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[-] moseschrute@lemmy.world 94 points 11 months ago
[-] Venator 25 points 11 months ago
[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

I am having trouble reading that. For anyone else struggling:

[-] if_only@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago

The real hero here

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[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 79 points 11 months ago

"If you miss, you end up among the stars."

OH DEAR LORD WE ARE OUT OF FUEL AND OXYGEN IT'S SO COLD SO COLD

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 31 points 11 months ago

Don't panic. Shut everything down. Call the Fuel Rats.

[-] Yorick@piefed.social 10 points 11 months ago
[-] Palerider@feddit.uk 5 points 11 months ago

Only had to do it for that once... They were awesome, saved my Cutter that I forgot I'd removed the fuel scoop from.

o7

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[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

"Among the stars" might suggest it's very much not cold. You're in a stellar nursery.

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[-] Dadifer@lemmy.world 42 points 11 months ago

You could fit every planet in the Solar System between Earth and our moon simultaneously.

[-] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 49 points 11 months ago

I have a feeling we would have a lot of problems if you did though.

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

It's definitely not recommended by the few cosmology sources I've read.

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[-] hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago

Fuck you for making me look this up. Only Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune would fit together. Venus, Mars, and Mercury are too much.

[-] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 25 points 11 months ago

Depends on which part of the orbit. Perigee (closest point) is ~ 354,491 km surface to surface. Apogee (farthest point) is ~ 397,291 km surface to surface. At Apogee you could got them all. At perigee not at all.

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think our oceans would leave earth, tide-wise speaking

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Please don't.

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

I bet I could miss those, too.

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

I could? I think you overestimate my power.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 31 points 11 months ago

Anyone who has played KSP knows that getting to the Mun is harder than it seems.

Orbital mechanics are a bitch.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

Getting to the Mun was actually pretty easy for me (or I got lucky). Landing on the Mun/surviving is a whole different story.

[-] qupada@fedia.io 19 points 11 months ago

And don't even get me started on getting back from the Mun, ~~when~~ if you do survive the landing.

Sorry Jebediah, that was a one-way trip.

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[-] mercano@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

Make sure to lead your shot. At Apollo velocities, you’ll need to aim where the moon will be at in three days, not where it is right now.

[-] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago

Why limit yourself to Apollo velocities? We're trying to shoot the moon, not land in it.

[-] SculptusPoe@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The moon takes up only around 0.00077% of the visible area of the sky. That's a pretty small target. A deviation of .52 degrees from any point on the moon you are aiming from earth will miss.

[-] GottaHaveFaith@fedia.io 13 points 11 months ago

Also it moves at 1 km/s around its orbit

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[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

And begging your pardon sir, it's a big ass sky.

[-] ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 16 points 11 months ago

Ya but the moon covers at best only about 10 ppm of the sky's area so given a random direction within the hemisphere defined by the sky in which the moon is visible and traveling in a straight line you have a roughly 99.9990% chance of missing so that's understandable really.

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[-] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 11 months ago
[-] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 months ago
[-] Bahnd@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

I understood that reference.

[-] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You forking would like that kind of bullshirt, you bench-ash deck.

I really hope we're doing a "The Good Place" bit here, otherwise, I apologize profusely.

Edit: Make grammar gooder

[-] Venator 8 points 11 months ago

f⸤▬こked

[-] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Spoken like someone that hasn't played Kerbal.

[-] don@lemmy.ca 16 points 11 months ago

That’s like the pasties of censorship lol

[-] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 14 points 11 months ago

Who are these people who cross out two letters of a cussword worried about? Everyone can still read this and all it does is make the edit look like someone is a pearl clutcher.

[-] BearGun@ttrpg.network 10 points 11 months ago

It's typically for posting to platforms that "deprioritise" posts that contain "naughty" words, not actually anything about humans caring about it.

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[-] Lauchmelder@feddit.org 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Actually it makes more sense to state the moons solid angle in the sky from where I'm standing, instead of its diameter ☝️🤓

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[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Yes you could have fucked this up more. You could have posted this censored bullshit on the Internet

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 11 points 11 months ago

I thought i was gonna have an easy time aiming for yo mama,

But the joke is on me cause i miss her.

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[-] obinice@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Oh my god I can still see the swear you tried to censor you satan worshipper! I'm so offended I dropped my body of christ into my tea!

The internet is for children ONLY, please take this FILTH back to your BBS, heathens!

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[-] BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago

Not as fucking up as much as posting censored memes. You can swear on Lemmy, it's allowed.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Shoot for the moon. If you miss, you're now in orbit, and that was almost certainly the goal anyway

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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 11 months ago

Aim for the ground, if you miss that, just give up

[-] DeathbringerThoctar@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

If you throw yourself at the ground and miss, you're flying.

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[-] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

It's moving 1 km/s, though.

[-] milliams@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

It's moving pretty fast though.

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