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A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this week
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Speaking as a layman, I just think it's fuckin' awesome how a big chonky boi can be propelled upwards at Mach Yeet and get casually dropped off in orbit.
Even though Musk is a cunt, I still love watching SpaceX streams to see big bits of metal get put upwards by lots of fire and noise, and then fuckin' land where they started seven or eight minutes later.
Science is fuckin mint, man.
Don't quote me on this, but I've heard SpaceX itself is pretty good at keeping Musk away from the actually important things. Something about having a team dedicated to keeping him distracted.
Yeah it's a shame that Musk is so inextricably linked with the brand. I'm quite sure SpaceX and Tesla are full of top tier talent and engineering wizards... but have a direct link to a toxic cockwomble that bankrolls them. Shame.
And yet whenever some achievement is made, the headlines are "Musk achieves great feat"
He likely brought a ton of capital with him.
Imagine getting a job at SpaceX thinking you're gonna build a moon base and you get put on 'Elon distraction' 😭
4, 3, 2, 1... Reverse! We have reverse!... And we're turning... Putting it on D....hit the gas pedal... All systems nominal! The vehicle is gaining speed at 25mph. Entering the 5north at 45mph in climbing... 65! We have reached max Q...honey tell the kids what max Q means....kids, maxQ is when the vehicle sees maximum hydrodynamic pressure.
Trying to avoid MECO at all costs until we park.
I like your funny words, magic man
I'm surprised I strung so many together coherently to be honest!
“Mach yeet” is now added to my list of sentences I never knew I wanted to read
As an engineer I would like to second this motion to get "Mach Yeet" adopted as an IEC standard technical term.
If I could have crowbarred "moist" in there somewhere too, I'd have set the lexical tiktok on fire.
...if there is even one, don't come at me TNETENNBA fans!
Have you had a chance to play Kerbal Space Program yet? If not, I think you'd really enjoy it.
I haven't, no - and you're probably right, yes.
I worry that if I start playing KSP then my other half and kids won't see me again for six months because it does sound fucking awesome and highly rewarding.
Nope, I'm a simple man. I play through a couple of Doom WADs each summer in the academic off-season and that's my gaming appetite satiated.
I made the mistake of thinking KSP was a game and not literal mother fucking rocket science.
There was a lot of explosions and no space.
Does not live up to the hype.
Some of these words are meaningless and detract from what you are trying to say. People should not have to be subjected to this nonsense.
Which words do you mean? Because I understand them all. They convey information, the fundamental point of language, hence they don't detract. Just because you can't make sense of them doesn't mean they're nonsense.
If you're talking about "Mach Yeet", yeet refers to forceful movement. This specific combination then means really fucking fast. The exact speed doesn't matter. The frivolity of the language underscores their excitement or might just be their idiolect.
Either way, so long as it's nothing hateful or harmful (beyond hurting your linguistic sensibilities), trying to police other people's vocabulary is narrow-minded and needlessly stuck-up.
Why don't you yeet that shit (throw it far away) and come join us in watching the fascinating evolution of language?
Thank you for your public service announcement!
Au contraire, quite eloquent
... I think I agree with your sentiment? honestly it's hard to tell because everything you just said is delivered in this ultra-cringe meme language. I guess this is so the average middle schooler can understand what you're saying? or is this how robots think humans communicate, so when they want to pretend they're an "average human internet user", they talk in this ridiculous idiotic meme codec? idk, whatever, it's peak cringe, but ok cool comment
ain't no harm skibidi ohio guy, don't got time fo the low-rizz crowd, no cap
Which part of "chonky boi" or "mach yeet" do you need an average middle schooler to translate for you? Contextually, it's very clear what is being said for anyone that can read and speaks English.
You think you know what was said, then insulted it saying it was dumbed down for the average middle schooler. What does that say about you?
Wish you weren’t such a yuck of their yum, my dude.