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someone didn't read the article, or notice the quotes around the word "Impossible"

• kiba 8y ago
  There wasn't quotes around 'impossible' in the article.
  • mynameisvlad 8y ago
    Literally in the headline. And they used other words next to the unquoted impossible in the article itself like "deemed by scientists to be next to impossible". Context matters.
    • jandrese 8y ago
      The US scientists didn't think there was a metallurgy that could survive the oxygen rich environment, but the Russians did the work to find it. The part I'm confused about is how it talks about all of these 60s rockets that close the cycle but aren't as efficient because they mess up the mixture in the combustion chamber, but shouldn't the injectors be tuned for the excess fuel/oxidizer from the get go? It doesn't seem like you should be exhausting unburnt fuel/oxidizer if you have it tuned correctly.
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