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Back when NASA was flinging things into space for the first time, the tolerances that were even possible were extremely tight. Every pound mattered (every pound still matters, but because we have other things to do once we get to space nowadays, plus every pound is expensive).

600 pounds of white paint for the fuel tank was considered unnecessary, once the engineering team figured that it didn't actually protect the special foam covering of the fuel tank anyway. Thus the distinctive orange color!

Oh my eyes glossed over the word "paint". Thanks.

High end bicycle equipment has weight specs in grams.

Fun fact: Columbia, pictured with the white tank, was the heaviest shuttle and was not modified to have the airlock necessary to dock with the ISS because the performance losses compared to the other shuttles made it difficult to use for ISS operations.

I'm too dumb for maths because I have dyscalculia, but i am always amazed by the engineering crowd on how they could improve efficiency by finding and tweaking just the little things.

Oh, I thought the pictures were backwards. The orange being the natural color and the white being paint is really critical information for it to make sense lol

I always thought it looked cooler with the orange tank anyway

For all the people in the world except the ones from Liberia, Myanmar and the United States, 600 freedom units = ~272 kg

The real question is why the default color is orange and not white or gray.

Cooler with white, but heavier.

Its simple rocket math. Every lb of weight must consume fuel.

Si.pky. 1 lb of weight needs 1 lb of fuel to escape orbit. But the fuel has weight also. So the effective fuel you need to lift the rocket and payload is exponential.

The harder stuff is orbital mechanics. Getting things into orbit is easy. Having thwm go where you want is the hard part.

It's always hillarious to me to see boomers on expensive bikes that aim to save every gram while they could save 20kg on themselves.

But, why ? You drink a bit more water that day and it’s void.

The polyurethane spray foam insulation is orange.

But what if you drank more water and you didn't have the weight savings?

The tyranny of the rocket equation. Generally, 1% of weight is payload, 85% is fuel.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/observations/escaping-the-tyranny-of-the-rocket-equation/

Yeah same. Orange is much more iconic, glad this happened.

Cooler depends on the amount of sunlight available

It's a competition between brand. They're at the point where decrease a single gram is incredible task and are all racing to become the lightest weight and aero-est bicycle and get to claim that.

Perhaps that's why they are on a bike?

Orange makes it go faster. Not the fastest color but it's up there.

Is NASA run by orcs

If you are trying to lose weight, you should be using the worst, heaviest bike possible.

Well, it’s also fun to go places you know. If a shitty bike can only get you 20mi / 30km but a on a good one you feel confident doing a 30mi / 45km ride then the purchase makes sense.

Oh boy. That was funny.

Or skinny dudes with enormous ballsacks wearing tight Spandex on 15 pound carbon fiber bikes, but a 20 pound motorcycle lock.

Thank you, finally something sensible

Well, not if you still want to have some fun while doing so.

But I agree, that a regular bike should suffice and you don't need to worry about optimizing gear weight if you're not competing for anything and just ride it for your own well-being.

That's a stationary bike

And then you have E bike companies producing lead bricks that are non-functional without the motor doing 90% of the work. Or with the massive motorcycle seats that make pedaling actually impossible.

Well, not necessarily. A bike that's got a full carbon frame also absorbs shock and vibration from the road better. This means you can ride longer distances without getting fatigued in places like your wrists or ass. Longer rides = more exercise.

But once you have a carbon frame, chasing grams on other components gets to be a bit silly.

You could also just walk whenever possible, burns more kcals/distance

That's the default skin. It costs 100,000 doubloons to unlock the sick neon green and black skin.

But didn't it have ejection seats at one point?

That's less efficient time-wise though, since it takes significantly longer to walk the same distance compared to riding.

Ie, riding 2 hours burns FAR more calories than walking for 2 hours.

I've yet to ride a carbon frame for any amount of real distance, so idk how good they actually are.

But having a less harsh ride can also be archived by not using the thinnest pizza cutter tires at 10 bar. Especially if we care about time ridden and not avg. speed.

And it's going to be slightly harder to get the same speed out of comfy tires, so that's also more exercise.

SIX HUNDRED EL BEES? HOLY FUCK THAT'S A LOTTA PAINT.

You can just give a conversion without being snarky about it

That's 4 and half men. Or a minivan's worth of kids. Or 100 buckets of KFC

• Artemis tanks were 10m wide and 30m tall.
• Cylinder surface Area = (2.pi.r^2^) * (2.pi.r.h) ^[curved area plus top and bottom circles]
  • 2 * pi * 5 * 30 ~ 1100m^2^ to paint
• Paint paints about 10m^2^ per Litre paint
• Need 1100 / 10 = 110 Litres of paint
• 1L of paint weighs about 2kg
• 110 Litres of paint weighs about 220kg

Til dyscalculia. I hope you weren't born in asia

I am Asian 😂 I refuse to live up to the stereotype!

The sooner humans can move past rocket tech the better to be honest.

That's only if they release the DLC. Devs keep blowing their budget on the tech tree

I thought Cell was green?

So about 31 adult badgers.