Space Koala

Space memes, fusion schemes, and x-fundie dreams

Recurrent laryngeal nerve's #1 defender

[Space Koala @SpaceKoala]

I will tolerate recurrent laryngeal nerve slander no longer! It's actually the result of several elegant solutions to difficult problems in embryology, and the length is a non-issue. A 🧵 1/13

[Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar]

My meager education in biology and evolution gave me the mistaken impression that evolution optimized everything. But it didn't.

One example is the recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN). It goes from behind your ear, loops down below your aorta, and then back up to the voice-box

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[Space Koala @SpaceKoala]

If Atlantis existed, you would expect to find artifacts of an advanced civilization alongside Neolithic hunter gatherers.

But only finding stone age artifacts indicates there wasn't an advanced civilization, because modern advanced Civilizations churn out artifacts nonstop.

[Zy @ZyMazza]

A common refrain against Graham Hancock types is "we know there was no advanced civilization back then, because the fossil record *DEFINITELY* shows neolithic hunter gatherers, and if Atlantis existed, why were there stone-age peoples?"

Atlantis exists today, and yet...

[Space Koala @SpaceKoala]

I think North America in the cretaceous has a clear shot

[LB @looksbizarre]

The thing is, the Mediterranean is basically unbeatable as a map.

[Space Koala @SpaceKoala]

Elon looking at the failures of previous electric car, commercial rockets, and LEO internet constellation startups like

[Space Koala @SpaceKoala]

Celiac disease homies for the previous 4990 years.

[Space Koala @SpaceKoala]

Took 'em a few days, but they did it.

[Space Koala @SpaceKoala]

He's almost at 10k followers again, start another bot purge.

[Space Koala @SpaceKoala]

@heatloss1986 It was an impressive bombsight for the time, but when the hype is that you could put a bomb in a pickle barrel but the result of a half decade of use is just getting 40% of the bombs within a thousand feet of the target you kind of see where the hype/reality disconnect is.

[Space Koala @SpaceKoala]

The conundrum was that neither LEO telecom constellations nor reusable rockets were economically viable when viewed separately.

But when viewed as a sequence of problems (let's reuse a rocket, then figure out how to make money with it), the solution is wildly profitable.

[Milan Tomić @milan_tomicc]

@skorusARK No one said that reusable rockets aren't economic. What they said was that the launch cadence needed to make reusable launchers economic requires a market that does not exist. If SpaceX didn't have StarLink, it would have had no economic case for launcher reuse.

[Space Koala @SpaceKoala]

@milan_tomicc @skorusARK So they said reusable rockets weren't economic, and the reason was a lack of launch demand?

[Space Koala @SpaceKoala]

@constans I advocate for increasing public transit spending regularly, but if you can't handle getting called out when urban folks are shooting themselves in the foot maybe the internet isn't for you.

[Space Koala @SpaceKoala]

This kind of pissy urban attitude is exactly why public transit gets shafted when suburban and rural voters go to the polls.

Take the olive branch of enabling people (including you) to live how they want rather than bitching that any tax dollars are spent on suburbs.

[Buddhagem @Buddhagem]

Very few people could actually afford to live in lower population density areas without massive subsidies from City people. You act like it’s an equal choice but we Urban dwellers shoulder the tax burden that makes their lifestyle feasible.

[Space Koala @SpaceKoala]

@heatloss1986 There were a lot of painful lessons, especially early in the war, that had to be learned a couple of times.

It's just mainly a reaction to the Norden bombsight overhyping.

[Space Koala @SpaceKoala]

Hey man sometimes you just want to retire from the outer rim bounty hunter rat race just so you can pursue your true passion of larping as a 50's diner short order cook.

[VeggieBLT 🌽 Corn @VeggieBLT]

I FUCKING HATE DEX'S DINER WHY IS THERE A RETRO 50'S STYLE DINER IN MY SPACE OPERA WHY DOES HE HAVE THAT AWFUL MUSTACHE WHY DOES HE KNOW ABOUT KAMINO AND CLONES WHY DOES HIS WAITRESS HAVE A BROOKLYN ACCENT THIS IS THE ONLY GODDAMN TIME THIS CULTURAL STYLE SHOWS UP IN STAR WARS

[Space Koala @SpaceKoala]

@heatloss1986 *Strategic airpower

[Space Koala @SpaceKoala]

@heatloss1986 I agree, I just think it's kind of funny that the appeal of strategic airport was so strong America kept quadrupling down on it even through the early days when they couldn't hit shit and bomber crews made paratroopers look long lived.

[Space Koala @SpaceKoala]

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[Space Koala @SpaceKoala]

So if you're like me and were caught off guard by the New Glenn vertical CONOPs announcement, here's some information on it.

It's going to be almost as tall as the Gigabay.

[Space Koala @SpaceKoala]

@glencoe2004 I mean, they wanted to neutralize Soviet tanks while minimizing damage to West Germany.

Especially since they were an ally or something, and kinda touchy about getting nuked.

[Space Koala @SpaceKoala]

Neutron bombs minimize radioactive fallout and blast damage while maximizing prompt neutron radiation.

It's as environmentally friendly as nuclear hellfire can be.

[Emlyn @EmlynSpace]

the gc is loosing it

[Space Koala @SpaceKoala]

People really don't get how much money was spent chasing the potential of accurate strategic bombing. Probably north of 10% of the entire US GDP in WW2 went into trying to turn the Air Force into the world defining power, and they still wound up at "screw it, drop a sun on 'em".

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

RETVRN

[Space Koala @SpaceKoala]

Make California set their elections day early enough that the results always finalized by everyone else's election day

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

The fact that California elections often can't be resolved for weeks is kind of insane and not common in other electoral systems around the world.

[Space Koala @SpaceKoala]

Those sickos put 3.27 x 10^23 sugar molecules in a drink instead of a far more sane 3.27 x 10^22!

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Crumbl cookie company releases drink with 186,000mg of sugar — leading to outrage, calls to make the drink illegal.