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That’s prison coffee to you, sir.

Im pretty sure my cat would still wake up my ghost from the grave to let him go out pee

I’m hopelessly devoted to this methodology.

I know I'm only playing

I was wondering where you were going with your analogy, thinking "well, the water wouldn't be electrified while you were drinking it!"

So imagine the horizontal distance, not the diagonal distance.

The front foot is the equivalent of the top of a river up a mountain, and the back foot is the equivalent of the estuary at sea level.

The human's horizontal foot distance is much less, so there is a much smaller difference between the potential from one foot to the other.

Also, ramjets and scramjets don't work at the speeds that commercial airliners fly at, and turbojets are hugely fuel inefficient.

The engines powering commercial airliners are turbofans, similar in construction to a turbojet, but with a large diameter intake fan, that bypasses a lot of cold air past the compression/ignition stage and mixes it with the exhaust air to generate thrust without burning up a ton of fuel a minute.

Yep! And I've corrected it. Thanks everyone

Doesn't make sense in the context of one horse's leg to another. (vs the distance from one human leg to another being a lower pressure)

The Frankenstein effect

It sounds like you're thinking of the propfan

Do you happen to remember the name of the type of engine that they experimented with in, I think, the 80’s, maybe early 90’s? It was kind of like a turboprop, but the it looked more like a jet engine. The defining feature was that the “propeller” blades were short and stubby and mounted on what would look like the exhaust cone of a turbine engine, and there were a lot more of of these stubby blades than you’d see on a turboprop. It basically looked like if you took one of the compressor stages off a turbine engine and rotated it inside out so the blades all stuck outward from a central ring, and then slid that ring up onto the exhaust cone of a turbine engine.

I’ve been trying to remember the name of this thing for a long time but have had a dammed hard time finding it. Apparently they were supposed to have the efficiency of something between a turboprop and a turbine, and so airlines really wanted them, but no one pursued them because they thought the general public would think they are “scary-looking” and wouldn’t want to fly on them

It’s been a while since I’ve studied this. How do they get the ramjets into a forward motion to make them work in the first place.

Also, for scramjets, what kind of changes in engine behavior result from the air being supersonic? Does the air even spend enough time in the engine to burn long enough to put any useful energy into the system? Or is it still burning on its way out (while exiting the exhaust section), kind of creating an explosion just behind the engine that pushes the engine forward?

The blades do behave like a wing, except in a horizontal direction instead of a vertical direction. I’ve heard people accidentally say ‘lift’ when they mean ‘thrust’ many times, but everyone in the industry knows what they mean just because of the design.

But you are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct!

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If I tossed you into a swimming pool and added a few volts it would not pass through you unless you touched a ground, like the metal ladder. Then you would be in trouble. So, you could kill all those tiny bugs but they would need to touch a lot of tiny ladders.

Yeah. Poor little guys.

Yeah, fuck chromium. I grew up in a town that had a chrome plating factory and they dumped their waste in the creek that ran alongside two schools. I was born with correctable heart defect but damn there were a lot of kids with cancer.

This ISS my stop.

To save the bacteria?

Just to clarify a typo for others. The large blade in the front isn't a turbine blade it's a fan blade. That's why they are called turbofans.

Okay but then we need virusesphageses.

Imagine it more as water flowing downhill. Small horizontal distance, not too much change in gravitational potential energy, but from the top of a mountain to the bottom there's a huge difference there.

There’s typically other things in the water that can be broken down / chemically changed. Even something like salt water can produce chlorine gas