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This Animation Of Transparent Rockets Is Ideal For Space Travel And Fuel Consumption Fetishists
This is such a wonderfully simple idea that I can’t believe it hasn’t been done before. It’s four well-known launch vehicles, launching, but with transparent bodies so you can see the amount of fuel and oxidiser in them, and how rapidly it gets consumed. It’s almost hypnotising.
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Physicists Finally Have An Answer For Why The Subaru Logo Has Only Six Stars Instead Of Seven
Have you ever been crossing a busy street and then suddenly dropped down to the tarmac because you thought a passing roach was the same one that stole part of your Fruit Roll-Up the other day, only to look up and see a Subaru Impreza screeching to a stop inches from your head? Sure, we…
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SpaceX Launches Second Crew To Space Station But There’s Even More Exciting Space Stuff To Be Excited About
Yesterday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a Crew Dragon capsule with four astronauts to the International Space Station, the second flight of a crewed Crew Dragon and the official first operational (as in, not a test) flight of the spacecraft. This is a very big deal, not just because this represents the first regular…
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NASA Blasts The Shit Out Of The Desert In Deep Space Rocket Test
Right now, you might be having a tough time over the past couple of months feeling like you live in a functional society. If so, I invite you to watch this footage of NASA testing its SLS Flight Support Booster rockets at Northrop Grumman’s facilities in Promontory, Utah, yesterday.