if you lithobrake your spacecraft but it hits the ocean, it's that hydrobraking or aquabraking?
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The original Echo 1 was launched with a malfunctioning Delta stage that ended up placing the real Echo 1 into an Altantic-Ocean-centric "orbit" of 0 feet above sea level (0 meters above sea level for you metric guys)
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My favorite part of the Echo project (besides the prototype that gave a "fireworks" display to the entire east coast by exploding in low earth orbit) is that NASA had to build a big microwave antenna to test it, and then a decade later two punks used that same antenna to discover the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation.
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we know about the CMB, the remaining heat of the Big Bang, because of a telescope in New Jersey built for a NASA Balloon experiment that had to be renamed at last moment because they accidentally launched their communication satellite into the atlantic
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It was the first flight of the Thor-Delta rocket: The Thor stage performed perfectly, but this was the first Delta launch, and it failed.
The attitude control system did not fire, so when the second stage ignited it was pointing the wrong way, which anyone who has played Kerbal Space Program knows is one of those "You Will Not Go To Space Today" events. -
@foone Do whatever you want, but some people get a heart attack when Greek and Latin prefixes are mixed.
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@foone At that point it’s steam brakes
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@foone Wait, I thought we discovered the CMB because of radar giving a hiss and troubleshooting that hiss led to the discovery of the CMB?
Am I misremembering my physics history?
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NosirrahSec 🏴☠️replied to NosirrahSec 🏴☠️ last edited by
@foone Okay same events, sorry lol
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Ángela Stella Matutinareplied to Szescstopni last edited by
Always useful for having a bit of fun at their expense.
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Foone🏳️⚧️replied to Ángela Stella Matutina last edited by
@angelastella @Szescstopni hahaha, nice!
But personally I think of it as a personal mission to find what things it is that get highly-educated people irrationally annoyed, and then I do that as much as possible.
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@angelastella @Szescstopni if doing X irrationally bothers linguists, I'mma do it even harder.
It's like how I did my VCF exhibit posters in Comic Sans. It harms no one except amateur typographers who want to strangle me for it
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@foone @angelastella There are two kinds of linguists – descriptive and prescriptive. The latter don't like the word fuck, so it's always fun to use it when they're around.
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@Szescstopni @angelastella prescriptive linguists deserve every annoyance they get for trying to nail language down and stuff it in a box.
they are invited to heartily slonk my shit, whilst I find a stick to beat them with.
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Foone🏳️⚧️replied to NosirrahSec 🏴☠️ last edited by [email protected]
@NosirrahSec I hope those pigeons know they helped with SCIENCE
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@flyingsaceur good point, it probably hit that water going pretty fast
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That's the one from August 1960, wasn't it? We were camping in the Yosemite back country, at about 9000 feet, and saw it. -
@PJ_Evans Yup, Launch August 1960, stayed up until July 1968.
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@foone Is lithobraking when you slow down by hitting a typeface?
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@fishidwardrobe you're thinking of monobraking or linobraking
