Japan space agency blows up eight satellites aboard Epsilon rocket

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is in damage control mode after a launch of its Epsilon rocket was terminated with a self-destruct command on Wednesday. Epsilon is Japan’s small, cheap, launch platform. The solid-fuel powered craft can carry payloads totalling 590kg into orbit. It's designed for low-cost …

[Pascal Monett]

Yup, space is still hard

It doesn't matter how many rockets are being made, the chance of failure is never zero.

[Phil O'Sophical]

Re: Yup, space is still hard

That's true of life in general.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Yup, space is still hard

Not the first "Immolated Satellite Technology Demonstration". Won't be the last.

[Spherical Cow]

Re: Yup, space is still hard

It does matter how many: if none are being made, the chance of failure is zero.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Yup, space is still hard

"Japan's minister of education, culture, sports, science and technology, apologized on behalf of JAXA for not meeting the expectations of the Japanese people. The Ministry he leads has launched a task force to determine the cause of the failure."

I can't help wondering if someone lower down the chain was found to be responsible, will they be made to fall on their sword, so to speak?

[MJB7]

Sensitive image

What on _earth_ made Twitter think that a couple of shots of England from space might be "sensitive"?

[RockBurner]

Re: Sensitive image

Obviously pandering to the flat-earthers

[Valeyard]

Re: Sensitive image

it's twitter, there's always someone to be offended

[Little Mouse]

Re: Sensitive image

There's a lot of people down there. I bet some of them were up to no good when the shots were taken.

[Mark 85]

Re: Sensitive image

There's a lot of people down there. I bet some of them were up to no good when the shots were taken.

And some are probably naked. Call in the censors......

[DS999]

Re: Sensitive image

I thought I saw a suspiciously flesh colored pixel in there

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Sensitive image

Clearly Twitter and the folks that run it are completely batshit insane. Hopefully there'll be a brutal purge and/or exodus under the upcoming change of leadership.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Sensitive image

A purge and/or exodus? Yeah, replacing the batshit insane with some even worse, such as truly malicious.

I'll take watching the insane over the malicious, please; it's more entertaining.

[Scott 53]

Re: Sensitive image

"pass" - if they'd spelled it the English way (parse) it wouldn't have raised the flag.

[John Brown (no body)]

Re: Sensitive image

Agoraphobics and/or Acrophobics?

[crayon]

Maybe they should ask for help from the DPRK, they seem to be pretty hot at launching rockets.

[imanidiot]

It's easy to let people think you have a 100% success rate if you never tell them about all the launch attempts that exploded on the pad or seconds into flight.

[elregidente]

Do NOT rinse after brushing - re-mineralization proceeds for at least 30 minutes

PSA : toothpaste (usually) is stuffed full of fluoride, and when in contact with teeth, it donates fluoride to the enamel - a process known as re-mineralization, because the opposite, de-minerialization - is what happens all the time when you eat food, where acids attack the enamel.

Brush you teeth, then leave it on your teeth for at least 30 minutes. Prolly still doing some good up to the hour mark, but 30 minutes will be fine.

[yetanotheraoc]

Re: Do NOT rinse after brushing - re-mineralization proceeds for at least 30 minutes

I suppose we can trust brushing advice from someone with the nickname elregidente. Although contrariwise my hygienist instructed me to brush, floss, rinse; no mention of waiting 30 minutes.

[imanidiot]

Re: Do NOT rinse after brushing - re-mineralization proceeds for at least 30 minutes

I would if they would stop making every single smegging toothpaste so minty it makes me want to gag. I want that shit out of my mouth asap. And because of the addition of those useless foaming agents it usually also means having to rinse like 10 times because it just keeps sticking around.

[andy gibson]

toothpaste

Just take up one of these dispensers you see at motorway services

https://i.redd.it/1210umrcr6i31.jpg

[John Brown (no body)]

Why does non-foaming toothpaste mean no need to rinse?

Is it ok to swallow, along with all the rotting debris you just dislodged? And isn't toothpaste only foamey because they add a foaming agent anyway?

[imanidiot]

Re: Why does non-foaming toothpaste mean no need to rinse?

If whatever is in your mouth is already to the point of rotting (and being actually bad for you) you might want to consider brushing your teeth more often. Once a day at bare minimum, preferably twice. Even then, if it's sticking around in your mouth your probably swallowing small bits of it throughout the day anyway, I can't imagine swallowing a bit more of it at the same time is going to make much of a health impact if it had any.

And yes, toothpaste is only foamy because of foaming agents and it absolutely doesn't need any.