ViperActual

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[–] ViperActual 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Freakin' phenomenal execution for this flight! Booster and Starship both performed exactly as designed! Successful catch for Super Heavy, and on target landing for Starship! Footage from SPI is also amazing to see!

Edit: Bonus footage from SpaceX!

[–] ViperActual 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the link! TIL lemmy let's you edit the post URL!

[–] ViperActual 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I miss that sub

[–] ViperActual 109 points 2 months ago (5 children)
[–] ViperActual 2 points 2 months ago

I'm so glad my cat isn't a big snuggler. Blankets and pillows are a no go. Simple proximity is fine.

[–] ViperActual 2 points 2 months ago

Stahp, you're gonna give me brain whiplash

[–] ViperActual 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Having the flexible screen facing externally on one fold seems quite reckless considering how fragile they still are by virtue of needing to be flexible. Having a Fold 4, the screen definitely relies on the thin film screen protector that the flexible screens come with. But because the screen is contained internally, it's protected by the device.

Having it unprotected means any drops on a surface that is able to hit the screen directly will most likely lead to cracks in the LED layer and kill the screen. And the geometry of the folded part would imply that any impacts will most certainly lead to cracks. You can test this by folding a piece of paper in a similar manner and then hitting the folded part. It'll make tiny very sharp creases in the paper, and these creases are what kills the screen.

[–] ViperActual 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This is basically 2b2t

[–] ViperActual 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

At the rate things are going, just launch a kitted out Starship and have that serve as a temporary space station. That should tide us over for however long it takes to design, build, and launch a newer station.

[–] ViperActual 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Holy moly, I'm not big on politics but I had to look up the clip of this and in addition to the ridiculousness of saying this, he actually talks like how people meme his speech patterns. I thought it was embellishments and exaggerations.

[–] ViperActual 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Matter bends spacetime. Spacetime tells matter how to move.

Using this logic, you can imagine that above a certain threshold, this can become a feedback loop. These locations are black holes, where enough matter located in a small enough volume of spacetime can create enough distortion to further force more matter into the same volume of spacetime.

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