CommissarVulpin
@CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world
- Comment on Soup 1 week ago:
Fun fact! During the Apollo flights to and from the Moon, the spacecraft would perform “Passive Thermal Control” or “barbecue roll” where it would rotate around its long axis about once per hour, to distribute the thermal load from the sun and keep one side from heating up too much
- Comment on Why exactly are raisins toxic for dogs and not humans? 3 weeks ago:
Plants don’t have the ability to pull out a gun to defend itself
Yet.
- Comment on NASA 4 weeks ago:
My favorite fact about the ISS is that it actually has an engine to do its own orbital boosts. Astronauts have taken videos where they slowly drift from one side of the cabin to the other during a burn
- Comment on Blanket physics is harder to understand than Calabi-Yau Manifolds 4 weeks ago:
Wow, I had no idea the Calabi-Yau Manifold was a real thing. I thought it was just made up for Barotrauma, since that was the only place I heard of it. It sounded Lovecraftian enough so I never questioned it lol
- Comment on I wish to give this many fucks 4 weeks ago:
Oh, yeah, you’re right. I didn’t even see “Saturday night” in the article lol. Whenever I see old dates I like looking up what day of the week it was on, just for fun.
- Comment on I wish to give this many fucks 4 weeks ago:
January 27, 1936 was a Monday
- Comment on A moment can be fleeting 5 weeks ago:
They’re definitely biased, though. For every “majestic” or “superb” bird there’s one named something like “drab titwaffle”
- Comment on I just want to view the recipe 5 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, no. From what I gather, any other browser on an iPhone is just Safari with a skin.
- Comment on The real personality test 1 month ago:
I was trying to get help with something while setting up Windows, and getting increasingly frustrated with their stupid automated tech support (because evidently it’s literally impossible to speak to a human unless you’re a developer or something). I ended up cursing at it, and it stopped and went “Let’s keep this professional.” If anything that made me even more pissed off.
- Comment on ))<>(( 1 month ago:
VBA has made things so, so much easier since I started learning how to use it.
- Comment on ))<>(( 1 month ago:
Excel has entered the chat
- Comment on autoreply 1 month ago:
September 28, 1956 was a Friday
- Comment on The microphone on David Letterman's desk on Late Night was a vintage RCA DX-77 ribbon microphone and was there in case his lapel mic failed. 1 month ago:
Oh man, I would be so on board with that. As long as there’s vacuum tubes.
- Comment on Sounds like a fart 2 months ago:
I wonder if you could make a muzzle brake with the floppy bits of whoopee cushions attached to the gas ports…
- Comment on high rise 5 months ago:
That’s just Carl.
- Comment on Noone will notice 5 months ago:
Early variants of the Panzer IV actually used a short barreled howitzer like that, so that’s not inaccurate
- Comment on You can spot a novice pirate if they giggle 5 months ago:
Like most things in life, blame the French
- Comment on You guys need to stop 5 months ago:
I would also join this endeavor. This country needs a small, light pickup truck again that a guy can fix in his driveway with basic tools.
- Comment on Dream be like 6 months ago:
I once had a dream where there was a McDonald’s in Skyrim. My first thought when I woke up was “There’s probably a mod for that”
- Comment on Tromboner 6 months ago:
I don’t even want to know what the French horn players are doing to their instruments…