/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12597345
I would NOT want to be the first dude to launch up on a space shuttle. These two had balls of absolute steel. You're sandwiched between two missiles and a fuel tank, and you have to glide back down with basically no glide ratio lol

>>12140184
Galactic spin problem. According to even our best map, galaxies do not spin how they should. Literally no scientist fully understands why- it's one of the large unsolved problems in physics. The best explanation right now is "dark matter" [hypothetical matter that is literally just a product of math. Basically does not interact with the electromagnetic spectrum, but and does a bunch of other things that should, in theory, make galaxies spin the way they do. Most scientists like this idea]

Newton's something law (I cant remember which one). Inertia. Something in motion does not want to change its motion, something at rest wants to stay at rest.

Okay so, so, SO.... basically McCulloch is arguing that these are all relating. He claims that accelerating "things" (matter) are outrunning "the speed of light", and this creates a pressure differential similar to the casimir effect. [In fact he claims this is just a macroscopic version of the casimir effect.] This pressure differential acts on accelerating things and somehow "creates" inertia? (I don't really know his reasoning but a lot of people like this idea.) His claim is that Inertia, itself, is quantized by this idea. And because inertia is quantized is solves a lot of problems like the galactic spin problem. Idk he showed this through some math and reasoning which I am too dumb to understand. But this is the gist of it. Inertia is quantized and it answers a bunch of problems in physics without relying on a hypothetical dark matter which is just a bunch of mathfags trying to find a solution to a problem. I'm not claiming McCulloch is right or anything- but if his theory is correct then it would give us a theory that would allow for EM Drives and reactionless drives (somehow, I'm not quite sure how).

>>12120701
We want to go to the surface though dummy. Even if there is life in the atmosphere, that does not subtract from the fact that Venus' surface is really important and could tell us how it went from a luscious water world to a hell hole with conditions worse than a Calculus II class

>>11955967
Now imagine the entire habitable space of this lab... but as one rocket. Holy shit. (I assume Starship matches Skylab's internal volume, or the numbers are at least close)

>>11940616
You're right, we should standardize it and just call them faggots
>>11940544
Oh yeah that is another theory, a "ring" system of debris that all fell down onto the equator. Either way Iapetus is a strange moon

>>11720548
So much salt in one image. Lefties are triggered by trump. Ruskies are triggered by non-soyuz capsule. Boeing is triggered seeing their own airplane in front of their competitor

Bros I was told these new flight suits were supposed to look cool. They look like the stay puft marshmallow man