#space engineer

[70roxy07]

Do you see that planet over there?

Yeah?

What if we accidentally crashed right into it?

[gameideas-111]

Defend the Tower idea

What if you had a 3d platform and tower defense game. Where you could place down structures and use class powers. The target is to keep your structure from being drained by a pack of creatures, with certain creatures to spice up the combat and enemy count.

Maybe there can even be a mechanic similar to Salmon Run in the platoon games. With the core game being most similar to Dungeon Defenders. Maybe you can charge the item you're guarding with the fuel of those you kill, with transporting a resource back to recharge the item you're guarding possibly being part of the game. Maybe there are some elements from Planet Engineer, like one class having conveyor belts, another a catapult, another a collector, and the last one a small collector who helps collect these resources.

Player elements: These elements would also swap out the element being used.

Fire: Makes towers use fire attacks (And by extension, having lingering damage over time from the fire), and increases player damage. While taking more damage from frost

Frost: Having the towers do frost damage (And applying the freezing effect that slows down enemies hit with it to all the players and towers' attacks) and granting the player more defense. While taking more damage from thunder.

Thunder: Chain damage and range towers (and lets the player deal thunder damage), and increases the player's speed. while taking more damage from earth.

Earth: Increases the health of all structures built by this player, and lets them heal next to any player structure. while taking more damage from fire.

Player Classes: The classes that would be in the game (This will also use their bass elements without modifications).

Worrier (Fire): Mellay based and focused on clearing things. Having three charge-up powers to choose from. The first ability charges quickly and effectively and gives you a grenade that explodes on a large area, the second option is a barrel you can through like Donky Cawn that barrels down a lain leaving a trail of elemental energy that will explode at the end of its path, the last one taking the longest to charge and acts as a massive damage boost to you. increasing your difference and damage.

their structure is a catapult that can through the items players collect somewhere else. like onto a conveyor belt or a storage bin, maybe even one of the wizard's sprites (Sprites, catapults, and could even load these things with the resource, or maybe unload it like heroes depending on the item).

Wizard (Frost): Largly floaty and seen to jump around. They have a constant attack. With you being able to choose from three major abilities. The first ability is the ability to pick from a massive elemental power shot. The next option is to cause an elemental storm that points in a cone and deals its damage. The last option is to call upon elemental birds that circle around an area and attack creatures with the lowest health, when that creature dies they move on to the next enemy, they leave at the end of a timer.

The mage can also summon a little helper to collect resources automatically in an area as long as their node isn't destroyed. They can act with anything the players can interact with. Their next special structure is a tower that lays out a small damage of your element over a large area. Others will be landmines. low cost, low expectations. it explodes and gets destroyed.

Engineer (Thunder): quick and largely focused on supporting structures. With their bass structure having the ability to boost structures around it also tends to be the second fastest class. The first option for chargeable ability is overcharge, which lets them overcharge all structures in the area, increasing their attack speed and damage to the structure. The next option lets you cause all your structures to heal other structures near them. The last option is to launch a massive rocket that deals a large amount of damage.

They can make conveyor belts, wich have a limited amount you can place. anything put on these conveyor belts will be carried along. Though, these things will destroyed.

Scout (Earth): The most agile class and often sneaking around, able to throw powers and ability to fix structures and heal allies. While also primarily being a ranged archer. Their low-cost ability lets them do an AOE healing effect, next an enhancement shot that causes an explosion-based attack. The last charge action would be an ability that heals and increases the charge of all other players around them.

The Scout can place a structure that has a storage capacity that hooks up to other player structures to create storage items to not overwhelm machines.

Enemy Modifiers

Armored: Making enemies slower, but take less damage.

Healer: Able to heal the Hp of enemies near this one.

Besurk: when an enemy hits half health, they gain double damage and can run quicker.

leading role: These creatures can initiate a charge, they can do this operatically.

Fire Touched: Takes less damage from fire, and deals fire damage. While taking more damage from frost

Thunder Touched: Takes less damage from thunder, and deals thunder damage. While taking more damage from earth

Frost Touched: takes less damage from frost, and deals frost damage. While taking more damage from Thunder.

Earth Touched: Takes less damage from Earth, and deals earth damage. while taking more damage from fire.

Enemy Ideas

Sprigin: The basic small enemy that comes in bulk and swarms quickly. Alongside having the ability to be thrown by larger enemies.

