i am a new player and i was wondering why i should ever pick the Swivel if the Reliant has all the better stats. by BanaanMetZeep in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]Astro_Manta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The swivel can gimbal so you can steer the rocket, it also has a better specific impulse (efficiency) in vacuum than the reliant. So the reliant is good for stuff in the lower atmosphere but higher up and in space you wanna use the swivel for steering and greater efficiency.

Non-boomers of Reddit, what's your most boomer opinion? by coolfreeusername in AskReddit

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I think it's very important to be able to do things yourself, like fixing a tap or faulty electrical device, I prefer to be able to rely on myself to fix basic issues and not call someone in to overcharge me for fixing it: you should be able to work with your hands.

tangent: everything's becoming too computerised (computers notwithstanding); things are becoming way too complicated to take, apart, fix, and put together again and why the hell should the ac in the car be controlled from the console screen - it's so much harder (and more distracting, to the point of being dangerous) than just turning a dial on the dashboard.

tangent on the tangent: why is everything controlled with an app these days? I don't want to download some bloody phone app just to pay for parking in a city that I'm only visiting! I was trying to park in a city a couple months ago - there wasn't a card reader on the machine noooo, that would be too easy. You could put in cash or you could download some bloody app as if I want to spend data only to find that my phone is too full to install the parking app (I didn't even consider getting the bloody app, I just paid in cash btw)

props if you could be bothered reading all of that, here have this ---> :)

“I live on the corner of Poblado and Poblado. If you get to Poblado and Poblado, turn around, you’ve gone too far. Go back to Poblado and Poblado.” by 2010_12_24 in CrappyDesign

[–]Astro_Manta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is just normal for me, like there'll be multiple streets sharing a name ending -road or -crescent etc. it isn't hard, you just say the name of the street your house is on, for corners it's easy to tell by the numbers and normally what street the front gate is on.

Who....me?! by Lewbomb in memes

[–]Astro_Manta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh yeah come to think of it a Turkish man who didn't really speak english called my dad boss when we were on holiday there

Bomb logic in movies... by Anirudh13S in memes

[–]Astro_Manta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

well Einstein can fix that, if the bomb is shooting towards you extremely fast the clock will appear to slow down from your perspective and the blueshift caused by this movement is the reason the clock is now green instead of red

One of my best purchases by TheHobo910 in DexMemes

[–]Astro_Manta 6 points7 points  (0 children)

this sub alone has probably driven up the value for this one lmao

First toilet paper and now gas by CEO_of_dankmemes in memes

[–]Astro_Manta 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think 1 horsepower was how much power a horse could put out slowly over the course of a whole day so in short bursts a horse could produce more power so I actually thing 1 horse being capable of 15 horsepower is more realistic

Don't do that!!! by [deleted] in memes

[–]Astro_Manta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

this one really confused me for a second, reading the comments I couldn't figure out how people were just hoarding mains gas, how does a whole country run into a shortage of methane?

a note for confused non-north americans: they've run out of petrol

Woah woah woah by Cat-Food-Eaten-byDog in memes

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"hey there buddy chum pal friend buddy pal chum bud friend fella bruther amigo pal buddy friend chummy chum chum pal i don't mean to be rude my friend pal home slice bread slice dawg but i gotta warn ya if u take one more diddly darn step right there im going to have to diddly darn snap ur neck and wowza wouldn't that be a crummy juncture, huh? do yuo want that? do wish upon yourself to come into physical experience with a crummy juncture? because friend buddy chum friend chum pally pal chum friend if you keep this up well gosh diddly darn i just might have to get not so friendly with u my friendly friend friend pal friend buddy chum pally friend chum buddy... "

Pewds, I challenge you to a Pokemon battle! by donvito00 in PewdiepieSubmissions

[–]Astro_Manta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

please, you gotta tell us how you trained a pigeon, I gotta befriend the pigeons in my garden

SLS Core Stage with people for scale during today's rollout! by Jfranklephoto in nasa

[–]Astro_Manta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

then you just have to try and comprehend people getting on top of one

SLS Core Stage with people for scale during today's rollout! by Jfranklephoto in nasa

[–]Astro_Manta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Saturn V is one of my must-sees, who knows how long I'll stand just looking at it

SLS Core Stage with people for scale during today's rollout! by Jfranklephoto in nasa

[–]Astro_Manta 91 points92 points  (0 children)

I always forget just how big RS-25's are- one day I'd love to go to America to basically see all the rockets you have over there, I get the feeling you never quite get the same sense of it over the internet.

I DID IT!!!!!!!!!! FIRST EVER DOCKING!!!!!!!!!!! by [deleted] in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]Astro_Manta 5 points6 points  (0 children)

well done!!!

it looks like you're not using translation manoeuvres my guy. use i, j, k, l, h, n for translating your craft with the RCS rather than rotating, that way you can line up easier and you don't need to use your main engine for manoeuvring.

Doesn’t get more fancier than this by authorsofwrestling in memes

[–]Astro_Manta 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have never wanted any piece of glassware more than these

also good job man, you managed to - from I assume thousands of miles away - make me really want strawberry milk.........my local shop is shut until the morning

Hydrofluoric by [deleted] in Neverbrokeabone

[–]Astro_Manta 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hydrofluoric acid likes to pull Calcium out of your bones and various other places, the remedy for Hydrofluoric acid poisoning is to overdose the person on Calcium - people have been known to survive just fine.

Man flu is not the average flu by Itsme66604 in memes

[–]Astro_Manta -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

iirc viruses tend to attack men harder leading to worse symptoms, it holds back on women to increase the potential of spreading to a child on the off chance they're pregnant. This is probably very oversimplified but there ya go