I missed it. 
I tend to find a way to bring my two hobbies together, but mapping while flying is just not the same.
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Only kidding, operating any vehicle, especially an airplane, always requires the operator’s full attention to the task at hand. The more you know![/SIZE]
This is helped by the fact that they rhyme, I imagine.
Only if you’re ambidextrous
Or are of the vortiguant liniage.
This happens is in the original Half-Life; I don’t see why it wouldn’t in Black Mesa.
hmm, i haven’t played that part in a while. Although iirc it was a smaller fan at the very entrance that had to be shut off to go thru, while in a real dam it’d down the pipe a ways, a lot bigger, near the exit that opens to the river.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but if you shut off the fan, there is nothing to keep the water from rushing through to the other side. So if you shut off the fan and open the valve, shouldn’t the water rush over to the other side to until it’s equal on both sides?
Actually, have you ever flown an airplane? In my opinion, it is a heck of a lot easier to fly a plane than it is to drive a car (And yes, I have actually flown a small Cessna aircraft). This was later confirmed by a driving instructor I have who claims it’s actually been proven that it takes more concentration to drive one mile in a car than it does to fly across the US in a jumbo jet. (Referencing interviews that were taken with pilots confirming this)
Anyway, back on topic. While yes the water would rush into the other side until it reaches an equilibrium, there’s so much water blocked by the dam and the fan hole is small when in comparison to the dam, so it would probably take awhile to reach that equilibrium, not just a couple of seconds or minutes. A sucking reaction from the hole caused by the water rushing through would be interesting though.
Speaking of which, how does that dam generate electricity? The rotors stop water from coming through, and then when water gets through, they’re perfectly still :\
Quiet, you. It’s science.
Yes, I am a licensed private pilot. Yes, flying (at least the cruise portions of a flight) is comparable to driving in difficulty at times, but generally it’s not the actual handling of the aircraft that is difficult (it’s simple enough to peg a target speed and altitude; once you trim out the aircraft it basically flies itself) - it’s balancing radio operations, navigation and flight plan calculations, all while maintaining situational awareness and keeping an eye out for other aircraft (if you’re flying VFR). The individual skills behind piloting take longer to learn and develop than driving for most people, and there is a lot of extra workload associated with operating an aircraft (most people don’t perform a checklist to start their car, for example) but fundamentally the skill required for basic control is similar.
E: A bit sidetracked here but that’s not to say neither requires someone’s full attention, either - a large majority of road accidents are caused by people not paying attention, and incidents in flight happen this way too (pilots going past their destination, anyone?) Bad things happen when people are distracted while operating sophisticated machinery, be it cars or planes.
I think the dam is a bit unrealistic in HL1 - generally the turbine inside of the powerhouse is pushed by the force of the water to generate electricity and then flow out to the river at the bottom (so in theory they should be moving faster when the grate is opened.) Dams sometimes have other tunnels to allow the outflow of water while bypassing the generator, to move extra water to the bottom, though…
Have you changed it to show that? (eg. Another, larger grate you can’t open)
Ah, silly me, you’re right. I never actually got certified, it was a hobby that started up but never actually got anywhere so I forgot about all the silly little details. Now, to the topic.
What if it isn’t suppose to generate electricity and is just there to either create a man-made lake or slow down the river? It’s a science facility, they may have needed to alter the flow of water to either make room for the facility or to run different experiments. Although that would be a rather inefficient dam, since if you are going to build one to do something you might as well let it give you some electricity.
Anyone else think it’s weird that the huge dam and it’s river just ended in a small hallway sized passage? I think you should have a river split off in another direction.
perhaps the river runs into some permeable rock that is inaccessible to HEV suit-clad goatee-sporting scientists.
You don’t pay attention to the signs in AM, do you?
Curse you logic! Foiled again!
I’m at work, so I can’t prove this, but the other end of that valley had big pipes with grates on them, didn’t it? You climbed up out of the water just next to them.
