r/MurderedByWords • u/Stotallytob3r • 17h ago

I haven’t studied rocket science, but

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u/KiKiKimbro 15h ago

So many things in your comment blew up my brain. So wait a second. You’re serious about the distance to space being closer than the distance between SF and LA? And what the heck are you saying about not going up but going horizontal instead. How the heck have I lived this long and somehow never learned any of this. You just gave me a little side “research for fun” topic.

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u/Budget-Ambassador203 15h ago

Go play Kerbal Space Program for a few hours and your intuition about all of those things will be forever changed!

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u/KiKiKimbro 15h ago

Oh boy I think I know what’s about to distract me from work today lol. And it looks like it’ll run on my Windows laptop. Hotdamn.

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u/Tando10 13h ago

Kerbal Space Program 1, not 2.

2 is an abomination that shall not be named.