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Don't recall the exact numbers, but shaving a pound of weight off the ship means about a pound less fuel needed to reach orbit. That 2lbs less weight meant the motor needed to produce 2lbs less thrust. That equals a smaller capsule, a smaller fuel tank and a smaller engine. I recall reading in the past, somewhat tongue in cheek, that one less cheeseburger consumed, shaved 10lbs off the total vehicle weight.
 
I understand what you are saying about saving weight and being able to survive at lower pressures. What I don't understand is the heightened risk of pure oxygen if there is a fire. In my peanut brain I could see pure oxygen in the space suits but not in the cabin.
 

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GLJ said:
What I don't understand is the heightened risk of pure oxygen if there is a fire.
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Everything in spaceship design and construction comes back to weight... everything revolves around weight.
Take a gas storage cylinder that's pressurized to 1000psi. If it's filled with pure oxygen, that's 5 times the breathable gas air would be, because air only has about 20% oxygen. Put another way, they would need 5 times as many gas cylinders filled with air than they would filled with oxygen. That's 5 times the weight needed just to give the crew something to breathe.

Another bonus, oxygen can be reduced to liquid (LOX) and then boiled off into a gas for breathing and capsule pressure. That gives a magnitude more crew breathing capacity than air.
And air can't be stored as a liquid iirc.... as it separates into it's component parts as it's cooled. Even if it could be cooled into a liquid without separating, the LOX still has a huge advantage in breaths per lb of weight.
 
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Wow!

Those hexagonal columns of crystallised basalt are the same geology that forms the Giants Causeway in N Ireland. A spectacular place to visit and a true natural wonder.

Hexagonal basalt columns are also found in Fingal's Cave, on the Isle of Staffa in the Hebrides across the sea from N Ireland. Legend has it that an Irish giant named Finn McCool created a causeway across the Irish Sea to face his rival, the Scottish giant Benandonner. There was a huge fight and the loser, Benandonner smashed up the causeway.

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The picture doesn't do justice to the reality of the Giant's Causeway.
 
Yupper a one time only occurrence to be transported to a cool riding destination. Luckily for me doc gggGary was on the scene. It only hurt when I thought about it or used the hand, so we rode another couple hours haha.
 
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I am deeply interested in the semantic usage of popularized catchphrase (how did that happen anyway?) "misinformation". Lie is understandable, it's deliberately wrong. Misinformation is perhaps a disguised ad hominem - there's probably a precise term in classical rhetoric... I ditched school that day. Term "MI" in semantic value seems to mean what anybody says that might not support the lies the state favors at the moment. Some people vie to anticipate the lies. This is amazing. Also very entertaining to observe in operation... ;) Withal, O! let's have more misinformation! Then we may examine and decide for ourselves.
 
This fits "Just a Joke" or WTF. Considering modern sensibilities I selected WTF. WTF because it's a set of circumstances I cannot imagine or stomach.
My aunt celebrated he 80th birthday yesterday. She is the 7th of eight in her large Catholic family. My mom was 4th or 5th. Francis, 80 and Ester, 90 are the only remaining. My deceased aunts and uncles lived full and rewarding lives and passed on after long productive lives. Nasa and Milwaukee Tool patents and some accounting copywrites scattered across the bloodline. No slouches there.
Anyway Francis turned 90. One of the few February birthdays in the clan. The rest were January birthdays, mom was January 7th. WTF does mom and uncle's and aunt's birthdays have to do with WTF.
Grandma and Grampa were devout Catholics and of a generation of poverty, self reliance and outdoor plumbing. By the late 20s they did have indoor plumbing. Grandpa was a man of habbit as well as faith so on Good Friday each year he took his annual bath and his children were all born roughly 9 months later. WTF
 

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