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SergeantSlaughter 3 points ago +3 / -0

As someone who spent the 1970s shooting wedding photography, I can tell you that operating a camera with a light meter in manual mode is not that difficult. Even without looking through a viewfinder. I learned on a Rolleiflex and while it had a viewfinder, it wasn't the same light path as what entered the aperture. You had to use a light meter or just be good at estimating your shutter speeds (comes with experience) to get a good exposure

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SergeantSlaughter 2 points ago +2 / -0

The pressure hull of the LM was INCREDIBLY strong. Reinforced aluminum. Proofed at 3x the operational pressure. There was no way you could puncture it with a screwdriver. Travelling through rock debris, micrometeoroids, etc., all present a risk to any spacecraft.

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SergeantSlaughter 5 points ago +5 / -0

Exactly, it's directly referenced in the Q drops. I don't know why discussion of this is banned on this site (dont make no sense)

It would be like being on a Bible forum but discussion of certain verses are banned

"You can't talk about Proverbs! Bring your ass to conspiracies.win!"

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SergeantSlaughter 2 points ago +2 / -0

Spot on. Except it was 6.5million pounds at liftoff (but close)

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SergeantSlaughter 2 points ago +2 / -0

The Saturn V F1 engines were so massively powerful but very lousy in terms of efficiency (a measly 265 seconds). The J2 (responsible for the last several hundred m/s of CSM-LM orbital insertion, and the TLI burn) was pretty solid at 421s (it is one of the kings of efficiency, even today). The hypergolic SPS engine was about 300s. Raptor is somewhere between 300s and 400s, depending on the generation, the variant, and other factors. It's a living breathing design, whereas the F1 and J2 were pretty much locked in by the time they started flying them. But to say that engine efficiency is what requires more launches is not really correct - it has way more to do with the engine's TWR, dry vehicle mass and TWR, and capability for delta-V. Delta-v is the most important metric. As more and more of your spacecraft/system becomes reusable (bringing it back to earth) your capability for delta-v decreases, because you need to use some of that delta-v to get your asses back on the ground safely.

  • that was supposed to say assets, but it works the way it is so I'll leave it
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SergeantSlaughter 3 points ago +3 / -0

I’d challenge anyone skilled at manual photography to cover up their viewfinder and frame 25 out of 100 shots of their car in their own driveway from 10’ to 30’ away, whilst manually exposing using a chest mount.

True, it is difficult. Now, practice it for 2 years straight, and then try again - I bet you'll do a fine job. Unless of course, you're a tard, or unwilling to succeed

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SergeantSlaughter 2 points ago +2 / -0

The LRO ( Lunar reconnaissance orbiter ) has zoomed in on all the landing sites

If you're willing to trust the same people who say we went to the moon in the first place

the distance arrays set up by Aldrin are still reflecting signals back to earth

As an amateur radio operator, I can tell you that you don't even need "distance arrays" to bounce radio signals off the moon. It just works. And it worked before the 1960s as well - they've been doing it since at least the 1940s, maybe earlier

not much is needed after entering orbit to place a craft on its trajectory there is no friction in space you are travelling in a void

That would be true if you just forget about the little thing out there called gravity

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SergeantSlaughter 3 points ago +3 / -0

that stripped down Tesla roadster probably weighed, idk, maybe 1,000 pounds at the most. So slingshotting it to Mars is nbfd. A Starship (DRY) weighs something like 120 tons and fueled it's like 50x that. We're talking mountains vs molehills here.

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SergeantSlaughter 3 points ago +3 / -0

I think it's great that some space telescope or some moon orbiter can see the "landing sites" but at the end of the day, we're trusting the same people who said we went there

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SergeantSlaughter 2 points ago +2 / -0

Yes. Polaris Dawn flew through the radiation belts (intentionally)

Jared Issacman's crew did an interview discussing this

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SergeantSlaughter 2 points ago +2 / -0

I don't even consider it AI. It's machine learning. Until it becomes sentient, or discovers a new law of physics, it's not AI.

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SergeantSlaughter 5 points ago +5 / -0

It is so clear to me that Zelenskyy is an ACTOR (controlled by POTUS) and is playing his part.

"Ya threw one by me kid, it'll never happen again"

"Call Zelensky he's the auto parts king"

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SergeantSlaughter 5 points ago +5 / -0

I've been using Suno since it came out about a year and half ago. It's incredible. You can prompt it the same way you would with stable diffusion, or Grok. You can give it lyrics, or partial lyrics, or just give it a theme ie "Write a dance pop song about the Q drops" and it will fill in all the blanks. Generate a few iterations and choose your favorite. Back in the day, you used to have to rent a recording studio, pay studio musicians, producers, etc., it was a million dollar affair. Now anyone can make great music for $8 a month.

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SergeantSlaughter 3 points ago +3 / -0

I will check that out, thanks.

On another note, for years, I thought your username started with "asian" and when I read something you wrote I thought ok the Asian is on the move again. I just noticed its "Aslan"

u/#kek

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