/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11731212
>which was why the shuttle ended up having the double delta-winged shape that it did, rather than looking like a manned Energia Core with stubby X-1 style wings

>wing foam strike is what doomed Columbia

I can't help but think Shuttle might actually have been more successful and less deadly if it wasn't for those ridiculous NRO/USAF requirements

>>10506440
When you think about it the non-verbal/non-visual thinking method is kind of fucking nuts, I mean how does it work I want to know more about it. I didn't even know people think with an inner voice until I was in high school and just thought that sequence you see in movies/shows where people talk to themselves in their heads was just a convenience used in order to make a persons thoughts clear to an audience, and not that it was a way people actually think all the time.

Further research revealed primary visual thinkers, primary auditory/inner monologue thinkers and primary wordless/conceptual thinkers like me, only any kind of information or research about that was difficult to find. I remember feeling ashamed and depressed because my visual thinking/visualization ability was abysmal and I thought I had no imagination but then I realized I did have imaginative and creative thoughts only they weren't visual nor verbal. Then I realized just how complex and varied peoples methods of thinking and visualizing could be, and started to wonder how many people even knew that others might think differently than them, and if a poor awareness and lack of attention paid to meta-cognition might not have fucked people over in school for example. I remember never being able to hold math problems in my head because how the fuck were you supposed to do that, no image I try to conjure up in my head can stay solid and steady for more than a few seconds.

I feel like we have only just begun to scratch the surface of meta-cognition for instance aphantasia was not widely known until a few years back, knowledge and awareness of the condition spread online, and the NPC meme about effectively dehumanizing non-verbal thinkers, or aphantasics is such a pain in the ass for the misinformation and ignorance it spread.