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Dark narrow streaks, called "recurring slope lineae," emanate from the walls of Garni Crater on Mars, in this view constructed from observations by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
But wouldn't that make the whole paper a print that's on the tee later? I thought that makes the material kinda different then so if there's parts that don't need print on it, wouldn't that be better?
yeah, if you have a big rectangle of rubbery surface that isn't nice. The thing would be to delete as much area as possible that is already black before printing on the transfers
@kimholder that's what I thought ... and I'd make such layout that fits the print paper best, and you then cut some parts that go on the tee somewhere else
yeah, i get to Columbia Saturday night, i'll have 2 free days before the conference, i already imagine it being spent listening to relevant podcasts while i iron stuff
@TildalWave no, in the bottom corner it says 30 sheets
i don't get your concern about resolution. the droplets sprayed out by the plotter are pretty small. print i can only read with a magnifying glass is nice and crisp. gradients aren't a good idea, though, because a certain amount of banding occurs in large areas of color - but that goes equally for large areas of flat color
we are waiting on delivery of a continuous ink delivery system and a half liter of each color. that too needs to be tested, but i don't think it will be an issue.
@kimholder I mean that by the time you transfer that on a tee it won't really keep the resolution that you printed it with. Basically, I don't think I should expect high fidelity to the source after the transfer.
I.e. some subtle detail will be lost and it also might not look good if I use too much of those after a couple of washes
ok so dry iron, really hot, parchment paper on top, cut around the transfer right next to where you want it to print (so better to leave a black border on everything to be cut out so it matches shirt color)
press down hard and keep ironing for a full minute or so
they seem to come out nice and clean. haven't found anything that comments on washing
yeah, turn it inside out, wash warm with a spin cycle, soaking is bad, iron inside out. freshen up the transfer by putting parchment paper over it and lightly ironing. not a big deal. i bet they last okay if treated right.
(maybe i'll even put a sticker with washing instructions on the shirts)
@kimholder I'm gonna make borders with some transit effect from transparent to black where that will be possible, so it doesn't look too bad even when tee color washes out a bit
@kimholder Have you ever come across some documents discussing solar wind collectors as means of producing hydrogen and other missing volatiles on the Moon? I'm trying to find anything on this and I didn't manage to, except several documents discussing Genesis solar wind collectors
i've sort of gone with asteroid mining. it seems more plausible to me by the time it would be relevant. but i've given it very little thought, not at that stage yet.
and of course the poles. but if you could just put a collector in some convenient place, that does sound appealing
well solar wind is there for free and it might be trivially simple and cheap to come up with some collection and processing method, like simply laying out large salt fields
and I think they did some new simulations with Sandia labs ... I mean I know they did some new simulations, I'm just not sure which supercomputer they used... and I doubt it's published yet, IIRC it was briefly mentioned during the planetary defense workshop this summer in Italy
Dennis Wingo and I had an argument over this. Wingo argues asteroid impacts have left rich ore deposits on the moon. My response (which he did not like) was citing Barringer's disastrous effort to mine Barringer Crater in Arizona. Barringer was correct that the impactor was metallic. But the impa...
Yeah he focuses there on profitable mining and delivery to Earth ... I'm thinking more ISRU here
it's then profitable if it's cheaper to mine there than to import from Earth
and it might not be that bad, I think it would look a lot more like hunting for meteorites in Antarctica ... you simply drive around and collect rock that is darker than the rest of them
tho it does make me wonder why would it be so difficult to establish if it's impact-induced magnetism, shouldn't all that impact melt degauss as it heats up leaving a distinct magnetic signature?
there would be some of that but I doubt it would be even close to the mass that's thrown out and around it, yet the rims have smaller surface gravity than the melts, despite being much taller
Queue growth
Review queues lose effectiveness if posts aren't regularly (and accurately) cleared. A queue such as close votes on Stack Overflow that never seems to get to 0 fails to provide time-sensitive feedback that aids learning. So if we raise the bar for late answers which increases the nu...
Looks like they're been implementing things again. Don't they know we hate change??
well maybe the bronze or even silver if you're already close but you can only review 20 single review queue items per day so it doesn't get you much closer to gold if you're not already nearly there
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