Latest Space Missions (& Other Science Stuff)

[jedidia]

That’s one hell of a mathematically inclined dentist…

[sheralmyst]

Makes you wonder what he is thinking while you are laying there under the laughing gas….

[jedidia]

We never used laughing gas at the dentist over here. That’s some weird american thing, I think.

[sheralmyst]

We just have really bad and very expensive dentists.

[jedidia]

I think the expensive part is universal

Don’t know about bad. We do get anesthetics, obviously, but by syringe directly into the mouth. It’s not pleasant, especially for kids. Though nowadays it’s gotten much better. The syringes when I was a kid had big long scary needle and injection itself took a couple seconds. Nowadays it’s a very small hook-shaped needle on an injector that basically just goes “click”, and it’s done.

I wished we had gas as a kid, I really did. But apparently the local anesthetics have a much lower risk of side effects than just gasing someone into oblivion…

[sheralmyst]

Well we get numbed out too. We are just wimps. The gas is just an option for those who feel they need it.

[sheralmyst]

But I don’t think infamous was the word they were looking for

[Polyphemus]

@sheralmyst

I don’t think infamous was the word they were looking for

There’s a line somewhere between “brave”, “stupid”, “Irresponsible”, and “suicidal” - and I think these lunatics crossed it.

If they had managed to crash their plane, how many genuinely brave rescue workers would have been put at risk, going out into that storm to look for them?

[sheralmyst]

Hurricane hunters do this for each hurricane. This does not normally happen. This was an especially bad hurricane

I’m not sure any rescue could be mounted

[adlopez16]

Anyone pumped for Artemis II?

[jedidia]

“Pumped” might not be the right words to describe my enthusiasm for Artemis, but I wish them good luck. They’re going to need it. They’re sending up people in a spacecraft with only one prior flight, a flight that revealed problems with the heatshield that were addressed with trajectory adjustments without ever testing whether these adjustments actually solve the issue…

[sheralmyst]

They aren’t launching til February I think?

[escapade]

Was just reading about this delightfully-named mission to Mars that’s scheduled to launch soon, and I absolutely love how incredibly hard the “trailer” for it goes.
( flashing image warning for rapid on-beat jump cuts though! )

ESCAPADE - NASA Science

[sheralmyst]

You should build a Corvette that looks like it