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Honda apparently has its own reusable rocket in developmentā¦
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You know thatās gonna be good for at least 200,000 launches, and still get 30mpg in 20 years.
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I could listen to Brian Cox all day
Neil Degrasse Tyson on the other hand needs to shut his dick holster
Sameā¦ I find heās trying to do a kind of Carl Segan impersonation, but with arrogance behind it. You could see all the inner workings of ego and humility play out on his face when he was on Celebrity Jeopardy and missed a space questionā¦ and generally didnāt do so well overallā¦ physically seeing the regret he had for even coming on the showā¦ you could almost see this happen in real time;
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Wanna detect muons?
Looks like an especially cool project cause itās well designed, but you still gotta do the legwork to get the parts.
http://cosmicwatch.lns.mit.edu/
On the list for when Iāve got some cash again.
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Is it āmew-onā or āmoo-onā? He says āmew-onā but I always read it as āmoo-onā.
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Do you need a physics cat, or a physics cow?
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The pronunciation of āmuonā is generally MYOO-on.
UK English: /mju:on/
US English: /mju.a:n/
So it really depends on YOUR English.
I say āDeckā, you hear ādickā
@TSMC55 says āsixā you hear āsexā
You say, aluminum or nuculear or solder, we hear
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When I say six, you hear six. I am an Aussie not a Kiwi! Lol.
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Saw a Starlink while I was in LA last week. Not great photo at all but you can see the first stage on the right and S2 continuing on the left with a very expanded plume in comparison.
Much much flatter trajectory than usual. And the first time Iāve watched a launch from this far away (seen three from their respective launch sites previously) so being able to see all of it is quite cool (generally when right there your perspective is very wonky)
Mentioned to the friend I was staying with that idk how anyone could live here and not care, when launches are this regularā¦ we literally went up to the top of a parking garage and saw the whole thing. No one else did.
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I used to live near Wichita Ks, and I felt the same way about aviation there. I once watched a weird collection of military planes mock fighting. By weird I mean a couple each of F-18 and F-16, pretty sure 1 A-10, and a very high up airborne control plane of some type plus a few more I didnāt identify. There were others too, just kind of lazily chasing each other around up there. What they were doing, or even doing with each other made no sense to me, but it was beautiful to watch. And Iām quite certain Iām the only one who saw or cared from the ground.
Now I live in a āholeā in the air traffic pattern. And when I go back to visit the family, I tend to gawk upwards pretty hard.
I wonder if astronauts ever get bored of the view.
People are weird.
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the problem is you add an extra vowel when saying Aluminum.
Alu Minium
Sounds like something from Hogwarts.
But if it helps, the name comes from Alum, the mineral mined, and then refined into Aluminum. So unless youād say Alu-M, then Alu Minium isnāt a thing.
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Probably meant āStarlink launchāā¦ but I realized āStarlinkā would be a great name for commercial rocket rides to space 
All aboard the Starlink Pacifica line! Next stop, low Earth orbit!
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Therefore, by your logic, you should be pronouncing it, Alu-minumā¦Which you donāt.
You pronounce it Alu-mi-num
You also dont remove the āiā to pronounce
Sodium, as So-Dum, or maybe you do, that would be fitting. 
nor do you pronounce
Potassium , Potass-um
Its OK, The USA likes to do things different from EVERYBODY else, we all know that.
You keep the rest of us entertained.
We thank you for your service
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Waiting for others to top us on our world leader choiceā¦ Ill wait.
youāre just listing off DJT Role models.