bobetomi

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by bobetomi 2y ago
I think it's not so much that we weren't ready for a space age tech-wise, but that the the reason we have so much of our technology today is because of investments made in the 1960s. NASA had basically unlimited money to throw at
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by bobetomi 2y ago
Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins. He goes into so much detail about training to become an astronaut, his first spaceflight, training and planning for the Apollo missions, and talks about so many of the details and complexities of spacef
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by bobetomi 2y ago
Rocket Lab and Relativity Space are also doing pretty cool work. Rocket Lab is the only other company to successfully reach orbit, they're the first to make an electric-pump fed rocket engine, and their upcoming Neutron rocket is suppo
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by bobetomi 4y ago
I find most websites to be like that these days. That's why I block all javascript by default using umatrix. It
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by bobetomi 5y ago
I used to work at an electronics store, and another reason I avoid samsung products is because, compared to everything else, they seemed to be engineered to look good for marketing material and spec sheets over actual use. They would look s
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by bobetomi 5y ago
Yeah, I very much disagree with the hydraulic brakes part too. Every bike shop employee I've talked to told me hydraulic brake maintenance is harder, but you need to do it so infrequently that they take less total effort. They feel gre
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by bobetomi 6y ago
An extreme example of the consequences of #7 is the Lake Peigneur disaster, where "an engineer mistook transverse Mercator projection coordinates for UTM coordinates" and Texaco, drilling for oil, drilled into a salt mine that was