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Quote: "We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever" : Carl Sagan
And for the conspiracy theorists out there, think of this quote : "Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth, sooner or later that debt is paid". - Valery Legasov, The real life physicist from the HBO serial Chernobyl.
I met Del Worsham in 1995. We were building a foundry that sponsored his car. They were getting ready for the nationals in Indianapolis. We got to go over and check out his funny car and I asked him how do you drive one of those things he says you don’t drive them you aim them.
Germany's central planning failed to keep in step with the changing combat landscape. Making production changes were slow and although the Bf 109 was showing its age, it remained in production, because the Germans did not want to change their production lines. They valued quantity over quality even as losses decimated the Luftwaffe.
So what about global boiling they keep telling us about, but they will heat the atmosphere up and tell us we are the problem, its like there pissing into our pocket and telling us its raining
As a child in the mid 60s, a friend showed off the latest Appliance in their kitchen. It was a miraculous device that could cook food in just a few minutes. It was called the Amana Radar Range!
Didn’t they say that a stipulation to those 2 ex-NRO satellites is that they cannot be used to survey any part of the earth as that would give their classified information away?
Just to give a flavour of the load capacity of the C-5, the Luftwave averaged less than 120 tons per day trying to supply the 6th Army in Stalingrad. One single C-5M per day could have done that. Three flights per day could have delivered the estimated minimum of 300 tons, while 4 or 5 could have kept the 6th Army in optimal fighting conditions. This shows how aware the US is abouf their priorities at war time: logistics, logistics, and logistics. Of course, Germany did not have the fuel nor supplies needed for that, as already demonstrated during the months previous to the encirclement.
Wait, so, they needed NACA to figure out that they needed better cooling fins on an overheating air cooled radial? You would have thought they would just try to do that anyway
Let me explain it simply, wave your hand across a flame. If you do it quickly and at a point where the flame is not as hot, you dont get burnt. How is that so hard to understand?
Fkn ridiculous that your scientific community does this sort of mental gymnastics to allow for a world in which Nasa can continue to lie to the american people about achievements they just not accomplish.
Until materials get good enough for a plane to outsprint hypersonic missiles, stealth will always be better than speed. Even when planes accomplish hypersonic flight, lasers will eventually counter them
Prime example of a sport that has moved way beyond reason. It exists only to stroke the egos of men with money and impress the people within those racing circles. Profoundly pathetic when looked at from the outside when compared to how money could be better put to use elsewhere.
I used to live in East Hartford and loved hearing about PW. There was a Japanese fellow talking about how in the war (I can't recall which one sadly) his PW engine got shot multiple times and still ran. He came home safe to his kids because of that damn incredible reliability.
They used an oxygen/kerosene mix for fuel which NASA doesn't want to do. Preferring to use oxygen/hydrogen instead. The trouble is hydrogen needs bigger tanks to store it than an equivalent amount of kerosene so you need to have either a bigger first stage or use strap-on solid fuel
Its not hard its very expensive, budgeted probes fail because its a gamble, America got von Braun he was 10yrs building v2 rockets so understand a moon rocket was reachable, Russia had a few v2's orbiting earth.
How can anyone bellieve the Moon is hallow? Easy. They are the same people that follow Logan Paul and Graham Hancock. And think FTX is a great place to buy Celcius......Tom Brady comes to mind.
