Basically discusses arrow's impossibility theorem and all that shit like ranked voting

But its still a

since other forms voting still result in proper decisions

wake up babe new NileRed kino just dropped

!architecture !engineering without getting into the merits of apartment blocks (I believe they're great for social housing projects), here's /r/urbanhellcels discussing the horror of American Suburbia. I partially blame films like "American Beauty" for this.

Where the F**K are the trees?! That should be illegal...

Edit: I see the trees now - Thanks guys, I thought it was all bushes and shrubbery. I didn't realize ONLY having small trees could disturb me so, Lol

Ok, avoiding heat island effect is something suburban urbanists should take in account.

Idk, maybe it's just because I'm British and quite young so the best home 90% of us could afford is one room of 15 sheds stacked on top of each other but I always though these were kinda nice. A little samey sometimes, sure, but they don't seem THAT bad.

In the uk i feel like you. Can access stuff easily via walking or public transport if you are living in such a small space. As that's usually in cities more culture etc. lived in Oxford n the housing is tiny but theres stuff to do outside yk? Idk

Lmao, Bongs posting their

What depression really looks like

And here even /r/urbanhell isn't having ut anymore

https://old.reddit.com/r/UrbanHell/comments/10uskvs/sorry_but_american_suburbs_are_far_worse_than_any/

Y'all act like people can't walk 15 min to a park here, this looks a common middle to above middle income neighborhood. You know what you probably won't find here? Homeless doing drugs, gangs, traffic. This looks like peace away from home, they probably see their neighbors once a week. It looks like I can grill in my backyard all day long without anybody bothering me.

Now for commieblocks

https://old.reddit.com/r/UrbanHell/comments/15kjnk3/commieblocks/

Unironically comfy

the fact all the buildings look the same height is really satisfying ngl

I thought they hated the sameness of the suburbs

Looks like afforable and healthy housing, dense enough to be serviced by public transportation. Could use a new coat of paint and some additional facade elements like shading and such. But overall, I love it.

It just needs some painting

I grew up in a 5 story Khrushchevka. It needed better insulation, but the actual urban planning was brilliant. Huge play area for children up front, close to stores and public transportation. Lots of benches and green areas. Beat the pants off any shitty American suburb with no sidewalks, where you could get run down by an SUV without even being aware of it.

SUV chads continue to make redditors seethe!

!anticommunists

https://old.reddit.com/r/UrbanHell/comments/fvn45q/moscow_russia/

Meh. The apartments in the photo appear to have balconies and wooded courtyard areas between buildings. There are millions of people in this world who would love to live in a clean apartment with heat and running water; apartments like these would be like paradise for them. If you think this is urban heck, you ain't seen nothing!

Fine, but it doesn't change the fact those buildings look hideous and probably need maintenance, they were build with pre-fabs back in the 1960s and have problems with insulation.

!mathematics identify yourselves

!ifrickinglovescience !chemistry !nooticers

She also talks about lab grown meat and harvesting algae and jellyfish and the she doesn't eat meat because she doesn't like the taste of it and proceeds to eat a grasshopper on camera.

And yet there will still be people who say that "what's your favourite spider" is a bad pickup line

@MayflyAlt-98 autism kino

!spacechads !engineering !ifrickinglovescience

The launch of Polaris Dawn is scheduled for tomorrow, August 28th. The launch window will open at 3:38am EDT and go up to around 7am. The orbital inclination will be of 51.6 degrees, same as the ISS.

The crew members are

Commander: Jared Isaacman

Pilot: Scott Poteet

Mission Specialist 1: Sarah Gillis

Mission Specialist 2: Anna Menon

Both Gillis and Menon work for SpaceX.

This mission is privately founded by Isaacman and possibly SpaceX as well. It was first announced in 2022 and will include a spacewalk testing the experimental EVA suits made by SpaceX.

Upon launch the crew Dragon Resilience will be placed on an elliptical 190x1200km orbit, after a series of checks Resilience will rise to an apogee of 1,400 km, the highest ever for a non-lunar mission and surpassing the previous apogee record held by Gemini 11 (1,368 km).

On day 2 they will go lower into an 190x750km orbit in preparation for the EVA. On day 3 the cabin will be depressurized, after the hatch is opened both Isaacman and Gillis will leave the vehicle while connected by ropes while Menon and Poteet remain inside the cabin while also being exposed to the vacuum. On day 4 they will test Starlink communications. Re-entry preparations will take place on day 5.

Mission patch.

!ifrickinglovescience

!ifrickinglovescience

!veterans !ifrickinglovescience we need a gunnit ping group

!engineering !architecture !macacos

Some pics and basic info about the Belo Monte hydropower plant.

Located near the town of Altamira in the state of Pará (in the mist of the Amazon forest) it was build on the Xingu river between 2011 and 2016.

The river was transposed and two dams were build. Belo Monte which is the hydropower plant, 88 meters tall and with its 18 Francis turbines it has an installed capacity of 11,233 MW. This makes it the largest 100% Brazilian dam (Itaipú, the largest and number 1 by energy production is owned 50% by Brazil and 50% by Paraguay).

49% of Belo Monte belongs to Eletrobras, the rest to other pension funds and private investors, the company organized to run it is called "Norte Energia".

The second dam is the "vertedouro" located at the Pimantel site.

