Captain Aggravated

Good for onion rings as well.

I thought it was mixed nuts. Like peanuts and pecans.

Maybe you should see a dentist?

Most human males only have one scrotum, most have two things in it though.

Look, boobies!

–Mark Watney

I like Planet Oat unsweetened vanilla on my cereal (I get Food Lion’s vanilla nut Be Well cereal, so I get double the vanilla per vanilla) but I don’t really like it in coffee.

I can report similar results. Ladies, how many boxes of candy can you cram into your genitals?

You can use it to sneak way more snacks into a movie theater with a vagina than a penis. A penis fits fewer than three boxes of Junior Mints.

Well, I’m in that state right now, and I think I’m gonna be in it continuously until the biopsy results come back.

I live in the American Southeast. We generally turn on the air conditioning.

Football fields actually make sense as a unit of measurement though. Unlike a lot of sports fields or arenas, American football fields have a very specific length and width: including end zones 360 feet long by 160 feet wide, approx 1.3 acres.

Furthermore, practically every American has hands-on experience with a football field. Almost every high school in America has one or has the use of a nearby one, some schools in inner cities might share. My high school had three, the stadium, the practice field, and the marching band practice grid painted on the student parking lot. Every student to attend the school spent at least some time on that field, for one that was the only venue on campus big enough to host the graduation ceremony. Several phys ed classes along with after school sports took place out there, as a band geek I spent entire weeks of my life on a football field.

So when you say to an American a field is 5 acres, unless they own significant parcels of land they can’t really picture that, but tell them it’s the size of 4 football fields they can pretty accurately picture that.

Manufactured sexism. Because there’s not enough of that to be found among the Western elite, amirite?

So you’re a normie who charge thay phone, eat hot chip and lie.

It becomes an issue when you’re in the habit of such poweruser tasks as plugging an external display or external graphics card into a laptop or dealing with bulk file transfers.

You can pour cheap, bad wine into an expensive looking bottle and people will like it more. Marketing is pretty much all wine has going for it.

Chicken Parmesan is what happens when you take Italian people and put them in America. You take Italians, with the cooking methods they know, their tastes, and set them down in 19th century New York, they make Chicken Parm. This is a well-tested hypothesis.

Rarely. And I’m a ham.

Humans have flown a total of ten manned missions that involved a Hohmann transfer: Apollo 8, Apollo 10-17, and Artemis 2. All ten flew to the Moon. On a typical Apollo mission, the outward bound coast leg is about 72 hours, between TLI and LOI, during which time they had to do the release-turn around-dock-extract maneuver with the lunar module and do at least one course correction.

We’ve been wasting tax payer dollars for more than half a century now designing and redesigning manned Mars missions that aren’t ever going to fly. Some of the various “artist’s conceptions” over the decades have included various centrifugal gravity solutions, be it the wagon wheel type or the bolas type or whatever. I don’t believe any actual hardware has even begun construction. Before you start worrying about that, you’ve got to 1. have a society healthy enough to fly manned deep space missions, and 2. figure out how to shield the crew from radiation first. Neither of which we have figured out at the moment.

Because the constant rotation complicates things a lot.

Specifically talking about the International Space Station, its main mission is a microgravity laboratory. We put it up there so we can learn about microgravity. Why go through all the expense of putting it up there and then spinning it to make gravity when we get it for free down here on the surface?

As for other craft? We have yet to develop manned spacecraft that can do the duration where it would be worth doing. Even the longer Apollo missions were in space for a whopping two weeks and 2/3 of the crew still landed, got out and stretched their legs. It hasn’t been worth the engineering hassle to do it.

And it is an engineering hassle, because…

1. The ship has to be designed to handle it. It’s under additional stresses, so it’s got to be built tougher to handle it. That’s added weight, and just typing that sentence made at least three rocket scientists cringe to death.

2. Humans actually aren’t great at living in a spin gravity environment. The smaller the radius of the spin, the worse it gets. For one thing, in a centrifuge, there’s a pretty steep gradient in centrifugal/centripetal/pedantic force, the farther toward the rim you are the greater the gravity. For very small distances that can be significant enough to cause problems on its own. But also, spinning humans isn’t good for their vestibular systems. Each of your inner ears has three semi-circular canals filled with fluid, and little hairs that can detect the movement of that fluid. This allows you to sense rotation around three axes, kind of like a gyroscope sensor. This evolved in an environment that rotates a 1 rotation per day, functionally stationary. Spin a human at several RPM and that constant rotation is enough to start throwing off balance, causing nausea etc. So the bigger the radius of the spin, and the slower, the better. That takes more weight, and there go three more rocket scientists.

3. It makes the spacecraft a pain to handle. You need to be able to orient spacecraft in space to point engines, windows, instruments, docking adapters etc. in various stable directions. A constant roll complicates that. “point in this direction and fire the engines” becomes a pain because, say you’re constantly rolling, and you need to change the direction your long axis points. What thrusters do you fire in what combination to steer the ship? Or do you stop the roll, maneuver/use your telescope/dock/whatever, then start rolling again? So now you’ve got to deal with gravity starting and stopping variously throughout the journey. Or, do you design the ship to have sections that do roll and sections that don’t? First, look up “gyroscopic precession” on Wikipedia. Second, wiring, plumbing etc. is a pain in the ass to handle via slip ring, let alone crew access. Third, that adds weight, which…I should probably stop saying that, rocket scientists aren’t cheap to train and that’s nine we’ve killed just in this list.

In conclusion, look what you made me do.

Could the same thing be said about the Apollo program in the 60’s?

That’s not what “lame duck” means.

A lame duck is a politician who is currently in office but is not eligible for re-election due to term limits. A second-term president is the classic example. Being in power and yet guaranteed to soon not be alters the power dynamic and priorities of said politician.

Donald Trump is a lame duck; in his second of two terms.

Saturation divers. Something I didn’t realize, they haul the pressure vessel to the surface at the end of every shift, they don’t live at the bottom, but they’re under pressure.