one of two projects at NC State that have actually been built and run that i know of, the rest are just on paper and in most cases completely useless.  the guy who cooked this idea up is Dr. Steven Shannon.  our main plasma/fusion guy here is Dr. Borham, who is crazy about the Tokomak.