Hog Ridder sprigin: A Sprigen riding a hog as their mighty stead. They are always charging and deal more damage than other goblins. often dealing double damage to those they charge into.

Back-Packer sprigin: A small Sprigin creature who carries a backpack of explosives that when killed, explodes. But if they get to a target or an obstacle, they'll set up the explosives, scream to make all the other enemies back away from the explosives, and run away themselves becoming a regular goblin before the explosion goes off, dealing a hefty amount of damage to the structure.

Gremlin: Small magic user of minimal skill, often acting as a range unit and saboteur of towers. Frequently having skills to jump around and over places with some invisibility power.

Archer: A range unit that sicks in the back and attacks with a bow. They are primarily there to apply cover and range support for allies. If attacked up close, they do have a danger and smock bomb they can use at close range, but will often just try and find a better position.

Skeleton: A Skeleton that unless attacked in its shattered state after being attacked, will reform at half health. They can also consolidate their bones during this process to regain health, at the cost of merging.

Rough: Quick and swift. With an invisibility tactic to try and sneak up on the back line of the defenders to deal massive damage to them then run away. If they can't reach their target. They'll act as shorter-range archers that deal more damage. After three shots, they'll run away to another position.

specter: Strange beings who hover over obstacles and tackless damage from physical sources. but normal damage from magic. They also tend to lift and farry over creatures across gaps and over obstacles sometimes.

Shield Mage: A sorcerer who weald powers over frost magic, they often boost the occasionally providing cover fire over their allies and wield a shield for their own protect. With a larger health pool than your average goblin.

Sword Mage: boosting the attacks and ferocity of the other enemies around it. Alongside using the powers of fire. It also often provides a more aggressive and wielding a sword and staff to make lunge attacks and fire beverages.

Lance Mage: a mage with powers over thunder magic. They specialize in making enemies go quicker in charges, and chain damage through their spell. Welding a lance to help with this.

Staff Mage: a mage with power over Radiant magic. They increase a constant area of effect that hurts those who aren't their allies. With them also specializing in healing their allies slowly while in their damage ora.

troll: Tocken big enemy, often seen as a slugger and minny boss (They also have one hell of a throwing arm). They are powerful physical targets.

Grand Serpent: Another big enemy that acts as a mini-boss, and is long and speeds up the enemies by its long body, alongside them trying to eat smaller enemies to regain hp. They also can do quick dashes and charge quickly as an attack.

Swooper: Flying enemies who specialize in being low health high traversal areas. Able to steal resources or attack structures. possibly even sporadically carrying small enemies so that when they're shot down, they drop the enemy above where they fell. They also do swoop attacks, hence the name.

Huntsmen: A Boss who actively hunts a specific player, and puts down their own traps. mines, enemy cages, and some boost enemies. they have quick attacks and are quicker than most other bosses. All while having some of the lowest health of any boss.

Grand Mage: A powerful boss of the raid who holds a shield and a spear. Flinging one of six elements. Fire, ice, thunder, and radiant. Who specializes in throwing smaller enemies with their magic, launching long-range attacks, causing a damaging AOE, increasing speed for charges, or summoning smaller creatures. They also hover above the ground, and make it over gaps the enemy normally can't.

Dark knight: Another boss that is powerful and does double damage to structures, causes charges for all enemies, and increases their damage. With a special attack to cause other creatures to rush to his Aid and come to his position. He can even deal more damage to the one who dealt the most damage to him.

Day Screacher: A boss who can fly and chuck small and medium creatures around while flying around and frequently swooping around them. With screech ability for range abilities, and a chance to dodge attacks before making a swoop.

[reasonsforhope]

"With “green corridors” that mimic the natural forest, the Colombian city is driving down temperatures — and could become five degrees cooler over the next few decades.

In the face of a rapidly heating planet, the City of Eternal Spring — nicknamed so thanks to its year-round temperate climate — has found a way to keep its cool.

Previously, Medellín had undergone years of rapid urban expansion, which led to a severe urban heat island effect — raising temperatures in the city to significantly higher than in the surrounding suburban and rural areas. Roads and other concrete infrastructure absorb and maintain the sun’s heat for much longer than green infrastructure.

“Medellín grew at the expense of green spaces and vegetation,” says Pilar Vargas, a forest engineer working for City Hall. “We built and built and built. There wasn’t a lot of thought about the impact on the climate. It became obvious that had to change.”

Efforts began in 2016 under Medellín’s then mayor, Federico Gutiérrez (who, after completing one term in 2019, was re-elected at the end of 2023). The city launched a new approach to its urban development — one that focused on people and plants.

