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"Americans dominate space" is the most American sentence I've read in a while. Imagine that, a few humans from a little corner of the universe dominating space!
by vasco 2y ago
"Americans dominate space" is the most American sentence I've read in a while. Imagine that, a few humans from a little corner of the universe dominating space!
- fragmede 2y agoThanks to Starlink, something like 70% of the 7500 satellites orbit Earth are American. Or course by mass, nature still wins by a landslide, but as always, it's all in how in count things.
- willvarfar 2y agoSpace is pretty big. Is it fair to say that the USA dominates up to, say, Earth's Ionosphere?
- arijun 2y ago"Americans dominate the space industry" is presumably what they meant, and not inaccurate. On the other hand, even the American space industry uses metric.
- gorlilla 2y agoHubble wasn't so sure.
- dspillett 2y agoNor was Mars Polar Lander – the most likely cause of its loss was a mistake in units that resulted in it using too short a deceleration burn as it prepared to land, meaning it hit the surface far faster than intended (IIRC we don't know for sure if it impacted in one piece, broke apart during descent). Tabloid headlines of the time dubbed the mission as a “close encounter of the thud kind”.
- dakr 2y agoNot a consequence of units used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope#Flawed_mirror https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope#Flawed_...
- cossatot 2y agoIt's space in the SV context, i.e. the competitive arena or market. Americans dominate the space space.
- gdhkgdhkvff 2y agoAmericans: we dominate space and are the WORLD champions of football. The thing I love best about jokes like this is that it changes based on your perspective. Americans reading this: “f—- yeah, we do!” Upvote! Non-Americans reading this: “lmao perfect parody of an American!” Upvote!
- lupusreal 2y agoThe EU was dominating space for around twenty years or so, but that has long passed and at this rate will never come again. The ESA and Arianespace dropped the ball so badly, books will be written about it.