James McLellan‭

Price's Law is a hypothesis that in an organization, or across an industry, roughly half the productive output is being generated by a number of people equal to the square root of those participati...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by James McLellan‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by dsr‭

I was recently introduced to the South Atlantic Anomaly. As I understand, for satellites and space craft, this is a natural feature that can wreck space craft by taking even computers designed fo...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by James McLellan‭  ·  edited 2y ago by James McLellan‭

Looks like it may just be mechanical. According to this article, if true, you can rehydrate white glue with water and heat. https://simpleglue.com/how-to-revive-elmers-glue/

posted 2y ago by James McLellan‭

I feel like science fiction doesn't have many sports, other than the occasional laser battle or fantasy sword duel. I'd like to start a discussion series about sports in a low-gravity/no-gravity e...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by James McLellan‭  ·  edited 2y ago by hkotsubo‭

Low gravity golf was invented by Alan Shepard in 1971 when he hit two golf balls 40 yards on the moon. Surprisingly, this version of the sport with little atmosphere and much lower gravity, is the...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by James McLellan‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Antares‭

I was investigating a few ideas on recreational solar sailing, and came up with some interesting things - The primary equation in solar sailing is $ F = {{2 R S A} \over {c}} \sin^2{\theta} $ Whe...

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I recently learned that it's believed that the solar system once had one more gas giant, which was ejected by Jupiter some time in the past. https://thesolarsystem.fandom.com/wiki/Fifth_Giant Doe...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by James McLellan‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Or4ng3h4t‭

The Earth-Moon Lagrange points have names: L1, L2, and L3 are Libration Points, the L4 and L5 points are the Kordylewski Clouds. The Jupiter-Sun L4 is named the Greeks, and the Jupiter-Sun L5 is n...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by James McLellan‭

The polar vortex nearly dies every year around springtime in the hemisphere you are concerned with. This failure is what brings those spring frosts in February, March. It's not really possible to ...

posted 2mo ago by James McLellan‭

Under "Making a Good First Impression", a few mechanical notes from someone just making the transition from WB.SE to Codidact - Question titles should probably be at the top of the page, inste...

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Theory If I am understanding this history of this correctly, in the 1920s the mathematical process of converting measurements with a certain amount of measurement error into numbers, then doing yo...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by James McLellan‭  ·  edited 2y ago by James McLellan‭

How would competitive wrestling change in a microgravity environment?

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by James McLellan‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by trichoplax‭

Any volume is large enough for rain or fog. Humidity buildup (rain) is a concern in spacecraft design, and was one of the reasons (too much rain) that caused one proposed Martian settlement to fail...

posted 4mo ago by James McLellan‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by James McLellan‭

You have mass flow rate and velocity, but the area this is spread over will say a lot - $$\dot{m} v = F = 1 {{kg} \over {s}} \cdot 1,000 {{km} \over {s}} \cdot 1,000 {{m}\over{km}}= 1 \times 10^{6...

posted 2y ago by James McLellan‭

According to this site, the kinetic energy of the two alpha particles emitted is 4.273 MeV. As you said, these aren't neutral atoms yet with balancing electrons. So, they are a charged plasma. Im...

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