Okay, I’m willing to grant it. If all maneuvers were to stop, there’s a roughly 50% chance that one satellite would impact another satellite in about three days. I’m still not convinced it’s an issue. What is the risk to something like the ISS or Hubble or anything in a geosynchronous orbit, versus the risk to starlink-31,299?

18,000 miles per hour orbital velocity, but it’s maybe a couple hundred miles per hour relative to any satellite it could realistically hit

I mean, in LEO they kinda do. The majority of our satellites are in low orbit, and require regular boosts to stay in orbit. Atmospheric drag is still a problem out to thousands of miles. Also, I can’t stress this enough, space is bigger than you think, and satellites are tiny. There is only a risk of collision at the point where two orbits intersect, if both satellites are at that point at the same time. Maybe if you have 12,000 satellites all orbiting at the exact same altitude with different inclinations, it could be an issue for those satellites. I’m not convinced that it’s ever going to be a barrier to space travel.

On the one hand, Kessler syndrome is scary. On the other hand, space is bigger than you think it is. Imagine the same article, but it’s about 60,000 cars spread around the surface of the Earth.

Seems like a variety of things contributed. The two biggest things I can see are recovery from covid meant more driving meant more gas consumption, and Russia invading Ukraine meant higher oil prices.

Can we surpass June 2022 gas prices? I believe that trump can outperform Biden in this regard

If my family spends more than the bare minimum to have me cremated and dump my ashes in an empty field, imma haunt them

Very vaguely reminiscent of the dietician I know whose dietary advice tends to be something along the lines of “if you’re happy with your weight and you’re surviving, your diet is probably fine” vs the nutritionist who insists that everyone drink raw milk and avoid seed oils

Sometimes professionals know to keep their profession at their profession

I fucked your mooooooooom

I got permabanned from the whole site for calling Ann Coulter racist lmao

I fully agree that we all need more time off. The average person is like a hundred times more productive than they were a hundred years ago, so we should be living like the damn Jetsons at this point. That said, I’ll continue to think parents should get more leeway than non-parents even if we all had more than enough personal time off, for the simple reason that parents aren’t taking personal time when they have to care for their children. If your kid has a doctor’s appointment, then you aren’t taking off work, you’re working a different job. We all need more time off, and the extra time parents get away from their primary job isn’t really time off.

And yeah, telling rather than asking makes a lot of sense. Takes more effort to deny a statement of fact than a request. “I’m going to be out of town from May 4th–6th” is a lot harder to say no to than “can I take off May 4th–6th?” That question mark basically invites a denial

Congrats on your first seizure! Don’t have a second one!

Extra time off isn’t some kind of reward for having kids, it’s to make having kids possible. We’ll be old someday and we’ll need those kids to support us. Give parents all the time off they want. Imagine the kind of guy who sees a new mom get time off work to take care of a literal shit machine and thinks “She’s the one who decided to excrete a crotch goblin. I should get the same amount of time off work as she does so I can play more Elden Ring.” Then imagine how that guy smells.

Gamers when they live among the most gorgeous vistas on the planet: “this reminds me of a video game”

If this sounds like shade it’s just because I am envy

Anyone that doesn’t sting me is welcome. I love seeing all the salticids. The wasps can get bent

Oh shit, I saw a bad source that said China was at 2 mil and thought “that makes sense, there’s like 4 times as many people there so the number would be higher”

And it isn’t even higher there lmao I hate my country

You haven’t seen my socks

Yes, it is the country with the 5th highest incarceration rate on the planet, and the second highest total prison population

Did they stop teaching the difference between mean, median, and mode the year after I left elementary school? It seems like nobody knows that those are all three types of average anymore

I can, but why would I? There’s already more art than I can consume in a lifetime, made by people who weren’t evil

Racing into The Night. She said kokoro at one point, that means heart right? I bet it’s a love song or something

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