It's a water dam with a transposing channel connected to take water from its reservoir to Belo Monte. The Pimantel dam has no turbines, it only has a water discharge.

The maximum discharge capacity for Pimantel is 63,000 m^3/s. While the discharge that goes through the turbines in Belo Monte is of 775 m^3/s for each turbine.

Pic of the Generators being installed.

In total over 3 million cubic meters of concrete and 160k metric tons of steel were used during the construction. Most of the cement was provided by Itambé and Votorantim.

The dam attracted a lot of criticism by environmental groups and indigenous activists like the Cacique Raoni

But leftist Presidents Lula and Dilma were the ones to approve the project.

At least Lula is good virtue signaling about environmentalism so annoying euros can leave us alone.

The construction of this dam is extremely dramatic as the construction site became a crime infested shithole (is in the middle of the rainforest and criminals offered services from drugs to prostitution to the workers). But that's another story. The dam flooded an area of 478 sq kilometers.

Schematics of the dam.

Designed by Oscar Niemeyer and built between 1963-1971 it is officially known as "Central Institute of Science". The Big Worm has a total length of 696 meters, it was made of prefabricated reinforced concrete.

In that building there are 7 institutes and 3 faculties which are part of the University of Brasilia.

Pic of the construction

More pics of the building

!macacos !engineering !architecture I'm gonna be honest, it's a hideous building

Will post video once I have one

I dont even know if this is the right hole or whatever but how do you make you profile have a lot more detail and change the fonts of your whole screen and stuff like that? I wanna spice up my profile

!mathematics !antibharatiya I thought the Saars were supposed to be good at math.

By the way, what are some other good and crazy !sophistry stuff from Quora you came across?

!ifrickinglovescience !physics just wanted to share pics from the 3 nuclear Power Plants operating in South America.

Pic on the post is from the Admiral Álvaro Alberto Nuclear Power Plant, located in Angra dos Reis, state of Rio de Janeiro.

It is composed of 3 reactors (Angra 1, Angra 2 and Angra 3) of which only 2 are operational and the third in "construction".

Angra 1 is a pressurized water reactor (PWR) designed by Westinghouse under an agreement with the Brazilian government, construction began in 1972 and it was opened in 1982, it has the capacity for 657 MW. However in 1974 after the sexy Indian dudes first tested their nukes, the US government decided to cut their nuclear agreement with Brazil as the yanks thought the Military Regime would eventually develop nukes. So President Ernesto Geisel looked elsewhere and signed a deal with West Germany for the construction of a second reactor, Angra 2. The drama involving Angra 3 actually deserves a @kaamrev style effortpost.

Agra 2 began operations in 2001, it was designed by Siemens and has an installed capacity of 1350MW.

Angra 3 construction began in 1984 but it was paralyzed in 1986. Construction resumed in 2010 and stopped again in 2015 after leaks of the Lava Jato operation showed contractors bribing politicians and over-spending to increase profit margins. The reactor is 70% completed and now the government intends to finish it this decade

The other two nuclear power plants in South America are located in Argentina.

First pic is from the Atucha Nuclear Power Plant, located in the Buenos Aires province.

Built in the 1970s, it consists of 2 reactors, Atucha I and Atucha II (362 and 745 MW respectively). Both of them are Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWR).

The second one is the Embalse Nuclear Power Plant, a single reactor plant, also a PHWR, 635 MW. Located in the Córdoba province. Construction started in 1974 and began operations in 1983.

!latinx

Pics from Angra 3

Construction

And of it's current incomplete state

LIVE: We're discussing NASA's @BoeingSpace Crew Flight Test following the completion of today's Agency Test Flight Readiness Review. Listen in for the latest #Starliner updates. https://t.co/M2ODFmLuTj

— NASA (@NASA) August 24, 2024

!spacechads !ifrickinglovescience

Tuesday will mark the launch of the first Polaris mission, commanded by Billionaire Jared Isaacman, who was also the commander of the Inspiration4 mission back in 2021.

Joining him are former USAF Lieutenant Colonel Scott Poteet (mission pilot), SpaceX Sarah Gillis (mission specialist 1) and SpaceX Anna Menon (mission specialist 2).

On day one they will enter an ecliptic 190x1400 km orbit, the highest apogee ever for a non-lunar mission surpassing Gemini 11.

On day 3 they will reduce the apogee at 700km and perform a spacewalk. The Dragon cabin will fully depressurize and they will test SpaceX experimental EVA suits. On day 4 they will test starlink coms and on day 5 they will make their preparations to return to Earth.

Pics of the crew along the Dragon Capsule, it was rolled out at Launchpad 39A a few hours ago.

!spacechads !ifrickinglovescience

#NewGlenn’s inaugural mission aims to send @NASA’s ESCAPADE to Mars, with a launch date no earlier than October 13.

— Blue Origin (@blueorigin) August 23, 2024

New Glenn is 98m tall and has 7m of diameter. It can carry up to 45 metric tons to LEO on reusable configuration.

Blue Origin will attempt retro-propulsive landing on the first flight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EscaPADE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Glenn

Reminder that Blue Origin is building and testing their own Lunar Lander, the Blue Moon, and with New Glenn entering service it's becoming likelier they could beat SpaceX by being in service earlier than the Starship HLS (mostly due to Starship's complexity).