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A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this week (theconversation.com)
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[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 24 points 1 month 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 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Don't quote me on this, but I've heard 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 17 points 1 month 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.

[-] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

And yet whenever some achievement is made, the headlines are "Musk achieves great feat"

[-] jaxxed@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

He likely brought a ton of capital with him.

[-] Ste41th@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

“Mach yeet” is now added to my list of sentences I never knew I wanted to read

[-] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month 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 points 1 month 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!

[-] kernelle@0d.gs 5 points 1 month ago

I like your funny words, magic man

[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago

I'm surprised I strung so many together coherently to be honest!

[-] entwine413@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Have you had a chance to play Kerbal Space Program yet? If not, I think you'd really enjoy it.

[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month 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.

[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

I made the mistake of thinking KSP was a game and not literal mother fucking rocket science.

There was a lot of explosions and no space.

[-] macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Does not live up to the hype.

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 18 points 1 month ago

changes on Earth’s surface down to the centimetre

These things really fuck with nude sunbathing.

[-] hraegsvelmir@ani.social 6 points 1 month 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.

[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Some of us are blessed with

They need to launch a much more expensive satellite for that.

[-] espentan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Just what we needed, more surveillance /s

[-] tfowinder@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

This is really cool.

Anyone know where can I publically find satellite data which is regularly updated, for hobby projects.

[-] bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

This is absolutely fucked. Bring down the all seeing eye in the sky satelite

[-] PlantJam@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month 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 points 1 month ago

Impressive that it has the resolution to identify fonts

[-] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

they've had spy sats since the 1960s

its not that bad

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I recall a Judas Priest song about this.

[-] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Scary. In whose hands will this technological marvel be?

[-] jim3692@discuss.online -1 points 1 month 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 6 points 1 month ago

How is that a flaw? It just sounds like a design consideration...

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Do you expect the satellite to see the whole earth?

You know it's night for like half of it, yea?

[-] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

What are you talking about? There's only one side. /s

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm not agreeing with their dumb point, but just pointing out: this satellite works on radar. I'm genuinely concerned how many people seem to be commenting without reading the article.

[-] macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

*yeah, not yea or nay. It isn't a vote.

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