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What do we think about the new episode?

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apod

2026 June 5

The Hydra Cluster of Galaxies Image Credit & Copyright: Rafael Sampaio

Explanation: Within our own Milky Way galaxy, two bright, spiky stars stand like sentinels in the foreground of this cosmic snapshot. Far beyond them are the galaxies of the Hydra Cluster. In fact, while the spiky foreground stars are hundreds of light-years distant, the Hydra Cluster galaxies are well over 100 million light-years away. Three large galaxies near the cluster center, two yellow ellipticals (NGC 3311, NGC 3309) and one prominent blue spiral (NGC 3312), are the dominant galaxies, each about 150,000 light-years in diameter. An intriguing overlapping galaxy pair cataloged as NGC 3314 lies above and left of NGC 3312. Also known as Abell 1060, the Hydra galaxy cluster is one of three large galaxy clusters within 200 million light-years of the Milky Way. In the nearby universe, galaxies are gravitationally bound into clusters which themselves are loosely bound into superclusters. Superclusters in turn are seen to align over even larger scales.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260605.html

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haha nooooo fandom don't sand off all the rough edges and pointy bits off of that character those are the parts I scratch my brain with

seeingteacupsindragons

There are a number of scientific inaccuracies in Dr. STONE for a lot of reasons, some plot necessary, some because it just didn't really matter.

None of them drive me more insane than the use of firearms on the moon.

You can't shoot a fucking gun on the moon.

Where is the oxygen for the combustion needed to spark the gunpowder into exploding? Exactly!

Where is the oxygen needed for the combustion of the grenades on the net launcher? Exactly!

You cannot have combustion without oxygen. Please consult the fire triangle:

Something the moon famously does not have. And you cannot have a firearm without combustion. It's. Sort of in the name.

Not all gun-type weapons are firearms. Xeno's railgun for instance is not actually a firearm (see again: combustion), but the guns they're using on the moon are definitely not that.

It could be an airsoft gun, maybe? Pressurized air would still be able to propel a gun, I think (not sure what would happen to the canisters on the trip and I am not looking it up). Or some spring loaded thing. But that doesn't explain the grenade half.

So no, somehow, they are using guns on the moon.

space-wild707

I was thinking about this again because something felt off so I looked it up and it seems modern guns have built-in oxidizers to trigger the reaction.

https://www.livescience.com/18588-shoot-gun-space.html

And here's a video of a gun shooting underwater for fun.

So that's not the main problem.

I would be more concerned about how the weapons tolerate the extreme temperatures on the Moon and the vacuum of space.

seeingteacupsindragons

I wonder about this article. It seems entirely theoretical. This article doesn't mention anyone ever actually testing this. Everything about it says, "In theory."

And theory is great, until it meets practice and falls completely apart. In theory oxidizers in gunpowder would make it fire in low oxygen environments (of which water is rather famously not). The article focuses entirely on the math by people who are physicists studying space and not gun manufacturers or anything like it.

I legitimately went looking for a study, and I can find nothing but basically, "Well, it should work." Lots of things should work that don't. And we have no idea how the function would work, if it does work in some way.

(And it also depends on if Xeno ever made modern gunpowders, which perhaps he did, honestly)

So I think this is interesting, and it's a fair point that I didn't consider, but I'm not entirely convinced, either.

space-wild707

Fair enough. I looked a little further into it and the only people who have seemed to test anything close to this scenario are the MythBusters, who aren't the most scientifically rigorous but it's something at least. In the episode Bullet Baloney, they tested shooting a pistol in a bulletproof vacuum chamber, and as theoretically predicted, it still fired. Although I can't find a decent clip freely available so you'll have to take my word for it.

(And I assume Xeno would have made smokeless powder at some point and not just black powder since I think he has all the resources to do so but who knows)

So there's that, if it's significant in any way to you.

(I think all this researching about gunpowder has put me on some watchlist by now haha)