Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit before joining the Threadiverse as well.
Yeah, they actually design them with reentry in mind to maximize the burn-up and ensure no pieces hit the ground. I recall they had a bit of difficulty when they first introduced laser data links to the design because the lenses the satellites used were large pieces of glass that would make it to the ground on reentry, they had to redesign them to fragment more easily.
As was always the plan for these satellites.
The article raises a vague concern about Kessler syndrome. This is exactly why these satellites are designed to deorbit once their useful lifespan is finished. I don’t see what the point of this article is at all.
You’re being generous if you think Trump can count that high.
So we’ve reached the point where Iran is trying to open the strait of Hormuz to ship traffic but the United States is blockading it.
So topsy-turvy. Next think you know the US president will be praising Allah in social media posts.
On the other hand, it’s well designed to surface inside information. Exactly the thing that lots of people complain about, but it’s a good thing if you’d like to use the prediction market to make predictions like this.
That makes things worse for America, not better.
Specifically presidential email security. FBI email is fine.
Who is wasting resources on this? Seems a bit pointless.
There are people who spend their lives tracking bigfoot, or trying to figure out who D. B. Cooper was, or any number of other mysteries. It can be a hobby.
Hey now, they called it a “Quarantine”, not a “Blockade.” Completely different things. One’s an act of war and the other’s not. And… well, that’s basically the only difference.
The last time Congress officially declared war was in 1942 so obviously it can’t be an act of war.
The Anatoly Kolodkin, a Russian-flagged tanker that is itself under U.S. sanctions, departed from the Baltic Sea on March 9. It continues to be tracked and is expected to reach the Cuban port of Matanzas around April 4 . If it successfully delivers its cargo it would be the first oil shipment to reach Cuba since early January.
Guess we’ll see what happens.
Indeed. Pledging to keep the Strait of Hormuz open would likely be most easily accomplished by applying pressure on the US and Israel to de-escalate, and negotiating with Iran to get its cooperation. European military force isn’t going to add anything that the US isn’t already capable of.
How many layers of “nobody would be stupid enough to…” deep are we into this situation at this point?
I could imagine someone thinking a small fire might be safer than the ship carrying on to Hormuz.
Because the US is full of shit and can’t be reasoned with.
Iran really seems to have been behaving reasonably here.
Okay? I’m really not sure what your point is here, everyone knows the US is full of shit and can’t be reasoned with. The article is about the fact that Iran could be reasoned with, they were actually willing to negotiate.
No, you’re still not getting it.
if only we completely reconfigure the topic, the stakes and the parties involved.
Emphasis added to that plural. Iran was not the problem here. Iran was open to a reasonable deal. It was the Americans who were unreasonable, irrational warmongers that wouldn’t accept anything other than total surrender and the destruction of Iran. Only one of the parties involved was the problem.
I think you’re missing the point. He’s saying that a deal should have been in reach if the US had been actually interested in making a deal.
Are we moving from the “AI can never match the quality of human artistic output” phase to the “oh, it’s no big deal, art like that could always be faked” phase?
It’s not as impossible as you think. Scott Manley did an analysis of the heat budget recently and it’s quite reasonable.