I'm thinking about quitting my directs masters I'm on, leave after three years with a bachelor, and then move to my girlfriend in Singapore to study masters there. It would cost me around $15k more than finishing Masters at my current university, but I wouldn't have to be apart from my lovely girlfriend, and no more…

At some point someone will add something too big to a building and you will get ground subsidences, or something will break or tip over. Sure, buildings and foundations are over-dimensioned to minimize the risk of accidents, but if the safety factor is low and the building heavy enough..

My current phone I got via eBay. 200 USD for a brand new Nokia Lumia 928, only thing is it didn't come in original packaging. The Lumia 925, which is the non-US counterpart to 928 costs 450 USD in Sweden where I currently live. In my eyes that is a great deal!

At least speaking from own experience, I can't stress the "Having and end plan" for a long distance relationship. What is also extremely important is that you have to be ready to make sacrifices, and you need money. Lots of it.

I live and study in Sweden, and my girlfriend is Singaporean. We met during her exchange to…

If only Stockholm and it's people weren't so shitty. Gothenburg is so much nicer. None of the snobbish Stockholm attitude, not the horrible Stockholm accents and not the forced fast pace of Stockholm. Stockholm feels so forced, cold and unwelcoming compared to Gothenburg or many other cities in Sweden, at least to me…

Usually when you see photos of unknown objects in the sky the photos are always very blurry and low-res. Here's actually the first time I see a normal quality photo. I mean, if I saw something in the sky and would happen to carry a camera or a good phone that's the kind of picture I'd get.

Credits to the photographer.…

No Engineers? Good! I'm in the clear.

From late 1800-s to late 1950s they were mining in an open pit until the ground around started to collapse into the pit. The mine have been underground since the 50s, and that Kiruna one day had to be moved have been known for a long time.

Closest to the mine the ground have already collapsed though, so what was there before was moved before that happened. Next up is the railway station and a few apartment houses that are the closest now. The city centre won't be in the risk zone for a while, so the move is gradual.

Whatever is in the risk zone will get…

Small place outside of Kiruna for shooting scientific rockets and weather baloons etc. We have some aerospace/space/astrophysics engineers here at my university who study there for a year (out of 5) as a part of their program. Basically it's just for science, but yes, Swedish space industry.

http://www.sscspace.com/esr…

These values make it so much more comprehensive, I didn't know it was this bad.
Last summer when I was living in Singapore Singapore and parts of Malaysia up to Kuala Lumpur got hit by haze from fires in Indonesia. When it was at it worst the readings was just above 400 if I remember correctly, then it was so bad that…

I study civil engineering in a city 350km from Kiruna, I've been there a few times. Kiruna is very small and extremely boring, but it's home to the Swedish space industry and to the mine which is just making truckloads of money.


There have been a lot of arguments about where to move the town, and people are not too…

So how do you print joints and moving parts without having them stick together? Can someone with more insight explain? To me it doesn't make any sense :/

Yeah, I assume those systems are already in place, but obviously it isn't working too good because it's been two weeks and still no plane, and obviously it is not available to the people who might need the information. There's a lot of governments throwing money into the search.

One thing I have been thinking about. I keep thinking something like this can easily be avoided by installing a GPS tracker that every two-three minutes sends it's coordinates back to a server. GPS will find you anywhere on our globe, unlike radar. I mean, I get GPS signal with my phone flying over the middle of the…

I would like to see this tested more properly than "It feels faster".
Like measure out 20 meters on the slope. Tape the batteries to the board, drop it from the top and time it a few times. Plug the batteries in to get the heat and repeat.
Very simple basic test. "It feels faster" might aswell be placebo IMO.

I don't…

Hey my time is worthless anyway, so I might aswell spend a minute trying to squeeze the last bit out.

One thing I have been thinking about for a while regarding capacitors, lets say I unplug something and turn it on after it's unplugged, that will drain them right?

My procedure every time I want to do something in my desktop computer I unplug it and I press the power button. The fans will start spinning for a second…

Nope, nope and I guess I could. My girlfriend would say "Yes, Yes and NOO!!"

I'm pretty sure we're going to make it though. Unfortunately we live on different continents as of now, but we still spent 4.5 months of last year together, more than those who only see eachother on weekends, however a lot more unevenly…

I have a lot of unplayed games on Steam. Some are from Humble Bundles where I only wanted one game but got a few others I didn't want in the bundle and some I have pirated and later decided to buy, and some have just been run for a few minutes after realizing they were boring or bad. A 24h, or even 12h open return…