The $16.3 million initiative led to the creation of 30 Green Corridors along the city’s roads and waterways, improving or producing more than 70 hectares of green space, which includes 20 kilometers of shaded routes with cycle lanes and pedestrian paths.

These plant and tree-filled spaces — which connect all sorts of green areas such as the curb strips, squares, parks, vertical gardens, sidewalks, and even some of the seven hills that surround the city — produce fresh, cooling air in the face of urban heat. The corridors are also designed to mimic a natural forest with levels of low, medium and high plants, including native and tropical plants, bamboo grasses and palm trees.

Heat-trapping infrastructure like metro stations and bridges has also been greened as part of the project and government buildings have been adorned with green roofs and vertical gardens to beat the heat. The first of those was installed at Medellín’s City Hall, where nearly 100,000 plants and 12 species span the 1,810 square meter surface.

“It’s like urban acupuncture,” says Paula Zapata, advisor for Medellín at C40 Cities, a global network of about 100 of the world’s leading mayors. “The city is making these small interventions that together act to make a big impact.”

At the launch of the project, 120,000 individual plants and 12,500 trees were added to roads and parks across the city. By 2021, the figure had reached 2.5 million plants and 880,000 trees. Each has been carefully chosen to maximize their impact.

“The technical team thought a lot about the species used. They selected endemic ones that have a functional use,” explains Zapata.

The 72 species of plants and trees selected provide food for wildlife, help biodiversity to spread and fight air pollution. A study, for example, identified Mangifera indica as the best among six plant species found in Medellín at absorbing PM2.5 pollution — particulate matter that can cause asthma, bronchitis and heart disease — and surviving in polluted areas due to its “biochemical and biological mechanisms.”

And the urban planting continues to this day.

The groundwork is carried out by 150 citizen-gardeners like Pineda, who come from disadvantaged and minority backgrounds, with the support of 15 specialized forest engineers. Pineda is now the leader of a team of seven other gardeners who attend to corridors all across the city, shifting depending on the current priorities...

“I’m completely in favor of the corridors,” says [Victoria Perez, another citizen-gardener], who grew up in a poor suburb in the city of 2.5 million people. “It really improves the quality of life here.”

Wilmar Jesus, a 48-year-old Afro-Colombian farmer on his first day of the job, is pleased about the project’s possibilities for his own future. “I want to learn more and become better,” he says. “This gives me the opportunity to advance myself.”

The project’s wider impacts are like a breath of fresh air. Medellín’s temperatures fell by 2°C in the first three years of the program, and officials expect a further decrease of 4 to 5C over the next few decades, even taking into account climate change. In turn, City Hall says this will minimize the need for energy-intensive air conditioning...

In addition, the project has had a significant impact on air pollution. Between 2016 and 2019, the level of PM2.5 fell significantly, and in turn the city’s morbidity rate from acute respiratory infections decreased from 159.8 to 95.3 per 1,000 people [Note: That means the city's rate of people getting sick with lung/throat/respiratory infections.]

There’s also been a 34.6 percent rise in cycling in the city, likely due to the new bike paths built for the project, and biodiversity studies show that wildlife is coming back — one sample of five Green Corridors identified 30 different species of butterfly.

Other cities are already taking note. Bogotá and Barranquilla have adopted similar plans, among other Colombian cities, and last year São Paulo, Brazil, the largest city in South America, began expanding its corridors after launching them in 2022.

“For sure, Green Corridors could work in many other places,” says Zapata."

-via Reasons to Be Cheerful, March 4, 2024

[nasa]

Nora AlMatrooshi

Nora AlMatrooshi, the first Emirati woman astronaut, worked as a piping engineer before becoming an astronaut candidate for the United Arab Emirates. https://mbrsc.ae/team/nora/

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[noahrein]

My girl Eiko Kubo from my project "Space Nomads" 💪✨

[ferngle]

They're up late working in the shop

reupload due to copyright

[bubblesbinxs]

it’s currently 2am where i am so technically 4th of april.. Happy 2 Years ISWM !!!!!!!

[bluerosefox]

Gray and Graysons

One of the Bats has a secret. Something they never told to the others.

They were so very young but they have memories of a sibling, so small and tiny. They remember the burst of warmth they had in their heart when they held the tiny baby for just a moment.

