lunar17

joined 11 months ago
[–] lunar17@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago

Gotta create more terrorists if you want to fight a war on terror.

[–] lunar17@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nothing. Read the article (it's not long); these robots are from a different company.

[–] lunar17@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My first thought on seeing this was "I wonder what ENB preset that is?"

[–] lunar17@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Such a shame, I was really looking forward to this based on the teasers shared on the game's Discord server. I guess it's just like big publishers to put more effort into marketing than development.

[–] lunar17@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A quote from someone who will probably die long before we see the worst effects of climate change.

[–] lunar17@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Space Cadet Pinball is available as a Flatpak? There is still beauty in this world 😭

[–] lunar17@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

True, we've pretty much skipped the "socialist" part of "national socialism".

[–] lunar17@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

🎶 turn up the radio 🎶

[–] lunar17@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (4 children)

That's not completely accurate. As the NASA link you shared explains, the normal orbit for the ISS is relatively low at 400km, where atmospheric drag and orbital debris pose a risk. The article agrees that the station could be raised into a graveyard orbit (where it could safely remain for several hundred years; this a standard way to retire space hardware), but this would require more delta V than for a controlled deorbit. In turn, this means a more expensive booster vehicle and mission.

So, the ISS could be safely preserved in high orbit, but no one is willing to pay the price to move it there. This makes me a bit sad, as it means the most expensive and impressive engineering project undertaken by humanity to date will be destroyed.

[–] lunar17@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (8 children)

So, I guess any kind of preservation is unlikely. I was hoping the ISS would be put into a graveyard orbit, so it could be kept as a monument, but there doesn't seem to be the will to do that. It's the end of an era, but hopefully that means a new chapter in space exploration is starting.

[–] lunar17@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (5 children)
[–] lunar17@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

None of those words are in the bible

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