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It'll probably turn out fine (in the same way that you'll probably survive one round of Russian roulette.) I am quite nervous about this though.

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Get nervous in 10 days, they won't need a heat shield until reentry.

10 days? Hope they brought snacks

Seriously though I hope they're able to get up and walk around

I don't know if I could handle that 10 days in that small room

They can move around after they switch from launch to spaceflight config. Apparently they also have some exercise gear for the journey.

It is just the capsule though? There's no stage under them/another cylinder? Module

Trying to imagine how big the thing is like 10x10 feet room

Just the capsule - there is a module but it can’t be reached and is for more engines that they will leave behind.

ABC News says 330 habitable cubic feet or about the interior space of two minivans.

> ABC News says 330 habitable cubic feet or about the interior space of two minivans

I did lockdown in a ~450 sq. ft. Habitable under 400. Partner. Cat. Me. The astronauts will be fine.

~450 square feet, with how many feet in the third dimension? You probably had an order of magnitude more volume than 330 cubic feet there.

> You probably had an order of magnitude more volume than 330 cubic feet there

I’m 6’, so that’s the usable volume. (I’m not claustrophobic heighwise.)

I honestly don’t see an issue spending a couple days with folks I respect and admire in close quarters for ten days.

You don't get it. Your 400sqft apartment needs to be shrunk by a factor of 6 to have the same area as the Orion. Try living in an 8x8 foot square for a couple weeks.

> You don't get it

Have you ever been on a boat?

The boat you can step outside of, have a sky

> boat you can step outside of, have a sky

Not in a storm you can't! Granted I didn't do ten days. But I was with two other people for close to a week and it was...fine. We're old friends. There were moments it got annoying. But it was never boring or restrictive. We just played games, drank, looked out of the portholes, cursed hangovers and talked the one person who occasionally wanted to call it.

Yeah that sounds fun and closed spaces can be cozy too, at least especially when there isn't certain death outside

> Have you ever been on a boat?

What is a "boat"?

That’s unfair as well - in space, more of the volume is usable. Perhaps equivalent to 2X 1G volume would be fairer.

330 cubic feet =~ 9.3m²

A cube with an edge of 2.1 meters.

Seems like its at least bigger than the Apollo Lunar Module from the 70's

And with modern forms of entertainment to make the trip less boring.

> And with modern forms of entertainment

"We're sorry, your Prime subscription appears to have cancelled. Would you like to renew it? We can send you a text message to get this started ..."

I wonder if Starlink works if the dish is above the satellites. Technically GPS can work from the moon.

Starlink uses phased arrays pointed at the ground but lasers between satellites. So it wouldn’t be impossible to spin one around and have it bounce traffic to earth through the swarm pointing down.

But these satellites are very close to earth compared to the moon. It wouldn’t only save 0.3% transmit power vs just sending right to the surface. It’s very unlikely the consumer antennas could manage hitting an earth satellite from the moon.

> Technically GPS can work from the moon.

Well, one side of it.

Actually, it's all dark.

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I don't think I would be bored in this trip!

Astronauts are made of different stuff. Truly the best of the best.

I hope they will be able to stretch their legs on the moon.

... it's an orbital mission. They're orbiting the moon, not landing.

They're not getting off at the moon, it's just a fly by.

I've heard it feels a lot bigger once you're in freefall. Imagine if you could use all of your room's surfaces as floor space. I would think your room would feel a lot bigger.

Forget about the snacks, I wonder about the toilet in 10 days in such cramped living conditions.

Toilet fan has already jammed. Not sure if this means the shit has, or hasn't, hit the fan.

They fixed it, fortunately:

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis/theres-a-bit...

> in the same way that you'll probably survive one round of Russian roulette

Is that with or without spinning the chamber between rounds? The odds are worse if you spin each time. They get worse as the game goes on if you don't spin.

> The odds are worse if you spin each time.

How do they get worse if you spin? It’s still 1/6 odds of dying,iid events.

Erm no. If it goes a round and gets passed without spinning, the chances change of course. It is 1/6, 1/5, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, .. 1

I didn't think of the gun getting passed around. To me, "one round" is pulling the trigger once after spinning the cylinder with one bullet. 1-in-6 chance of dying, you'll probably live. That's how I feel about this mission, I think they'll probably live, but man I'm nervous.

... 1/0

It's 6/11 overall chance of dying if spinning, no?

From a quick search, this page explains it: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/RussianRoulette.html

Dude, it's a nerd-snipe conversation derailing attempt. Don't take the bait.

Talk about space stuff here, not the statistical nature of Russian roulette.

How about don't tell other people what they can and can't talk about, and just ignore side threads you don't care about?

There are about 500 different HN browser extensions that let you collapse threads, btw.

Not parent, but I am genuinely curious: is there a Hacker News browser extension you'd recommend? The text is so small by default that even though I'd like to read on my desktop, I typically only browse it via the Hacki android app.

I vibe-coded one using one of the web-based tools (I think Replit?) maybe a year and a half ago. Just added vote tracking by username, tagging, colored usernames, that sort of thing. Only took a on average 1-2 prompts per feature, I did it in under an hour start to finish.

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