Concepts for the robot for my short story "Liquid Oxygen." I'll be designing the human pilot soon.
The robot is an older model that's still serviceable and typically does work that requires heavy-lifting. It's coolant is liquid carbon dioxide that's in desperate need of replacement.
Some detail photos under the cut:
The main visual inspirations were V1 from ULTRAKILL and the Mare Crisium from Heaven Will Be Mine.
I do NOT feel like posting the rest of the ptoc btw. and I've been on hiatus again for the last week because of stress lol, I might get around to posting them though but I just don't want to write abt em
I didn't want to outright copy an existing design, but I did take some notes from the designs I saw, such as the preheating of the crude oil and the vacuum, to use the heat more efficiently, and the heat injector to control how much heat is actually transfered.
I also have a cooling system (using petroleum as a coolant so it doesn't evaporate), both so the pump doesn't overheat, and to cool the petroleum, since I wasn't much of a fan of pumping 330°C petroleum into my machines.
Also since I'm current not using all of the petreum this thing makes (since it's actually absurd how much it makes), I added a hydro sensor and a liquid shut off to stop the machine from clogging up, since the crude oil would just sit there in the heat, and that would break the pipes.
Now yes, the vulcano did go dormant, and the magma did solidfy, which Isn't stopping the boiler from working since it's still 1300°C, however, I fear that the rock that formed there will stop the vulcano from erupting. It doesn't say that it's buried or that it's overpressured, but maybe that's just because the vulcano is dormant or something. I guess using a robo-miner could fix this? Or maybe more geotuners (I already have one) to further increase the heat? Idk
I also thought of using the second minor vulcano I found, but that's WAY far away and my boiler is on the edge of the map.
Anyway, for now it's working, I will probably have to fix a bunch of stuff still.
Anon who tossed the sanji prompt ur way back with another OP man i need to see stuffed (can i just nab one piece belly anon as a title?) Anyways I think that ace's belly would get warmer the fuller he is so when he's stuffed to the brim it's like putting your hands on a space heater
And he burps fire bc i mean of course he does-
Generally I agree, though I think I'd make the distinction of it's not when he's fuller, it's when he's digesting. Like if he ate a mountain of ice cream, it wouldn't instantly melt, it would start to digest and would heat up his belly. So when he really starts digesting and his stomach is all loud and gurgly, that's when it kicks into high gear. It probably even makes his burps worse as it's kicking up literal gas and maybe even mini reactions to fire at the top level of his stomach (I'm thinking like mini explosions like pop rocks). That makes his belly warm and if you rubbed it, you might feel the gas or other reactions.
And yes agreed, he probably could burp fire (though depends on what's in his stomach. I think most liquid would tamp down the fire, other than maybe the chance the alcohol would ignite). Plus if there are mini explosions maybe there's a chance that he burps different colors with the different chemicals.
//loving this conversation with @blue-nardo ‘s mod where I scare them with the amount of essays I’ve written out of spite and my blueprints for fun and silly things
So the Hemocyanin absorbs lots of types of oxygens (for low oxygen and cold environments) but Poorly. Hemorhythin in the muscles can STORE and RELEASE oxygen for long periods of time. Working together in the body of the gloreal to make sure they’re super oxygenated. Rhythin catching anything the Cyanin fails to capture, putting it back where it need to be— and/or simply releasing stored oxygen to compensate for a poor cyanin uptake.
You can buy a tank of nitrogen and a gas mask online. Very effective and painless death
eh i am unconvinced
it's true that nitrogen hypoxia isn't gonna feel the same 'traditional' suffocation does - because when you are unable to breathe out CO2, it's hypercapnia that gives you the painful suffocation sensation, far sooner than you'll notice a lack of oxygen.
that doesn't mean death by nitrogen hypoxia is painless, just that you may not be able to understand what is happening to you until you are much closer to death
i used to work with bone marrow cells stored in -180 liquid nitrogen... we were thoroughly briefed that because nitrogen expands 700X in volume when evaporating at ambient temperature, it can displace oxygen fast and you are mentally impaired from low oxygen long before you are aware anything is happening.
Ah yes I was supposed to study but instead I'm hyping over liquid and solid oxygen as well as liquid sulfur because somehow it never occurred to me these two can change states
Alrighty, so currently the rocket set up is looking good-ish
After having done a few space missions I got access to super coolant and isulation which both made liquid hydrogen not super hard to make. I actually had to make two different designs for cooling the hydrogen, the first one was super inneficient and was taking too long to make any liquid hydrgoen. So the new design is way faster.
Also one problem I was facing is that the hydrogen was evaporting IN the pipes, so to fix that I changed the material of ALL the pipes to ceramic which... didn't work, so I changed the material of the pipes in the more problematic areas to Insulation and... it still didn't work, so I added a liquid valve since I had seen people using them to stop liquids from freezing in pipes, so surely it would work for them evaporating to and... it DID, the valve is set to 500g/s which is fast enough to outpace the production to liq. hydrogen which is a nice bonus
Anyway I'm probably still gonna need to make a cooling thing to get liquid oxygen but I don't think I need that right now