CR4 is a great community where people, even non members, can ask questions on engineering subjects . however, we are not a community of mind readers, nor an information charity. Help us help you get the answer that you had hoped for by considering the following:
1) Give us information about the application, at the very least what you're trying to do, and where you're trying to do it. If its in the desert, underwater or in antarctica we may need to know that, as opposed to it being operable in our parlor or in our in our mild climate and park like setting....
2) Think 5W 2 H Who What When Where Why How How many.
We know you want one or two of these answered- usually How or how many, but some times Why...So how about giving us some WHat Where When or Who facts for context:
WHAT materials should I consider for the substructure of my envisioned WHAT IT IS Surface to air laser cheese slicer? It will be constructed WHERE (desert, antarctic, on a submarine, in the woods). It will need to withstand the shock of WHAT locally falling slices of cheese from a height of 2 kilometers.
The question you want answered What materials should I use? can now be considered based on application, environmental factors, conditions of use, and consequences of use parameters. Terra cotta is now easy to rule out as a possible substructure based on the facts given.
3) Register! This is a community, and just as your getting an answer is a benefit, so is the satisfaction that you can get when you too will be able to share your expertise. Register so we can tell you apart from the rude guy who also posted using the title"guest", and so that we can evaluate the credibility, Remember- all of us started out with 0 posts and 0 good answers at one time.
4) Have a sense of humor. You know, english is a difficult language for those of us who have it as our first language. If we don't understand you, its not that we're trying to be difficult. Getting concepts across, ESPECIALLY WITHOUT CONTEXTUAL FACTS can be a challenge.
Lighten up.
5) Look at the answering postings as a clue to you to provide more information.
If the first poster says "HUH?" it doesn't mean he doesn't like you, it probably means us clever engineering types have no flippin idea what you are trying to get us to understand. Give us some more info.
Rating such feedback posts as off topic, just shows you to be disrespectful of the amount of sharing that we posters do in this community.
6) If its about hurting some one or taking advantage of someone or their technology please don't ask. As engineers we have an obligation to protect the public we serve.
Dont ask.
Protecting people from flying cheese which is terrorizing the territory or outlying planets is fair game.
7) Your question may already have been answered-You could do a search, go to forum index, or Site glossary to see if your topic has already been discussed.
8) Avoid building in political or feel good assumptions into your question. If your post starts with the sweeping claim along the line that "it is settled science that Lamarckism is the means for creating species," or "all scientists agree that polar bears will be needing sunglasses in the next three years" You can expect many of us to challenge your assumptions, prior to looking at your question. Spare us the politics.
Thanks for asking great Questions.
Anybody know what to do with slightly soiled, somehat distorted cheese slices? They are in North America and the soil appears to be lawn clippings and leaf detritus.
Slices are no longer square, and one side seems to be a somewhat leather like texture due to the laser and cooling turbulence. color is a pale orange.
milo
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