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I think the point is that they aren’t assuming the planet in question is tectonically activie, as that’s one of the unlikely steps needed for life as we know it.

Televangelists believe in nothing but money

Stars are dim. Earth and the Moon are bright. If you exposed the shot such that stars would be visible, the Earth and the Moon would be horrendously overexposed.

If you look at this one of the moonlit nightside of the Earth they took on the way out, you can see stars. The website has EXIF-data on the bottom with more info on the exposure.

Indeed, not a specific field for it. That’s why people use the body of the post (the part where one would write an essay if they did a text post) for it.

When an impact happens, the next one becomes much more likely with all that shrapnel flying around. If the biggest starlink layer becomes a minefield of shrapnel, passing it to reach the ISS becomes much more dangerous. Same goes for any other launch, including GEO.

All these megaconstellation plans have big plans of scaling up exponentially, and that means the clock is constantly creepinc closer. At some point a strong enough solar flare could cause a long enough comms blackout.

But the main thing with the clock is that it also displays how often corrective maneuvers are needed. The more maneuvers are being made, the higher the chance of errors. I think that’s the real danger here. Starlink is scaling up massively and they have numerous competitors, including China. All it takes is a miscommunication and the snowball of kessler syndrome might start rolling.

Yes, space is big, but those objects are moving fast on intersecting paths. I’d recommend checking this out and also following @sundogplanets@mastodon.social

After they know if the user is human, the logical next step would be to nail down exactly which human. The governments would of course love that and the advertisers would start manipulating people on the individual level like never before. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is also laying the foundations for some universal digital ID that would do just that.

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The global economical system with its built in assumption of infinite growth is on a collision course with the material realities of the world. So it will either change drastically, or collapse. The latter seems much more likely.

I think cracks will form and new, more local, decentralized and equitable frameworks will sprout from those cracks as people help each other, because the system can’t or wont help them.

Not saying that it justifies anything, but it does explain things…

English spelling sucks by being detached from pronounciation episode 978

It stopped being useful ever since they stopped using it just to visualize how quickly a nuke war could end things. Climate change is serious as shit, but it’s not going to lock in total devestation within the next two minutes. Same goes for many other slow-burn threats they try to cram in there. Many of them are already here, pretty much none have a discreet threshold to count towards.

Cycling to work. I happen to have a nice and scenic route largely within parks and nature, so starting to use it improved my life quite a lot. It’s a bit faster and more reliable than public transit, cheaper and a good exersice (30km there and back). And the scenery is way better than looking out of the window of a bus on an arterial highway.

And here I actually thought that this shitty idea would stay in the realm of Black Mirror…

Huh, I wonder how it compares to that other country to the west there.

I hope it’s radioactive as well

Certainly, although it appears to depict the elusive 3rd order rainbow.

Interesting choice, including the 3rd order rainbow in the middle picture there…

That’s the angle at which light is reflected by water droplets. The drawing is incorrect in that the cone is horizontal while the light appears to come from a higher angle. The cone is always directly opposite to the direction of the light source. Here’s a better drawing, with more reading about what exactly is going on.