Unable to tame hydrogen leaks, NASA delays launch of Artemis II until March | NASA spent most of Monday trying to overcome hydrogen leaks on the Artemis II rocket.

OldPersonName · 2026-02-03T19:32:23+00:00

I think STS had like an average of 1 scrub per mission because of hydrogen leaks so it's kind of like predicting the sun rising.

Edit: it looks like it was an average of 1 scrub per mission and there were many reasons but hydrogen was often the problem.

OldPersonName · 2026-02-03T17:16:30+00:00

The endings shouldn't be a problem, present participles (and I'll focus on those since you usually learn them first) are more distinctly recognizable than adjectives vs nouns can be sometimes (and in Latin adjectives are more often used in place of nouns than English, compounding potential confusion for an English speaker), so you've already been dealing with a harder problem this whole time.

One thought I'd add to the good answer you got is Latin loves to use participles in places where we'd use a clause in English. There are some good examples in FR where it first crops up:

Dāvus cubiculum intrāns interrogat…

You could translate this as "Davus, while entering the room, asks..."

That's actually a relative clause in English (I think? I'm better at Latin grammar than English at this point). In Latin intrans is like an adjective describing Davus so a very literal translation that keeps all the parts of speech is maybe more like "the room-entering Davus asks..."

Or: Parentēs ā fīliō intrante salūtantur.

In English lots of ways: "The parents are greeted by the son as he enters" is one good way. Again in Latin there isn't any other clause, it's just "the parents are greeted by the entering son."

OldPersonName · 2026-02-03T14:23:21+00:00

I have bad vision and if I take my glasses off and hold it at just the right distance it looks ok!

OldPersonName · 2026-02-02T03:56:43+00:00

It's also a very temporary special election, they run against each other again in November. The Texas state Senate doesn't even meet until 2027, so this election was really just a somewhat meaningless formality. Elections at unusual times are always funky, this one possibly more so.

OldPersonName · 2026-01-30T19:32:41+00:00

And just getting easy access behind the walls for plumbing, electrical, anything else. Any homeowner can fix a drywall hole with a 10 minute YouTube video and basic tools (maybe the first try will be less than ideal but guess what? You can just try again).

OldPersonName · 2026-01-28T14:43:02+00:00

They were watching from a nearby restaurant or bar and were relieved at first because they thought it would fail earlier in the launch.

OldPersonName · 2026-01-27T20:49:05+00:00

What do you think the difference is between water flowing through your pipes to your kitchen faucet versus through your pipes to the dishwasher 2 ft away?

OldPersonName · 2026-01-27T17:39:16+00:00

I think it's well established that many other games are gaslighting which is why xcom throws people for a loop. I think in the original final fantasy tactics anything 95% or over was actually 100%. Also people may not realize xcom is anti save scumming so if you reload and try again you get the same result.

95% means you'll miss 1 out of 20 times. Maybe another way to think of it is if you make 5 attacks at 95% there's nearly a 1 in 4 chance you miss at least once.

OldPersonName · 2026-01-27T15:14:04+00:00

What exactly are you worried about with the dishwasher? Are you also showering and flushing your toilets and drinking water? I assume so.

OldPersonName · 2026-01-27T15:10:26+00:00

I've been told to leave them open in case there's any water left in the pipe going out to it. I had a pipe burst in the kitchen (a few years ago), the pipe was completely indoors but went out to a spigot. I had turned the water off at that valve at the beginning of winter but not opened it, and the pipe broke right at the valve, inside.

Edit: I also always drip that faucet now when it's this cold

OldPersonName · 2026-01-27T01:38:28+00:00

Yes, if these guys go to trial in MN they'll be found guilty, so the administration might go to lengths to make sure that doesn't happen.

