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The phantom found Edward Everett Hale a century too early; by the time we invented satellites, the specifics of his 'brick moon' proposal were dismissed as science fiction.
this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2023
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Does Randall also work on explainxkcd? Because the explanation for the Trojan Horse seems to be pretty far fetched. Although I can't think of a better explanation either.
Lmao
I love the variety of places explainxkcd editors find to slip in a "citation needed".
You can find those in the what if series too.
“Outer space is a lot higher up than Niagara Falls,[citation needed] so the plunge down into the atmosphere at the bottom of Earth's gravity well adds a lot more than 0.1 degrees worth of heat.”
Source
I think explainxkcd is unofficial and crowdsourced?
Correct. I won't say that Randall has no input, but we can check the revision history to see all the different people that made edits.
I guess the idea is that if a competent engineer had been in charge of the Trojan Horse project, the ancient Greeks would've used an aluminum frame with a mylar fabric covering.
That was the same explanation I came up with.