Very awesome!

Funny how our opponents can give us some of our best tools.

Not generally. If a claim is questioned, it’s expected that it should be backed up with a source, but we’re all part-time amateurs shitposting on an obscure form of social media, here - expecting every answer to be initially sourced is not really realistic.

1. !AskHistorians@piefed.social is separate from the comm on .world

2. The mod in question on the .world comm was removed by the head moderator of the .world comm, who acknowledged that they didn’t look closely enough into the new mod.

Now there’s a meme I haven’t seen in a very long time…

Yes, questions about prehistoric human society are permitted!

… TIL people were punishing their fucking birds for whacking it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radclyffe_Hall

Wish I had a dog to be anxious with me 😭

Mood.

@pugjesus@piefed.social

Kbin is my original, but Kbin went down years ago, before I even moved to Lemmy.world!

The furries are taking over

@rickyrigatoni@retrolemmy.com your people

Luckily, Bilbo remembered to add “Answer fully”

Cute, aren’t they? We mean the puppies of course! These four Marines have taken over the job of being foster mother to the pups, after their real mother left behind by the Japanese, gave birth to a litter of 13 and couldn’t take care of all of them. The Marines are, from left to right, 2nd Lt. G.H. Hoffman Jr., Corporal Louis R. Bonini, Corporal Edward J. Frankenbech, and Master Sergeant Harold “Porky” May. Their recipe for raising good, healthy puppies --plenty of C rations. All four Marines and puppies were attached to an aviation group with 4th Marine Air Wing.

For most of the shuttle, yes, but the removal of the paint from the tank specifically was because the tank had a foam coating that was not actually meaningfully protected by the paint.

Found the Kerbal Space Program player?

Back when NASA was flinging things into space for the first time, the tolerances that were even possible were extremely tight. Every pound mattered (every pound still matters, but because we have other things to do once we get to space nowadays, plus every pound is expensive).

600 pounds of white paint for the fuel tank was considered unnecessary, once the engineering team figured that it didn’t actually protect the special foam covering of the fuel tank anyway. Thus the distinctive orange color!

Yeah, unfortunately, nuclear power should have been heavily invested in about… 50 years ago. The “The best time was yesterday, the second-best time is now” line doesn’t apply with advancements in other energy sources and the sheer time it takes to build and get a nuclear plant operational. The best time was yesterday - now is perhaps the worst time.

Still, it is always good to push back on anti-nuclear sentiment. Every nuclear plant kept running is a massive amount of fossil fuels removed from power generation. I remember when Merkel closed a ton of nuclear plants in Germany for dogshit PR reasons, handing power back to fossil fuel suppliers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belka_and_Strelka