changes on Earth’s surface down to the centimetre
These things really fuck with nude sunbathing.
A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this week
Submitted 2 days ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
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MNByChoice@midwest.social 1 day ago
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
hraegsvelmir@ani.social 1 day ago
Hey, if they want to put themselves through looking at me in the nude, they can inflict that pain on themselves. I’d be more worried about them tracking everything else someone does day to day, and who could get their hands on that data.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Scary. In whose hands will this technological marvel be?
untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
India
espentan@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Just what we needed, more surveillance /s
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Did you read the part where this is a radar satellite designed for monitoring the climate? That is, did you read anything besides the headline before you decided “yeah, I think I’m able to make informed commentary about this”?
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 2 days ago
A lot of technology has been repurposed for other uses than what they were mutually designed. What’s to stop the operators from using such a high def satellite to spy on people?
espentan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Like others have pointed out, It was indeed very much tongue-in-cheek.
bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
This is absolutely fucked. Bring down the all seeing eye in the sky satelite
PlantJam@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“All seeing” except it’s using radar to evaluate typography and biomass. What am I missing that makes this “absolutely fucked”?
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Impressive that it has the resolution to identify fonts
x00z@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Aren’t you a tiny blob of typography and biomass yourself?
untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
they’ve had these since the 1960s
its not that bad
tfowinder@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
This is really cool.
Anyone know where can I publically find satellite data which is regularly updated, for hobby projects.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I recall a Judas Priest song about this.
jim3692@discuss.online 2 days ago
Don’t such satellites have a major flaw, that they revolve? Considering that earth is spherical, those satellites can only monitor some half of the earth each moment, given their sensors have such high FOV.
transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
How is that a flaw? It just sounds like a design consideration…
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Do you expect the satellite to see the whole earth?
EtherWhack@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What are you talking about? There’s only one side. /s
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m not agreeing with their dumb point, but just pointing out: this satellite works on radar.
macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
*yeah, not yea or nay. It isn’t a vote.
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Yes that’s how one satellite can image a lot of area.
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Speaking as a layman, I just think it’s fuckin’ awesome how a big chonky boi can be propelled upwards at Mach Yeet and get casually dropped off in orbit.
Even though Musk is a cunt, I still love watching SpaceX streams to see big bits of metal get put upwards by lots of fire and noise, and then fuckin’ land where they started seven or eight minutes later.
Science is fuckin mint, man.
lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Don’t quote me on this, but I think SpaceX itself is pretty good at keeping Musk away from the actually important things. Something about having a team dedicated to keeping him distracted.
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Yeah it’s a shame that Musk is so inextricably linked with the brand. I’m quite sure SpaceX and Tesla are full of top tier talent and engineering wizards… but have a direct link to a toxic cockwomble that bankrolls them. Shame.
seemefeelme@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Imagine getting a job at SpaceX thinking you’re gonna build a moon base and you get put on ‘Elon distraction’ 😭
kernelle@0d.gs 2 days ago
I like your funny words, magic man
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 2 days ago
I’m surprised I strung so many together coherently to be honest!
Ste41th@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
“Mach yeet” is now added to my list of sentences I never knew I wanted to read
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 1 day ago
As an engineer I would like to second this motion to get “Mach Yeet” adopted as an IEC standard technical term.
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 2 days ago
If I could have crowbarred “moist” in there somewhere too, I’d have set the lexical tiktok on fire.
…if there is even one, don’t come at me TNETENNBA fans!
entwine413@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Have you had a chance to play Kerbal Space Program yet? If not, I think you’d really enjoy it.
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 2 days ago
I haven’t, no - and you’re probably right, yes.
I worry that if I start playing KSP then my other half and kids won’t see me again for six months because it does sound fucking awesome and highly rewarding.
Nope, I’m a simple man. I play through a couple of Doom WADs each summer in the academic off-season and that’s my gaming appetite satiated.
macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Does not live up to the hype.
AJ1@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
… I think I agree with your sentiment? honestly it’s hard to tell because everything you just said is delivered in this ultra-cringe meme language. I guess this is so the average middle schooler can understand what you’re saying? or is this how robots think humans communicate, so when they want to pretend they’re an “average human internet user”, they talk in this ridiculous idiotic meme codec? idk, whatever, it’s peak cringe, but ok cool comment
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 2 days ago
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ain’t no harm skibidi ohio guy, don’t got time fo the low-rizz crowd, no cap
BassTurd@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Which part of “chonky boi” or “mach yeet” do you need an average middle schooler to translate for you? Contextually, it’s very clear what is being said for anyone that can read and speaks English.
You think you know what was said, then insulted it saying it was dumbed down for the average middle schooler. What does that say about you?
vladmech@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wish you weren’t such a yuck of their yum, my dude.
macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Some of these words are meaningless and detract from what you are trying to say. People should not have to be subjected to this nonsense.
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Which words do you mean? Because I understand them all. They convey information, the fundamental point of language, hence they don’t detract. Just because you can’t make sense of them doesn’t mean they’re nonsense.
If you’re talking about “Mach Yeet”, yeet refers to forceful movement. This specific combination then means really fucking fast. The exact speed doesn’t matter. The frivolity of the language underscores their excitement or might just be their idiolect.
Either way, so long as it’s nothing hateful or harmful (beyond hurting your linguistic sensibilities), trying to police other people’s vocabulary is narrow-minded and needlessly stuck-up.
Why don’t you yeet that shit (throw it far away) and come join us in watching the fascinating evolution of language?
bobotron@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Au contraire, quite eloquent
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Thank you for your public service announcement!
altphoto@lemmy.today 1 day ago
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Trying to avoid MECO at all costs until we park.