• freamon@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    God, no. That thing with the submersible shows we can’t even explore our own ocean without exploding.

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      1 year ago

      That thing with the submersible shows we can’t even explore our own ocean without exploding.

      To be fair, it’s much easier to build a capsule that can withstand 1 bar of negative pressure than to build a submarine that can withstand 350 bar of positive pressure.

      Of course, the terrifying part with space flight is that your capsule then has to be strapped to a gigantic tower full of exploding rocket fuel designed to hurl you into space on a very specific trajectory with very small margins of error.