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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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My neighbor told me he keeps running out of Δv so I asked how much fuel he has and he said he just goes to the design and adds more fuel tanks so I said it sounds like he's just using fuel to launch more fuel and then his Payload capacity started crying.

5:03 PM · 1903 · Twitter for Writing desk
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Joke tweet, styled as if posted by rocket pioneer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1903, riffing on the tyranny-of-the-rocket-equation problem (adding fuel tanks just to carry more fuel) with the punchline personifying "payload capacity" crying.

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