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Wow that was an interesting read! This quote got me. All because of compression & decompression. > “It is quicker to get back from the Moon than it is from th
by cstrat 7y ago
Wow that was an interesting read!
This quote got me. All because of compression & decompression.
> “It is quicker to get back from the Moon than it is from the depths of the sea in some ways.”
- petschge 7y agoThe polar station in Antartica is also quite inaccessible during winter. Winter-overs are proud of the fact that they are more remote than the ISS. There you can get in a Soyuz and be back in 90 minutes. In Antartica it might be a month before they can airdrop supplies, maybe four month until they can airlift you out.
- omoikane 7y agoSee also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Place_Further_than_the_Universe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Place_Further_than_the_Unive... It's a great series about exploring Antartica, where the title came from the fact that it takes longer to reach Antartica than to reach space.
- jandrese 7y agoIt makes sense. Antarctica is further away from almost every place on Earth than Space is. Sea level to space is closer than Manhattan to Trenton.
- thaumasiotes 7y ago> Sea level to space is closer than Manhattan to Trenton. "Closer" is a fuzzy concept. I've seen the same point made another way, that you can be closer to space than you are to the sea... even if you're in Japan, a long, narrow island. But then again, imagine if whenever you tried to drive to Trenton from Manhattan, a tornado picked up your car and threw it back to Manhattan.
- ThePadawan 7y agoOh my god, I just got that title. Thank you so much!
- thaumasiotes 7y agoFuturama kind of made this point: > How many atmospheres of pressure can the ship take? > Well, it's a space ship, so I'd say anywhere between zero and one.