u/ergzay

I built my sleet wheat farm based on studying the thermal conductivity page on the wiki. I feed superheated water that is used to cool the farm coolant into the hydroponic farms in order to use it as a heat destruction method. However vastly more heat than expected is being transferred to and from the hydroponic farm tiles to the surrounding air and to the plants than expected.

In the equations section it lists the heat transfer between a building and a building's contents as "N/A" (see the table titled "Equations" and the "Building ↔ building contents" entry) however watching and isolating a farm tile I can see the temperature of the water stored inside the farm tile gradually fall at high game speed. By what method exactly is the water in the farm tile conducting heat away?

https://x.com/PalmerLuckey/status/2051156413892935840

> One of the real bummers of the N64 software library is that despite being extraordinarily capable as a 2D system, almost all of the effort went into 3D games.
> > Makes sense, that was the shiny new selling point, but the hardware is capable of so much as a sort of Super-SNES.

And a couple replies to his post and followup replies to those:

https://x.com/PalmerLuckey/status/2051186655961518524

> > But they also had a more limited space in the cartridge, no? Compared to a CD-rom, at least. And people would have expected higher-res from the average NES/Genesis 2D game.

> ~10x more space than the largest SNES games, ~30x more space than a typical SNES game. Hundreds of times more than NES or Genesis.

https://x.com/PalmerLuckey/status/2051156413892935840

> > Eehh kinda. If you don't mind your sprites being smeared like Vaseline and boogers across the wall.
Considering it didn't seem like you could turn off the horrendously aggressive bilinear filtering, probably not a good idea. Few want to see a snot smeared Street Fighter Alpha

> That is a game-specific decision. Quake 64 allows you to toggle it on and off.

Edit: Adding on John Carmack's reply as well that Palmer reposted

https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2051311353420263424

> Yeah, just doing 60 fps 2D games with subpixel filtering, blending, scaling, rotation, and no hard tile boundaries would have allowed some very strong new designs.

Just saw this appear over on the NSF forums https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=64900.msg2784695

I'll copy over some posts here

> There were several news reports a few weeks ago about new legislation being introduced in the Louisiana state legislature that would incentivize aerospace companies to locate facilities there. > > https://www.google.com/search?q=spacex+louisiana&tbm=nws&source=lnms
> https://kpel965.com/louisiana-aerospace-bills-spacex-blue-origin/
> https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/louisiana-lawmakers-push-tax-breaks-legal-protections-bills-to-attract-aerospace-companies-to-the-state-space-rockets-infrastrucetue/289-80a9db7c-c33f-4022-9533-9db77efd69a2
> https://www.nola.com/news/business/louisiana-aerospace-jeff-landry/article_ce2e745f-4063-46e7-8ba2-ee5158adc833.html
> (last one is paywalled but looks the most informative)
> > Based on how the legislation was ushered through the process by some state VIPs (executive branch and legislative branch leaders), I believe a deal is happening there. The articles mention both SpaceX and Blue Origin, but I think something with SpaceX is actually brewing.

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> Just read on another website that SpaceX was looking for some land and dredging rights in the Louisiana Bayou area. It was supposed to be hush-hush. An oil company has 40,000 acres there as well as some large land owners. Sounds like a possible Starship/Superheavy launch site. Anyone know about this? > > It is in Vermilion Parrish. It can give a straight shot between Cuba and south Florida, or a polar route through the narrow part of Mexico, about 600 miles over water due south. Polar routes may be what SpaceX will use for lunar south pole operations. > > Here is the thread and website: > > https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/21367404/re-spacex-in-louisiana

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> Here is the area of the "Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge" and "Pecan Island" mentioned in that forum: > > https://www.google.com/maps/@29.7080926,-92.6606134,10.67z > > And here is another forum giving more specifics (and by "specifics", I do realize that this is all just internet rumors at this point): > > https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/o-t-lounge/spacex-to-acquire-30000-acres-in-vermilion-parish-for-spaceport/123435584/ > > > It’s still officially in the rumor stage and not confirmed by any official source publicly yet. I’ve spoken to a a couple of credible people who lease land near Pecan Island that say they’ve been told that SpaceX is in the process of purchasing 30,000 acres near the Freshwater City locks to build a new spaceport to launch and retrieve rockets. Apparently the location is the right mix of remoteness with ability to use barges for moving the rockets plus nearby access to rocket fuel ingredients. This would explain the aerospace industry incentive bills that are in the LA legislature right now. A LDWF employee told me that the governor visited the site the week of Easter.

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> Looks like about 30,000 acres out of 130,000 acres of ExxonMobil land in Vermilion Parish with roughly 10 miles of coast sandwiched between two wildlife sanctuaries. Wouldn't be surprised to see the purchase upsized in order to provide opportunity for a land bank for wetland mitigation. Almost all of the land down there is wetlands. > > On Tuesday, the Louisiana legislature passed aerospace tax abatement and various liability relief (HB1088 and HB1179). Public records law relief has been passed by the House and is now in the Senate (HB1071). Maybe there are other associated legislative actions, or there will be future legislation after discussions. > > All that said, LED describes it this way: “I wouldn’t go so far as to say ‘negotiations’ just yet, but there are talks happening.” So apparently no done deal, but I guess this has a good chance of moving forward. > > https://lailluminator.com/2026/04/28/special-incentives-to-attract-space-flight-to-louisiana/ > > Edit: HB1250 (was HB1099) related to liability and nuisance has been introduced in the House.

