Emble12 t1_jdbe038 wrote on March 23, 2023 at 4:24 AM

Reply to comment by BillHicksScream in 10 months after its launch by SpaceX, a $10,000 satellite made by students with off-the-shelf materials and powered by 48 Energizer AA batteries, is not only working, it's demonstrating a way to reduce space junk by lughnasadh

Ah yes, because Musk invented basic maths? Jesus.

BillHicksScream t1_jdd2qtc wrote on March 23, 2023 at 3:10 PM

LOL. "a literal order of magnitude" makes no sense. It doesnt work as English and the current state of development is so primitive there's nothing to compare.

Emble12 t1_jdec2ks wrote on March 23, 2023 at 7:56 PM

When you decrease something logarithmically by 10, that’s reducing by an order of magnitude. “Literal” is used because the phrase is often used in a hyperbolic sense. I was specifically referring to the difference between the Shuttle/SLS and Falcon 9.