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The hammer-feather drop in the world’s biggest vacuum chamber [video]

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Re: The hammer-feather drop in the world’s biggest vacuum chamber [video]

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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.

Experiment, curiosity, huge NASA buildings, near vacuum. I'd rather read about this than mark zuckerberg.

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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.

A multi-story vacuum chamber on earth is pretty freaking amazing. Certainly stimulated my intellectual curiosity.

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post #3

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.

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Re: The hammer-feather drop in the world’s biggest vacuum chamber [video]

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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. :-)

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I know how this will turn out but my intuition is screaming otherwise.

One way of adjusting your intuition is to imagine the bowling ball and the feather standing still, and the ground coming up really fast and smacking them like a giant ping pong paddle. That's the only way I can get my eyes to agree with what the brain is thinking.

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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. :-)

Quick list of more inventions that are not Tang http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies

Re: The hammer-feather drop in the world’s biggest vacuum chamber [video]

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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.

> What to Submit

> If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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