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A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this week
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Speaking as a layman, I just think it's fuckin' awesome how a big chonky boi can be propelled upwards at Mach Yeet and get casually dropped off in orbit.
Even though Musk is a cunt, I still love watching SpaceX streams to see big bits of metal get put upwards by lots of fire and noise, and then fuckin' land where they started seven or eight minutes later.
Science is fuckin mint, man.
“Mach yeet” is now added to my list of sentences I never knew I wanted to read
As an engineer I would like to second this motion to get "Mach Yeet" adopted as an IEC standard technical term.
If I could have crowbarred "moist" in there somewhere too, I'd have set the lexical tiktok on fire.
...if there is even one, don't come at me TNETENNBA fans!