Oszilloraptor

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if we aimed the Hubble Telescope at Earth? - Minute Earth are working together with xkcd to animate "What If" questions!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing. It just wouldn’t reach the rotation rate in the first place. (and the camera equipment would be unusable due to the vibrations of the gyros long before it reaches theoretical maximum, as already stated in the video)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if we aimed the Hubble Telescope at Earth? - Minute Earth are working together with xkcd to animate "What If" questions!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You cannot spin up gyros indefinitely like e.g. in KSP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if we aimed the Hubble Telescope at Earth? - Minute Earth are working together with xkcd to animate "What If" questions!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The sattelite bus for the KH-11 Spy sattelites uses thrusters for orientation (and has a huge propellant tank) while the Hubble sattelite bus uses several gyroscopes for orientation. They are not as similar as you might think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if we aimed the Hubble Telescope at Earth? - Minute Earth are working together with xkcd to animate "What If" questions!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They have to rotate it fast enough, and hubble is not built to rotate that fast

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Making plans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see the connection?

  I mean, the answer is actually yes, but I don’t understand how you come up with the question

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Making plans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was younger (and it wasn’t about drinking but smoking):

  ?

  !