Comment on Pens in Space

Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• ninja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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  • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That is something I found weird, too. Inflammable and flammable mean the same thing!

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    • nyctre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Technically, I think they’re different. Flammable means that it can be lit on fire, like wood or something. Whereas inflammable means it can catch fire on its own, like gas, for example.

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      • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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        Synonyms, true synonyms. No real difference between them (except don’t use inflammable in safety situations, for above reasons)

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      • glups@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Credit to you for the self-correction though

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      • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        saying that “gas” is able to catch fire on its own is stretching it :) A gas mix typically still needs a spark, unlike: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergolic_propellant <- that stuff can “catch fire” on its own. But even there - it needs to be mixed, so technically, one component requires the other to ignite.

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It makes more sense if you think of it as enflammable. Indent and indebted at examples of this “in-” prefix. merriam-webster.com/…/flammable-or-inflammable

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    • militaryintelligence@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      United States education system

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    • Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Flammable isn’t a word.

      Just Americans got confused by it so it became a word.

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      • Hexarei@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        So then it is a word

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• Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Probably not great for eyes or noses or filtration systems either

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Twist: you’re the filtration system.

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    • Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I guess we are in a way a filtration system that removes oxygen from the air…

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      • exasperation@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Ok there Ongo Baglogian

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• quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Also a broken bit of lead could easily float into someone’s eye or get aspirated.

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  • NuraShiny@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There is no way either side used lead pencils. Saying lead is in pencils is a very outdated thing, it’s all graphite these days.

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    • xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      it hasn’t been graphite for while now either….

      pencil lead

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      • Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Chalk isn’t chalk?

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    • Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      A sharp piece of graphite from a broken pen is not something you would want in your eyes either

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• mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  and thin paper shavings = space kindling. the entire argument is fucking dumb.

  perhaps the sovs gnawed their pencils sharp and consumed all the graphite fragments and shavings lol. good lil soviet space beavers

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  • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If I remember correctly, the Soviet engines were a lot harder to short out, so pencils weren’t as big a problem in their spacecraft.

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    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      the Soviet engines were a lot harder to short out,

      bwahaha this is idiotic. anyone familiar with the long litany of rocket failures out of baiknor knows their engines weren’t ‘harder to short out’ whatever silly shit you mean with it.

      short out what? the alternator? bwahahahahaahahahaha

      short out the fuse box? dear god, I’m dying here

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  • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The Soviets were using grease pencils IIRC before also switching to the Fisher Space Pen around 1969. The grease pencil eliminated the risk of graphite floating around but the writing quality isn’t great.

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• copd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Genuine question. why did you choose to use “inflammable” instead of “flammable”?

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  • Manticore@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Inflame was the original word for ‘to ignite’ (or flare up). But given English uses the un- and in- prefixes and modifiers, ‘flammable’ has been deemed less confusing, especially if English is not your native language

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  • Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Lapsus

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    • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      lapis

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      • FrankenSpinach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Skamtebord

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  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    inflammation, inflame, inflammable

    inflammable = easily ignited

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• Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is the most upvotes I think I have ever seen on a comment here.

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