Share your Austere August shave of the day for Monday!

  • djundjilaMA
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    1 year ago

    Even though I feel like I’m approaching Avogadro’s number of soaps

    That’s my “problem” too, so many nice soaps, and all of them take forever to use up :D

    I’m seriously considering just staying with 70th until it is done.

    That’s 75% of u/EldrormR’s Big Brain Bowl Bonanza. You’ll need that [REDACTED] brush to speed things up ;)

    (useless side musing: Avogadro’s number of soaps would weigh in at about 60 Yg, while Earth’s total biomass comes to 3 Eg. It’s time to get that space exploration going, I want space tallow)

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      1 year ago

      Avogadro’s number of soaps would weigh in at about 60 Yg

      I may have exaggerated a little bit.

      You’ll need that [REDACTED] brush to speed things up ;)

      I love that thing. Can’t wait to learn the details.

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        1 year ago

        I may have exaggerated a little bit.

        maybe. I still want space tallow, though :)

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          1 year ago

          You know, much of my engineering career was spent working on big budget, one-of-a-kind spacecraft programs. Amazingly, space tallow never came up :) If we’re talking 60 Yg, orbital mechanics will be interesting.

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            1 year ago

            I did not know that about your career! You’re only the third NASA (or NASA-adjacent?) person I’ve met.

            orbital mechanics will be interesting.

            Yup, and we better figure out a space elevator before landing that tallow

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              1 year ago

              I have worked on some NASA programs, but most of my work was oriented towards national security.

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                1 year ago

                Now I think of you as Gene Hackman doing this 😆

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                    1 year ago

                    After double-checking with my old friend Rayleigh to estimate the aperture size necessary for this, your interest in orbital mechanics of huge masses makes more sense 😅