In amateur radio, making an Earth-Moon-Earth contact. That means bouncing your signal off of the moon, basically using it as a satellite. You generally need a big antenna array to do it. Also you need a very high quality amplifier to receive since the signal you get back from the mood is very weak. You can hear an echo of yourself delayed about 2.6 seconds, since the moon is about 1.3 light seconds away.
EME Moonbounces do look like fun. Here’s a guy, I think pinging a friend off the moon.
That’s dope
Dude that sounds amazing and would be crazy to demo to someone.
3 other cool nerds to play board games with consistently.
Are you calling yourself cool? That’s so not cool.
Self confidence is in fact very cool. And I’ll convince you over a game of Agricola.
I like your moxie. Very cool of you to be so graceful towards an unkind comment
Oooh, hey!! I have that game but haven’t played it yet. It looks freaking dope. Any suggestions? If I can’t convince my family to play I was just going to try it solo
It’s the “revised edition” if that matters
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organize a “games night” and see if people are interested: “Hey, on Friday night I’m inviting people over to play Agricola. Do you want to come?”
Board Games, in particular Euros that take can take over 2 hours to play are not something that get pulled out on a whim during social gatherings. -
find a board game meetup near you (try meetup.com for example). It’s easier to turn board gamers into friends than friends into board gamers.
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It’s a fantastic game. If you’re playing with less experienced gamers I would probably leave the occupation/improvement cards out at first.
And seconding what Cile said. You show up to a gaming meetup with Agricola and I can pretty much guarantee someone is going to want to play. It’s a classic for a reason. Way easier to convince someone that already likes board games.
Maybe he already has one cool nerd and is looking for a few more.
Cool is what you make it, dude.
I was going to say Glory to Rome but your answer is better.
Meanwhile, I keep ending up in rooms with board game nerds, and I only kind of like board games.
Well, my hobby is searching for historical religious artifacts, so…
Your Holy Grail is the Holy Grail
The Lost Ark of the Covenant actually 😁
Are you sure?
For example, in the headphone world, the Sennheiser HE-1 headphones are said to be like the pinnacle of headphones and most expensive, costing $59000 for a pair.
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Out of curiosity, what would you plug those into to get the best use of them? I couldn’t imagine the headphone jack on my motherboard would be able to take full advantage of them.
They’re super special electrostatic headphones, so they have to be run with a special type of amplifier, and the one they come with come is absolutely insane, and is a huge part of the cost. Honestly, I bet you could cost cut the whole thing down to under $20k, but you’re paying a LOT of money for stuff like the fact that the amplifier case is made of marble and has one of the coolest boot sequences imaginable, where all the tubes and knobs rise out of it and retract back in so the whole thing is seamless. It’s very much one of those things that get built when engineers are handed a blank check and told “We don’t care what it costs, have fun”
where all the tubes and knobs rise out of it and retract back in
what the fuck
One of my favorite audiophile youtubers, Crinacle, just bought these headphones for 75k. Here’s the video if you wanna watch it
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Cadillac 16 energy imo. I think part of what’s wrong with the world today is all companies suck, have no fun anymore and don’t care if things are actually cool. I know it sounds stupid but everything is black, white, or grey on the road and everything is a shapeless blob. Oh you want nice headphones, or computer case, etc? Enjoy our exciting options of black or grey, and fresh new material of cheapest plastic we can make shiny.
That thing has an inbuilt DAC, as well as S/PDIF and USB inputs, so I’d imagine any device with enough processing power to play lossless audio files and has the proper drivers should be enough.
You’d use a dedicated audio setup with it, yeah. I don’t know if the 59k is the headphones only or if it includes an amplifier, but a hi range amplifier can cost thousands too.
I’m not an audiophile tho, ain’t got the money, and even if I did my setup would at most cost €1000. So if anyone wants to post some real numbers go ahead.
I had the pleasure of using some at Sennheiser’s booth at CES a few years back. They sound VERY nice, but I don’t think they’re worth $59k. Maybe 8k or something, although I know a lot of the cost is in the tubes and accessories.
In the typewriter community, the “holy grail” differs from person to person, but for me it was a 1930s Royal P equipped with a rare typeface called Vogue. Very, very rarely they’ll pop up from people who don’t know how significant that is, and that’s the only way to get one at a reasonable price - because those who do know what it is will ask thousands of dollars for it.
Eventually I found one for a comparatively cheap price (sub 1k), and the only reason someone else didn’t snap it up before I saw it was because the guy refused to ship it. Local pickup only. So I took the chance to drive the 10 hours round trip to snag it, and it sits proudly as the crown jewel of my collection:
Hells to the yeah
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Bill Lee: I gave up writing when I was ten. Too dangerous.
