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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in the space industry and I can tell you that anyone pretending to be an authority on orbital mechanics on the internet is full of shit. I’ve taken entire classes called “advanced orbital mechanics.” That shit is wildly hard, vaguely inaccurate, and so slow that you can only do it effectively on a computer. Even then you have to decide which variables to throw out because you use them all or you won’t be able to calculate predictions on every satellite in time for them to be useful. Then you have to take the predictions, predict how wrong they are, and predict again based on those predictions if two satellites will run into each other.

  The truth is that nobody knows if Kessler Syndrome is even real. I personally fall on the side of thinking it’s nonsense, there are too many variables that would have to go wrong all at once. It’s like being worried about winning the lottery. There have been multiple catastrophic on orbit conjunctions that have created thousands of pieces of debris. Still no Kessler Syndrome. Even in a nightmare scenario I can only see it affecting one orbital regime. The odds of Starlink effecting the orbit that GPS is in is effectively not possible. But this is not a solved field and I am not remotely an expert, I’m just tired of people who don’t know a thing about the field thinking they’re experts because they have a JWST desktop wallpaper and have 300 hours in KSP. The real experts are ancient old men and women who have been doing orbital predictions for 40 years and I’ve seen them get into yelling matches about this sort of thing.

  This post got away from me but the point is this shit is so involved it effectively can’t be fact checked because you could come to whatever conclusion you want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the cost of living and state taxes in an area. Usually it’s $3.50-$5.00 a gallon/~4 liters. At the gas stations in Germany on American military bases it’s about $4.50 a gallon right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A reminder that the Beastie Boys are cannon in the trek universe.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  At least JJ had the decency to put it in an alt dimension where its canonicity can be properly disregarded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Easy way to get more ships?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda. There’s a fast way and a slow way.

  Fast way: You have to dock with the enemy ship, clear it, sit in the seat, undock from your main ship, quickly open the menu, set the ship you’re in as your home ship, redock with your main ship before it flys away, and then presumably you’ll want to set that back as your home ship.

  Slow way, dock, clear, sit, fly somewhere (grav jumping sets whatever ship you’re in as your home ship), land at a ship technician, set your main ship back as your home ship. You have to repeat this for every ship you take.

  The fast way keeps you in system with your main ship so I prefer it, especially if I’m in the Serpentis system trying to make 100,000 credits collecting var’uun ships.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rating down at 77%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Until this very second I thought my game was bugged because 0 (zero) wasn’t repairing my ship. I was literally going into the menus to repair my ship mid battle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo demoed Switch 2 to developers at Gamescom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Boi if it has that bling and a transparent frosty blue option it’s over, I’m buying it day one. I miss my Gameboy advanced so much, or maybe I miss being a kid, who knows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BMW Is Giving Up on Heated Seat Subscriptions Because People Hated Them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically the BMWs here in Germany tend to use their signals in my experience

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨According to Elon Musk’s own math, the company formerly known as Twitter has lost 90% of its value and could be worth just $4 billion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Putting aside that that whole show is pretty rough and I’ve mentally decanonized it, the guy who said it is technically a mega space nazi from the space nazi dimension so I choose to believe he just thought that Musk being an aspiring space nazi was as cool in our universe as it was in his.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Highly doubtful much of anything majorly sensitive got leaked. Firstly even unclassified DoD emails are encrypted by default. Secondly anything classified isn’t even on a network that can talk to normal email, it’s either 100% point to point encrypted or on an airgapped network. If I hopped on SIPR (DoD Secret-level internet) and emailed a normal email address it simply wouldn’t work.