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rocketwikkit827 karma

Did Jamie Hyneman just quote "YEAH BITCH, MAGNETS!"? My brain stopped.

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You should read "The Wisdom of Crowds". It explains how often a small group of skilled people will work worse than a large group of average people.

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The station doesn't have enough propellant to make it out of orbit, even if you ran all the Soyuz and resupply vehicle engines.

Thermal management is also designed with the assumption that Earth is taking up near half of the view from the station, and it's much warmer than space in terms of blackbody temperature.

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What do you see as the CSF's public role? In public view it doesn't seem to do anything other than put out press releases when its members are in the news.

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Hello Mr. Hyneman. Do you miss making props and the other work you did as M5 before Mythbusters, or does the fact that the myths are more self-directed make it more fulfilling to do?

If MB was to end and you started a new career, any thoughts as to what you'd like to do?