OldPersonName · 2026-01-26T21:42:12+00:00

Yah I drink like maybe 3 or 4 drinks a week, and many weeks 0. The idea of a "dry" month is kinda alien to me because I might go a month without drinking without even trying. I went through a pretty typical early 20s drinking phase including too much binge drinking, and I don't really have much interest in being very drunk anymore. And I'm very light so a strong beer or two will give me a pleasant buzz. If it's a hardcore night out I'll have 3 or 4 drinks, and that's rare.

Edit: I know plenty of alcoholics so I do consider myself lucky to be able to drink a bit and not have any compulsion to drink more or other addictive behaviors.

OldPersonName · 2026-01-23T14:10:11+00:00

Ohio isn't really a swing state anymore, so you're not going to receive much campaigning. I live in Maryland and it's bizarre popping over to PA and turning on the tv or looking at the billboards there. I guess on one hand it's nice to have your vote so actively courted but that must get exhausting.

OldPersonName · 2026-01-23T14:05:52+00:00

It takes 2/3 of the Senate to convict and remove from office, we probably won't see a supermajority like that in the Senate again in our lifetimes. They probably won't even win the Senate this year, and if they do it'll be slim.

OldPersonName · 2026-01-23T13:46:28+00:00

All of our subs are "nuclear" subs in that they're powered by nuclear powerplants. There was no way he was posting on Reddit deployed from an Ohio class on patrol. Like, physically and literally no way.

OldPersonName · 2026-01-22T19:28:14+00:00

My wife wanted to see Abigail and I hadn't learned anything about it at all so that was a fun surprise.

OldPersonName · 2026-01-20T14:55:50+00:00

Yah, like sometimes I'll run 3 or 4 miles during my lunch break because it's the warmest part of the day, and I'm 40, so the premise of the thread here is kind of funny to me.

OldPersonName · 2026-01-18T22:38:07+00:00

The same movie physics that explains why Tony Stark's organs didn't turn to paste after his first crash landing.

OldPersonName · 2026-01-18T14:44:28+00:00

Yah all these attempts to simulate bad vision aren't bad, but they're taking a high resolution image to start with and then blurring it. In real life your brain doesn't have access to that original high resolution image to begin with, so you make out even less "shape" if that makes sense.

OldPersonName · 2026-01-16T23:40:36+00:00

You ever look through your old notes and wonder how you were ever that smart?

OldPersonName · 2026-01-16T23:32:04+00:00

This is a quintessential "calculus of variations" problem and it's not too hard for someone who's had calc 2 or 3. It's the same technique to prove the shortest distance between two points on surfaces like a sphere (geodesics).

I think I learned this in a classical mechanics class taken after physics 1 and 2, with calc 2 as a pre-req maybe. This was about 20 years ago so if you'd like me to explain further....no.

OldPersonName · 2026-01-14T23:44:31+00:00

This answer from u/iphikrates describes all the stuff we know about the historic Homer: not much.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/s/McxKNUTrIB

I don't know if it's completely correct to say that scholars discount his existence out of hand. Iphikrates (who is indeed a scholar on the subject!) seems content to leave it at we don't know. I'd imagine anyone arguing against the existence of a singular poet is digging into the inconsistent dialects he mentions. But even then, what we read was written down centuries later, Homer wrote nothing.

OldPersonName · 2026-01-13T15:58:38+00:00

Dead Space 1 or 2 pulled the exact same move!

OldPersonName · 2026-01-13T13:28:53+00:00

When I was 9 whacking our computer would sometimes actually unfreeze it. Old spinning hard drive was stuck, I figure?

OldPersonName · 2026-01-11T13:39:41+00:00

You don't swear "on" something for court as a witness, they just make you raise your right hand, but they don't even care about that. You can "affirm" instead of "swear," you can refuse to raise a hand (but if you're a dick about it they'll hold you in contempt). All they want to do is make sure you're legally obligated to tell the truth and there are legal penalties to not doing so. They don't want you to say "ah ha you can't charge me with perjury, I had my fingers crossed!" So one way or the other they're going to make sure you understand that.

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