/sci/ - Science & Math

>>16021343
oh

>>15687373
>Meanwhile, an entirely different group, not of engineers but of pure scientists, had taken NASA up on the offer of a free launch for a British research satellite. They escorted their Ariel-1 out to Cape Canaveral to see it safely on its way aboard an American missile. This was the time described by Tom Wolfe in The Right Stuff, when the strip of motels and hamburger joints along Cocoa Beach became a playground for astronauts who loved ‘Flying & Drinking and Drinking & Driving and Driving & the rest.’ ‘At night the pool areas of the motels became like the roaring fraternity house lounge of Project Mercury … and what lively cries and laughter would be rising up on all sides as the silvery moon reflected drunkenly in the chlorine blue of the motel pools!’ Something of this spirit must have seeped into the scientists, because they called London and requested permission to hire a car. Picture it: the scientists hurtling along Highway A1A in the tumescent Florida night, daringly dressed in shirtsleeves. In a car with fins! No, said London. Rent bicycles.

>>15338175
Truly a prophet is never understood in his own time.

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>>14977626
I am a lazy dumb

>>14644323
yeah tidally locked planets getting blasted by flare stars are prime real estate, very Earthlike

>>14555661
its over