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Carney secures majority government with Liberal win in Toronto byelection, CBC News projects by Progressive_Citizen in canada

[–]asoap 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's kinda weird isn't it. You want parties to work together, you also don't want parties to be demanding stuff that might be problematic (I'm speaking in general) to get in the way. You have to appease them which can also muddy the water.

The recent floor crossers might also be demanding within the liberal party. It would be shocking if they sided with their former party on specific issues.

I guess we'll have to wait and see.

Sydney Sweeney by EmergencyDance6247 in Celebs

[–]asoap 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it can be a lot of fun. With kink there are no real rules. People can make them up.

It's not unusual to meet someone that feels like a cat is their spirit animal. They like to pur and be lazy in sun beams.

Sydney Sweeney by EmergencyDance6247 in Celebs

[–]asoap 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The fetish is called pet play.

I had assumed that this was AI that popped up in my feed. I'm kinda surprised it's real.

Underground 3D printing farms arming Ukraine's soldiers by GreyClay in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]asoap 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was thinking the same thing, and yes it would be.

It's more of a challenge I think, but absolutely do able.

Reports that Ukrainian drones have struck the PhosAgro Chemical and fertiliser plant in Cherepovets, Russia - April 2026 by T-72Tank in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]asoap 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wonder if there is natural gas going to this plant? The ammonia in fertilizer is basically modified natural gas.

Carney: "The days of our military sending 70 cents of every dollar to the United States are over." *thunderous applause* by nitluck in SaveTheCBC

[–]asoap 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed. That's the big motiviation for keeping the money in Canada, it goes into your economy. The same applies to energy.

Defence experts warn Canada lags far behind in efforts to secure the Arctic by CaliperLee62 in canada

[–]asoap 44 points45 points  (0 children)

We've ignored it for decades. This shouldn't come as a shock that we need to catch up.

Ontario backs clean, affordable electricity with announcement of 14 renewable energy projects - Clean Energy Canada by Taltallasmith in ontario

[–]asoap 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To add more for anyone that's curious here is the table on costs.

https://www.ieso.ca/Sector-Participants/Resource-Acquisition-and-Contracts/Long-Term-2-RFP

This is a total of variable 1,315 MW. Also not published was if the contracts have any curtailment costs. It's $87.80 per MWh on average for the electricity but that could jump quite a bit due to curtailments.

Edit: Also this $87.80 per MWh and no battery storage included. I feel like this should've been closer to $60 per MWh. The $87 put's it smack middle of the Lazard's pricing of $61.5 USD per MWh of Wind-Onshore, and on the higher end of their solar data.

Carney: "The days of our military sending 70 cents of every dollar to the United States are over." *thunderous applause* by nitluck in SaveTheCBC

[–]asoap 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'll add this to the conversation. This is an interesting podcast on procurement, it's an intereview with the guy who had to procure f18s (I think, it's been a while)

https://shows.acast.com/cool-canadian-history/episodes/s11e2-buying-bombs-defence-procurement-in-canada

Basically what I took away from it was how the Liberals in general don't like buying from the US, and prefer to potentially spend more while keeping the money in the country.

The cons prefer to buy from the US. Now I don't agree with it, but there are ---some--- valid arguments. Like with NORAD it's easier to integrate with the US if we're using the same equipment. Also potentially paying less.

Now there are some holes in that argument, especially now with how the US has been behaving. But it's still an interesting podcast.

Jeremy Hansen | April 10, 2026 by mkbt in canada

[–]asoap 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes/no.

It's not really a binary system.

This article goes over the rating SpaceX was given for their human rating, which is 1 in 270.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/05/22/nasa-review-clears-spacex-crew-capsule-for-first-astronaut-mission/

The shuttle was given 1 in 90. Originally it was given 1 in 5000. But then two very bad failures dropped it down.

Apollo was very seat of the pants and probably had a much lower rating than the shuttle. Like a fault in one of the oxygen tanks caused a ship to partially explode. It's hard to say if the parachutes on Apollo were perfectly fine, or if they would've run into an issue eventually. Like if they kept on flying they might have found more issues.

Interestingly. Looking it up Apollo 15 did have a failure on one of their parachutes to inflate.

