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Aerospace engineer/historian. Observer of societal collapse. Haver of cats and opinions.

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Engineering is modern magic. Behold what the rocket does to the *clouds.* For millenia shamans and wizards and sorcerers and other related charlatans have tried and utterly failed to do a microscopic fraction of this awesomeness.

[jacobruh 🚀 @jrxcket]

I love this video of Super Heavy coming in for the catch because it really shows just how aggressive the deceleration is during the landing burn! 🔥🔥

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Rockwell's "Star Raker," a late-70's airbreather/rocket SSTO meant to haul heavy payloads at high flight rate to support the Solar Power Satellite program. Would it have worked? Hard to say, but this would have been a far better world had we tried.

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It's *amazing* how certain some people can be about things they are absolutely wrong about. Like someone from a culture with a deeply embedded caste system thinking that such system are the norm around the world, and thus trying to justify that belief with pure nonsense.

[Krutarth🇮🇳 @JoshiKrutarth5]

Caste system is everywhere in the world 👇

Surname. Original meaning
Schumacher 🇩🇪 Shoe maker
Smith 🇬🇧 Metal worker
Miller 🇬🇧 Grain mill worker
Baker 🇬🇧 Bread maker
Tailer 🇬🇧 clothes mkr

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I'm kinda unclear on what they're doing here, but... no.

NO.

Messing around with mercury with bare hands? Dumb. Mixing mercury into food? Suicidally stupid.

[Radioactive Red @radioactivered]

This is crazier than a shithouse rat.

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Horseshoe theory comes to feminism.

[Carl Benjamin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Sargon_of_Akkad]

I will no longer be debating Lindsay Clancy supporters. I will just be posting this video in reply to any of them.

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From a 1959 Lockheed-Georgia PR booklet. A “Space Scooter,” something akin to the Convair “Space Taxi” in US Spacecraft Projects #1. Looks like a “work pod” for the construction of spacecraft/space stations. Torus undoubtedly contains thruster propellant and/or compressed gas.

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@Jxshua96 @TM9380 Nah, the purpose of taxes is to provide welfare benefits to lazy bums and foreigners.

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Dragonslayer was a fantastic movie. What's more: the novelization actually added useful context. Galen *wasn't* some mediocre wizard, he was a natural world-beater who had been hamstrung as a toddler by Ulrich... he could create *life.* That's why the horse appeared at the end.

[𝕭𝖚𝖌𝖇𝖊𝖆𝖗 𝕭𝖗𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖘 @BugbearBrothers]

It’s crazy to think Vermithrax Pejorative graced the screen more than 40 years ago. She remains one of the best on screen dragons ever

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@bennettpeer Well, since I can't currently buy a nuclear reactor off Amazon, cheap Chinese crap will have to do.

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@D_Cuanalo Well, I hadn't really planned on watching this, but you make a good and strong argument in favor of the show.

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@volcaholic1 Find your local anti-nuclear activists and have them explain why it's awesome that they delayed replacing fossil fuels by more than 50 years.

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Suddenly having an Ayn Rand flashback.

[𝒦𝑒𝓁𝓁𝓎࿎☽ @idropFbombs]

I literally can't.
We are absolutely COOKED as a species. The white girl running along the side was the only one with active brain cells.

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@JullietNjeri Who exactly did Ireland "destroy and pillage?"

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@TeamNathanFTW ET wet-lab concepts go back to the 70's, IIRC.

In this timeline the ET never made it to orbit, sadly. It was cut loose before the Orbiter was in true orbit; the OMS engines circularized it, leaving the ET to smack into the Indian Ocean.

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1/Rockwell art of not-quite-final Space Shuttle. The only obvious major difference between this design & actual Shuttle is the rounded dome on the nose of the ET. May have been a cover over a de-orbit rocket motor, but if so it was a small one. Other changes include ...

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@whozgrimez

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The arguments against AI are getting weaker and weaker...

[PsyopAnime @PsyopAnime]

Make memes, not war

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2/ X-20 will be pretty inexpensive... 4 parts. X-20, transition, transtage and an XM-92 abort motor (optional). If it does well, I'd like to do a "landed" configuration w/landing gear, separate flaps, clear canopy, separate hatch, cockpit. Maybe a Titan IIIc as well. We'll see.

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1/The third model I'm working towards putting into production: 1/144 X-20 Dyne Soar, orbital configuration. Shown here with 1/350 HMS Churchill sans PV arrays and 1/144 Space Sortie currently experiencing deployment dysfunction of one of the payload bay doors.

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2/differences in booster sep motors; art shows 4 nose BSMs in a straight line & 4 tail BSMs in straight vert line. As built the fwd BSMs were a 2X2 square array while aft BSMs were arrayed around the nozzle. Minor difference in thermal tile pattern on Orbiter forward fuselage.