[xerox13ster]

That’s correct: it was stated to be about ablation.

That’s what I took from GP saying “I can recommend BPS Space video about ablation” followed by their opinion of the video.

I’m curious, what did you take from them saying “video about ablation” that made you think the video was about ‘wood in satellites’? How does one get from A to B here?

I want to be perfectly clear that I understand the thread we’re in right now is about wood and satellites. I want to TRY to understand how you read their comment so I can understand the confusion.

[Tepix]

It was about ablation of wood as a material. Not ablation in general. In a thread about using wood for satellites.

[testaccount28]

dude, what?

    A: i'm really interested in things that are red. here's one: firetrucks.
    B: here's a neat thing which is green: unripe tomatoes.
    A: um, that's not red.
    C (you): wow why would you possibly think that the thing was red? they explicitly stated it was green. not sure what comment you read.

do you understand how out of place B's comment was to begin with?

[Jarwain]

I think B would be more accurate as "check this out: this one place has green firetrucks"

[xerox13ster]

I already stated that I understand the thread that we are in. I’m beginning to think that you don’t and didn’t read where I said that (as an attempt to head off this very reply), or the ggp comment itself, or the OP comment ggp replied to.

The whole thread is about space. The comment they replied to both shared a YouTube video and discussed ablations, so they brought a contribution to the thread: Here’s this interesting video from a space YouTuber in case anybody is curious about ablative materials in rocketry.

What did you bring to the conversation by remarking that the video that they shared was not about wood in satellites? They’d already said so; it was a Captain Obvious level response.

I have at least brought curiosity as to why you felt that was a meaningful contribution and how you could have arrived at such a dismissive statement from a place of curiosity.

I take it that despite being in a thread about wood being used as an ablative material for satellites, you have no curiosity about ablative materials in the devices that transport said satellites?

Did you think that they misunderstood what thread they were in? Their comment was relevant and welcome. Frankly, yours was against HN guidelines, and I was trying to politely draw attention to that fact by getting you to analyze your conclusion.