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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 4 months ago

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    What I see: level up flush

    • undeffeined@lemmy.ml
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      Fellow Balatro enjoyer

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    It’s also a shield for earth.

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    LMFAO

    • 𝔄 𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔦𝔢𝔫𝔱 𝔭𝔦𝔢𝔠𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔠𝔥𝔢𝔢𝔰𝔢@lemmy.world
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      Long Mission Fling Assisted Operation

      • MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca
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        Wow

        • Hadriscus@jlai.lu
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          or the Way Of Woosh, yes indeed, you’re spot-on with your acronyms

  • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.ca
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    I can’t help but infer a joke about NASAs budget.

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    This is a sling. Bottom right corner is a catapult and uses stored energy (the elastic - sorry if wrong wording.) To me at least the idea of a sling that pivots around the user’s hand is much closer to the action of using a planet’s gravitational pull to sling a satellite craft onwards.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sling_(weapon)

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      You wouldn’t want to do it with a satellite and I’ve only ever heard of it being called a slingshot (which usually refers to the device pictured in the meme, likely increasing clarity) or a gravity assist.

      The motion does seem to be more accurate though.

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        Good point! A satellite is more likely to orbit a planet monitoring things I guess? It’s been a while since I’ve played Kerbal Space Program.

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          Satellites are objects orbiting a planet or some other smaller object. One could argue that it is a satellite on the way though too.

          I find the idea of an object like the moon doing a gravity assist around Jupiter to get to us very amusing.

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    What bothers me is I often read they are using the planet’s gravity to gain speed. Whatever speed an objet may gain while entering orbit should be lost when exiting it, right ? So I guess it’s the cinetic energy of the planet that is actually fuelling the spacecraft, isn’t it ?

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