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> Here is a map of the roughly 130,000 acres in question. The ~30,000 acres is the South/Southwest portion. Very consolidated, so SpaceX wouldn't have to do much cleanup.

https://preview.redd.it/jxmx5fqtipyg1.jpg?width=798&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e2f7bc0936af508e88d6df085e04a522c870a764

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> Informed speculation from a local realtor. Not all details accurate. For example, there's probably only ~40,000 acres of ExxonMobil land more or less south of Highway 82. The balance as shown in the map above is north of Highway 82. But he seems to have a rolodex for local chatter. > > > The Rumor That’s Shaking Acadiana
> > The rumor — repeated in private group chats, in coffee shops in Abbeville, and in hunting camps from Forked Island to Grand Chenier — is that SpaceX has acquired or is in the process of acquiring approximately 136,000 acres of coastal Louisiana marshland straddling Pecan Island and Freshwater City in Vermilion Parish. The footprint reportedly stretches from south of Highway 82 down to the Gulf of Mexico, encompassing some of the most ecologically rich and economically untouched wetlands in North America. > > > > If true, this would be the single largest private land acquisition in the modern history of Vermilion Parish. To put it in perspective: 136,000 acres is roughly 212 square miles — bigger than the entire city of New Orleans. SpaceX’s existing Boca Chica/Starbase facility in South Texas, which has reshaped Brownsville’s economy and real estate market in just five years, is built on a footprint of less than 100 acres. A 136,000-acre Louisiana site would not be a launch pad. It would be an industrial campus on a scale never before seen in American aerospace. > > > ... > > > Two more pieces fit the puzzle: > > > * The hunting lease intel. A trusted local source on Pecan Island has told me — and verified through other contacts — that hunting access south of Pecan Island will be changed for the 2026 season. If Vermilion Corporation’s surface lease is being terminated to facilitate a sale, the immediate consequence would be exactly that: cancelled hunting leases.
> > * The 10x land offers. Multiple property owners in the Freshwater City area report receiving unsolicited offers from out-of-state investors at roughly ten times appraised value. This perfectly mirrors SpaceX’s 2019 Boca Chica playbook, where SpaceX (and speculators tracking SpaceX) offered three to ten times appraised value to secure the perimeter around their launch site. > > https://keatyblog.com/spacex-pecan-island-louisiana/

Just saw this appear over on the NSF forums https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=64900.msg2784695

I'll copy over some posts here

>There were several news reports a few weeks ago about new legislation being introduced in the Louisiana state legislature that would incentivize aerospace companies to locate facilities there.
>
>https://www.google.com/search?q=spacex+louisiana&tbm=nws&source=lnms https://kpel965.com/louisiana-aerospace-bills-spacex-blue-origin/ https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/louisiana-lawmakers-push-tax-breaks-legal-protections-bills-to-attract-aerospace-companies-to-the-state-space-rockets-infrastrucetue/289-80a9db7c-c33f-4022-9533-9db77efd69a2 https://www.nola.com/news/business/louisiana-aerospace-jeff-landry/article_ce2e745f-4063-46e7-8ba2-ee5158adc833.html (last one is paywalled but looks the most informative)
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>Based on how the legislation was ushered through the process by some state VIPs (executive branch and legislative branch leaders), I believe a deal is happening there. The articles mention both SpaceX and Blue Origin, but I think something with SpaceX is actually brewing.

>Just read on another website that SpaceX was looking for some land and dredging rights in the Louisiana Bayou area. It was supposed to be hush-hush. An oil company has 40,000 acres there as well as some large land owners. Sounds like a possible Starship/Superheavy launch site. Anyone know about this?
>
>It is in Vermilion Parrish. It can give a straight shot between Cuba and south Florida, or a polar route through the narrow part of Mexico, about 600 miles over water due south. Polar routes may be what SpaceX will use for lunar south pole operations.
>
>Here is the thread and website:
>
>https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/21367404/re-spacex-in-louisiana

>Here is the area of the "Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge" and "Pecan Island" mentioned in that forum:
>
>https://www.google.com/maps/@29.7080926,-92.6606134,10.67z
>
>And here is another forum giving more specifics (and by "specifics", I do realize that this is all just internet rumors at this point):
>
>https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/o-t-lounge/spacex-to-acquire-30000-acres-in-vermilion-parish-for-spaceport/123435584/
>
>

>Here is a map of the roughly 130,000 acres in question. The ~30,000 acres is the South/Southwest portion. Very consolidated, so SpaceX wouldn't have to do much cleanup.

https://preview.redd.it/v6ujjwskhpyg1.jpg?width=798&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b79d452fad72a736fa069d889fdb9deb0b4aab96

I don't understand why the media couldn't have even a single question for the astronauts. They stood there and not one of the reporters asked a single question of them. Like what's wrong with the media in this country? These 4 people went beyond the moon, the first time in more than half a century, and yet none of them cared.

Like the second question was asking about UFO files. Seriously what?

I don't understand why the media couldn't have even a single question for the astronauts. They stood there and not one of the reporters asked a single question of them. Like what's wrong with the media in this country?