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Comment You think that's bad? (Score 2) 182

I heard some lawmakers in the United States are actively claiming that the world was created 6000 years ago by an old man with a beard, who later went on to bed a Jewish girl and spawn an offspring which ended up being nailed to a tree. Also, talking snakes, burning bushes, and splitting seas. no kidding!

Comment Re:In Olde English units (Score 5, Informative) 269

Pressure vessels get increasingly difficult to build as their size grows.

When a 150 PSI compressor tank goes (and they do, even though they are made out of steel, a lot thicker than a soda pop can) they take away the room with them.

This pressure vessel is probably miles on a side, and the walls don't have good tensile strength - it's just gravity that's holding it down.

In short converting it to Olde English units doesn't help.

Comment Re:Who knew... (Score 1) 237

Well part of it might be that by the time the Tampa Bay Fire Department finally got there, the metal was so hot that it was not enough to put out the fire, they also needed to cool the metal to below the ignition point of the fuel.

I can't believe there are so many rockets flying around simultaneously in KSC that they couldn't have a fire crew on site.

Comment Re:Holy cow ... (Score 4, Interesting) 163

well, think about (hypothetically) zooming out from the Nimitz on Google Earth - how much you have to zoom out even after the Nimitz (all 300 m of it) before you see the full Earth.

Each 1 km x 1km area would pack about 30 Nimitzes. Each 1000 km x 1000 km area would pack about 30,000,000 Nimitzes. And that's just the surface... The Earth is (gasp!) as thick as it is wide, and denser at the center... So yeah. BIG.

Comment It's the film handling.... (Score 4, Informative) 66

The important part is the film handler. Unlike a camera, which can run the film more or less continuously and use a fast shutter speed, a projector has to stop the film for most of the frame's duration, and then quickly accelerate it out of the way while only blocking the light for a very short duration, or else the movie would "smear". Of course it flickers, since this is Lego, but it doesn't smear, and that's quite a feat.

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