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I guess this is a pretty superficial complaint, but this is a 2nd-generation clickbait-site link (posted on io9, reposted on thekidsshouldseethis.com). Why not post the Youtube link directly? This isn't really Hacker News material, anyway.
I guess this is a pretty superficial complaint, but this is a 2nd-generation clickbait-site link (posted on io9, reposted on thekidsshouldseethis.com). Why not post the Youtube link directly? This isn't really Hacker News material, anyway.
I guess this is a pretty superficial complaint, but this is a 2nd-generation clickbait-site link (posted on io9, reposted on thekidsshouldseethis.com). Why not post the Youtube link directly? This isn't really Hacker News material, anyway.
Experiment, curiosity, huge NASA buildings, near vacuum. I'd rather read about this than mark zuckerberg.
The space and aerospace programs of the sixties produced some really impressive technologies and facilities. Too bad government spending on technology research went down, just imagine what could be possible.
I know how this will turn out but my intuition is screaming otherwise.
The "weird" thing is seeing feathers plummet to the ground and I wish we got to see more of that.
But in seriousness, does the Moon not count? Surely space is the largest vacuum chamber we have access to!
The space and aerospace programs of the sixties produced some really impressive technologies and facilities. Too bad government spending on technology research went down, just imagine what could be possible.
From another perspective, these technologies left us with little science of utility (Tang?) while developing intercontinental ballistic missiles that loom over humanity like the Sword of Damocles. When historians from far off planets visit our nuclear wasteland they will see our thinly veiled space program as the beginning of end. :-)
I guess this is a pretty superficial complaint, but this is a 2nd-generation clickbait-site link (posted on io9, reposted on thekidsshouldseethis.com). Why not post the Youtube link directly? This isn't really Hacker News material, anyway.
> If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.