But they weren’t allowed to keep them, their family couldn’t raise them. Money was tight, just enough for three but not for four, despite their shows always bringing in a crowd it was getting harder and harder for the world to be wowed by them in the new age and their sibling was too small and tiny and needed to be cared in a single place than for them to be on the road. Their lifestyle was not good for his tiny sibling apparently.

They had to watch as their parents gave his sibling away to people in suits, them promising to give his baby brother to a loving family when they find a ‘home’ for him. He watched his parents try to be strong only for his mother to break down once the car left down the road, his father holding her and apologizing, the rest of the circus troupe all silently coming over to give the heartbroken family condolences.

Richard ‘Dick’ Grayson had tears running down his face when he last saw his baby brother.

A brother he got to name before he had to be given away.

Daniel ‘Danny’ Grayson.

-x-x-

Dick never told the others. If anyone dug deep into his past they might find his brother’s birth records maybe, if someone got around to digitizing the paperwork for him but given the fact he was placed in the US childcare systems just a few days after his birth and the fact that Dick was still pretty young they most likely believed he didn’t remember his baby brother now. Not after so many years.

But they were wrong, Dick remembers. And he kept the secret close to his heart and memories.

And the only physical evidence he had was a single picture of him holding his brother, a smile on his tiny face towards their father who had taken the photo of them together. When he had lost his parents, lost most of the things that connected him to them, to his past in the circus that had been his whole life, had been taken from him in Gotham’s ruthless childcare system, he held on tight to the picture in secret. Hid it away from anyone trying to rip it from him, hid it from Bruce when the man took him in days later, hid it from Alfred despite how gentle the butler was towards him. He couldn’t, wouldn’t risk losing his photo at the time, he hadn’t trusted anyone and by the time he did he didn’t have the heart to reveal it.

So yes, the existence of his baby brother Danny was his most guarded and best kept secret.

So that’s why Dick, as Nightwing, nearly died from a heart attack when leaving a Justice League meeting he spotted a familiar face among one of the new engineers working in the Watchtower.

It was like seeing a young version of himself. Only, Dick could see that the young man was more than a copy of him, so much more than a clone. He held many traces of John Grayson but also had a bit more of Mary Grayson than Dick did. Small details that Dick foggely remembers taking note when he had held his baby brother.

“Hey, hurry up with that report Gray!” Shouted the head engineer from down the hall, his hand beckoning the young adult to come over.

“Coming! And boss, I told you Danny is fine!” Danny shouted back before hurriedly leaving a stunned Nightwing.

[quimiri]

teamfortes :)

[humanoidhistory]

Engineer Karen Leadlay in a General Dynamics computer lab, 1964.

[arkarti]

Happy 2 year ISWM anniversary 🎉🌠

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[fastdrawfarmboy]

For your consideration.

[flamingpudding]

Glitterbombs for rogues

A/N: I got sick over the holidays. So I did not do any of the writing I originally wanted to do. So instead of that Christmas Story you get this Mark Rober inspired little tidbit.

Tim had a new favorite Engineer Youtube. The boy was a bit younger than him but a genius Engineer judging by the hand full of videos Tim had marathoned through. According to the listed self-introduction part of the video, Danny was currently an engineering student in Gotham with the goal to work one day for NASA. (Tim held out some hopes that he maybe could snag the kid for WE if possible. He had already sent out an internship offer after the third video he had watched)

Either way, Danny had potential and ideas that borderlined on mad science. But made his videos of his little projects even more entertaining and interesting to watch. Tim's favorite so far was Danny's explanation on how he reconstructed his toaster so that it would launch itself into space after the third his roommate burned toast with it. He did buy his roommate a new toaster at the end of the video though.

Still Tim liked this guy and his videos. So with anticipation he clicked on one of the newer videos. The title having caught his attention: 'Why Glitter'.

Instead of the usual introduction bit with little highlights of Danny's previous project the video started out with a big fat warning in red letter to not attempt to replicate anything in the video. That had Tim very curious already, but then a little video clip following that had Tim spitting out the coffee he was just sipping from.

Thankfully he missed spitting on his phone, still he jumped out of his cozy bed where he had been watching YouTube on his phone and hurried over to his laptop. The video, meanwhile, was continuing playing. He could hear the usual music from the introduction part as well as Danny's voice explaining his reasosn -which were valid, Tim had to agree with some of them- once that part was done.

