ByThePowerOfSCIENCE

853056 pts ยท March 2, 2013


Imgur is becoming rife with points-obsessed twits. Don't be one.

*patty

2 minutes ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

*golem. We're not waking it again.

7 minutes ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Debris is tracked tightly, but also it's _very_ unlikely to actually hit a piece. The ISS sometimes maneuvers to keep a generous distance from an object.

3 hours ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They don't work in warehouses. Data centers are perhaps the most fire protected workplaces - light a piece of paper, an alarm goes off and you have 10 seconds to cancel it or get out before the fire suppressant gas floods the place.

They won't have access anyway, nor they want to ruin their career.

3 hours ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Yep, everything was nominal. Just a bit of fluff by OP, I guess.

3 hours ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

unless she's strapped by her feet, which aren't in the shot

4 hours ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

notice how you don't see her feet

she's strapped

4 hours ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I think they mean in the URL, but most servers don't just keep the same image in multiple formats.

4 hours ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

she's tied by the feet just out of view

4 hours ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I've listened to this so many times trying to make out what Towa says after "nandemo"

5 hours ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I think that one's easy: "it's not an /s/; let your tongue hang out, touch your front teeth, blow _softly_". They'll be sounding like Daffy right away.

5 hours ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

ankle strap and lanyard - don't trust someone's butter fingers

5 hours ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

you don't see her feet, do you?
lanyard

5 hours ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

it is, but you're not seeing the lanyard on her foot

5 hours ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

The format is actually great, but inertia and "good enough" are harsh bitches so it hasn't been implemented more widely. I've heard similar things about AVIF.

5 hours ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

Maybe they picked a diverse crew on purpose, and indeed it's a lunar orbit without landing (a simpler one than Apollo 10, btw). But if you haven't (say) ridden a bicycle in decades you don't start again with a super steep mountain trail. This is a new spacecraft (not reusing anything from Apollo) and a new generation of engineers and astronauts, so it's more like your kid following your steps to eventually outdo you.

6 hours ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

#14

14 hours ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"If you had any balls, you'd say 'Oh my God, what is that thing?' and then cut your mic"
Michael Collins to Neil Armstrong, while en route.

14 hours ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

they could've coached Brendan a _lot_ better for those two lines

14 hours ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This is "getting back on the saddle" to go beyond bootprints and flags and set up something for the longer term.

14 hours ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Yep, as a native speaker of Spanish it's so easy to produce. But many people assume it's always /r/, and then they start hearing /l/ in songs: "ilu" instead of "iru". Turns out, to them they're just ways to pronounce the same phoneme.

14 hours ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

nope, can't say I've ever been clocked in the face with an unwrapped VHS tape (all sharp corners) thrown through a window like a fastball

14 hours ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

For those wondering: Japanese does have an /s/ sound, but the forward position of the tongue when pronouncing it before /i/ (as in 'beet', not 'bit') makes the consonant morph into 'sh'.
So you have sa SHI su se so; ta CHI tsu te to; za JI zu ze zo.

15 hours ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 0

yeah, I got it right away
I'm neighbors with them so it surprised me that I hadn't heard it before

21 hours ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

objection, it's a cat, so it can't possibly be sportsMANlike !

23 hours ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0