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[–] 56 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Imagine being the furthest people away from Donald Trump.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I didn't know Mr. Hankey made the mission roster.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    they fucked up the toilet within hours of launch. nasa if you have been reading me making fun of you I am available for consult on a design for a hose-based toilet that if it breaks, you've fucked up the entire spaceship on gods how did this fuck up.

    i'm surprised they brought 10 days of shitbags but here we are

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Wait what. What happened to their toilet?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    they have to pee in bags for reasons. I don't think we got or will get a full explanation on how the shitter broke until splashdown

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Maybe that dehydrated food didn't agree with them. Imagine being that guy to have clogged the spaceship’s toilet for the entire trip

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    How thick does that window need to be to handle the pressure without blowing out?

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    There is almost no pressure in space.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Exactly and that makes it harder to contain all the pressure inside the spacecraft.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    If you think about it, a spacecraft only really needs to handle about 1 atm of pressure, which isn’t much compared to something like a deep sea submersible that needs to handle 100+.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Yeah, they could probably even go a bit lower than sea level pressure.

    Though even then, it would still be like everything outside was a giant vacuum cleaner. How thick would a pane of glass on earth need to be if you stuck a massive vacuum cleaner over it that managed a perfect seal around the window so that the window didn't shatter even if you bump it a bit on the other side?

    I was going to add that a strong hurricane can result from just a 10% pressure difference, but I realized that it's a bit misleading because while that is accurate for the pressure driving it, the destruction that hurricanes cause from winds is more about the momentum of all that air moving to equalize the pressure, not the acceleration from pressure difference itself. It's probably easier to engineer a bay window for a spaceship than a bay window to watch a (strong) hurricane make landfall through. Other than all the space crap slamming into it, at least.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    I felt bad for them that as soon as they got back in comm range they had to set up a video call and that fuckin blob was on the phone. The Canadian did slide in a nice comment about diversity before handing off the mic though, appreciated that energy

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Must be peaceful up there.

    Side note: Dizzy is fucking great. I should play it again!

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I think Fantasy World is the best one, if only for the memories of my mate being grounded for calling the 0898 number for the solution to some of the puzzles.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Fantasy World was the one I was thinking of. I had the ZX Spectrum version!

    The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy on MegaDrive I think is one I remember fondly as well - I had the 2-in-1 cart with Cosmic Spacehead which I also loved!

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