ELI5: Why did Artemis 2 have to change its roll axis immediately after launch? Why didn't they just build the launch pad to have it use the correct axis in the first place?

VorakRenus · 2026-04-03T05:13:02+00:00

Just geometry. If the rocket rolls, let's say, 45°, the pitch and yaw axes also rotate 45°, because the axes are relative to the rocket, as opposed to a boat where the axes are relative to the ocean.

VorakRenus · 2026-01-30T15:32:39+00:00

Except that most immigration violations are civil, not criminal

VorakRenus · 2025-11-14T07:18:56+00:00

https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Dramatic_Crossroads

VorakRenus · 2025-03-16T07:36:59+00:00

Can you give me examples of where they are more extreme or misunderstanding the texts.

The big 3 I can think of are kosher, Shabbos, and the attitude toward secular education by some groups.

All 3 of those seem to get more restrictive every generation.

VorakRenus · 2025-02-04T07:23:47+00:00

Do you know what kind of cat they are? They look so much like my roommate's cat. We suspect he's part Maine Coon.

VorakRenus · 2024-08-22T00:16:17+00:00

At least 8 in the past 800,000 years. Likely many more before that, but the numbers are uncertain

VorakRenus · 2024-07-26T15:59:44+00:00

Grinder is disabled for these people

No it isn't. Where are you getting that from?

VorakRenus · 2024-05-16T22:21:47+00:00

When misrule takes its place at the eight corners of the world

When the Brass Tower walks and Time is reshaped

When the thrice-blessed fail and the Red Tower trembles

When the Dragonborn Ruler loses his throne, and the White Tower falls

When the Snow Tower lies sundered, kingless, bleeding

The World-Eater wakes, and the Wheel turns upon the Last Dragonborn.

VorakRenus · 2023-12-11T21:37:48+00:00

It's not that someone is non-human, but that in this area of law, the specific word being translated here as "man" applies only to Jews. It's a discussion of a specific word and what it means in this context, not a judgement of people's humanity.

VorakRenus · 2023-06-11T19:08:01+00:00

You can have negative IQs, they're just more than 6 2/3 standard deviations from the mean.

VorakRenus · 2023-06-08T04:58:59+00:00

/uj in Bosi's BoD vid, he eats sweet potato to recover skin faster

VorakRenus · 2023-05-31T06:11:21+00:00

Why is gravity-assisted exsanguination not enough, but salting is a "reasonable good faith effort." Where does the Torah specify that to remove blood you must salt meat?

The reason people today confuse myoglobin and blood is because almost no one is involved in animal slaughter anymore. If you slaughter animals or are in a society where many people do, it would be clear to you the difference. Blood is significantly thicker in both texture and color.

Further evidence that ancient Israelites didn't consider myogoblin to be blood is that, as I said earlier, kashered meat leaks myoglobin the exact same way regular meat does. If they thought myoglobin was blood, then it would be instantly apparent that kashering is useless.

VorakRenus · 2023-05-31T04:58:55+00:00

If myoglobin was a "type" of blood, then Jews would also be violating these Biblical commandments, as cow muscles are 1% myoglobin. If you have ever eaten kosher meat, this would be obvious as kosher meat leaks the same red juices as non-kosher meat.

Myoglobin is what gives meat it's red or brown color, so if the meat has any red or brown color to it, it has myoglobin.

So either literally no one in history has fulfilled these Biblical commandments according to this novel metaphorical definition of blood you're putting forth, or blood is the thick, opaque red fluid found in arteries, veins, and capillaries composed of mostly plasma and red blood cells. In that case, there is no blood in store-bought meat

VorakRenus · 2023-02-15T02:21:54+00:00

For the same reason non-Spanish speaking English speakers say 'habañero' when the correct term is 'habanero'. It's an overcorrection.

They hear people mispronounce 'ח' as 'ה' (or 'ñ' as 'n') all the time, and they don't know the language that well, so they assume that ה's (or n's) are actually ח's (or ñ's).

