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 6mo ago by James McLellan‭  ·  last activity 5mo 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 8mo ago by James McLellan‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by James McLellan‭

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...

0 answers  ·  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...

posted 8mo ago by James McLellan‭  ·  edited 8mo 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 3mo ago by James McLellan‭

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 3mo ago by James McLellan‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by James McLellan‭

How would competitive wrestling change in a microgravity environment?

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

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 2mo ago by James McLellan‭  ·  edited 1mo ago by hkotsubo‭

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 8mo ago by James McLellan‭

I'd recommend a Kalman filter to increase measurement accuracy to the overlap of multiple system errors so that you get the best result. For inputs, may I recommend - a calculation of doppler s...

posted 2mo ago by James McLellan‭  ·  edited 2mo 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...

posted 2mo ago by James McLellan‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by James McLellan‭

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...

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

Utility fog is a swarm robotics concept in which a mesh of robots barely larger than a grain of pollen (5 micrometer ( $10^{-6} $ m ) bodies and 50 micrometer arms) are dodecahedrons (12 sided pol...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by James McLellan‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by James McLellan‭

Orbital rings are a proposed megastructure intended to dramatically reduce the cost to enter or exit a planetary gravity well. The ring is a solid structure, belting around the planet like a hula h...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by James McLellan‭  ·  closed 3mo ago by Canina‭

Yes. Although this may be streching your definition of oil a bit. The oil product could host some sort of microfauna that cure the product by building EPS microstructures. https://en.m.wikipedia....

posted 3mo ago by James McLellan‭