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harkuponthegay t1_ja1ub0p wrote

I don’t understand your gripe here— the taxpayers are benefitting from the miniature electronic world existing— that is no small benefit, and it is enjoyed in equal measure by everyone. We all get to live in a world with better technology. In my opinion that’s worth the small percentage of my income that went towards those efforts.

If you are upset that there are people or companies that are reaping more of the profits from those technologies, then that is a complaint against capitalism… not science/technology or government investment and support for these things.

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AEMxr1 t1_ja1u8kg wrote

I would assume a grenade would work in a similar manner, but minus the gravity resulting in different speed and different types of dangers in the area, continuous as it may be. The explosion itself would have a smaller radius outside the container. I’m not sure if this would be something visible for longer than a split second depending on how far away you are in space.

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Alpha433 t1_ja1tpvb wrote

There's a sci-fi book series, the ember war saga, that actually takes this into account. In the book, when entering combat conditions, they will actually suck all the oxygen in the ship into holding tanks so a hit won't cause explosive decompression and the issue of fires for damage control tapers off. Seems obvious to a point, makes you wonder the viability of the strategy irl.

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