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Do people really believe the space shuttle was real?

>> No.15749916

>>15749878
>I'm Retarded: The Post

>> No.15749919
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>>15749878
You do realize it didn't just take off and fly up into space... right?

>> No.15749920

>>15749878
Dude, a lumpy rock dropped from space would achieve those speeds easily, without an engine or aerodynamic design.

>> No.15749985

>>15749878
The space shuttle was designed to go from Mach 23 to 0 km/h in the span of 8 minutes.

>> No.15750006

>>15749878
The acceleration is not provided by the plane itself.. never mind, conspiratards need to be [fill in the blank]

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>>15749878
>How fast does the ISS travel?
>The ISS travels at about 17,500 miles/28,000 kilometers per hour (8 km per second). At this speed, the ISS orbits the Earth every 90 minutes.

>> No.15750081

can you do retards stay in /pol/
yes do, do stay in /pol/.

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>>15749985
Well, it kinda did

>> No.15750127

>>15750094
Okay, 8min was a bit of an exaggeration. It's more like 30min

>> No.15750307

>>15749878
There's a difference between powered flight at Mach 3.2 and effectively falling down at Mach 3.2.

>> No.15750665

From what I remember about the shuttle the #1 design constraint is keeping it from melting on re entry and for that blunt shapes are better. Everything else is secondary to that

>> No.15750670

>>15750094
I saw this with my naked eye. I live in east texas and was outside mowing the lawn at the time.

>> No.15750674

>>15749878
Read this, nigger brain: https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4305/ch12.htm

>> No.15750677

Why are the most retarded posts always on Sundays?

>> No.15750681

>>15750665
Correct, the frame of the plane was made out of aluminum with a fairly low melting point. The design of the thermal protection system derives from that.

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I don't care if it was a wasteful deathtrap, the shuttle is still the GOAT manned space vehicle

>> No.15750690

>>15750677
Atheists are posting while the smart people are in church.

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>>15750685
based take

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This is now a shuttle appreciation thread.

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>> No.15750699

>>15750690
Because atheists are well known for being flattards.
Retard.

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>>15750699
flat earthers are not genuine people, they are miserable cretinous trolls.

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>>15750709
Most of them are, but unfortunately some people are dumb enough to believe any retarded thing if there's enough trolls shilling it.

>> No.15750739

>>15750700
>>15750702
It's crazy because on descent it was just a huge fucking glider

>> No.15750741

We must restart the shuttle program

>> No.15750746

>>15750741
That's basically what Starship is turning into, but better.

>> No.15750748

>>15750677
OP here. Funny thing is i even had to work today

>> No.15750756

>>15750748
>Working on Sunday
It's okay anon, we'll hold down the fort while you bag groceries.

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>>15750748
Loser

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reminder that Mir remains the most aesthetic space station ever created

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The white paint was structural, the Shuttle program was doomed the moment they got rid of the paint.

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>>15750765

>> No.15750770

>>15750758
I gave a presentation at the annual meeting of the Japanese physical society, I think I'm doing ok

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>>15750770
If you weren't a miserable cretin, you wouldn't be creating flat earth threads.

>> No.15750774

>>15750758
Beautiful death trap

>> No.15750786

>>15750773
Why would I be a cretin? Look up where the meeting is and then ask yourself if the people here are putting to iodine deficiency. Spoiler: they give you iodine if a nuclear reactor blows up near you.

>> No.15750811

>>15750709
They do exist unfortunately. They are also the very same people driving /pol/tier garbage threads and """"ideas"""""
It's well known that nutters in one domain translate to nutters in many related dumbfuck fields.

>> No.15750850

>>15749878
>Just take off like a plane from a runway and pull the stick straight back until you are in space
/sci/ - Science & Math

>> No.15750868

>>15750850
>a rocket
>taking off from a runway
Nigger what

>> No.15750940

>>15750850
see >>15749919
Fucking idiot.

>> No.15750971

>>15750307
Shuttle achieves extremely high Mach numbers at launch powered by internal engines and while carrying an enormous auxiliary fuel tank.

>> No.15750978

>>15750868
>>15750940
/sci/ - Science & Math

>> No.15751071

>>15750978
[math]\vec p = m \vec v[/math] is both science and math, yes.

>> No.15751667

I won't respect NASA until they revive venturestar

>> No.15751673

>>15749878
>I've never taken a compressible aerodynamics or thermodynamics class

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>>15749878

>> No.15751766

>>15750081
he said do do

>> No.15752025

>>15749878
Shuttle clears the densest part of the atmosphere fairly quickly when launching. Eventually it's travelling much faster than the Blackbird but that's in orbit where air drag is negligible.

>> No.15752059

>>15749878
>t. Doesn't know what drag is

>> No.15752063

>>15751071
>he doesn't know mass is also a vector

>> No.15752210

>>15750681
mass autism so bad they made it heavier by making it light
if they went with heavier metals that have reasonable thermal properties (stainless, titanium) the TPS could have been half as thick, or even less

>> No.15752221

>>15749878
As real as Buran and Energia

>> No.15752231

>>15750702
this video is cool as FUCK

>> No.15752927

The Space Shuttle is the coolest vehicle every built.

>> No.15752941

>>15752059
That's a groomer isn't it?

>> No.15753125

>>15750039
that doesn't look aerodynamic at all why doesn't it get ripped to shreds

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>>15753125
The air up there is extremely thin, so thin that it can only exert a very tiny amount of drag, virtually imperceptible but not zero. This is why they have to reboost the space station periodically, as seen on this chart.