don’t make a promise you can’t keep

In brief, one of the main ways that stealth aircraft avoid detection is by passively reducing their radar cross-section – or, in plain English, being shaped in a way that reflects radar signals in unexpected ways, thus making them appear “smaller” than they really are to anything that pings them.

The math required to calculate an object’s radar cross-section is impractical to do by hand, and even the computers that were available in the mid 1970s could only do it for relatively simple models with low polygon counts and few or no curved surfaces.

Unfortunately, the results from the simplified computer models were found not to be effective when applied to the complex shapes of real aircraft, so the designers of the F-117 found a workaround: they built it to be the same shape as the low-poly model from the simulation.

Stargate SG-1, 08.09 Sacrifices

+ Bonus:

The one about the ship no one else cares about, or the deeply unpopular character, or the extremely unusual AU?

The fic that got no comments or kudos when you posted it?

Months or years from now, that fic might be exactly what someone is looking for in the sea of fics about all the popular characters, ships, and AUs.

Your fic might be the only fic out there that has what someone is looking for. The only fic that scratches the itch that it turns out you and that reader share.

#I don’t even go here but this is cool

to

#asshjdfgkasgfkjhsak this finally convinced me to watch all ten seasons over the weekend #ffffffuuuckkkkkk #gnawing on the bars of my enclosure #I will die and/or kill for them #desperately need a 50K fic of this

(I gather it was for a show called Off Campus; raise your hand if you've heard of it)

anyway, poll time:

The Shore - Barry McGlashan , 2023.

British, b. 1974 -

I like to think of what Project Hail Mary was like from Rocky’s point of view.