captain_aggravated
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works
Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast Took a temporary honorary demotion of one grade to honor Captain Kori.
- Comment on Happy birds 14 minutes ago:
They’re predators, but they’re the “I’m adapted to hunt in one environment but I hang out in another” kind of predator, so they’re these amazing fish seeking torpedoes in the water, but they’re these delightfully ridiculous footballs in dinner jackets waddling around on land. And they’re licensed under the GPL which is always cool.
- Comment on 🦀 🦀 🦀 14 hours ago:
Or a capybara that is just sick of that pelican’s shit.
- Comment on porch of geese 1 day ago:
I’m not “trying” anything. I’ve encountered a lot of websites with Choose Your Language dropdowns where English is represented by Old Glory and not the Union Jack.
- Comment on porch of geese 1 day ago:
I was specifically referring to this which proposed many of the changes you’re talking about, but very few were actually adopted.
- Comment on porch of geese 1 day ago:
The Voice Of America has a standardized Simplified English they use for broadcasting to regions where English isn’t commonly spoken.
There was also that attempt at destupifying English spelling, a very small amount of which stuck. Color.
- Comment on porch of geese 1 day ago:
Nothing. I’ve heard it used occasionally for decades.
- Comment on porch of geese 1 day ago:
🇺🇸 English
- Comment on Uhuhuhhuh. This place sucks. 2 days ago:
Reminds me of Bill And Ted’s Bogus Journey. “Dude! Hell sucks!”
- Comment on *Honk honk* 2 days ago:
I kinda miss Pontiac. For my entire lifetime, they were “What if GM products were just a little more ridiculous?”
- Comment on *Honk honk* 2 days ago:
Untitled Goose Car.
- Comment on MEGASOTA 3 days ago:
I give Minnesota permission to annex one county from any surrounding state. Which is it?
- Comment on I see your frog, and match you a forg. 3 days ago:
Don’t (at least some) frogs use their eyes to swallow anyway? Like, when they close their eyes they get sucked into their head, which decreases the volume of the mouth, which pushes food into the throat?
- Comment on Aerosol 1 week ago:
The banning of CFCs due to their environmental impacts, retooling the aerosol and refrigerant industries, is what it looks like when we have a functioning world society.
There are adults now who were born after that and don’t remember a time when we could behave that way, so they have every right to be cynical.
- Comment on Aerosol 1 week ago:
Most use propane as a propellant now.
- Comment on Aerosol 1 week ago:
Name me another chemical engineer that could be argued did more harm. I don’t think all of Monsanto with agent orange and Roundup has done more than the TEL and CFC fuckup.
Where’s he buried? How long is the line to piss on his headstone?
- Comment on Aerosol 1 week ago:
Not when all governments have been captured by oil tycoons it isn’t.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 week ago:
This device converts the data stream from a parallel format to a serial format. Fish in the data stream enter simultaneously, but emerge one by one, both in little-endian notation.
- Comment on Stress checkpoint 2 weeks ago:
The floor is made of lawn.
- Comment on The Matrix 2 weeks ago:
Mouse figured that out but Switch was a wet blanket.
- Comment on heater 3 weeks ago:
If you look very carefully, there’s four, maybe five pxels between the n in on and the m in my that aren’t a holy shit moment.
- Comment on Fit girls role call 3 weeks ago:
Oh now it’s don’t have time/know how? I thought it was “too poor.”
- Comment on Fit girls role call 3 weeks ago:
lol whatever.
Reverse the genders and tell me how women would treat that guy.
- Comment on Fit girls role call 3 weeks ago:
Ah, you were a don’t-stick-your-dick-in-crazy.
- Comment on Fit girls role call 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Praise Helix 3 weeks ago:
Hmm, that’s interesting, I’m thinking like a pilot here but tip vortices increase in magnitude as AoA increasess, adding to adverse yaw of ailerons. I figured birds handled yaw control through wing sweep, kind of like how a weight shift trike does.
- Comment on Fit girls role call 3 weeks ago:
So, guys don’t care about a girls income that much. There’s an entire subculture of men that prefers or demands being the sole breadwinner of their families. I’m going to say the word “tradwife” and consider my point made.
Guys will go for an unemployed girl. Pretty and nice will get you a man. Which weren’t you?
Mind you, when I was in college I tutored freshman chemistry for an hour on Wednesdays and made more than $25/week at it; how delusional was your business plan?
- Comment on Praise Helix 3 weeks ago:
We’re in the science memes sub, I talked about the science. I actually have credentials in this subject.
- Comment on Praise Helix 3 weeks ago:
No it’s more that physics is a fickle bitch.
Those spirals are called tip vortices. They occur because there is relatively high pressure under the wing and relatively low pressure above. At the wing tip, that higher pressure air wants to roll up over the wing tip to get to that low pressure area, which is what sets that spiral in motion. Any airfoil that is creating lift will have a vortex at its tip. Wings, tail surfaces, propeller blades, rotor blades, you name it. The higher the angle of attack, the more significant the tip vortex.
Have you ever seen a jet airplane that has fuel tanks out at the wing tips? Most of the reason they’re there is to reduce tip vortices and thus reduce drag. The additional fuel capacity is a minor byproduct. You might notice most newer airliners feature winglets; the wing tips are turned up. That’s not for additional yaw stabilty, those are there to reduce tip vortices, decrease drag and decrease fuel consumption.
Tip vortices are the main factor in wake turbulence, which is an entire class session in flight school. All a tower controller will say to you is “caution wake turbulence.” And they’re right. It’s the pilot’s job to know what to do about it, because trailing behind and below the wing tip of every airplane is an invisible sideways tornado you just have to know is there so you don’t get thrown onto your Cessna’s roof when landing behind a Boeing.
- Comment on Praise Helix 3 weeks ago:
The bird flies despite the spirals, not because of them.
- Comment on Literally a shitpost. 3 weeks ago:
And none of them are missed.
