Comments by "Samson Soturian" (@samsonsoturian6013) on "Astrum" channel.

  1. I'm old enough to remember when decades outdated science books for kids said comets were "dirty snowballs"
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  2. Shocking, ain't it. I'll see myself out
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  3.  @ladyselenafelicitywhite1596  I think he meant moon base.
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  4. They put moon mission in the search engine when bored and the algorithm picks up on it.
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  5. Humans can do in a hour what takes a robot all day. And a person can easily resolve many mission ending problems that for a robot would require a dedicated machine. Also, cuz it's fun.
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  6. Firmament? In reference to what?
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  7. Vhut?
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  8. Shut up​ @Tentacl 
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  9. Short enough that the Apollo missions could have killed the astronauts by accidentally picking the wrong landing site
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  10.  @bomma2694  a lot of things were impossible to know without being there, like how the regolith behaved. Before the landings they were thinking potentially feet of dust that you could fall in like quicksand, but instead they got less than an inch of dust like sand paper so fine that it'd pass right through cloth.
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  11.  @bomma2694  leave space to people who study space, then.
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  12. Correction: The Chinese rover is reported dead as it hasn't moved for months
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  13. Wut?
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  14. That's silly. It costs 20 grand a pound to go to space. Even if we remove a zero from that, ground telescopes will still be cheaper
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  15. The reason they assume the storm lasted that long is based on how long it takes for a certain type on rock to form in current conditions
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  16. It's not happening
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  17.  @larrybarela8676  you live in a psych ward
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  18. We call them English units. And there's a list of places that use them,including England who uses a mix of both.
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  19. It didn't occur to him that a multi-ton chunk of mirror would have the structural behavior of a boulder?
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  20. It's latin for stone blanket.
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  21. Yes, and there's no difference between liquids and solids if you set any one value to some extreme
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  22. Enemies today, allies tomorrow, repeat. It's the natural way of things.
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  23. A lot of people like talking future moon missions.
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  24. You wrote that after it deployed.
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