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[mlanguishi]

Metis would be nice but:

Informal extrapolations (e.g., forum discussions or rough models) sometimes suggest ~18,000 rem/day (~180 Sv/day)

You'd die even in a lead shield within a few days on the surface. Exposed you'd be dead from direct acute neurological radiation damage in 10 minutes. Even Grok can't really say, that's from Io.

 

[Gimmick Account]

its closer

I typed in the SMA so it's probably just different ratios & FOVs. But they'd both look a lot less impressive with a full 180 fisheye to compare.

 

[mindlessobserver]

Metis would be nice but:

Informal extrapolations (e.g., forum discussions or rough models) sometimes suggest ~18,000 rem/day (~180 Sv/day)

You'd die even in a lead shield within a few days on the surface. Exposed you'd be dead from direct acute neurological radiation damage in 10 minutes. Even Grok can't really say, that's from Io.

Its crazy how much radiation Jupiter puts out. Really does make you wonder what's going on down there under the clouds. We can make some good extrapolations, but still, it must be really fucking wild.

 

[Sleazy Car Salesman]

first couple to perform the unassisted full body 360 penis in vagina helicopter drill manoeuvre we have all dreamed of

Zero G sex sounds like it'd be fucking miserable tbh. No leverage unless you velcro yourself to the wall and every single drop of fluid just goes fucking everywhere and (theoretically) floats forever until it ends up on or in something unless you take painstaking measures to ensure to collect every single iota of it.

No thanks.

 

[French Dip]

It will be like 50 years before we intentionally have children off earth and musk personally seems more set on robots as his 'preservation of consciousness' plan rather than real people so it may never happen

If it did I'd say send them directly to where they are meant to live rather than risking their horrible death in some nigger rigged boeing death trap

The Starliner problems they had were way more egregious than the 737 Max issues imo. The Max was really down to a minor miscommunication with the pilots. Had they slightly altered the runaway stabilizer procedure wording and added it to the Next Gen vs MAX differences class, they would have been in the clear. In the grand scheme of things if THAT is your biggest fuckup in the commercial airline industry in decades, I think you're doing ok. Starliner just straight up lost 6 DOF control, and could have been so much worse. I haven't read the report yet, what exactly went wrong with the thrusters?

 

[mindlessobserver]

The Starliner problems they had were way more egregious than the 737 Max issues imo. The Max was really down to a minor miscommunication with the pilots. Had they slightly altered the runaway stabilizer procedure wording and added it to the Next Gen vs MAX differences class, they would have been in the clear. In the grand scheme of things if THAT is your biggest fuckup in the commercial airline industry in decades, I think you're doing ok. Starliner just straight up lost 6 DOF control, and could have been so much worse. I haven't read the report yet, what exactly went wrong with the thrusters?

The ten thousand foot summary I read was they couldn't keep the Helium from leaking which led to a failure to properly pressurize the maneuver thrusters for the capsule. The actual "why" for how they could not keep the helium where it needed to be, maybe someone else can answer.

Im going to go with Jeetery though. Always a good go to explanation for why anything engineered or programed fails.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Its crazy how much radiation Jupiter puts out. Really does make you wonder what's going on down there under the clouds. We can make some good extrapolations, but still, it must be really fucking wild.

Less it puts out radiation and more that its electromagnetic field captures and accelerated high energy particles in a broad radiation belt. Current hypotheses about how that field is generated are varied, but tend to be some version of the dynamo theory, though that's looking pretty shaky in general these days.

Zero G sex sounds like it'd be fucking miserable tbh. No leverage unless you velcro yourself to the wall and every single drop of fluid just goes fucking everywhere and (theoretically) floats forever until it ends up on or in something unless you take painstaking measures to ensure to collect every single iota of it.

Simple solution to all these problems: two-person bag taped to the wall. Holds you in place, holds all the fluids inside, makes the whole act merely gymnastic rather than acrobatic.

 

[The Un-Clit]

Simple solution to all these problems: two-person bag taped to the wall. Holds you in place, holds all the fluids inside, makes the whole act merely gymnastic rather than acrobatic.

I have to wonder how many of us will still be alive when 'fuckbags' are standard wall-mounts on interplanetary shuttles between Earth and the Moon, as well as all space stations?

Speaking of the moon, I think low-g sex would be far more practical (and fun) then zero-g. You'd probably have to keep it to slow lovemaking rather then porn-style pounding but it would even better then screwing in a waterbed, which was pretty much the reason my (ex)wife and I went for one back in the day.

God damn I got moon-poon on the brain this morning, like being a teenager all over again here.

 

[French Dip]

The ten thousand foot summary I read was they couldn't keep the Helium from leaking which led to a failure to properly pressurize the maneuver thrusters for the capsule. The actual "why" for how they could not keep the helium where it needed to be, maybe someone else can answer.

Im going to go with Jeetery though. Always a good go to explanation for why anything engineered or programed fails.

I thought the thrusters were overheating or jamming? Did they regain control because the remaining helium warmed up and repressurized the system?

 

[MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti]

Zero G sex sounds like it'd be fucking miserable tbh. No leverage unless you velcro yourself to the wall and every single drop of fluid just goes fucking everywhere and (theoretically) floats forever until it ends up on or in something unless you take painstaking measures to ensure to collect every single iota of it.

No thanks.

