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by Gagarin1917 6mo ago
A Space Planes is needed to land at a runway like a plane. Space Planes are not only much more dangerous, but are not ideal for this type of mission. They carry a lot of extra weight (wings) that would affect how much fuel is needed to laun
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by Gagarin1917 6mo ago
Watching that capsule fall out of the sky at high speed from the teaching cameras was nerve wracking! Awesome footage, exciting to watch it live in such detail.
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by Gagarin1917 6mo ago
Oh because the astronauts were “really” on the escape zip lines instead of in the rocket? How would they do the zero gravity during the live streams? They have to actually be in space, not even the zero-G parabolic airplane sim can maintain
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Artemis II moon mission unifies politically divided Americans in wonder(reuters.com)
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by Gagarin1917 6mo ago
“Some 69% of Americans say they get excited about space exploration, and about 80% expressed a favorable view of NASA, including large majorities of both Republicans and Democrats, according to a three-day Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
Sure they did. Here’s some footage: https://youtu.be/7o3Oi9JWsyM
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
The existing 16mm film from Apollo is roughly equivalent to 2K, and you can see dust kicked up pretty nicely!
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
> Over the long term, communism (or any sort of economic central planning) will obviously cripple any country's economy. The absolute number of people is meaningless if they're only pretending to work. I’m as anti-communist as
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
>There was a great article on here a while back about VHS and Betamax. While Betamax was better by nearly every metric, it lost. Not every measure. It could hold like half the recording as a VHS. The “killer app” for video tapes was bein
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
No, it wouldn’t have. Only with cetera peribus would that make any sense. And losing half your population is not “all other things being equal.” It’s a major difference that has a huge impact on output and relative standing globally.
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
Russia had roughly half the population as compared to the Soviet Union. There’s just no way they could have ever competed on the global stage the same way.
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
> In terms of our various ecological crises, the situation is absolutely not better than 20 years ago. The situation is objectively better, renewables are now seen as not only a viable alternative but a superior financial alternative as
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
>But music? There's basically an inexhaustible supply of human-created tracks that can be accessed for next to nothing. Isn’t this an argument against all new music, even human made? Either we have it all already, or there’s room fo
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
Not according to some on HN. They consider it impossible to create a successful business with imperfect code. Lol
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
Even with darkness in the world, it’s still healthy and moral to appreciate the good that happens. I’d say it’s actually important to do so in life in general. Emotional maturity is balancing both the good and bad in life and not letting ei
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
I’m sorry but things are definitely better than they were in the 2000’s. Even this war is smaller scale than Iraq/Afghanistan, and seems like it will be over much quicker. Even the economy isn’t nearly as bad. But the Mars missions, th
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
Shame, you would have missed Apollo then too, if you were living in the 60’s instead. Would you have regretted it? The bad things should make you even more thankful for the good. It’s perfectly healthy to allow yourself to enjoy the positiv
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
Have you always felt the same way about Apollo and the Vietnam War? Or are you considering this for the first time?
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
I don’t think the criticisms on HN are related to Artemis’ imperfect concept and technical design. They’re almost exclusively related to political reasons. “There are problems in the world, therefore I can’t enjoy this” is flawed reasoning
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
What’s the point of focusing on one aspect of the world? Taken as a whole, the 60’s were far more intense and violent. The Vietnam War. The draft. The Cuban Missile Crisis. Racial inequality and protests. Several major assassinations. Nixon
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
Not to mention the amount of online stores that Wordpress and its plugins power. Vibe coding that would be insanity when solutions already exist.
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
Which is why allowing oneself to appreciate something as positive and inspiring as the Artemis Program is so important these days.
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
> A big difference from 1960s and 70s in US is that 60s and 70s were a time of hope. That’s… not true at all. You’re not a history guy, are you?
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
Is there a significant difference between Claude Code in VSCode and Copilot in VSCode? I’ve been using Copilot with the Claude models (including Sonnet/Opus 4.6) and it seems to work spectacularly. My subscription is only $10 a month,
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
It’s not “dying” but it’s being “killed”? Come on…
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
I don’t think the current position of Orion is accurate. It shows them about halfway to the moon, but they’re just leaving Earth orbit right now.
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
I’m not sure I’m following. Do most people not care because of the environment? Because that’s certainly not the case. Most people don’t care about the environment either. Plus, do you not have any other interests besides the state of the w
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
Do you honestly only ever talk about how your country has been destroyed and how shitty your life is compared to your parents? If so, I’m genuinely sorry for you. I hope you can find joy somewhere everyday. If you do already do that, then
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
This just isn’t true, people have tons of interests beyond “things that are useful” and “trying to figure out how to deal with the cost of everything.” I’m almost certain you have genuine interests beyond your financials, and enjoy entertai
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by Gagarin1917 7mo ago
It WAS global news, I assure you. Every major news agency and local news channels talked about it. People don’t get their “news” from news agencies anymore, though. They get it from their social media algorithms, and if they have no prior i

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