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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I'll be in my bunk

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Seriously? That had to be an intentional name. "Let's name our prototype after a fictional experiment that killed an entire planet of people and turned the survivors into rapey, murderous, cannibals."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Firefly is the class of ship Serenity is if I recall correctly. Don’t remember what the Reaver experiment was called.

Edit: Found it, was a chemical experiment called the Pax that had the opposite of the intended effect.

[–] Revan343 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Miranda was the planet the experiment was on

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ah you’re right

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Technically it had too much of the effect on 99% of the population. They just sat down and died because they couldn't be bothered to continue living.

The other 1% had the opposite effect x100, murder cannibals

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone also thought that Soylent is a good name for an actual product...

[–] Revan343 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Green seems to be one of the most prevalent colors for it.

[–] troyunrau 7 points 1 year ago

Should theoretically be slightly larger thrust than the Merlin 1-D. 7x engines on an Antares or similar.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Can it pull a Crazy Ivan?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] troyunrau 1 points 1 year ago

Oh that's very cool. Startup looks so rough at 80x slowdown hah!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very cool with the t tep green starter flame.

[–] troyunrau 4 points 1 year ago

TEA-TEB. Although t tep is probably a reasonable facsimile of how it is pronounced in industry...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Am I taking to Miranda now?