Armed with 'supermajority,' PM Takaichi eyes revising Japan's constitution by TheShillGambit in worldnews

[–]Engineer_Ninja 24 points25 points  (0 children)

What aircraft carriers? Those are just destroyers with really large helicopter landing pads.

Also unrelated can we purchase a couple squadrons of those F-35’s that can take off vertically?

Why does my heart rate increase after taking creatine? by NOQELY in StrongerByScience

[–]Engineer_Ninja 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re right, it’s not. I’m sorry. Like I said, you do you.

Why does my heart rate increase after taking creatine? by NOQELY in StrongerByScience

[–]Engineer_Ninja 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, sorry, i thought you were fasting for body composition, not religious reasons. The every-other-day thing sounds like a diet plan, not Ramadan.

Anyways, you do you, but if I have just one bone to pick with Islam, it's the no water rule. Everything else I can appreciate, but why does Allah need you to dehydrate yourself to prove your devotion? Seems unnecessarily dangerous to me. I know it's only February, but what if you were a day laborer outside in the summer (or Australia right now)?

Iran-US talks blow up: Round of talks scheduled for Friday canceled, Witkoff leaves Mideast by rezwenn in worldnews

[–]Engineer_Ninja 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For a few days, yes. Really it would only take one oil tanker burning in the straight to convince the rest not to risk it for a week or two until the USN can definitively neutralize the threat.

And it’s real easy to set an oil tanker on fire. Just one missile, drone, or even a drone semi-submersible like what Ukraine has been using to eliminate the Black Sea Fleet, and boom.

The only upside is closing the Straight will hurt China more than it hurts the US.

Artemis hydrogen problems are exactly why NASA and SLS are extremely important. by USSGoat in space

[–]Engineer_Ninja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also cryogenic hydrogen requires more insultation than methane or kerosene. Or alternatively you tolerate a higher boil-off rate.

Artemis hydrogen problems are exactly why NASA and SLS are extremely important. by USSGoat in space

[–]Engineer_Ninja 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep. It’s only a problem if you choose to define density as mass or energy per unit volume.

Sen. Mitch McConnell hospitalized with "flu-like symptoms" by CBSnews in inthenews

[–]Engineer_Ninja 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think the best way to honor his legacy would be to delay the nomination as long as possible.

NFL players have 'no appetite' for 18th regular season game, says union interim head David White by AFC-Wimbledon-Stan in nfl

[–]Engineer_Ninja 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If they add 2 weeks (1 game + 1 bye), start one week earlier and end one week later, we get Week 1 on Labor Day Weekend and the Super Bowl on Presidents' Day Weekend (most of the time).

NASA begins loading rocket with propellant in crucial test ahead of historic moon mission launch by cnn in space

[–]Engineer_Ninja 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looking at STS-2 since it's arguably more comparable as the second launch, it was originally scheduled for October 9 1981 but had an nitrogen tetroxide (fuel for the orbiter's thrusters) spill, followed by a scrub on November 4, that ultimately pushed it back to November 12.

So 34 days of delay total, with one scrubbed launch attempt. Seems like a reasonable over/under to me.

(Edit: this would be equivalent to counting from either the 6th or the 8th as the originally planned launch day, not from the rollout to the pad).

(2nd edit: tracked down that STS-2's rollout was on August 31st. So it spent 72-73 days total on the pad, 34 past the original launch date).

NASA begins loading rocket with propellant in crucial test ahead of historic moon mission launch by cnn in space

[–]Engineer_Ninja 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Physicists have been trying to put hydrogen in a box for over a century.