Ontopic Mission to Uranus

[nukes]

Nukes, you should read a book regardless. When is the last time you read a book?

I haven't read any non fiction in a few years. I read approximately one novel every 3 weeks.
I blame UF, but it's on me.

 

[nukes]

Magnet and coil does. Guitar pickups or microphone and a speaker work off the same principle, just the reverse of each other. One turns motion into juice, the other turns juice into motion.

Sexy

 

[Domon]

Nah.
http://www.instructables.com/answers/Can-I-use-a-motor-to-make-a-generator/

oh, thats what you meant by backwards. I thought you meant spin it counterclockwise instead of clockwise or something

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

you should read a fucking book.

Not really. A dynamo is pretty much the exact same setup as the motor you'd find in an RC car. There are a lot of home-brewed generators using windmills or water wheels that spin the motor from a treadmill or something similar. Dad is making one right now, actually.

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

oh, thats what you meant by backwards. I thought you meant spin it counterclockwise instead of clockwise or something

Damnit, robit.

 

[Strings]

Nukes closes his eyes...
Nukes shOOTs
NUKES SCORESSSSSS!!!

 

[my little brony]

Who has a single copy of wikipedia, though?

jimmy wales

 

[fly]

the needs are vastly different for 10k people left alive. You dont need the huge scale production.

Your quote of Wikipedia getting us back to 90% almost certainly includes power generation...

 

[my little brony]

the needs are vastly different for 10k people left alive. You dont need the huge scale production.

well yeah but we're talking about what it would take to get humanity back to its current point of being a space faring civilization

at least that's what I'm talking about. to me the main goal in this is to allow humanity to spread out among the stars instead of eventually dying a one planet species

 

[Jehannum]

Your quote of Wikipedia getting us back to 90% almost certainly includes power generation...

100% of American power generation facilities require paper copies of operators' manuals to be kept in the office.

 

[nukes]

We could hire Bhuddist monks to transcribe all of Wikipedia on paper and set up an archive in Virginia.
That's right
The
Library
Of
Alexandria

 

[Domon]

thats a good point. The library of congress should be a primary objective to save if humanity is going down hill.

 

[Jehannum]

We could hire Bhuddist monks to transcribe all of Wikipedia on paper and set up an archive in Virginia.
That's right
The
Library
Of
Alexandria

I'm not sure I care whether or not the monks archive all the sexual position articles written (badly) by neckbeards that desperately wish they could find someone whose name didn't end in ".com" to engage in it with.

 

[Duke]

knowledge isnt just people. Its written word. A single copy of wikipedia probably containst mostly enough knowledge to get us back to 90%

Or you could just buy a book that doesn't need electricity

https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Rebuild-Civilization-Aftermath-Cataclysm/dp/0143127047

 

[Domon]

Or you could just buy a book that doesn't need electricity

https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Rebuild-Civilization-Aftermath-Cataclysm/dp/0143127047

is the first line of that book either

1) Dont panic

or

2) go find yourself a copy of wikipedia and put it in a safe place

?

 

[Duke]

is the first line of that book either

1) Dont panic

or

2) go find yourself a copy of wikipedia and put it in a safe place

?

Pretty sure the first line is 'RTFM'

 

[Domon]

Also, that book apparently sucks

What I was looking for was a book about 'how to rebuild our world from scratch'.
A series of 'this is how to build a fire', 'this is how to identify iron-bearing rocks', 'this is how to smelt iron', 'this is how to build a steam engine, etc.

The book instead is a series of chapters describing problems that one facing the rebuilding of civilization would face with no solutions. For example it describes how post-1800s farming requires industrial nitrogen fixing and how not having that is an issue, without providing a solution.

This book is a good starting point for research, but is not what I was hoping for.

 

[my little brony]

paper burns and degrades, too

 

[nukes]

paper burns and degrades, too

My monks will.be working in stone.

 

[OOD]

paper burns and degrades, too

So do humans.