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Admiral Ray posted:i've run into a bunch of moon landing conspiracy theorists and reminding them of the Soviet achievements and America's fragile ego made them understand why we went there and never really went back in the same way (we went to the moon 6 times). like it finally clicked that it was just a dick measuring contest. More accurately it was a way of rigging the dick measuring contest after the soviets had already slapped out their enormous hog. Like the USA decided to measure length from the arse cheeks to the tip because that gave them the advantage. I'm a rocket propulsion engineer and I don't think we're ever going back to the moon or to mars, at least not in my lifetime. Not because we can't but because in a Capitalist society there's just no reason to. I don't even think the power of nationalism kicked off by somebody like China going there would be enough anymore and I'm not sure that China would be bothered doing it anyway.
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Blackhawk posted:More accurately it was a way of rigging the dick measuring contest after the soviets had already slapped out their enormous hog. Like the USA decided to measure length from the arse cheeks to the tip because that gave them the advantage. tbf there's not really a reason to ever go back other than it being pretty cool. there's no economic, social justice, or environmental justification for moon flights. it's just neat.
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There's a reasons to go it's just that most of them can be done without humans on site.
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Admiral Ray posted:i've run into a bunch of moon landing conspiracy theorists and reminding them of the Soviet achievements and America's fragile ego made them understand why we went there and never really went back in the same way (we went to the moon 6 times). like it finally clicked that it was just a dick measuring contest. to be fair, Americans weren't above faking achievements for the sake of a dick measuring contest with the Soviets for example, in 1959 we were showing the Soviets that every American kitchen had a Roomba and an automatic dishwasher that could put the cleaned dishes away all by itself (in reality, both were controlled by a human operator hidden behind a two-way mirror)
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All that overtime crunch at the dick sucking factory finally paid off with deliverables, time to fire everyone
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what do you think they do with that stuff when they’re done with all their experimenting? Just put it in an unsecured dumpster somewhere probably?
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Just had an interesting conversation with a non-American/European/Russian national. Apparently in some places, anti-colonialism is such in the DNA that space exploration is pitched to the public as a matter of national pride in institutions, et cetera, rather than pure unadulterated resource exploitation.
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Apollo 11 is on netflix in the uk
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Only a couple of months till we send another rover to Mars. I wasn't shocked that the ESA rover got delayed, given the whole parachute thing not working.
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broke: exploring space by the magnanimity of annoying billionaires woke: funkatizing galaxies with good vibes and pure funk and free-form jazz exploration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AEJSuCI60A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haOMBnQwPuI
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NoneMoreNegative posted:lol not AliX but I was emptying out cupboards looking for something and found this tote bag that I have absolutely no recollection of buying:
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lol I need that tote bag
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party of small government
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The government isn’t small. It’s just very far away.
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Platystemon posted:The government isn’t small. It’s just very far away. ooooooooooh 
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gently caress yes thats awesome I want to hear more about the sex plan
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Tighclops posted:gently caress yes thats awesome I want to hear more about the sex plan horny is prohibited
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I wanna know what the gently caress happened to Central America
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Raskolnikov38 posted:I wanna know what the gently caress happened to Central America rods from god
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Raskolnikov38 posted:I wanna know what the gently caress happened to Central America They resisted.
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Anthem of the Soviet space program https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncx4x8rvrQU
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hobbesmaster posted:horny is prohibited Smh at not wanting to gently caress an alien
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please respect his preference to watch
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october surprise is cascading satellite fragmentation event leading to kessler syndrome and breakdown of global telecommunications
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So if I understand correctly there's a 1 to 20% chance those things gently caress the entire LEO system due to debris being spread all around. Have there been simulations on such a case? Would it invariably hit other satellites?
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Kessler! Kessler! Kessler!
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orange sky posted:So if I understand correctly there's a 1 to 20% chance those things gently caress the entire LEO system due to debris being spread all around. Have there been simulations on such a case? Would it invariably hit other satellites? Yes, eventually. It's a shotgun blast that has a chance of crossing paths with any individual object dozens of times a day, for thousands of objects. It would take some time, but a year or two from now there would be multiple collisions, then a few years later dozens, then a few years later every satellite in LEO would be dead.
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orange sky posted:So if I understand correctly there's a 1 to 20% chance those things gently caress the entire LEO system due to debris being spread all around. Have there been simulations on such a case? Would it invariably hit other satellites? I think it mostly depends how spread out the shrapnel gets, which as i understand it is hard to simulate.
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Also, it came out wrong, there's a 1 to 20% chance of them hitting, and possibly causing all that in the future. From what I understand there was a collision in 2009 that didn't cause anything major, so maybe we'll be lucky again
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orange sky posted:Also, it came out wrong, there's a 1 to 20% chance of them hitting, and possibly causing all that in the future. From what I understand there was a collision in 2009 that didn't cause anything major, so maybe we'll be lucky again it's more the question of density of potential satellites to hit whether it causes a runaway cascade. guess what billionaire wasn't making GBS threads up the low earth orbit in 2009
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Elon’s satellites are a mess, but they are in much lower orbits than the objects of interest here. If debris reaches all the way down to Starlink’s altitude, everything has already gone pear-shaped.
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Apparently the collision didn't happen! 
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Now we can ignore the risk for another decade.
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elon blew up another water tower
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3 posted:elon blew up another water tower  gently caress YOU MUSK, YOU loving WANKSTAIN, HAHAHA, gently caress YOUUUUUUUUUUUU. 
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