Thanks, good to know!

I’m curious as to why the community name is still in English, rather than something like “Gemeinschaftsförderung”.

A bit more spaceflight than astronomy, but I enjoy Main Engine Cut Off by Anthony Colangelo. Roughly half an hour of spaceflight news/updates, a couple times a month.

Maybe at least now the discussions can happen there instead?

Paraphrased from u/Jodo42 in The Other Place:

Step 1: Eric Berger reports something will happen in spaceflight before other organizations. (You are here)

Step 2: “Berger is a liar and a d*ckrider, this is nonsense”

Step 3: Government organization confirms they are “considering their options”; meltdown begins.

Step 4: Government organization makes the only sensible decision. It’s all Elon’s fault.

We will just have to wait and see what happens. The next four years will be… interesting, to say the least.

https://youtu.be/jHiZNeADqKs

!firefly@lemmy.world?

That makes much more sense. Here I was thinking “Guidance, Navigation, and Control”.

Tangentially related Technology Connections video: The Numitron: An obvious idea that wasn’t very bright

I believe that render is outdated. The Long March 9 has undergone a quite a few redesigns over the years.

The original ARS Technica article this Wired article was based on includes a more recent mockup of Long March 9:

That’s because the stock image Wired used is of a Long March 5, not Long March 9.

Lemmy follows CommonMark, which is similar but not exactly the same as what was used in The Other Place. I do wish Lemmy supported some form of in-line spoilers.

Yes, but since faces are essentially distributed over a cylinder, rather than a sphere, it is more of an issue.

“52 weeks o’ fart”

He looks like he’s already had enough of our sh*t.

Nice to see some more writing communities on Lemmy. Not sure if I’ll have much to contribute, but if I do, I’ll know where to post it!

there is no post at all for the moment?

I currently see two posts. If you are the first user from your server to visit the community, you might need to subscribe to trigger federation, which could take a minute or two.

Good bot!

shouldn’t you be able to go to 240?

Not really. The faces of the D120 are already asymmetric (scalene) triangles. There’s no way to split these into additional faces while keeping them all the same shape.

Any larger geometrically fair die would have to be from an infinite family (prisms, bipyramids, and trapezohedra), which are “impractical in reality due to the tendency to roll for a long time”.

there are gaps between some faces and there arent on others, so it really isnt well balanced

But as long as all the faces are the same size, and the die never lands on the gaps (or is rerolled if it does), would that be a fair die?

I just got here and don’t know the backstory, but this looks super cool.