Explosions&Fire

For the very first time, Extractions&Ire is attending OpenSauce! It’s all happening in San Francisco, very soon! July 17-19th. Hope to see you there!!

@MattGialich Are you wanting to mine metallic or non-metallic asteroids? Hard to tell from your phrasing and always very interested in this stuff

This image was taken of a 30M wide Near Earth Asteroid. This is now the smallest asteroid we have ever visited as a human species. The only issue, this was taken by the Chinese Tianwen-2 mission. This should be a wake-up call. America is no longer guaranteed to be the dominant force in space exploration. We are losing ground, fast. This object is not metallic, the asteroids we want to mine. Telescope spectra are consistent with it being silicate rich, and one reputable study suggested it could even be an ejected fragment from Earth’s Moon.

been working 70 hours a week at my 28 hours a week post doc job. Worst bit: I’ve been enjoying it

Thanks grzegorz, I am extremely bad at prioritising tasks!!! also the doctors give me amphetamine now

i say hooley dooley in the next video. probably the phrase that conveys i'm under the highest level of stress imaginable

cooking! In new and increasingly abstract ways

I love Type 3 fun. Type 3 fun is like Type 2 fun but you need to comply with ITAR.

@endless_sine Who is going to read the harsh reviewer comments then? Will someone else do your minor corrections to ensure it does get published sometime in the next 14 months?

low aura: killing yourself and making a post about it high aura: maxing out a credit card before death to spend 10 grand submitting your suicide note to Nature

@DeltaClimbs @vc What about copper/diamond or silver/diamond composites? Could probably CTE match it to the SiC

@vc That's when we would start considering graphite materials that require thermal barrier coatings. Pitch carbon fiber composites can have exceedingly high thermal conductivity in axis, but would have to think about how to orient given not great off-axis properties.

People keep asking me for this pan If any VCs want to come in with a $500k pre-seed check at $5m cap we can cook You want hardtech? At 30 GPa Vickers, silicon carbide almost goes as hard as me

After a hard day at the office there’s nothing like pouring a nice whisky in your Grimace glass and reflecting upon where your life went wrong.

@ATinyGreenCell to Hold On brother

@Explosions_Fire Brother why do you grip the holy fish so

if you have a fillet of fish on Good friday they let you see the Gates of heaven , from the inside. I think

@GlowHobbit I genuinely think that a fillet of fish bought in Australia is 75% LPG. McDonald’s have not stated otherwise, and it checks out

@Explosions_Fire How flammable can one make a filet-o-fish?

@hexane360 im still eating it. Little at a time, pacing myself

@Explosions_Fire Tom you're a week late

@DickTrout @ViraXVespa I love Japan

@ViraXVespa @Explosions_Fire you dead man?

Has anyone checked on Australian Twitter? I'm guessing their reach is being impacted by timezone overlaps with Japan.

there won't be a second date, but at least now she knows that the levels of xenon isotope in the Martian atmosphere are consistent with the aftermath of a nuclear bombardment

@Ascii211 i will fix this issue in post

@Explosions_Fire No piss filter for backroomsmaxxing?

where i'm posting

@EggyManSam @cluckingchooky Yeah kinda feel bad for the charity, they probably planned this campaign long in advanced and it’s lined up so badly. But also, it always seems like such bad energy to force customer service staff to push charity donations at big chains

@cluckingchooky @Explosions_Fire lol I may work there and we have the red kite fundraiser on atm that they’re really pushing us to ask everyone

Paid $3.15/L for diesel and the bloke at the counter asked me if I wanted to round up for charity. Yo dude sorry but read da room