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What's a good torque wrench to get?
  • Split beam torque wrenches are where it's at, especially for home use where it's going to sit for long periods of time. Split beam is easier to set, and you don't have to leave it at 0 when not in use. I have ruined many traditional clickers because I forgot to set it back to 0 for storage, then it sits like that for months.

    They aren't as cheap as a traditional clicker, but they are so much better.

  • The US government is taking a serious step toward space-based nuclear propulsion
  • Some satellites and rovers have used Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators (RTGs), which are very different from a nuclear reactor. They use polonium-210, which generates heat, and that heat is converted to electricity with thermocouples. They are low power and inefficient.

    To my knowledge no satellite, with an RTG, has ever used ion propulsion. Few interplanetary satellites have ever even used ion thrusters. Dawn, Hayabusa, and Deep Space 1 are the only I can think of, and they all used solar arrays.

    Ion thrusters are super efficient, but produce extremely small amounts of thrust. They aren't practical for getting large spacecraft to Mars. These proposed nuclear engines produce large thrust while have efficiency somewhere between regular chemical propulsion and ion propulsion.

  • What is the long-term storage plan for Lemmy instances?
  • For large instances pictures is probably the bigger consumer of space, but for small instances the database size is the bigger issue because of federation. Also, mass storage for media is cheap, fast storage for databases is not. With my host I can get 1TB of object storage for $5 a month. Attached NVMe storage is $1 per month per 10 GB.

    For my small instance the database is almost 4x as large as pictrs, and growing fast.

  • Colorado Lemmy Server

    Hi everyone, just wanted to make people aware of a Colorado instance I’m trying to get going. If anyone is interested feel free to join!

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    Colorado Lemmy Server

    Hi everyone, just wanted to make people aware of a Colorado instance I'm trying to get going. If anyone is interested feel free to join and also start a Colorado Springs community!

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