Someone mentioned sex bags, but they could also make a purpose built sex chamber with grab points all around the room and its own special air filtration and purge system. All the best cruise liners will have one, probably.

The actual "why" for how they could not keep the helium where it needed to be, maybe someone else can answer.

Helium being the second smallest elemental molecule means it can leak out of nearly any imperfection in a seal. If you've ever tried to install a new shower head and couldn't get the screw-on to seal enough to stop the shower head from leaking, even with teflon tape, it's easy to imagine detecting an invisible leak would be incredibly difficult. It would be hard to detect since most dye molecules are much larger than helium so they wouldn't be able to leak while helium would.

Talking about space games, I finally reached Elite rank in trading on Elite Dangerous. I've been playing this game off and on for about a decade.

 

[Lapsus of the bepsus]

Helium being the second smallest elemental molecule means it can leak out of nearly any imperfection in a seal. If you've ever tried to install a new shower head and couldn't get the screw-on to seal enough to stop the shower head from leaking, even with teflon tape, it's easy to imagine detecting an invisible leak would be incredibly difficult. It would be hard to detect since most dye molecules are much larger than helium so they wouldn't be able to leak while helium would.

yeah pretty sure this is the same reason why hydrogen powered engines in cars are so difficult to implement, hydrogen is also volatile, flammable and reacts with oxygen which makes it dangerous. on the flipside with helium you cant even use make use of that reactivity property to detect a leak because its inert

 

[Fishnumm]

my favorite jovian moon is io

it's green and has volcanoes

 

[Gimmick Account]

Zero G sex sounds like it'd be fucking miserable tbh. No leverage unless you velcro yourself to the wall and every single drop of fluid just goes fucking everywhere and (theoretically) floats forever until it ends up on or in something unless you take painstaking measures to ensure to collect every single iota of it.

No thanks.

well you say that. but we don't do these things because they're easy, right? but because you got hard

 

[Metatron]

Metis would be nice but:

Informal extrapolations (e.g., forum discussions or rough models) sometimes suggest ~18,000 rem/day (~180 Sv/day)

You'd die even in a lead shield within a few days on the surface. Exposed you'd be dead from direct acute neurological radiation damage in 10 minutes. Even Grok can't really say, that's from Io.

Absolutely, Jupiter's magnetosphere is so intense and huge. Its tail reaches that other nigga Saturn's orbit.

But still the view must be insane. Imagine a full Jupiter, reflecting the sunlight with all its belts and patterns. Shit looks alive in the majestic yet disturbing way.

 

[French Dip]

yeah pretty sure this is the same reason why hydrogen powered engines in cars are so difficult to implement, hydrogen is also volatile, flammable and reacts with oxygen which makes it dangerous. on the flipside with helium you cant even use make use of that reactivity property to detect a leak because its inert

Hydrogen also likes to sneak between the bonds of other molecules and then push them apart. It's called hydrogen embrittlement and it slowly weakens most piping and containers.

 

[geckogoy]

I thought the thrusters were overheating or jamming? Did they regain control because the remaining helium warmed up and repressurized the system?

It was just broken nigger rigged garbage

They managed to get within a few hundred feet of the ISS and didn't have the redundancy required to actually approach, IE they were one thruster failure away from losing control. I think they had to reboot the thruster system like five times to even get to that state. They called NASA and were like we are going to die if we try to re-enter in this thing please please please just let us dock the ISS is right there. NASA said yes so they docked despite lacking redundancy, somewhat risking the ISS. Thats what I remember reading. It was unbelievably bad they were very close to dying.

 

[French Dip]

It was just broken nigger rigged garbage

They managed to get within a few hundred feet of the ISS and didn't have the redundancy required to actually approach, IE they were one thruster failure away from losing control. I think they had to reboot the thruster system like five times to even get to that state. They called NASA and were like we are going to die if we try to re-enter in this thing please please please just let us dock the ISS is right there. NASA said yes so they docked despite lacking redundancy, somewhat risking the ISS. Thats what I remember reading. It was unbelievably bad they were very close to dying.

Where'd you read that? That's insane.

 

[geckogoy]

Where'd you read that? That's insane.

Try this one I guess its fairly reputable https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/...starliner-was-like-when-its-thrusters-failed/

You can ctrl-f to here to get relatively close to the good stuff “Before the flight we had a meeting with a lot of the senior Boeing executives, including the chief engineer. [This was Naveed Hussain"

Though it gets more interesting at "And this is the part I’m sure you haven’t heard. We lost the fourth thruster. Now we’ve lost 6DOF control"

edit: boeing company-wide chief engineer naveed hussain btw

 

[mindlessobserver]

Try this one I guess its fairly reputable https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/...starliner-was-like-when-its-thrusters-failed/

You can ctrl-f to here to get relatively close to the good stuff “Before the flight we had a meeting with a lot of the senior Boeing executives, including the chief engineer. [This was Naveed Hussain"

Though it gets more interesting at "And this is the part I’m sure you haven’t heard. We lost the fourth thruster. Now we’ve lost 6DOF control"

edit: boeing company-wide chief engineer naveed hussain btw
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So it WAS Jeetery! Racism right again!

 

[Hatewerfer]

Zero G sex sounds like it'd be fucking miserable tbh. No leverage unless you velcro yourself to the wall and every single drop of fluid just goes fucking everywhere and (theoretically) floats forever until it ends up on or in something unless you take painstaking measures to ensure to collect every single iota of it.

No thanks.

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