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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 23 points 1 week 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 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 16 points 1 week 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 week ago

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

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

He likely brought a ton of capital with him.

[-] Ste41th@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

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

[-] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week 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 week 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 week ago

I like your funny words, magic man

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

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

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

Does not live up to the hype.

[-] AJ1@lemmy.ca -5 points 1 week 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 11 points 1 week ago

ain't no harm skibidi ohio guy, don't got time fo the low-rizz crowd, no cap

[-] vladmech@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Wish you weren’t such a yuck of their yum, my dude.

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week 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?

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

changes on Earth’s surface down to the centimetre

These things really fuck with nude sunbathing.

[-] hraegsvelmir@ani.social 6 points 1 week 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 week ago

Some of us are blessed with

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

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

This is really cool.

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

[-] espentan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Just what we needed, more surveillance /s

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

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

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

Impressive that it has the resolution to identify fonts

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

they've had spy sats since the 1960s

its not that bad

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

I recall a Judas Priest song about this.

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

Scary. In whose hands will this technological marvel be?

[-] jim3692@discuss.online -1 points 1 week 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 week ago

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

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

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

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

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

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