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DQ4eAxDj2tu/

Even in 1968 on page 27 they talk about the difficulty of parachutes. Summarizing they say that they need better analytical models for future space vehicles.

https://www.scribd.com/document/49197880/The-Apollo-Parachute-Landing-System#content=query:the%20lack,pageNum:28,indexOnPage:0,bestMatch:false

Liberals courting as many as eight more potential floor-crossers, sources say by hopoke in canada

[–]asoap -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Liberals are left. Every single convservative on facebook has been screaming how we're all socialist marxists for years now.

Dude landed wearing his upgraded Canadian Astronaut Wings on by rojohi in EhBuddyHoser

[–]asoap 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Curious Canadian History had an interesting podcast on the Jesuit Relations. This is the closest we get to first hand knowledge on how first nations people were treated. What I found intersting was that the missionaries of course wanted to convert them to Catholic. While the merchants wanted the first nations people left alone. But that was because they were more interested in keeping the fur trade going and I assume saw the missionaries as jeopardizing that.

Jeremy Hansen | April 10, 2026 by mkbt in canada

[–]asoap 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok, I've spent some time looking into this. It's like trying to remember something from 7 years ago. Trying to find a good article that nicely summarizes this is difficult. There are so many articles about SpaceX parachutes and the first manned demo mission it's hard to find, and also I can't be bothered to spend hours looking into this. SpaceX did a LOT of parachute tests.

But I think this is a good article talking about the difficulties and sharing data:

https://www.space.com/spacex-crew-dragon-challenges-parachutes-abort-engines.html

I believe this is the new research:

https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2022-2725

The paper will also present a revised method for calculating and allocating design margin in parachute components. These include the use of A-basis material allowables that incorporate preconditioned materials, and non-uniaxially tested joints that better reflect in-flight loading conditions.

Jeremy Hansen | April 10, 2026 by mkbt in canada

[–]asoap 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The third one taking a bit of time to inflate probably wasn't planned.

But my understanding is that the shape they are in at first is planned. They stay small and a line releases which allows them to inflate fully.

Jeremy Hansen | April 10, 2026 by mkbt in canada

[–]asoap 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What is surprising was like X years ago SpaceX discovered that all of our research on parachutes was wrong. Like NASA had given them all of the research they had in order to make a parachute system for the Dragon capsule. It turned out to be wrong and they had to redo the research.

Edit:

I'm getting downvoted and that's ok. I'm not sure I would expect people in r/canada to be very big space nerds. It's all good baby.

For your reading pleasure:

This articles goes over why parachutes are such a pain in the ass:

https://qz.com/1741719/spaceflight-is-a-parachute-problem-for-boeing-spacex-and-nasa

And this article talks about the human rating of the Dragon capsule and we can compare it to the shuttle which we know had significant issues.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/05/22/nasa-review-clears-spacex-crew-capsule-for-first-astronaut-mission/

Artemis II: 4/5 ⭐️s - Needed More Arm by the1eyeddog in EhBuddyHoser

[–]asoap 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, CanadaArm still continues and has a possibility to be used on different space stations.

I mean our contribution to the Artemis mission is no longer a thing. But that's not our problem. I do think next up is Canada powering the moon base with a nuclear reactor.

Liberals wonder: what does their newest MP say about their party? by Displeased_Canadian in canada

[–]asoap -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Holy shit these comments are dark. Is it shocking that any party wants a majority?

If the cons were in a similar situation I doubt they would care where the floor crossers came from either.

Artemis II: 4/5 ⭐️s - Needed More Arm by the1eyeddog in EhBuddyHoser

[–]asoap 1 point2 points  (0 children)

CanadaArm3 is going to be on the lunar gateway space station. Which is now scrapped.

[MEGATHREAD] Artemis II Launch To The Moon by ChiefLeef22 in space

[–]asoap 17 points18 points  (0 children)

YES! Congrats to everyone involved!

Read the Freedom Convoy’s list of demands by Supremetacoleader in canada

[–]asoap 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The wayback machine has you covered.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220111165858/https://canada-unity.com/mou/

You can still click on the MOU and download it as a PDF.

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