Meteorite impacts have a blinding flash during which the water cannot be watched, allowing it to boil much more effectively.
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“Some people say that a watched pot never boils. We’ve tested that, and it’s bullshit! A watched pot does boil. It just takes a little longer.”
— Paul McDermott, of the Doug Anthony Allstars.
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Going to space in a KFC bucket?
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Just as long as re-entry isn’t extra crispy.
Pretty much a further development of the Soyuz and Shenzhou capsules, i.e. a proven design.
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The final fate of the probe is unclear, other than a terse “the Kosmos-482 spacecraft ceased to exist” from Roscosmos via a translation service.
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This lander is no more! It has ceased to be. It’s expired and gone to meet its maker.This is a late lander. It’s a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. It’s rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-lander.
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I didn’t know there were fjords in the Indian Ocean
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I’ve thought for some time that primitive life is likely common in the universe, but that intelligent life is less so, and this ties into a solution for the Fermi Paradox, which makes a lot of sense to me, and involves logical thinking rather than statistical analysis.
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