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taladar, 5 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

but we have an oxygen atmosphere not a chlorine one, so it’s gonna be oxygen.

Could also be fluorine but there are other good reasons not to use anything involving that as a fuel

“It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that’s the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals-steel, copper, aluminium, etc.-because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminium keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.” ― John Drury Clark, Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants

I think that bit was about Chlorine Trifluoride but I might be misremembering.

BakedCatboy, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

I think that text is from melroy, so according to him. From seeing his interactions in the kbin issue tracker I get somewhat of an egotistical impression of him, because he would often take an issue that has just been opened and not triaged or discussed what the best fix is, and he would open a PR with how he thinks it should be fixed, and it sounds like his frustration is that his hasty PRs weren’t getting merged quickly because people wanted to come to a consensus.

Maybe I’m just reading into it but it felt like he just wanted his name on something and it wasn’t happening with kbin.

Edit: I want to add that I don’t mean to shit on him as a dev or as a person - it’s possible that I’ve only seen a one-sided view of his interactions as a busy contributor who just wants to whittle down the issue list as fast as possible and that he’s got good intentions, and regardless he seems like a very capable dev. It’s just that based on my perusing of issues and discussions I’ve come across, it doesn’t seem fun to work with him to contribute, and if I were to treat the contributors list as a scoreboard and had the goal of having my name on as many commits as possible, I think it would be hard to tell us apart. I was just going to keep my thoughts about this to myself but I’ve seen some other people comment similar things in other threads about mbin so maybe it’s worth sharing my skepticism about mbin. Take from it what you will.

verysoft, 10 months ago

Perhaps they should make posts in their new kbin/fedi communties and then only allow links to them posts in their subreddits and disable commenting on reddit. People will then see the new platforms and be likely to sign-up to interact with it.

Or just let the fediverse grow organically, perhaps the masses are better off staying away, but if they are trying to protest reddit, they are doing it the wrong way.

Kalothar, 10 months ago

Probably because I spent 12+ years actively promoting Reddit to people, talking about various things I’ve read, interesting subreddits, drama all the way from unidan, cumbox, Boston bombing, original r/place, and so much more.

I was on Reddit starting around 2008 or so, before it was quite popular and a lot more wild. so ya know, it’s like saying goodbye to an old friend really, but all things pass eventually. Im excited to see what’s next.

ernest, 11 months ago

I created account today. However, I see that I have integrated my account with Stripe, and I can already see that funds are being transferred directly there.