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by ck2 3mo ago
the catalog says 6.38x mass in one place and 5.6x mass in another they must be able to calculate mass from orbital physics? so you'd need a rocket 6x the size of SaturnV or whatever they are using for Artemis to escape it and most of t
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by ck2 3mo ago
wow 50 light years is indeed "nearby" in relative terms nearly 6x the size of earth though, good luck trying to launch a probe off that surface NASA has a neat "exoplanet catalog" which is about to leap in size next few
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by ck2 3mo ago
status page says SAFEHOLD HAS BEEN RESOLVED > Update #2: The GOES-19 Safehold has been resolved and engineers are working to prepare for restart of the onboard instruments. More information on the recovery timeline will be
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by ck2 3mo ago
is this old cache? * https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES19/ABI/CONUS/GEOCOLOR/2... * https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES19/ABI/CONUS/GEOCOLOR/G...
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by ck2 3mo ago
I really do not grasp business when PayPal is somehow worth over $50 Billion It doesn't have assets? It's not a bank Is it because PayPal is integrated already into so many websites? Wouldn't it take decades to make back $50
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by ck2 3mo ago
isn't Amazon LEO now available or very soon at $60/month? https://old.reddit.com/r/AmazonLeo/comments/1uupd3w will they offer aviation suitable plans?
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by ck2 3mo ago
John Oliver has a good segment about this * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRZqHzDG_c8
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by ck2 3mo ago
because of how we evolved biologically, there are some processes, particularly in the brain and not just the body, that can only happen during sleep like "garbage collection" ie. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articl
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by ck2 3mo ago
first we have to stop current administration from funding NEW coal power plants and defunding wind turbines but I am not sure we can ever undo this much damage
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by ck2 3mo ago
remember when they filled that lake or city water supply with black floating balls to greatly reduce evaporation don't supposed that is possible on much larger bodies of water
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US 2nd-largest Hydropower Reservoir approaching "dead pool" low water level(abcnews.com)
3 points by ck2 3mo ago|4 comments
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by ck2 3mo ago
Needless to mention it was 100% theater and absolute destruction of government was simply the point US Treasury is borrowing $155 billion every month is now paying $24 billion a week in interest * https://fortune.com/2026&#x
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by ck2 3mo ago
if you really, really want to understand physics and are not afraid of hard math I highly recommend this youtube channel in particular * https://www.youtube.com/@PhysicsExplainedVideos/videos "Physics Explained&qu
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by ck2 3mo ago
Landing on something 1 BILLION kilometers away, only 41 meters wide, wildly spinning. would definitely be a flex
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China's Tianwen-2 Space Probe Reaches Earth Quasi-Moon, the Asteroid Kamo'oalewa(wired.com)
4 points by ck2 3mo ago|3 comments
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by ck2 3mo ago
the amount of lead that is acceptable is ZERO ZERO, thirty years ago when there was definitive proof is it forever and irreversible all lead exhaust aircraft should have been phased out a decade ago if not two decades ago if they cannot be
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by ck2 3mo ago
and still sprayed all around the surrounding land at almost every airport in the USA and worldwide from prop aircraft exhaust despite knowing ANY amount is toxic and irreversible for 30+ years * https://www.nbcnews.com/busin
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by ck2 3mo ago
just crazy-glue some cheap tacky Home Depot gold decor on every surface and you'll be fine, maybe even become leader of free world
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by ck2 3mo ago
at some point some rogue country is going to do a starfish-prime event create an artificial LEO radiation belt on purpose and wipe out 99% of satellites part of me is oddly rooting for it these days make Musk a millionaire again
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by ck2 3mo ago
we cannot have private trillionaires milking "privatize the profits and social the costs" no more, it has to end immediately they aren't just silo-ing their wealth, they are leveraging against societies, funding far-right vio
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by ck2 3mo ago
no, just no make them pre-pay a multi-trillion cleanup and cancer fund for all the toxic waste, not just the launches but pollution burning up in the atmosphere * https://satellitemap.space/ * https://www.bloombe
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by ck2 3mo ago
I'm reading about pilots spotting drones during takeoff/landing that the airport didn't know about And I've read about airport shutdowns in UK and US without a single arrest which is why it keeps happening So whatever sy
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by ck2 3mo ago
if it can spot/track drones that is a marketing opportunity for airports around the world that have to deal with drone nonsense which shut down flights for days
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by ck2 3mo ago
if you aren't afraid of difficult math breaking your brain, I highly recommend this youtube channel "PhysicsExplained" (sorry I forget his actual name but he is brilliant) he has a recent two-parter on Maxwell and electro-mag
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by ck2 3mo ago
guess what, Iran will hold the gulf hostage regardless if US is there or not exactly like the nightmare Afghanistan is for women there now left to the Taliban regardless if US was there or not it would have happened world is an absolutely h
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by ck2 3mo ago
there's a better way for 100% savings just completely exit like Afghanistan and remember all this military hardware eventually ends up in the hands of police departments domestically, next decade is going to be wild $21 TRILLION spent
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by ck2 3mo ago
if a request doesn't come with a minimum $2 Million check attached or crypto transfer, nothing will get done this decade it's going to be a health and science dark ages for US
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by ck2 3mo ago
sorry there is absolutely no federal agency that has not been compromised at this point you'd have to prove to me that Russell Vought has not tampered with an agency for any statement emerging to be believed even jobs numbers are not b
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by ck2 3mo ago
like LiFePo4, sodium-ion also won't burn ie. so the fire department doesn't have to spend three days trying to put out a Tesla fire for long hauls, not stop and go city traffic, the weight penalty doesn't matter as much once
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by ck2 3mo ago
that might be a evolutionary step where you just pump in electrolyte under a housing into waterproof container and every 10 years just pump it out again for fresh electrolyte doesn't burn like LiFePo4 so no fire risks, though I am not

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