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.

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.

Nancy Grace Roman

She may be elderly, but she’s not quite that ancient :)

I like the way you think.

!firefly@lemmy.world?

pierced

Where does the ‘R’ come from?

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

Is that that British comedian who’s been on QI, Taskmaster, and the like?

I believe that render is outdated.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.

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

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.

Cool, lemmy try: @remindme@mstdn.social 1 hour

I think the D120 is the maximum possible isohedral (geometrically symmetric) fair die. A golf ball is probably pretty close to fair, though number 327 seems like it might be more difficult to balance than 12, 20, 30, or 60.

What is the syntax for summoning it?

Department of Enthalpy

Upvote for Getafix. (Paramix?)