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Great idea to use something like that in a tunnel or a garage. Suffocation - no breathing ... and probably some blown doors/walls from the pressure


How are you going to suffocate when the thrusters are sending out compressed air?


Nitrogen, actually.


Car tunnels should be able to handle that level of bad gasses.


What bad gases? It is literally air. Do you see a lot of mechanics passing out in garages with all that compressed air being let loose?


They said "something like that" and I could easily see other outputs, especially nitrogen or some kind of combustion.


It looks like they are actually using nitrogen: https://youtube.com/watch?v=22rvpUecLts&t=1134s


Air is mostly nitrogen, about 80%. Pure oxygen as you might be thinking, would be quite dangerous - not only for long-term consumption but also in terms of its effects. Oxygen is fuel for fire so a 100% oxygen environment would quite create the pyrotechnic show! The 'white' you see from the exhaust isn't the exhaust itself - nitrogen is obviously colorless, but the moisture in the surrounding air freezing. It's going to be coming out quite chilly to keep the nitrogen liquified ( boiling temp of something like -196F).

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Whoa, was just watching the video (great link btw). People have been debating the specs, but they're shown unambiguously right here. [1] It has 95 kn peak thrust, 6g peak acceleration, pressure of 5500 PSI, and a min operating temp of -200F.

[1] - https://youtu.be/22rvpUecLts?t=1339


Of course air is mostly nitrogen. But if you replace 10% of the air with pure nitrogen you go into OSHA-angering levels of oxygen depletion, and if you replace 25-30% you get into serious danger.

Not easily achieved in a tunnel, but much more easily achieved in a garage.


10% of the air replaced with pure nitrogen would be 0.8 * 0.9 + 1.0 * 0.1 = 82% nitrogen, 18% oxygen. That's perfectly safe for brief exposure, which is all it would be before you return to ambient levels.

To create a dangerous scenario you've gotta do something like somehow gas out your entire tank in a garage and then just stand around for a while breathing it in. Kind of an improbable scenario unless somebody is trying a really weird suicide attempt.


The bigger tank apparently holds 250kg of air. That's about 200 cubic meters. A two car garage is likely less than 100 cubic meters.

You wouldn't need to dump nearly an entire tank of nitrogen to reach levels that are immediately dangerous. And oxygen deprivation makes you stupid well before it makes you pass out, with no "lack of air" panic since that is based on CO2 levels, so even when it would be survivable for a couple minutes you might not even think to escape.


I wonder how they will fill up the mines in the west with the current droughts and dried up rivers


Being born in Heilbronn and living in the are this was a "the what problem" moment indeed.


I was hoping for Deathless Meat [1] Looks like this does not happen anytime soon.

[1] see https://www.daniel-suarez.com/changeagentsynopsis.html


Sync was nice but also a pita. I remeber a sales guy having on of the first celluar cards in his notebook and he flew to a foreign country for a week. Notes sync kept the card online and we got a thank you letter from the provider. Later in my network job it was very often Notes clocking the lines, keeping dial on demand open and requiering the implementation of WAN accelarators.


You could put it another way: Every time Ray joined a new company he startet to reimplement Plato Notes/the idea of a synced database. Groove Networks did that and its a shame that all thats left at Microsoft is OneDrive. And if you look at the optic of Microsoft Teams, the small bar at the left, the tiles of the app part ... hello Notes my old friend/enemy


The law requires to mention the outstanding documentation “Office Space“ here.


Why does XTINK even bother with their own firmware. Let their developer work on Crosspoint and make great hardware.


oh, thats an awesome idea!


forgejo for hosting, woodpecker for CI/CD.

Hopefully forgejo gets federation in the near future because öets face it, opening an issue on Github is easy because you have an user there but you wont get one on my private forgejo instance. Also, a tool like gh for forgejo would be nice.

If you want to have an easy way to setup, have a look at https://yunohost.org/ that also offers lots of other nice stuff in its "app store" -> https://apps.yunohost.org/


this is our stack too, we initially ran BuildKite but switched to Woodpecker for Forgeo. Coming from Github there's a few basic things that are missing in woodpekcer that may frustrate you but it's improving regularly.


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