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  • Cethin@lemmy.ziptoScience Memes@mander.xyztuff enuff
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    1 day ago

    Exact timing, including air resistance, is far more than what’s required. Sure, everything about the orbits needs to be almost exact, but the fact we can predict exactly how the craft bounces about in the atmosphere, which is turbulent, and predict the landing this accurately is insane. Landing on the moon, on the other hand, is a lot easier to predict. A high school calculus student can calculate that, and orbital information, down to the second if they have the starting conditions.





  • I meant more vaguely I hope to see it around, because the OP didn’t create this. People from this community don’t have to be the people doing it, obviously. Hell, most of the people commenting on it don’t seem to be from this community. I’m sure it is posted elsewhere, but this is the place I saw it.

    I don’t really post. I should, but I don’t.


  • If the point of the post is to say “men should act like this, not that” then yes, the point is fixing. Sure, it might not actively be aimed to externally influence, but it is trying to point to a solution to a problem, aka a fix.

    Why are women not allowed to discuss masculinity without men?

    I clearly said they are. The point of the post seems to be aimed more towards a solution to a problem though, as I stated. If you want it to happen, it needs to reach men. I guess you can just not want things to change, but I don’t think most people do, and I’d wager the OP doesn’t want that.

    Anway, again, the moderators of the community seem to agree that men are allowed on this post since I’m the only one who has discussed this rule. Usually they’re pretty quick on asking men not to comment (which is fine and good), but they haven’t here. I noticed this so I asked. I guess I could just not ask and assume it’s allowed.


  • I’m aware. The point is this is where the discussion is already happening. Making a new post doesn’t inherit the attention.

    The discussion here is with both men and women, so the rule is at least not enforced for this post. Personally, I think this is the right call. Its not my community though so it isn’t my call to make. That’s why I was asking.


  • Sure. But if the point is to try to “fix” masculinity, which is seemingly the point of the post, that needs to involve men. You’re allowed to discuss anything you want.

    I will point out, the comments seem to fit my point where it seems it’s mostly men discussing it. I also assume the rule is waived, for this reason. I have seen no removed comments or warnings about the rule. I’m literally the only person who has brought it up. If there’s no official response, the rule is de facto waived for this post.




  • It sounds horrible, but I think we lost something when we made it impossible to get away with fighting someone for doing stupid shit. There’s too many cameras now and, even if they started it by doing something antagonistic, you’ll be arrested and held accountable because they technically didn’t assault you. If this happened in like the 50s (discounting race and everything else, only his actions), he’d get his ass kicked. Everyone around would likely support it.

    Now, the only social system to punish them is shaming, and shaming them is exactly what they want. Shaming them gives them publicity. Publicity gets them money. Literally the best option is to ignore them, which absolutely does nothing to stop it, but at least it doesn’t encourage it.

    I’m not saying we should go back to the 50s. I’m only saying that sometimes people need consequences, like you said. If the legal system can’t provide it, we need an extra-legal solution, and we don’t have that anymore. We did in the past, though it was often used for evil (lynching and lots of racist/homophobic/other-phobic stuff), it also served a purpose.


  • I’m not saying to not enjoy this, or other things. I’m just saying that people mindlessly consuming any slop that has an IP attached is how we ended up in this situation. There’s a lot fewer good and interesting things made, which actually have a hope of being good, because it’s so much safer to make slop with existing IP. Even if it’s bad (it almost always is, because they’re making it purely for profit, not because they care about the IP like you do), it still prints money.


  • bonus tip: if you live in a dry zone, get an air cooler. It’s an enclosed fan behind a self contained waterfall. Humid air is particularly cooling.

    A swamp cooler is another term for a similar thing (a damp surface with airflow). Humid air is not cooling though. It’s actually the opposite, because it makes water harder to evaporate, which is how our body tries to stay cool. That’s why a humidity feels so hot. Evaporation cools, which means we can use this to cool air, which is how these evaporative coolers work. They don’t feel cool because they’re humid. That’s a side effect. Water evaporating pulls heat out of the air, so it’s cooler. The higher the humidity the worse these function.