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Almost forgot to look in our own backyard (startrek.website)

submitted 8 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Candelestine@lemmy.world 61 points 8 months ago (1 children)

tbf, discovering Uranus was a lot less deadly before modern icebreaking ships. Age of Sail ships did not do well down there, and the economic incentives of sealing resulted in quite a lot of casualties back in the day. Doing math and peering through telescopes is much safer.

[–] DharmaCurious@startrek.website 3 points 8 months ago

You say this, but you've never seen me try to math