Where do I go to claim them?

Humans can throw objects in excess of 100 mph (40 m/s), and hit a target from over 60 feet (20 m) away

Holy shit it’s the UK? I read the whole post thinking it was Israel, being like “yeah that’s par for the course for them”

We’ve been scrutinizing vapes for decades. If there was any noticeable health complications from vaping, we would know.

“But we didn’t know cigarettes caused cancer until like the 70’s!”

That’s because the concept of writing stuff down on a clipboard is astonishingly new

I wish piracy was stealing, because stealing from the rich is good

Two of her children and the heirs of her late father’s business partners argued they were entitled to a significant share of royalties

These people are demanding to be paid millions for being born. Rinehart got paid billions for being born. Eat the rich

I’m not a computer graphics guy, but I wanna math. Theoretically, if I wanted to make the smallest possible 3d model, I would define it as four interconnected points. Each point has x, y, and z coordinates, so each model takes a theoretical minimum of 12 bytes of storage. Someone who knows computers can correct me if I’m off by a bunch.

The lower estimate is around 100,000,000,000 stars in the Milky Way. That’s only 1.2 terabytes worth of my theoretical minimum 3d model. Doable! But you said all stars. The lower estimate is around 10^22 stars in the universe. That would be 120 zettabytes. That’s only a few orders of magnitude off from the total available worldwide datadata storage!

Edit: I might have thought of a way to define a 3D model in just 2 bytes. You need four points that each have values for x, y, and z. They don’t need 256 possible values for those, they can get by with two each. One bit can store two possible positions, so we can use as little as two bytes to define every point’s position with 4 bits to spare. Behold, a tetrahedron: 0000 0100 1010 1110

Each set of four digits defines the x, y, and z coordinates for each point, as well as one extra dimension. You could use those extra four bits however you want. An extra spatial dimension, defining a color, etc. The theoretically smallest possible 3D model. Take the numbers I said up there and divide them by 6. A model for every star in the universe, and it would only take 20 zettabytes.

Do you just not really care about climate research and weather forecasting? Satellites give us more information about our atmosphere than you can shake a stick at, and they save more lives from extreme weather events every year than you can count. Not to mention GPS. You could rightfully call that a product of the US Military, but it is worth every cent that we’ve put into it

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 32,000 cars, boats, and airplanes spread around the land, seas, and sky. Reports say there could be as many as 60,000 such vehicles within the next decade. Collisions between such small entities across such a large area are unlikely, especially when they’re at wildly different altitudes.

But on the other other hand, Kessler syndrome is the basis of one of my favorite animes so I still like when it comes up

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

The reason athletic sports are segregated by gender is because physically, cis men vastly outperform cis women. Like, if we got rid of gender divisions altogether, cis men would be the only ones competing. I think it’s unfair to both cis and transgender female athletes to effectively bar them from competitions altogether.

For nonathletic sports, it’s more complicated. In chess, for example, the best female chess player in history is the 64th best chess player overall. The second best woman doesn’t break the top 140. I assume this is because of historical discrimination against women in the chess community leading to them being underrepresented at the top. Having women’s divisions is good because it encourages women to play.

To be clear, trans women are women, so it only makes sense to have them compete against other women.

Swyer syndrome is why I said “chromosomally, maybe.” XY chromosomes, and some level of female development, sometimes to the point of being able to have children

Depends on who’s saying it. For most people it’s just not worth saying anything. Anything you say goes in one ear and out the other

If they seem like they’re asking in good faith or I just want to practice my rhetoric, I’ll ask what they mean by “biologically male.” Chromosomally, maybe. Hormonally? Maybe not. Breast cancer doesn’t care about your chromosomes.

They are human. This kind of thinking is incredibly dangerous. “I’m a good person, and a good person wouldn’t do bad things, so nothing I do is bad” is exactly the kind of thinking that makes these IDF scumbags okay with murdering children

“I fucking boffed it dude”

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Unfortunately it knew you would do that and already contacted the police. The moment you steal it, you get arrested