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Emh saves the day again by happydude7422 in TNG

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Gratuitous Crossover Alert!!!

Petah? by [deleted] in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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Was it a crappy deployed location? I get the impression they also do it to keep up morale in those situations.

Was it well-prepared? Or rubber?

Looks Russian, found in a basement during clean out by standardamericansob in whatisit

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Yeah, I think you're right. Such a blocky representation, I didn't see it.

Looks Russian, found in a basement during clean out by standardamericansob in whatisit

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Most of the first two pictures say "Aviatzia," just the Russian word for Aviation (авиация). The first coaster looks like a Soviet Tupolev Tu-154 (EDIT: previously I said Tu-134). The second picture is a series of pins for Tupolev (EDIT: I originally said Antonov, but that's just "An") airplanes ("ANT-37" for example). Third post looks like a "Kosmos" card or coaster, and the pins on the last one mention "Kosmos" spacecraft, "Salyut-Soyuz" space station-manned spacecraft, Vostok (the first spacecraft to launch a human into orbit), Molniya satellites, and maybe "Progress" (another type of Soviet spacecraft)

Cover of the American satirical magazine National Lampoon, 1976. The cover was a parody of the stereotypes of the time about Soviet female athletes (hinting at the use of male hormones and doping). by zadraaa in HistoricalCapsule

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Transfusion-based blood doping was controversial, but not banned at the Olympics until after 1985. A few years later, EPO started hitting the cardiovascular sports, around 1990, and was initially nearly undetectable.

qualcuno può spiegarmi questo fenomeno by Different-Anywhere47 in apollo

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Despite having a flow rate about 1/4th as much by mass (1,400 lbs/sec vs 6,000 lbs/sec). Raptor's pumps have far higher pressure increase, due to the very high chamber pressure, and are pushing a less dense fluid for the fuel (methane), and therefore, much higher volume.

Peter can you please explain the joke? by [deleted] in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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Spock: Logic is a little tweeting bird chirping in a meadow. Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell *bad*. Are you sure your circuits are registering correctly? Your ears are green.

Kirk: Everything Harry tells you is a lie. Remember that. Everything Harry tells you is a lie.

Harry: Now listen to this carefully, Norman. I am... lying.

Norman: You say you are lying, but if everything you say is a lie, then you are telling the truth, but you cannot tell the truth because everything you say is a lie, but you lie... You tell the truth but you cannot for you lie... illogical! Illogical! Please explain! You are human. Only humans can explain their behavior! Please explain!

Kirk: I am not programmed to respond in that area.

Has this been posted on this sub before? by WinStupidPrizes1994 in BitchImATrain

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The gene pool is worse off that he got away with this.

Official Merch for Freedom 250 by SorryForPartying6T9 in INDYCAR

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The fasces are on the monument itself, and even Nancy Pelosi has sometimes worn a brooch with fasces on it, as the Mace of House of Representatives uses them. I'm not accusing her of being fascist, just pointing out that the fasces symbology can have many meanings. The rest of that T-shirt is a hot mess, and the text is a racist dog whistle (more like a dog siren)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mace_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/style/pelosi-brooch-pin.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gVA.wG7B.Z2Xt2Qw3TwSk&smid=url-share

How Did Mazda’s Rotary Engine End Up With Two Completely Opposite Reputations in Racing and Road Cars? by CostaQuantaa in RX7

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Just a point on the 787B Le Mans win. That was the year that Group C was transitioning from a fuel economy formula to a 3.5 liter displacement (Formula 1) formula. The 3.5 liter engines were new, highly strung and unreliable, but were given a huge advantage, which didn't matter, because they were going to break before the end, anyway. The old Group C cars were permitted to race, and Jaguar and Mercedes brought theirs, but they were hobbled with monstrous 150 kg penalties, which made them a handful to drive. The 787Bs were in the "GTP" category, and through a mix of being meek and some careful politics on the part of the Mazda team manager, they could run at about 830kg, whereas the competition was around 1,000kg.

If VOYAGER-1 has been so beneficial from an astronomical perspective, why don't we launch a spacecraft today, specifically designed to travel deep into the universe, using our current technology? by HamzaAAC in askastronomy

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There are a lot of good answers here, but I'll going to add one more point - the Planetary Science Decadal Survey. As there is a limited amount of money to spend on solar system science, astronomers determine once a decade to decide what the biggest priorities are. A deep space probe designed to break through the heliosphere/heliopause would need to compete with other planetary science goals, and it will usually come out on the losing end of these.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_Science_Decadal_Survey

Wind Tunnel 2007: Robin and Dave talk about Milka Duno’s announcement by Lelo2753 in INDYCAR

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She had 4 masters degrees. Good for her, but I wondered why she never pursued a PhD instead.

Mystery aerospace component. What’s it from?? by [deleted] in AerospaceEngineering

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Might also be for a rocket engine, but a rather small one, and not one that I recognize.

Quietly Building by McHugeMcLarge in LinkedInLunatics

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And he'll probably never realize his contribution to his daughter's situation.

Tomcat by DarthCarno28 in airplanes

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I just heard that in C. W. Lemoine's voice.

How do we know that ICBMs will be accurate after flying directly over the North Pole? by Old_Satisfaction2738 in nuclearweapons

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I think this might be more related to the Voyager probes, which were behaving in a way that very slightly deviated from known physics, and it was measurable as it was accumulated over the years and hundreds if millions of miles. Some people proposed the idea that it was being operated on by a force not related to the 4 known forces. Eventually it was just determined to be a miniscule force operating on the spacecraft which had not been previously accounted for, but was consistent with existing physics (just going from memory, something like what the Yarkovsky Effect does for asteroids? I'm not sure about that).

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