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- Comment on Schrodinger's Precious 1 day ago:
Luckily, Bilbo remembered to add “Answer fully”
- Submitted 1 day ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 39 comments
- Comment on 1 week 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 1 week 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 | 103 comments
- Comment on Nuclear energy enjoyers vindicated again after the rise in oil and gas prices. 2 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 Science knows no borders! 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 Science knows no borders! 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 Science knows no borders! 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 18 comments
- Comment on Darwin was a real one. 1 month ago:
Big Darwin mood
- Comment on 1 month ago:
oraptrer
- Submitted 1 month ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 5 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 "Capitalism rewards innovation!" 1 month ago:
Original meme maker probably had autocorrect on.
- Comment on "Capitalism rewards innovation!" 1 month ago:
I considered that part of having a business agent on hand to make those deals and connections, but yes.
- Comment on "Capitalism rewards innovation!" 1 month ago:
Explanation: Nikola Tesla was a prolific and wildly influential inventor of the early 20th century AD. He also was in constant dire financial straits despite not having any major expensive vices (other than inventing), because, unlike his contemporary Thomas Edison, Tesla was not adept at maneuvering business deals (and certainly not with the cutthroat ruthlessness that Edison displayed - several times at Tesla’s expense).
Capitalism is better than feudalism because it rewards a wider range of intellectual ability and success than feudalism does… but that range still does not include innovation. You wanna be paid for your innovation in a capitalist system? Better have a lawyer and a business agent on hand as soon as you get out of the patent office. :/
- Submitted 1 month ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 30 comments
- Comment on 1 month ago:
At what temperature does a normal body boil
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Switching hard 😔
- Comment on 1 month 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 1 month ago:
-40% hot, that’s pretty damn cold!
- Submitted 1 month ago to [deleted] | 264 comments
- Comment on No I don't have a receipt 1 month 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 😎
- Ah, the halcyon days of 2011, when Spiderman's arachnads were brutally obliterated...media.piefed.social ↗Submitted 2 months ago to memes@sopuli.xyz | 1 comment
