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[–] [email protected] 114 points 11 months ago (11 children)

It's incredible what lengths people will go to experience a short high of moral superiority.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ehh, shootings even happen in Europe and coincidences too.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

AFAIK most typed languages have this behaviour.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I always liked Terminator because of the easy splitscreening.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I'm glad that some series (Pixel AFAIK) are now releasing slightly smaller phones, because the growth was getting ridiculous and highly impractical.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Let's just design every website using a table again. Or even better, frames!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Way too often I've had websites complain that the input password is too complex, and I have to dial down the settings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Many "space" fuel tanks have inflatable bladders inside to control the pressure and location of the fuel, especially in zero-g. Otherwise, the fuel could float away from your tank valve. It is possible that this tank has a fully or partially inflated bladder, making it much more buoyient.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I'm 100 percent certain that this is a spacecraft or launcher fuel tank. I've worked on reentry analyses of spacecraft fuel tanks before, and I can tell you that these very commonly survive re-entry for several reasons.

Firstly, they are by far the largest components housed inside the vehicle's outer structure. The structure usually takes the brunt of the aerodynamic and thermal forces, protecting the tank from the largest destruction.

Secondly, the tank itself has to handle the huge fuel pressures involved (easily going towards many hundreds of atmosphere pressures!). This obviously means that incredibly tough materials have to be used.

Thirdly and finally, as can be seen in the pictures, their shape is symmetric, making the shape aerodynamically very unstable. This means the fuel tank has the tendency to tumble in the airstream. The tumbling continuously causes different parts of the tank to be exposed to the heat and other parts to cool down.

Fuel tanks are the major risk during reentry to people and other stuff on the ground, perhaps together with the massive engine blocks. To minimise the chances of hitting someone or something, re-entries are nearly always aimed at the Pacific Ocean, hence them being more likely to wash ashore in Australia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Things will definitely not move then.

 

I'm a big fan of solar panels but the alignment could've been better!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh damn, still learning the UI here... Thanks nevertheless!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just a month ago? I'm using it to post this message and I'm incredibly impressed with how far you've come!

 

For me it feels like breaking up with someone after many years. At the same time, I feel a bit dirty mentioning the name in the post title.

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