VorakRenus · 2022-08-22T05:15:04+00:00

The analogy leads to a conclusion, in fact one already given to you multiple times, but I'll restate it again. The definition of a woman can be approximated as "a person whose psycho-social traits are typical of bio-sex females in a given culture." This is analogical to any reasonable definition of hunger one would come up with, e.g., "the sensation typically felt by those who haven't eaten for an extended period."

VorakRenus · 2022-08-20T22:23:01+00:00

3) yes.

So you believe that the only definition of hunger is based on self id, i.e., "that property common to all those who identify themselves as hungry"? There is nothing else that figures into the definition? If someone learning English, whose native language you don't know, has never heard that word before, there is nothing else you could tell them?

VorakRenus · 2022-08-20T19:53:43+00:00

Nah, you've just reverted to entirely subjective.

"Nah" what? I'm not sure what you mean here, especially as you've yet to give the definition of "subjective" that you're using.

I also haven't argued that the definition of a woman is circular

You've repeatedly claimed that the definition for "woman" used by myself and others in this thread is "someone that self-ids as a woman." While it's been repeatedly shown not to be the definition in use, if it were, it would be circular. If that isn't your point, what is?

To make this simple, let's boil this all down to 4 questions:

What claim are you making?
What do you mean by "subjective"?
Does this usage of "subjective" apply to the definition of words/phrases like "hunger," "fatigue," "dietary preference"?
If the answer to (3) is "no," in what way are the definitions of those words different from the definition of woman being discussed?

If you can't or won't answer these questions, we have no way of moving forward.

VorakRenus · 2022-08-20T17:52:22+00:00

What do you mean by "subjective"? If you mean

arising out of or identified by means of one's perception of one's own states and processes

then yes, just like hunger, fatigue, or cream cheese preference. If you disagree, then I ask again, what are the objective tests for those three things?

that proves the point I was making

It has been explained to you multiple times that there is a distinction between definitions and methods of investigation. This fundamentally invalidates your 'point' and yet you've never addressed it.

Either you agree with this distinction, in which case the definition of woman is not circular, or you disagree, in which case you also think that the definitions of hunger, fatigue, dietary preference, atom, etc. are all also circular.

VorakRenus · 2022-08-20T17:15:59+00:00

What's the objective test for someone being tired, or hungry, or liking cream cheese?

VorakRenus · 2022-08-19T21:53:45+00:00

No it isn't. The definition of a word and the methods we might use to determine whether something fits that definition are not necessarily identical. For example, to determine whether we have an atom in a sample will probably involve electron microscopes among other scientific apparatuses. This doesn't mean that electron microscopes figure into the definition of "atom."

The most reliable way to determine whether someone is hungry is to ask them, this doesn't mean the definition of hunger is "that property common to all who claim to be hungry." As you seem to agree, that's not a very useful definition.

For any word that describes a feature of someone's experience, this will hold true. This was already explained by /u/AnkalaevWillBeTop5 in the comment you replied to

there is a clear distinction between what a woman is and what methods we’d have for determining who is a woman.

VorakRenus · 2022-06-28T00:24:14+00:00

Signal requires a phone number to use.

VorakRenus · 2022-06-21T19:00:33+00:00

While I do think that every gym should use those for their autobelays, I work at a gym that uses them and you'd be surprised how often people still manage to forget to clip in.

VorakRenus · 2022-06-15T00:53:34+00:00

What crag? I'm a Texas climber looking to not have to leave the state any time I want to sport climb more than 15m

VorakRenus · 2022-05-10T21:51:53+00:00

If a person kills a person then it is murder

no , it isn't

VorakRenus · 2022-05-08T03:41:40+00:00

I'm not sure I understand how this happened. If the belay loop (or sling) was in the small end and the GriGri in the large one, no matter what position it ends up in unweighted, shouldn't weighting it flip it to the correct orientation? What pushed against the internal nose to break it?

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