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The simulation argument and the CIA reading room
I’m assuming you have little ships laying about longing for its bottle destination? Ha! I can dig it. Cheers.
A bland bottle ship? Machining a detailed one from wood?
Nothing truly is bland, it’s more of a “depends on who you ask” or “bottle ship beauty is in the eyes of the beholder” topic. If anything, perfection comes from practice. So every part of getting to perfect is perfect in its own way. I bet the kit ship is a precious, and is just misunderstood. 😉
Funny, you have a craft in tiny ship building. For years I used to ask random strangers this serendipitous yet nonsensical question: “You wouldn’t happen to know anyone in the boat building business?” It just popped in my head one day and would periodically ask a person I encountered on any given moment. It became a personal inside joke, and still to this day have no idea why I felt compelled to inquire about this strange request nor what I would do if someone answered “Actually, I do…”. I stopped asking about a year ago, and totally forgot about it until now. Hmm… Still stumps me.
@Alice well to be fair I am not a ship builder. I have a 4th axis cnc machine which will automatically generate the machine cutting code for STL models. So basically I just download whatever model from the internet, put it in the program and press go and it will cut that model out of whatever wood stock I have set up. I ended up carving a mini Jesus statue for my grandmother in law the other week with it, and the detail was quit impressive.
In regards to the model in the kit not being bland, I do agree with you to a certain extent, its just we have a piece of the old Batavia shipwreck here in a maritime museum in Fremantle which we went a saw a few months back, and it has awakened a somewhat mild obsession with old school ships and galleons in me. So I look at the basic hull shape and think "this would look way cooler as a Batavia replica"....my mind won't disagree me with on it
Be fair to yourself. The requested product was; a built boat, as long as you get there… you definitely know a guy. Ha! Idk what 4th axis building is, but I’m now intrigued so you must post a picture of your fancy boat building product.
When you said Galleon, I immediately thought “Harry Potter, is that you?” 🤦♀️ Some dreams never die.
@Alice this is what I've got. watching from 6:30 should give you the idea. It can do laser engraving and 3d printing as well:
4 Axis CNC Machining With Snapmaker 2.0 - YouTube
this isn't me btw
That is one nifty contraption you own. How much do those things run?
I guess you are were right, not a ship builder. Using that is totally cheating. There is something about a person spending their fleeting time on building something, focusing on its creation, putting their heart into it, that makes things magical.
I vote “kit ship“ for the ‘which ship fits the Scotch Bottle’ conundrum. If you could build the ship yourself then use the 4th axis to etch the small details, then we both win.
@alice its actually costing us quite a bit in power so i haven't really been using it as much lately. and yeah i agree; it totally is cheating. I just really don't have the time to sit and carve one at the moment. I was thinking of doing a few like this to get an idea of the shape then trying to carve a similar shape free hand. I mainly just use this machine for 3D printing parts for my caravan. I got the 4th axis to make chess pieces (I designed these myself from scratch so its not entirely cheating - I wouldn't be able to carve them all uniform by hand)
I JUST found this thread. I got a LOT I can say. And want to. I have just been busy as fuck on my end here.
Just in a NUTSHELL nutshell - a quick Newtonian physiology lesson...
Potassium BEGINS a depolarization. It’s a switch for a cell to open or close an opening. In the the sodium/potassium pump it is the potassium part.
Calcium holds the opening open. For things to go into or out of the cell. It’s the doorman.
Magnesium just lets the hole close on its own. Sometimes the opening needs to be snapped shut - that’s where we bring our sodium potassium pump back into the equation.
So when a cell dies, all of those minerals spill out of the cell. Calcium is one that sticks around, hence - calcifications.
If that pineal gland gets CALCIFIED - I don’t think that is coming from “diseased” neurons. They have openings and closings all over the cell body - nobody has a clue how many calcium channels are in a neutron compared to say - a heart muscle cell that is always beating.
THAT being said - yeah - this is the shit I have been working on in my spare time - right there. Trying to FIND anything.
And here I am. So, @DM - glad to be here. Looks interesting!