SteveMcQwark

SteveMcQwark t1_je6c5mr wrote

Reply to comment by ManyRespect1833 in So Meta by TAU_equals_2PI

Yet somehow went up in weight from 660 g to 861 g. So dose size increased. I wonder if that's just that they've updated their guidelines or if the product is different. It's also comparing the sugar-free and real sugar variants—neat how they market both positively—which probably doesn't impact anything but might be worth noting.

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SteveMcQwark t1_jdmo73i wrote

Reply to comment by MedicalJargon-itis in TIL: Thanks to poor internal communication at NASA, information about a spacesuit water leak wasn't properly communicated. Later, Astronaut Luca Parmitano almost drowned on a July, 2013 ISS space walk, his helmet filling with several liters of water before they could get him back inside. by OvidPerl

Boil doesn't mean hot, however, whereas evaporation causes cooling. The rapid evaporation of some of the water would cause the rest of the water to freeze.

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SteveMcQwark t1_jdixdrc wrote

Reply to comment by schweissack in TIL that Barq's Root Beer was first created by Edward Barq in Biloxi, Miss, in 1897. In 1934, Barq and a former employee, who moved to New Orleans, agreed to each distribute their own version of the root beer, with the New Orleans version having a red label and the Biloxi version having a blue one. by jdward01

Missouri loves company, but this isn't their Mo.

You also missed Missachusetts.

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SteveMcQwark t1_jaex0wr wrote

Reply to comment by nednobbins in China to expand its space station, international astronaut selection underway by ye_olde_astronaut

On the one hand, you don't have gravitational loading for the most part (there's some because of various forces that get applied to a space station during operation, but not at the level you'd have on the ground). However, you can get structural oscillations which behave somewhat differently than they do on the ground, as well as various torques that get applied throughout operation. And because of weight considerations during launch, space structures are often made of aluminum, which doesn't have a fatigue limit, so it will weaken over time even for minor stresses. You hear about fractures being found in the walls of Russian ISS modules because of this. These effects get worse as you scale up a structure.

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SteveMcQwark t1_jad2bze wrote

Reply to comment by ApacheSnow in Someone beheaded a statue in a Cambridge cemetery by ApacheSnow

Just your comment giving the backstory was removed, not the post. I should have clarified.

Direct links to social media aren't allowed, hence why I suspected the mention of your social media account might be the culprit, but yeah, that wasn't a direct link, so not sure what this is about. You can check out the rules: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/wiki/index/

I'm here from the front page, so not an expert on how the rules get applied.

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SteveMcQwark t1_j81a1m4 wrote

Reply to comment by New_Poet_338 in SpaceX on Twitter: Super Heavy Booster 7 completed a full duration static fire test of 31 Raptor engines, producing 7.9 million lbf of thrust (~3,600 metric tons) – less than half of the booster’s capability by allforspace

There's also full (launch) duration testing. Doing a full duration test with an engine is often about essentially simulating a launch, ensuring that you can sustain the performance you need for the requisite amount of time.

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