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by dabluecaboose 1y ago
Relevant to this is the J2 Perturbation [1], commonly used when accurately modeling the Earth as an oblate spheroid (like in the article image, but less drastic) rather than a perfect sphere. This has resultant effects on orbits, such as th
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by dabluecaboose 1y ago
> But its far enough away even at perigee Minor astrodynamics nit: "perigee" is a term specific to Earth. The generic term for all bodies is "periapsis", and the term for the Sun is "perihelion" (Astrodyna
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by dabluecaboose 1y ago
>There must exist a lunasynchronous orbit that would remain over the earth side of the moon, though I'm not sure if its close enough to the moon to avoid being perturbed by the earth and kicked out. Selenostationary orbits (The astr
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by dabluecaboose 1y ago
I used to have PiHole running in a docker container, which sounds almost exactly like what you're describing.
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by dabluecaboose 1y ago
War damn! Talking about being lost in the Haley center gave me flashbacks to freshman year. I still have dreams sometimes of trying to find the stairwell/elevator bank and the layout keeps changing like the backrooms.
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by dabluecaboose 1y ago
What a fun surprise to hear about the Foy info desk on HN! When I went to student orientation at Auburn, they made a point to call the desk as a demonstration and ask how many M&Ms would fit into Jordan-Hare Stadium. The answer was pr
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by dabluecaboose 2y ago
The industry term is PNT (Position, Navigation, Timing)
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by dabluecaboose 2y ago
The US, contrary to your implication, has much stronger controls on automatic firearms than Switzerland does, in the forms of the 1934 National Firearms Act (makes them illegal to manufacture or purchase without a permit and exorbitant tax)
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by dabluecaboose 2y ago
For sure! I have worked with the Vermejo staff, and they are wonderful people.
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by dabluecaboose 2y ago
> The fact that this happened not because the animals are a nuisance, but to eradicate the people who relied on them is... insane. A little of Column A, a little of Column B. The railroads sponsored a lot of bison hunters because the gi
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by dabluecaboose 2y ago
One of the laziest rhetorical approaches I see regularly on Hackernews is someone angrily complaining about commenters who aren't there. If you have an argument, make it. If you see an argument you want to refute, refute it. Complaini
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by dabluecaboose 2y ago
Famously, Carl Sagan, when pitching the Voyager missions to President Nixon, said "The last time that {alignment} happened was when Thomas Jefferson was President, and he blew it." https://www.planetary.org/article
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by dabluecaboose 2y ago
There's an entire Temple of Zeus lookalike on the other side of the Mall entirely dedicated to Lincoln. It's not just GW
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by dabluecaboose 2y ago
Sounds like youre looking for the Kearny Fallout Meter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kearny_fallout_meter
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by dabluecaboose 2y ago
The Treaty of Versailles[1] was the treaty that ended World War I, not World War II [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles
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by dabluecaboose 2y ago
It is, however, a term related to Cancer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_(constellation)
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by dabluecaboose 2y ago
Sol and Luna are technically "incorrect" names for The Sun and The Moon, as per the IAU. (Notably, so is "Terra" for Earth. Earth is Earth, it already has a proper name) That is not to say I think they're un-sensi
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by dabluecaboose 2y ago
Indeed, it's off by orders of magnitude (so probably a simple typo). The Earth orbits the Sun at between 29 and 30 km/s. It would take roughly that much dV to successfully create an orbit that intersects the sun.
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by dabluecaboose 2y ago
It's $20 less than the Analogue Pocket from what I'm seeing? https://store.analogue.co/
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by dabluecaboose 2y ago
As much as I'd like to scratch the builder's itch, I can't help but acknowledge the usability improvements afforded by the Chromatic like the USB-C charging and video output. That would be a bitch and a half to implement sat
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by dabluecaboose 2y ago
I have to admit the Anbernics are a tempting option, especially imagining just dumping every GB, GBC, and GBA game on to have in my pocket. But I can't help but think feels a little... soulless, in comparison to a dedicated machine.
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by dabluecaboose 2y ago
As someone who's been considering building a custom Game Boy Color to replace my childhood one that was recently stolen, I have to admit this has grabbed my attention. I don't know anything about FPGA emulation. What, if anything
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by dabluecaboose 2y ago
If the target itself is the City itself, then no arguments at all. This is however assuming we're at the "Counter-Value" stage of conflict and past "Counter-Force", so ostensibly you shouldn't be taken by surp
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by dabluecaboose 2y ago
> The "instant death" radius is > 10 miles nowadays. I don't know where you're getting this information. The "moderate damage" blast radius for the Minuteman missile, currently in service in the US, isn&#
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by dabluecaboose 2y ago
> 10KT is a tiny explosion for modern nuclear weapons. Agreed, but it was the reference I had on hand. > And remember that this is an MIRV system with 8 warheads per missile. Yes, the idea is that some of those will be intercepted, b
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by dabluecaboose 2y ago
I don't necessarily expect it to get better attention. I did intentionally caveat that with "If you seriously believe there's a threat". That said, I heard a line in the fantastic Kurzgesagt video[1] that said something
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by dabluecaboose 2y ago
> Read: if you'd ever find yourself victim of a nuclear blast, you're on your own. Probably lucky if you die instantly. Emphasis on "lucky if you die instantly." There seems to be this pervasive belief about nuclear w
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by dabluecaboose 2y ago
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/morbid-monday-fisk-mum... AO article on the briefly mentioned cast-iron coffin with face window, in case anyone else was curious as I was
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by dabluecaboose 2y ago
There were several Geneva Conventions prior to the 1949 one; the "Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War" was signed in 1929. https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/gc-pow-1929
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by dabluecaboose 3y ago
I have a delay set in my profile because I often edit a comment once or twice after posting, and don't want to cause issues by someone attempting to respond to a comment that's about to change. I didn't realize the comment sh

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