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Stametsreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

You know... I've seen a lot of your comments and they always throw me because my cats name is also Una. I think I've said that. But none more than that one lmfao

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Stametsreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

I'm new to posting in this community but due to me making (at this point) tens of thousands of posts across multiple accounts? I tend to recognize names pretty regularly.

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Stametsreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

It's one of the reasons that I've stuck around for sure. This place feels like Reddit did back when I joined like... 15 years ago or something. Just hoping we don't develop one of those stupid fucking mottos like "The narwhal bacons at midnight" or some shit

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I’m kind of useless in the morning. Can we pencil it in for, like, 3?

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LillyPipreply
lemmy.ca

Is this what I think it is? Or is it an eyepatch?

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Normal people rarely see the above image.
When you look at Jupiter with the naked eye, you see a slightly brighter dot. The only way to tell it's not a star is that it changes position relative to them from day to day.
If you look at it with a good pair of binoculars, you can see that the dot seems to be slightly bigger than other dots. You still can't see the red spot.
If you look at it through a telescope with a 10" objective and 100x magnification, you can definitely make out the red spot and you can make out that the rest of the planet has some texture.

An image that clear and crisp takes some very expensive equipment.

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I once asked a question on here about forces involved in a gravity assist and had someone reply that it's only something in movies, it doesn't really exist.

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To that person. Huh? Nearly every interplanetary launch has been using a gravity assist to save fuel despite such journeys taking much longer

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