Why are rockets shaped like penises? Why not squares, rectangles

>>7911747
Nature has had 3.5 million years to find the best aerodynamical object for stabbing shit, so yea, it is the best shape

>>7911747
>Are penis shapes really more aerodynamically efficient?

No, that's just a meme.
It was really all the fucking pig men at NASA that decided that that's the shape they will be going for. Because when you want to pierce the heavens then you got to have a giant dick, don't you.
They got that design from some NAZI scientists btw.! They wanted to tribute their neo pagan gods.
Fucking disgusting if you ask me

>>7911747
I think it has to with surface to content ratio. If I make it a cube shape you have more metal to carry per fuel which makes it inefficient.

>>7911759
femanon detected

>>7911747
if your penis looks like that and comes with separable parts, I have bad news for you

>>7911763
stop opressing me!

>>7911764
You mean good news? Have bad range? Exchange it for a bigger fuek tank. Have trouble getting it up? Exchange it for a bigger rocket

>>7911747
Minimize cross-sectional area, punch through with brute force, only ease off when you threaten to crush the rocket with dynamic pressure.

It's dumb. The future of orbital launch is butt-shaped rockets.

>>7911760
That is one reason. You minimize the circumference using a circular cross-section. So less weight on the shell holding the guts in.

Also circles structurally stronger. Think how an arch can support everything above it. A square would have weakness at the corner joints.

>>7911747
>aerodynamically
>for something mean to to work IN FUCKING SPACE

>>7912089
0/10

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>>7911747
But seriously, why are they all white? Why not black so you can see them easier against the sky on lift off, or your national colors as a way of saying "fuck you" to the rest of the world?

Does it really make that much of a difference as far as reflecting radiation?

>>7912884

Part of painting a rocket white is to reflect sunlight if the propellant is cryogenic.

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>>7912884
> why are rockets white
Because they work.

>>7911763
>mfw the state of feminism is so bad that obvious satire could realistically be seen as serious

>>7912895
but the black ones are killing it...

>>7912888
>>7912895
Then why is SLS orange?
Checkmate atheists

>>7912963

You mean STS? Mainly because in that case the solar heating wasn't as bad as anticipated. STS-1 was painted white.

>>7913051
Also they realized that the white paint literally weighed tons. Tons that did jack shit but look pretty.

>>7911763
That is the joke you autist.

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>>7912895

>>7911747

>main engine is not even firing