if you lithobrake your spacecraft but it hits the ocean, it's that hydrobraking or aquabraking?
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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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@foone
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
