lemming

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[–] lemming 12 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (3 children)

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I guess in this case obscure differs a lot geographically, but I definitely know places where they are almost completely unknown.

[–] lemming 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, if USA and Europe were at war, with article 5, they could arrange it so that Europe fought Europe and USA fought USA, singe they are allies and must help. It would save a lot of transatlantic logistics and make things much easier.

[–] lemming 2 points 1 month ago

It sure is, but on google maps, it looks as big as northern America.

[–] lemming 26 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Does Trump want Greenland so bad because he thinks it's huge due to a map projection?

[–] lemming 3 points 1 month ago

That's great. But I know a european patient who's been taking it for well over a year for free from a local healthcare system, so how is it first?

[–] lemming 3 points 1 month ago

Before I opened it, I thought it was a text transcript of records of the noisy insect and was very, very confused and curious.

[–] lemming 3 points 1 month ago
[–] lemming 2 points 1 month ago

Well, the currently approved lander is a modified starship simply standing on some legs. Your solution would work, but it isn't what will happen during Artemis. Not with the money available (other options were much more expensive), and even if there was more money, almost certainly not under current administration.

[–] lemming 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I didn't read the article, just watched the video. But my guess is dynamic interactions of the exhaust gases with the regolith. I don't think it's something there's much data about. Without a landing pad, a landing of a full Starship may be a risky business. Of course the landing thrusters on the tip should help a lot, but still. And now that I think about it, the launch from the surface might be worrying as well. We've seen what Super Heavy did to a robust concrete slab without a deflector. Starship is nowhere near that powerful, but regolith is no concrete, and you preferably don't want flying debris damaging your engines when you're trying to come back from the Moon.

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

Well, they were eaten as medicine for centuries. Not to mention as a paint and possibly for fires...

[–] lemming 7 points 2 months ago

Nobody really thinks singularities exist. It's only what comes out from our math. That's also how we know our math is wrong, we're just not sure yet how to do it better.

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