There are basically no "fantasy" elements, the book keeps you on edge with every page, its the most tense book i have ever read, i fr could NOT LAY IT DOWN until it was thru. Stuff why u should read the book:

  • Liquid nitrogen hand granades
  • magnetic pneumatic shootable grappeling hook
  • French special forces beeing assholes
  • more Deus ex machina moments than i ever saw before in a singular book
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and here as a bonus for the military airplane autists...here have a Mack Maloney:

credible solution right there

A device like this actually appears in the plot of Matthew Reilly's Temple, tho in the book the nuclear material used was from a meteorite...still tho it was basically sundial

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_(novel)

the birds thing is a feature, high protein snack precooked via tracer

ok throw in 20$ more for 2 servos to gumball the thing in the right direction

Edit: maybe switch that laser distance sensor for a Ultrasonic one, since ultrasonic dosent show up as bright flickering dots in night vision....

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Hear me out..... (sh.itjust.works)

Saying non credible af here, but in theory one could add a upwards facing shotgun shells on top of the helmet, triggered by a Camera/proximity sensor if it detects a drone/falling grande. Maybe add a gyroscope to check if the helmet is actually facing upwards before triggering. All in all unit cost could be below 250$

  • 6x 12 gauge shells with bird shot
  • Raspberry pi type controller
  • USB cam
  • Laser distance sensor
  • gyroscope
  • servo trigger

mir ist gerade aufgefallen....

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Would this even work? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works to c/astrophotography@lemmy.world

Or would the tolerances needed in the hinged mirror make the whole thing unusable?

I was looking at modern "smart telescopes" recently and noticed some are sideways and wondered if that would be possible for a normal hobby Newtonian telescope.

Possible upsides:

  • no tripod needed for use
  • mirror is light so smaller motors can be used for movement

Possible downsides:

  • maybe mirror flatness?

EDIT/UPDATE: so i tryed it with a 75mm first surface mirror, it kinda worked, at least better than a normal mirror, but i wasnt able to get it as sharply focused as i like. I suspect the mirrior i use has micro ripples because its just 2mm thick and doesent look like its seen a polishen process....guess thats how far a budget of 25bucks gets ya

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Not a good year to be boeing hardware

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if i see a person struggling with english and still trying to make educational content about niche topics no one else covers, i have the upmost respect for them

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cv2.imshow("Post", frame) (sh.itjust.works)

I have seen Bias Tee injectors for up to 50v@1.5A, thats enough for a decent output booster. But yes in reality 99% of those where used for preamps in analog TV/Radio Rx

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Freizeit und Urlaub ist nicht das selbe.

source for the information in the title: i made it up, or did i?

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