Hello, I'm Destin. I'm an Engineer with a YouTube channel called "Smarter Every Day".
Rocket City, USA
Joined June 2011
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I am in need of relatively high resolution metal 3D printing services. I'm assuming powder bed fusion or something like that is best. I'd prefer the metal be shiny white like Inconel or titanium. The object is about the size of a golf ball with very intricate geometry. I don't want any support attachment points. I need around 10 of them, but if they are relatively inexpensive I would like to purchase more. Bonus points if the manufacturing outfit can laser engrave something on the object afterwards.
Next week, I'm going to defend my PhD Dissertation:
"Hypervelocity Projectile Geometry for Impact Fusion Concepts".
My advisor is Dr. Jason Cassibry at The University of Alabama in Huntsville
If you are a Patron of Smarter Every Day, thank you so much. You made this possible. I have created a special post inviting you to watch the PhD Defense via a livestream (assuming we don't have any technical glitches).
I'll reply to this tweet with a link to that post.
Here's a link to that post on Patreon:
patreon.com/smartereveryday/…
There are some images from my dissertation that I am going to think about for a very, very long time. They look so neat. I don't care about the dissertation part I just care about how interesting it is.
Dear Reviewer #2. Thank you for your help. I don't really know how all this works but Reviewer number 1 is done.
I posted the next video in the Nuclear Power Series. I hope you love it.
patreon.com/smartereveryday/…
Planning on dropping a new video tomorrow as a part 5050science.com/
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I reread this every year.
I cry like a baby every year.
Todd Beamer died a father, husband, and hero.
Todd: Hello… Operator… listen to me. I can’t speak very loud. This is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco. Our plane has been hijacked.
Lisa: I understand. Can they see you?
Todd: No. There are three that we know of. They have knives — razor knives, like box cutters. Someone announced from the cockpit there was a bomb. It sounded fake.
Lisa: Your name?Todd: Todd Beamer. United Flight 93.Todd: They killed one passenger in first class. They forced most of us back. Fourteen of us here. Five flight attendants. The guy with the bomb ordered us to sit on the floor.
Lisa: Are you okay?
Todd: We’re going down… wait. No. We’re leveling off. We changed directions. We’re flying east again.
Todd: A guy named Jeremy called his wife. She told him two planes hit the World Trade Center. Lisa, is that true?
Lisa: I have to tell you the truth. It’s very bad. Both towers are gone. A third plane hit the Pentagon. Our country is under attack. I’m afraid your plane may be part of their plan.
Todd: Oh God. Lisa, will you do something for me? Call my wife and my kids. Promise me you’ll call.
Lisa: I promise.
Todd: Our home number is… You have the same name as my wife. Lisa. We’ve been married ten years. She’s pregnant with our third child. Tell her I love her. I’ll always love her. We have two boys — David, he’s 3, and Andrew, he’s 1. Tell them their daddy loves them and he is so proud of them. The baby is due January 12th. I saw an ultrasound. We still don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy.
Lisa: I’ll tell them. I promise, Todd.(Lisa patches in the FBI.)
Agent: Todd, your plane is on a course for Washington. Best guess is the White House or the Capitol.
Todd: I understand. I’ll be back.
Todd: Everyone knows this isn’t a normal hijacking. We have decided we will not be pawns in their plot.
Lisa: What are you going to do?
Todd: Four of us are going to rush the one with the bomb. Then the cockpit. A stewardess is getting boiling water. We’ll take them out.
Todd: Would you pray with me?They pray the Lord’s Prayer. Then: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.
Todd: God help me. Jesus help me.Are you guys ready? Let’s Roll.
In the last video I showed a video of a Smarter Scrubber being stolen by a bear.
That scrubber has been found.... unharmed.
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That time I did a Prince Rupert's drop demonstration for Wisconsin Physics Teachers association and we ran out of safety goggles but found a clear pipe. I laugh every time I see this. He was a champ and just rolled with it. #goggleup ift.tt/2EASap8
Got this figured out thanks to @gigaparts right here in Huntsville! I'm excited to explain this in due time. (Also thanks to Stefan at @CNC_Kitchen who helped behind the scenes).
The leader of a union in California reached out and wants to purchase a lot of Smarter Scrubbers to hand out to members..... just to support our attempts to make something in the USA. I thought that was very kind. This seems to be resonating with people like it does us.
I just posted a new video on YouTube. I like how when I start reading a long comment in the comment section I never know why exactly the person is going to be mad at me...but I have a hunch they will be... ..and then I start reading thinking it's one reason... but BAM it ends up being a different reason they're mad at me and I figure that out along the way.