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[-] Candelestine@lemmy.world 61 points 6 months ago

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 6 months ago

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

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