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Expert: ‘IS lijkt in Zuidoost-Azië en Australië nieuwe generatie van strijders te willen opleiden’ volkskrant.nl/buitenland/exper…


Switzerland just needs to avoid relegation byteseu.com/1633264/ #Switzerland


One of my million meetings yesterday was the space debris subcommittee of the AAS Committee on the Protection of Astronomy and the Space Environment (yeah, it's a long name). But the very very best part of that meeting is always getting the orbital traffic report from Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social

He has been writing Jonathan's Space Report for decades with details on what has launched and reentered and what is happening in orbit around Earth. planet4589.org/space/jsr/jsr.h…

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Jonathan's traffic report for yesterday included the 35 days since our previous subcommittee meeting. A few highlights:

There were 42 launches in the last 35 days, 16 of which were Starlink.

There were 617 new objects catalogued in orbit, 455 of them Starlinks (all V2 "mini", which are like 800kg, scares me that they consider that "mini"). The next largest batch addition after Starlink was 32 of China's Guowang megaconstellation.

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Relatedly, one of the Chinese-launched satellites had a 200 meter close approach with a Starlink satellite 2 days after deployment space.com/space-exploration/sa…

China (and every single other entity launching satellites) really really really has to share their orbital data with everyone else.

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A single Falcon 9 rideshare launch had 115 satellites in it, several of which were tugs that will deploy additional satellites. So, 126 sats deployed from that one launch. On the one hand, great, because rocket launches pollute a lot. On the other hand, holy crap that's a lot of satellites at once.

42 rocket bodies in orbit from all these launches (rocket bodies are often bus-sized or larger, so this is scary). 23 were promptly deorbited, 19 left for uncontrolled reentry later.

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131 catalogued objects reentered, 41 were Starlinks. (Still a bit more than 1 Starlink per day reentering on average). Not many reentries were observed, no new debris reported on the ground. We had a bit of discussion about whether or not this is observation bias (northern hemisphere winter so it's cloudier, and people aren't outside as much, maybe?)

With more than 600 new objects in orbit in just over a month, the CRASH Clock is not going to go down anytime soon. outerspaceinstitute.ca/crashcl…

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These people are all basically ignoring the experts telling them this is a bad idea, and then when something does go catastrophically wrong and starts a cascade they're going to look at the experts and blame them for not saying something.
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feel free to tell me to do my own search, but are you aware of any studies on the impact of introducing all these (presumably) metal oxides to the upper atmosphere? is any of this regulated?
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Shit, we are launching as many as the total number of satellites when I was a kid EVERY FEW DAYS.
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I don't know how launches have gone unregulated for so long. Nobody seems to have even considered if it was a good idea to pack LEO with ... all the things.
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Humans are a cancer on more than just the planet now. Anywhere we can reach, we pollute and despoil.
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Maybe not a good thing if Starlink satellites are almost doing demolition derby with Chinese satellites? 😱
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Does The US Space Force share theirs?

EDIT: not a rhetorical question, I sincerely do not know

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The 1959 Morris Mini Minor was between 580 and 686 kg: maybe we can consider that weight as definition of "mini":
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we need orbital scrubbers to push debris back into the atmosphere to burn up


Ok so in English how do you differentiate between pepper (🌶️) and pepper (🫑)

They’re completely different things taste-wise but use the same word

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@neil hmmm yeah that makes sense but it’s weird that you use the same word for the category hot peppers and for bell peppers




Se voce não tem linkedin, voce não pode se insvrever, que lindo.

Bom, problema para eu resolver, deletei e agora que lute hahaha.

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what should i do about these plants? allforgardening.com/1540366/wh… #IndoorGarden


It’s wild that Apple still charges $60 more for the black Magic accessories than the white ones.


Per anni le aziende del settore delle rinnovabili hanno prosperato grazie ai sussidi statali, ma ora dovranno cavarsela con le proprie forze, scrive l'Economist.

Troppo grande per fallire



Did you know if you yawn, others who see it are likely to reflexively yawn too? You might yawn after seeing this picture. You're welcome.

"yawning was contagious between individuals, especially those that were socially close. This suggests that emotional proximity rather than spatial proximity is an indicator of yawn contagion.[54]"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yawn

#yawn #caturday #caturdayeveryday



Folks that use mechanical pencils a lot. If I want a darker line at .5 what lead would you suggest?

Right now what I have is HB and it leaves a lighter line than I'd like, to where it can be hard to read if I don't bear down on it.

#pens #mechanicalPencils #Stationary

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Donald Trump deeply misjudged his response to the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner,

and he's incapable of understanding why.

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Fermentation is the chemical connection for day 16 of #ChemAdvent: both Korean kimchi and Inuit kiviak take advantage of lactic acid bacteria fermenting carbohydrates and producing flavour compounds.


Asking The Man what very special and expensive treat I get if I do the thing he said he would do that he hasn't done.




Happy Birthday, Jane Austen. You would have hated this 🎂