Comment on

LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Back when NASA was flinging things into space for the first time, the tolerances that were even possible were extremely tight. Every pound mattered (every pound still matters, but because we have other things to do once we get to space nowadays, plus every pound is expensive).

  600 pounds of white paint for the fuel tank was considered unnecessary, once the engineering team figured that it didn’t actually protect the special foam covering of the fuel tank anyway. Thus the distinctive orange color!

  source

  • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For all the people in the world except the United States, 600 freedom units = ~272 kg

    source

    • wieson@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thank you, finally something sensible

      source
    • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s 4 and half men. Or a minivan’s worth of kids. Or 100 buckets of KFC

      source
    • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So about 31 adult badgers.

      source

      • Dicska@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Tsss, it’s barely 1/6th of a skateboarding rhino.

        source
    • Starski@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You can just give a conversion without being snarky about it

      source

      • Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And you could just use standardized metrics that is used by the entire world. Like many Americans claim they can. Yet here we are.

        source

        • -> View More Comments
      • Mulligrubs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You can just be quiet, what has snarky ever done to you?

        source
    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      also Canada. because we don’t use metric in contexts like this

      source

      • AffineConnection@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You weigh in beavers?

        source
    • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      To many significant digits. It’s 300kg

      source
  • slampisko@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh, I thought the pictures were backwards. The orange being the natural color and the white being paint is really critical information for it to make sense lol

    source

    • morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah same. Orange is much more iconic, glad this happened.

      source
  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh my eyes glossed over the word “paint”. Thanks.

    source
  • Cekan14@lemmy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is such a cool fact; I’m a sucker for these things, I’m saving this post.

    source