So what hardware exactly did Valar provide to this. The fuel, control systems, cooling, measurement systems, and most of the core are all part of the Deimos project. Did Valar provide a block of graphite and are calling it their "core"? ncsp.llnl.gov/sites/ncsp/fil…

Anyone in the salt lake area have a helium leak detector for finding high vacuum leaks that we could rent for a few days?

"They just kept building" Legendary cowboystatedaily.com/2025/12/15/sup…

All of the proposed "easy fixes" ignore many significant trade offs that go into everyday systems engineering. "Efficiency" is not the be-all end-all metric. Simplicity, Reliability, maintainability, manufacturability, etc are all important metrics. Most of these "old"

gillettenewsrecord.com/news/local/art… I'm a little disappointed in this. We have already committed to Wyoming and are actively developing here. We asked for $4.5M in matching funds to greatly accelerate our project and hire several more engineers, a few of them being locals laid off by

Oh I thought i was told by the renewabros that this would never happen.

My little brother's Christmas present. Shoutout to OSH Cut, Inc. for getting all the parts cut out insanely quickly.

It's actually the other way around. By terraforming Mars we would learn so much more about climate systems than we could through observation alone.

Guess who has the largest rail transport network in the world?

Amazing how everyone is up in arms about billionaires being able to take out loans against share valuations in order to invest in additional business ventures but no one wants to talk about the art donation loophole for avoiding taxes. legalclarity.org/the-art-donati…

Absolutely legendary

Do people not know that this is a form of vaccination? The OG smallpox vaccine was giving people cowpox...

Why is purchasing FEA software such a massive pain and absurdly expensive. Abaqus literally charges you per processor on your machine...

New (to me) 1957 Cincinnati OD grinder!

The most frustrating thing about buying a car / rv / anything that is financed is sales guys repeatedly throwing a monthly payment number at you instead of interest rate and total cost. Even after I repeatedly tell them "I don't care about the monthly payment, I want the interest

This is 100% false. The reason we subsidize farming production so heavily goes back to just after the great depression. After watching fellow Americans starve during the depression, Dep of Agriculture head Henry A. Wallace wanted to build a system that ensured no American would

Most people don't understand what the primary purpose of the Department of Energy is. Hint, it has nothing to do with electricity.

Why is architecture and engineering so high on the theoretical scale? Any engineer in a meat-space related engineering discipline who has interacted with LLMs on their area of expertise can tell you how bad they are at it. The likely culprit is that the percentage of physical