/sci/ - Science & Math

The books in the lower right are excellent, by the way, and I strongly recommend them. I have another coming by mail, "Living and working in the sea", which is more technical in nature.

>>Originally I just wanted to build a single chamber with air circulation and the basics, as proof of concept and as a neat model of how actual habitats work.
thats the lamest shit i ever heard, why call something like that as awesome as hampture if its just a box with air circulation?

Best of luck, man. I can't believe what a success this project has been either. We really need more people like you, willing to actually do things themselves.

>>2030976

I guess that's true. So it's for the best that it eventually escalated into this four-room colony, right?

can someone fill me in?

>>2030976
What have you done lately, then? This project is the most impressive thing to have come out of /sci/.

why are you plating the clovers from seed? why not just go out and dig up a patch, wash the soil off the roots, and put them in the tank?
btw, fuckin awesome project. keep it up, new shit you post is what i look forward to whenever i get on the computer.

>>2030994

>>why are you plating the clovers from seed? why not just go out and dig up a patch, wash the soil off the roots, and put them in the tank?

Hmm, good point. I probably will. I'm more apprehensive about getting the grow LEDs set up as I have no experience with that yet, but it's something I've been wanting to learn about. I don't even smoke or anything I am just enamoured with the idea of building a solar powered geodesic hemispherical hydroponic greenhouse. Something like that could feed someone essentially for free with a minimum of effort provided the use of an inorganic anchor medium and a constant flow setup.

>>2030983
This.

>>2031015
http://hampture.blogspot.com/

>>2030983
>>2031015

I'm building an underwater colony for hamsters:

http://hampture.blogspot.com/

The five hour test of the prototype in a nearby lake can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05pkg0DuPNQ

Pic related, my hamster chillin' under 4 feet of water.

>>2031013
>I don't even smoke or anything I am just enamoured with the idea of building a solar powered geodesic hemispherical hydroponic greenhouse. Something like that could feed someone essentially for free with a minimum of effort provided the use of an inorganic anchor medium and a constant flow setup.

>>2031013
I like that idea too. When I was a kid I wanted to live underground, using geothermal energy to power an automated hydroponics system.

>>2031042

I don't see any smoking going on there, do you? :3

Pic unrelated, but an awesome game

>>2031035
>hampture
>underwater colony

I see what you fucking did there.
And I like it.

>>2031084

>>I see what you fucking did there.

Also, I may call the Mk.III habitat "New Hampture". Dohohoho

>>2031092
I actually lol'd that time.

So, any idea what I need to paint the wood panel with so that it doesn't rot during prolonged submersion?

>>2031092

I support this proposition.

>>2031402
I dunno. Stick it in the oven and then seal it with wax? Melted plastic?

>>2031402
Probably like >>2031489 except instead of pissing around with something easilly damaged like wax, or something that's toxic when it's burning like plastic, just use a glue or resin. Several layers.

Also make sure to glue/resin whatever happens to puncture the wood, like a screw or nail. Don't just stop at the nail, COVER THE ENTIRE OBJECT. Presumably if you use metal or cloth straps, glue/resin that shit entirely; you have to think temporally. As metal oxidizes, it'll burn like a fuse; all the way back to its fastener (the screw) and into the thing its secured to (the wood)

>>2031489
I should explain: stick it in the oven to dry it out, then seal it with something.

When I get outta college I'm totally building a human-size one. And living in it. It'll be an appendage to my underground bunker. I have it all planned out.

>>2031555

Hm, okay, resin. That's the ticket. I knew I'd heard of solvents you could coat wood in to waterproof them.

It's amazing how much you learn about everything when you try to do basically anything.

>>2031555
I feel incredibly stupid now that you've pointed out resin.

Incredibly.

>>2031561
> It's amazing how much you learn about everything when you try to do basically anything.

just fucking kill your hamster and get it over with already

>>2031818
no u

>>2030946
>(as a novelty, it won't depend on it)
It would be interesting, though, in terms of Pavlovian conditioning, to see how the hamsters would react if there was only light when they made it by running on the wheel.

They would surely catch on at some point... And you DO have a pretty rocking surveillance system.

>>2031889
> in terms of Pavlovian conditioning ... if there was only light when they made it by running on the wheel.

> 11/10/10 (Wed) 03:35
The day when "/sci/ence" became "Mad /sci/entist"