Your actions were the only correct option. This is the same way I snagged my Onix Reference 3 floor speakers. Someone on Facebook marketplace was giving them away for free because they belonged to the previous owner of their new house, and the speakers were taking up too much space in the theater room the new owner wanted to use for Netflix and yoga. I only had to drive 2 hours, but I got immediately into my truck. They also included a Velodyne DLS-3750R Powered Subwoofer, and an Onix Rocket RSC200 Center-Channel Speaker.
Any serious guitarists will let you know their holy grail.
It’s not any guitar; it’s another guitar.
None of the ones I already own sound good, though. Since it can’t possibly be me that is the problem, I need to purchase another, more expensive one.
I bought mine for $100!
I got it new back in the early 2000s but it had a flaw in the fretboard. I returned it for exchange but they discontinued it so refunded me instead. Telling this story to someone a decade later, they suggested eBay. I looked and there it was, bought it on the spot and had it in my hands a week later.
I have enough guitars but am now looking at other instruments. A cello is high on the list.
TTRPGs. A cleared schedule
And friends with matching ones
I don’t care what the other nerds say. This is the Holy Grail for me:
Waaaaagh!
My holy grail is that i have an actually painted army
Respect
My hobby is (or rather was) collecting Seiko watches.
I stopped buying watches, but my holy Grail would be “The” Pogue. The original 6139-6005 yellow face automatic chronograph worn by Col. William Pogue on the Skylab mission.
Other than the NASA issued Omegas, this was his personal watch that he just took with him into space, as NASA didn’t want the Astronauts to take their Speedmasters home and so they couldn’t train as much with them.
This also was the first automatic chronograph in space, as no one had tried before if they would work without gravity (surprise, they did, as momentum is still very much a thing in space).
Here is a very nice write up by a very knowledgeable guy:
https://www.plus9time.com/blog/2017/12/24/the-true-seiko-pogue-chronograph-6139-6005
Heard also gshocks were one of the few space rated watches for astronauts
Mmm love a good space watch. Personal grail for me would be an Omega Skywalker X-33.
The Imperator-Class Titan is the largest mini in Warhammer 40k.
I have fantasized about using one of these in an actual game ever since I learned of their existence in 8th grade.
“mini”
Considering it’s got full on artillery emplacements, and a fucking house on it’s head, it’s kinda too scale with the other units.
I’m a book collector, sadly most of the books in my preferred address are, and forever, will be out of my reach. My holy grail is The Magus by Francis Barrett (1801), it’s basically a guidebook to the occult. I’ve got a facsimile edition published in 1970 but I’ve never seen or heard of a original copy for sale - not that I’ve searched, I don’t wish to see an old man cry.
This post has some real The 9th Gate vibes. Love it. I hope you find your book someday.
To celebrate the new millennium, German model train maker Märklin released a 1/87 scale electric locomotive with a body made out of platinum, with real rubys for the red taillights and other real materials such as windows made of real glass, wheels made of stainless steel and isolators of real ceramics. It’s considered one of the most sought after railway models.
Do you have a link? Trying to look it up but don’t know which I should be looking at.
Seems to be this one: https://www.maerklin.de/en/products/details/article/32000
I like collecting games, nothing crazy like graded games (graded anything is a scam) or like I have to have every game ever made for a specific console, I just like having a big shelf of games.
I really want a like new, in box green Halo edition original Xbox. People want stupid money for them but I just want to have one. I’ve got a good condition boxed regular black console and a boxed Halo 3 Xbox 360 but I reeeeally want the green OG.
Here’s what people are trying to sell a NIB version for
Hell yeah. If I had space and money this is what I’d be doing. I have some PS1 games (and of course my fav Halo 1-3) from my childhood that are stored away somewhere at my mother’s… might have been thrown away by now it’s been so long :^(
In photography: Global Shutter. So whenever you see object bending horizontally while they’re moving, that’s because most digital camera sensors have a rolling shutter.
Captain Disillusion! Can’t not comment on your excellent choice in explainer video.
In the world of synthesisers, I’m going to say the Yamaha CS-80. Anyone who was introduced to synthesised music by listening to the Blade Runner soundtrack will recognise it. With its many tactile modulation options, it’s arguably the pinnacle of the synth as a performance instrument.
came to say original arp 2600. or an og tr-808/909
The 2600 is definitely a worthy nomination. The 2500 is even more grail-ish.
there’s one on reverb for $280k o.O
I’d like a prophet 5 or minimood model d.
