You’d actually be surprised then that most automotive motors ARE 3 phase. The difference is only whether they’re induction or DC Brushless. But in a technical sense, all motors are AC. A DC brushed motor, the only type I know of that can run off a pure DC signal, just uses brushes and a commutator to mechanically…

I’m curious how much of that is heat exchanger for airflow.

I’m going to call shenanigans on this: “They have ... and maximum torque from 0 all the way to their maximum rpm.”

Electric motors depend on a lot more than just size for their power output. These motors would probably have a higher RPM/volt than that one, and can easily be operating at either higher voltage or amperage (not both, or else the total power is higher since P=I*V). So a bigger motor like what you’re showing I imagine…

I was wondering if it was perhaps a tax on the parts as well.  Makes sense!

I get the general sentiment here, but I feel like I’m confusing some details on how this all works.

I’ve generally liked hard boss fights, but there was one where I definitely threw in the towel.

I was going to say it was clearly just a gravity assist.  But it seems like you’d need more energy to get out to the moon than to just make a circular GSO.  Maybe they’re able to get to the moon with a highly elliptical orbit, and then the moon is able to circularize it?

They also do a bunch of stuff for Aerospace.

Kansas resident that came here to see the state in the worst category. Did not leave disappointed.

Sounds a lot like when there’s a new racing sim (especially Forza or Gran Turismo). Sure all the new cars are exciting, and maybe some new tracks. When really it’s the stuff under the surface I’m looking for. The updated physics can be huggeee for these games. And I know a lot of people would struggle to feel the…

I definitely kept a portion of my picky-eating as an adult. But for me it’s always been more of an aversion to very specific things + Veggies. It just so happen that my “very specific things” are super common in foods I’d otherwise enjoy (mayo, sour cream, and cream cheese). Even small amounts of those ingredients in…

It’s not necessarily that they don’t make decent torque, it’s that they make it at higher RPM.

I have a ‘97 with the 3.8. Can confirm it’s slow, but still hilarious anyway.

I think we may be getting into semantics a little bit here, but my thinking of it is like this:

That’s just for geo-synchronous. So the satellite is still orbiting at a high velocity. It’s just that it happens to have an orbital period of 24 hours. You could still just slow it down and have it fall straight to Earth, the Earth would just be rotating under it as it fell.

I’ve heard a lot of varying things about the fuel use for rockets to get through aerodynamic drag. Usually I hear that it’s actually a very small portion of total fuel use, and that most of it goes into accelerating the payload, and all of that fuel, up to orbital velocities.

I’ll admit, that game was my intro into learning basically all of what I know about orbital mechanics.

Technically that is what a rocket is doing. It’s just completely ignoring the whole atmospheric lift phase of flight and powers through instead.

Agreed! Heck I’ve loved racing games since I got GranTurismo (the first one) as a kid. And I follow other E-sports now. Yet I often forget that there’s actual E-sports series for them because of how little coverage they get.