By now he had fired up his laptop and was researching. The video in the background was explaining how Danny had build his Glitterbombs similar to the once another youtuber had but slightly modified them since he was not going to use fart-spray. Tim eyes widened as he found the first correlating news articles, wondering how they hadn't seen them sooner, but a glance at the date revealed that they were only posted a couple of hours ago.

Danny in the video was no explaining about his fist chooses victim and Tim dived onto his bed from his desk to get his phone back in his hands. Wide eyed, he watched as Danny obviously with a GoPro strapped to his head, crawled through what looked like an air vent. Once he reached an opening he looked through the slits into what appeared to be Riddlers hide out. Danny took the Camara of his head so that he could grin into it making the sign for silence as he barely contained his own chuckles. The other then waited for a moment, the camera work now getting wonky and the video even glitching out but a second later Danny was back in focuse before pointing down and then directing the Camara to his view. There in Riddlers hideout now sat Danny's self engineered glitterbomb.

"No he didn't..." Tim muttered as the video cut to a different scene. Danny was now walking through the sewers, humming cheerfully while explaining why he chose who he choose.

Another cut and... Tim spluttered. How the hell did Danny manage to just walk into Arkam?! So he hadn't seen wrong at the beginning of the video.

Growing paller with every cut on how Danny delivered his self-engineered Glitter bombs, Tim started to fear for his new favorite youtubers safety. Thankfully he had already done his work on Danny's person when he sent the internship offer. Now he just needed to get Danny to freaking safty.

He dragged himself to his laptop still in disbelieve as various clips of the rogues getting glitterbombed from the bombs perspective started playing. And yep, he definitely didn't see wrong now in the beginning. The Joker was one of Danny's chooses victums. Aside from the fact that he was so going to download and save that video for eternity as well as share it with his brothers and friends, (because as funny as it was that most of them were Gotham rogues, Luther and another millionaire by the name of Masters had also been made victims.), he still had to figure out how to ensure this definitely insane youtubers safer from the warmth of 90% of their rogues now.

Great newly discovered favorite youtuber has just painted a big fat red target on himself.

Tim was just about to call everyone in when a bonus at the end of Danny's video started to play.

He recognized that safe house.

He recognizes the weapons displayed on the walls also.

Oh... that's...

Still laughing Tim still sent out a message to everyone. When asked why all he did was sent them the link to the video with to timestamps.

The first one of the Joker getting glitterbombed

The second one being Red Hood getting glitterbombed.

[nasa]

This photo contains both flight (flat in the foreground) and qualification assembly (upright in the background) versions of the Solar Array Sun Shield for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. These panels will both shade the mission’s instruments and power the observatory.

Double Vision: Why Do Spacecraft Have Twin Parts?

Seeing double? You’re looking at our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s Solar Array Sun Shield laying flat in pieces in the foreground, and its test version connected and standing upright in the back. The Sun shield will do exactly what it sounds like –– shade the observatory –– and also collect sunlight for energy to power Roman.

These solar panels are twins, just like several of Roman’s other major components. Only one set will actually fly in space as part of the Roman spacecraft…so why do we need two?

Sometimes engineers do major tests to simulate launch and space conditions on a spare. That way, they don’t risk damaging the one that will go on the observatory. It also saves time because the team can do all the testing on the spare while building up the flight version. In the Sun shield’s case, that means fitting the flight version with solar cells and eventually getting the panels integrated onto the spacecraft.

Our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's primary structure (also called the spacecraft bus) moves into the big clean room at our Goddard Space Flight Center (top). While engineers integrate other components onto the spacecraft bus in the clean room, the engineering test unit (also called the structural verification unit) undergoes testing in the centrifuge at Goddard. The centrifuge spins space hardware to ensure it will hold up against the forces of launch.

Engineers at our Goddard Space Flight Center recently tested the Solar Array Sun Shield qualification assembly in a thermal vacuum chamber, which simulates the hot and cold temperatures and low-pressure environment that the panels will experience in space. And since the panels will be stowed for launch, the team practiced deploying them in space-like conditions. They passed all the tests with flying colors!

The qualification panels will soon pass the testing baton to the flight version. After the flight Solar Array Sun Shield is installed on the Roman spacecraft, the whole spacecraft will go through lots of testing to ensure it will hold up during launch and perform as expected in space.

For more information about the Roman Space Telescope, visit: www.nasa.gov/roman. You can also virtually tour an interactive version of the telescope here.

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[ghiertor-the-gigapeen]

Poor engie

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[captainsaltypear]

getting arrested by the universal stability agency.......WITH STYLE.