Septcanmat

79430 pts · June 19, 2015


This is my public bio. It is fun.

I’m one of the most stringently anti-gun people you’ll find but this policy is fucking stupid. At best it will be absolutely ineffectual, and at worst it will have unexpected and unintended negative consequences while STILL being completely incapable of meaningfully preventing gun crime (because it doesn’t do anything to actually reduce the number of real guns in the US).

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This was a manned test flight of the SLS rocket and Orion capsule. It’s a follow-up to Artemis 1 which was an unmanned test flight. There were four crew members aboard Artemis II. Their mission lasted nine days, wherein they flew to the moon, achieving a greater distance from the earth than any other humans before (past missions to the moon did not go as far past it). Data from this mission will lead to fine tuning and design changes for subsequent missions.

12 hours ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They look like candy!

1 day ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Describing Hooke as the guy who coined the term “cell” and not the guy who figured out Hooke’s Law is a wild storytelling choice. Granted, I’m an engineer, so maybe I have more affinity for Hooke’s law than cells.

2 days ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

It’s TACO, not JASBACO

3 days ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Elephants in a hatchback? No, absolutely not. They prefer a car with a lot of trunk space.

3 days ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Never allowed to drive ANYTHING - they’re clearly a danger to themselves and anyone else on the road if their judgement is so piss poor.

3 days ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

It felt apropos

3 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Very Significant Vehicle of NASA

4 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Typo

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4 days ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

So, think about how bright the full moon is. Then recognize that that brightness is from thousands of kilometres away, AND attenuated through Earth’s atmosphere. Imagine being MUCH closer, and having far less air (with all the dust and clouds and various light-absorbing gases that it contains) being in the way. And then beyond that, it’s just simple photography - set your exposure settings appropriate to the lighting on your subject.

4 days ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

Plus, with neither wind nor water, the dusty lunar regolith doesn’t get redistributed across the surface.

4 days ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

You know you’re never more than six feet from a spider. *Never*. Not even on mercury.

4 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

There are different names for each of the translations and rotations on each axis.

4 days ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

“There are other forms of intelligence on Earth, Doctor. Only human arrogance would assume the message must be meant for man.” -Spock

4 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Because most people baking a cake are just following a recipe and not doing any experimentation to learn what ingredients have what impact. But there is absolutely a discipline called Food Science and it involves researching recipes and ingredients and flavours and preservatives and nutrition and all kinds of things related to how food is made and enjoyed.

4 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

“The rockets worked perfectly, they were just aimed at the wrong planet.” -Werner Von Braun

4 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

And to top it all off, someone took a shit in the book return slot. Again.

4 days ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

It’s not that it’s off-center, it’s the there’s a spot where you can see through her hair to sky/coast/water/whatever-it’s-something-blue where instead it would seem that you should be seeing her neck. Definitely smells more of photoshop than of AI.

4 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

#12 the middle right option should have been “I should go.”

5 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; best part of playing BroShep: romancing Tali; best part of playing FemShep: romancing Garus; best part of romancing neither of them: them romancing each other.

5 days ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

It holds up incredibly well.

6 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Rome wasn’t built in a day, and you don’t establish a lunar colony or a mission to mars all at once. This was a test flight, ensuring that various components and systems are working and the crew is safe, which allows us to take another step forward with the next Artemis mission. The Apollo program didn’t land on the moon until Apollo 11. It’s an iterative, incremental process.

6 days ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Pain heals, chicks dig scars, glory lasts forever!

6 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

1 week ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

Ghostbusters* Thanks, autocorrect.

1 week ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ghost users 2 is such a strange film to me. I love so many individual elements of it, but the overall film just doesn’t work so well. It’s the rare case of something that is LESS than the sum of its parts.

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