Quote from CSU1 :

Behold The Arctopus - Alcoholocaust

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Blotted Science

more sunday morning music!

the size and the time it takes for it to form etc is of course different, yes.

just a note... almost any explosion creates the mushroom which most people associate with nuclear weapons.

even a match being lit can create something to that effect.

i think he is running the game on the pc and feeding video/audio to the psp.

they've done something similar with crysis "on" the eee.

Quote from Furiously-Fast :

Your guesses gave me an idea.

:guilty:

yup looks like the 9600gt is slightly better (but also slighty more expensive). eats less power too.

make sure it is not EVGA there's been word around they have issues.

i was playing serious sam on a geFARCE 2. it mattered a lot if i was at 32bit or 16bit.

anyway

graphics cards are very cheap these days and LFS plays with any card now.

looks pretty gay to me

i said ferrari :sorry:

start reading online...

this is way too complicated.

if you want my personal completely unexplained opinion: don't bother. stick with xp 'firewall'.

ferrari 340!?

italdesign?

Quote from Becky Rose :

It's not a new trend, even my beloved Aston Martin where at it once

(...)

*hangs head in shame*

i think it's ****ing awesome

another one

Quote from Kosmo :

And that's with 100cc less.

it's a 2.6liter engine, dude, not a 1.3l.

it's like comparing a 500cc two stroke with a 500cc four stroke.

i thought i replied to this thread?

well, we are not showing off. i showed the work of someone else. i think it is clear enough. besides, in a thread about "modelling tips", complete models can be inspirational, i think.

Quote from Breizh :

You're biased and it shows.

personal attack, you are trying to discredit me. this is a hit below the belt.

Quote from Breizh :

I reckon the early RX7 rotaries match or beat today's Kwak 1400 engine.

numbers please. (i am willing to forget that the early rx7 engines are notoriously sensitive)

Quote from Breizh :

The only good applications for bike engines in cars are in the ultra light customs or smart-car franken builds.

comparing a 1.4l that is usualy found in cars with the 1.4l kawa engine, the kawa engine has more power (any n.a. 1.4l that outputs 180hp?) revs higher (11Krpm) and is very light (it's obvious, i think). even if it has somewhat less torque, i think almost double the revs make up for it and consider it is lighter too.

that is what i am comparing. i am not trying to fit bike engines in cars.

Quote from Breizh :

The rotary hasn't gotten piston engines' development time, period.

it took mazda decades and it nearly went bankrupt... to advance the design. where did it end up? in one production car which isn't something incredible anyway. replace the rx8 engine with a normal engine. you think it'll change much? i gather it wouldn't.

it does not have any significant advantage. not anymore.

ok we're getting philosophical here...

Quote from CheckEngineLight :

Im running an amd XP 3200+, 1 gig of ram and an agp geforce4 mx 440. Im getting bad fps 32-15 depending on the amount of cars on screen. Would a new video card boost my FPS? Is my processor holding me back? By a new video card i mean a cheap fix until i build a new system.

yes, it most probably would.

cheap fix, you can get an ati 3650. rather cheap, hell of a lot faster. (make sure it's agp)

i don't have to do any analysis. your analysis is wrong. i don't have to go into details, since i can do the experiment in reality and see that the results you get to are not in agreement with reality.

i do not speak from "authority". it is widely held correctly that momentum is conserved. you make the claim that it is not conserved. you have to prove it. but your analysis is wrong, because it obviously does not agree with reality.

you're just a fool if you think that with your wrong analysis you actually showed that momentum is not conserved.

Quote from Kosmo :

This reminds me of someone who said way back in the day with absolute certainty, that there will never be more than 50 (or whatever small number) cars in Europe. The truth is there is no way of knowing what would (or will) happen. You can't seriously argue that the Wankel has had even one fifth of the research and evolution the piston engine enjoys.

it has inherent flaws that can't be overcome without spending ridiculous amounts of money and effort. even then (after mazda has almost gone bankrupt after all it has done) the engine hasn't seen a lot of use. even though everyone almost touts is as the second coming of christ. all i see is a rather sensitive, thirsty but light and rev-happy engine. it would matter years ago, but now that piston engines rev >10K rather easily and are made rather light i don't see what is the fuss about the wankel. like the hemi, perhaps. good idea, but obsolete.

also the argument about not knowing, i didn't say i know. i said i think. if i would say i know i would prove it rather concretely. the analogy with the number of cars in europe is rather weak anyway. just because he was wrong doesn't mean anyone else who thinks something is wrong. it's a logical fallacy.

Quote from Kosmo :

As for bike engines, true they can give you about the same power/displacement ratio as a rotary engine BUT... Take a look at their torque curves. Almost non-existant since bikes don't need much torque due to their very low weight.

so? i haven't yet looked at dynos but something tells me that the zzr 1400 engine which revs till 11K happily and outputs something more than 180hp is all around a far better engine than a 1.4l engine in a usual car that will rev up to (being very generous here) 8K. and outputs... what? the TFSI 1.4l engine (TFSI!) outputs about 175hp and revs till 6.5K and certainly weighs more than the kawa engine. ok so it has more torque. but if we are to compare the wankel for revs, power, weight, the bike engines beat it. (both have relatively weak torque)

Last edited by george_tsiros, Sun 24 Aug 2008, 15:41.

Quote from Kosmo :

BTW, F1's do 6G's in turns? Where did you get that from man?

i've seen many times this question. here you go
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F ... _car#Turning_acceleration

Quote :

Higher-speed corners such as Blanchimont (Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps) and Copse (Silverstone Circuit) are taken at above 5.0g, and 6.0g has been recorded at Suzuka's 130-R corner[8].
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A newer and perhaps even more extreme example is the Turn 8 at the Istanbul Park circuit, a 190° relatively tight 4-apex corner, in which the cars maintain speeds between 265 km/h (165 mph) and 285 km/h (in 2006) and experience between 4.5g and 5.5g for 7 seconds - the longest sustained hard cornering in Formula 1.

your analysis does not agree with the reality of the experiment. (you haven't even completed the analysis and you won't find even one who says your analysis is correct)

it is wrong.

except that you can't solve a simple system yourself and in the end you used a program to solve it (i saw what you pasted... don't lie), that you don't test your own solutions in what you write, that since the tetherball in reality works properly your analysis is wrong...

you still think you are right?

and if you still think you are right, what do you base it on?

Quote from fraghetti :

Its obviously the mx440.

do you know the settings he is running the game?

now you tried copy pasting from some software... way to go nub.

(Edit: he deleted the message)

Quote from The Very End :

We need a science forum for this, because this is over my head. I never did complete advance math on school, nor physics, so got no clue about this

haven't you even got the knowledge to test if his solution to the system is correct?

does (x+y)^2 = 16 if x=12 and y=-4?

what "science" and "advance math" are you talking about? this is elementary school arithmetic.