Someone tell the left about how hot space is....
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Hey look , literally the one thing I'm a subject matter expert in besides eating pussy.
I've helped design modern solar fins for spacecraft. To put it mildly, every single part of this meme is wrong, and whoever wrote it should contact their high school about getting their money back.
Can you elaborate? I get the gist of the problem but would love a technical breakdown.
Vacuum is an insulator and the solar panels get raw, unfiltered energy from the sun. Whereas on Earth, there's shit like an atmosphere that blunts the power of the sun's radiation, on top of air rapidly cooling panels and slowing chemical reactions down to whatever you're trying to power via conduction.
Yeah, the issue for spacecraft generally isn't that they cannot keep warm.
It's that they cannot dump the heat they are already generating.
For instance, look at the picture. Note the huge radiator arrays? Those had to be lifted in to orbit at horrendous cost. That wasn't done by accident - this is not a facility struggling to stay warm, far, far from it.
how would guns work in space? fire couple shots and wait for it to cool down? swappable heat sinks?