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[โ€“] [email protected] 61 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

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