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Look, I’m from the government and I’d like to remind you all that the mole people are just a myth. We have mining regulations to save lives, except not from the
by labster 5y ago
Look, I’m from the government and I’d like to remind you all that the mole people are just a myth. We have mining regulations to save lives, except not from the mole men. Let’s say it’s for safety. Anyway, you should trust the government.
Generally the variation in gravitational field is so weak it doesn’t do much except add errors to data. It’s more efficient to launch satellites near the equator, but that’s not because of the Earth’s bulge or gravity, but rather the big radial velocity down there.
- BoxOfRain 5y ago>It’s more efficient to launch satellites near the equator Perhaps one day from the very appropriately named Ascension Island? It would be pricy to ship things out there, but it's had an RAF presence on it for donkey's years and if something went wrong it's very far from population centres and surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean.
- uberswe 5y agoRAF = Royal Air Force? I'm neither British or American and RAF stands for Recruit-a-Friend to me.
- signaturefish 5y agoCorrect, the British Royal Air Force.
- BoxOfRain 5y agoSorry, I should have wrote that one out! You're correct, it's the Royal Air Force.
- shreyshnaccount 5y agosounds like a cover up to me /s