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- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
For most of the shuttle, yes, but the removal of the paint from the tank specifically was because the tank had a foam coating that was not actually meaningfully protected by the paint.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Found the Kerbal Space Program player?
- Comment on 2 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!
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 104 comments
- Comment on Nuclear energy enjoyers vindicated again after the rise in oil and gas prices. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, unfortunately, nuclear power should have been heavily invested in about… 50 years ago. The “The best time was yesterday, the second-best time is now” line doesn’t apply with advancements in other energy sources and the sheer time it takes to build and get a nuclear plant operational. The best time was yesterday - now is perhaps the worst time.
Still, it is always good to push back on anti-nuclear sentiment. Every nuclear plant kept running is a massive amount of fossil fuels removed from power generation. I remember when Merkel closed a ton of nuclear plants in Germany for dogshit PR reasons, handing power back to fossil fuel suppliers.
- Comment on Beans 5 weeks ago:
apex predator
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Same, but I also have only really discussed moon landing lunacy with other Americans. It may be that there’s a different demographic attracted to the conspiracy theory outside of the USA.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Yep, the article mentions as much. You’d have to trust public access to NASA telescopes, which no self-respecting conspiracy theorist would, of course.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Explanation: During the Cold War, the USA and USSR competed in many areas to ‘prove’ whose system was superior. One such area was the so-called “Space Race”, wherein both sides competed for prestigious ‘first achievements’ in space. The USSR put up the first satellites and people into space, but the USA was the first to land people on the moon.
… for some reason, an enduring minority in the US has continued to believe that it was a ‘hoax’ and ‘faked’, for gods only know what reason. The USSR, by contrast, was watching the whole affair very closely - once it was apparent that the mission was a success, genuine congratulations were extended, and samples of moon rocks were shared with USSR when the mission touched down. After all, the competition was about the prestige - science knows no borders*!
*unless it has some military application, at which point it becomes classified
- Submitted 1 month ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 18 comments
- Comment on 1 month ago:
oraptrer
- Submitted 1 month ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 3 comments
- Comment on I detect no errors of logic here 1 month ago:
Why would a person want to be trusted to not do drugs?
Remind me never to have you make any deliveries for me.
- Comment on Lost at sea 1 month ago:
- Comment on 2 months ago:
At what temperature does a normal body boil
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Switching hard 😔
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Americans using the word propaganda for “something I don’t understand because my school system failed me so now I overcompensate by making up factoids that make me look even more uneducated by the rest of the world”
Whoosh.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
-40% hot, that’s pretty damn cold!
- Submitted 2 months ago to [deleted] | 268 comments
- Comment on No I don't have a receipt 2 months ago:
Mood
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- Comment on 2 months ago:
My friends used to jokingly call me Narcissus, because of my Classical obsession and the fact that whenever we walked home from school, I would never pass up an opportunity to look at my handsome face in a good reflection 😎
- Comment on What I feel like every fucking time I wake up and read this morning's news of a superpower becoming its worst. 2 months ago:
This is why organizations are so damn important, and why the decline of unions has been so damaging to US political culture.
- Comment on From our family to yours, merry Christmas! 3 months ago:
If this was an imitation of a happy holiday… a perfect imitation… would you know? Would I?
- Comment on Thanks :) 3 months ago:
I thought he was fond of plentiful mangos
- Comment on Fear not, for I am watchful. You have been chosen. 3 months ago:
Stand up, there you go. You were dreaming.
- Comment on PSA 3 months ago:
literally me
- Comment on Prequel dialogue 3 months ago:
THEN YOU ARE LOST
- Comment on you need to be doing this 3 months ago:
Don’t tempt me
- Comment on Hope 3 months ago:
Mood
