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Dapper_Swindler posted:i am gonna be a dick, but we kinda forget how good we have it in parts of the world. like yeah everywhere has issues and awful poo poo, but i dont have to worry about NASA launching a rocket and pieces of it landing on my house or yard and then having the whole thing covered up. Actually if a piece of spacex poo poo falls on your house the whole thing will be covered up as a function of state law. While, yes, NASA will not blow up your home and the federal government won't cover that up. Instead, Elon Musk will blow up your home and the states of Florida and Texas will prevent you from doing anything about it/publishing anything about it.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Actually if a piece of spacex poo poo falls on your house the whole thing will be covered up as a function of state law. While, yes, NASA will not blow up your home and the federal government won't cover that up. Instead, Elon Musk will blow up your home and the states of Florida and Texas will prevent you from doing anything about it/publishing anything about it. true.
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The great country distributes means of space travel freely to the people.
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# ? Dec 26, 2023 17:56 |
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What in the ever living gently caress...
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# ? Dec 26, 2023 17:56 |
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This is just the central committee making sure everyone has equal access to rocket boosters in their village like Marx would have wanted
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Porfiriato posted:It’s almost the year two thousand twenty four and China is still raining rocket boosters on villages in Guangxi That's just a piece of sheet metal, it probably wouldn't hurt anybo...
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# ? Dec 26, 2023 18:09 |
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Fantuan, but for carcinogens
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# ? Dec 26, 2023 18:13 |
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That poo poo has already been taken to a scrap metal buyer or repurposed into large 烧烤 cooking surfaces.
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Tai posted:What in the ever living gently caress... They built all their launch sites very far inland during the cold war to make them more defensible. The trade off is sometimes you explode a few peasants whose families can't say poo poo about it or else their organs get sold.
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I just don't get why they're still dropping bombs on villagers. They built a launch facility in Hainan, which is a more efficient launch site since it's closer to the equator and also goes over the ocean so it's safe. I get no one in leadership cares about blowing up a village since rural people are irrelevant, but like. At this point you're going out of your way to do it.
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they have to keep the inland capability because the hainanese one is vulnerable to navies, i imagine and keeping capability means practicing no chinese launch provider (not a single launch provider, to be honest) is economically competitive with spacex. so it's all for national reasons
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Probably because China doesn't give a poo poo about poor people.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:they have to keep the inland capability because the hainanese one is vulnerable to navies, i imagine I suppose Taiyuan and Jiuquan make sense for polar orbits too, and fuckin nobody lives anywhere near there. But Xichang is just stupid to continue operating. It'd be like NASA launching out of the west Chicago suburbs.
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That’s not an old video, is it? It looks remarkably similar to one I’ve already seen. But maybe I’m misremembering.
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Bum the Sad posted:The trade off is sometimes you explode a few peasants whose families can't say poo poo about it or else their organs get sold. This is just like Amerikkka, the shining beacon that all westerners hold in the highest esteem
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# ? Dec 26, 2023 19:15 |
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If you don't want to live in Booster Rocket Impact Zone then maybe you should move out of the Booster Rocket Impact Zone instead of looking for the government to fix everything for you?!?!? what happened to common sense
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Toxic Mental posted:lol what a joke of a country and so is anyone who stans for it If you stan any country you are a joke
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thetoughestbean posted:If you stan any country you are a joke what about Sea Land
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Bum the Sad posted:what about Sea Land a joke with encyclopedic knowledge of the world’s various age of consent laws
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thetoughestbean posted:If you stan any country you are a joke Then why is -stan in so many countries' name?
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bad_fmr posted:The great country distributes means of space travel freely to the people. A real very cyberpunk thing (so actually dystopian and awful) is that there was a local Kazakh industry of Roscosmos rocket debris salvagers
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thetoughestbean posted:If you stan any country you are a joke Tell that to twitter
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edit: nm thinking of The Lecher
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# ? Dec 26, 2023 23:32 |
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They could use a safer flight path , they could use a safer fuel source in the first stage but gently caress it, let it rip right over land. The chatter in the international community about the default to uncontrolled decay of decommissioned satellites and other large space debris has been getting louder the last few years too. They’ve gotten lucky but eventually someone or something of note is going to get smashed.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Actually if a piece of spacex poo poo falls on your house the whole thing will be covered up as a function of state law. While, yes, NASA will not blow up your home and the federal government won't cover that up. Instead, Elon Musk will blow up your home and the states of Florida and Texas will prevent you from doing anything about it/publishing anything about it. Looking into it.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Looking into it.
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Concerning.
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https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1739795587984220207
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# ? Dec 27, 2023 08:53 |
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a second anal bead cheating scandal, this one in xiangqi, jesus christ on a stick
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# ? Dec 27, 2023 08:54 |
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what the hellquote:The association was also forced to address rumours circulating online that Yan had cheated during the competition by using anal beads equipped with wireless transmitters to send and receive signals.
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if it actually worked that way, he deserves a reward just for pulling it off. how do you expeditiously communicate the complexities of the board state via anal morse code?
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# ? Dec 27, 2023 09:36 |
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At that point the amount of effort being put in is so outrageous that you would think you'd get more returns on just learning the game at a deeper level.
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china shamelessly copying western anal bead cheating strategies?!
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rn a chainsmoking Chinese detective is analyzing poo poo splatter trajectories in the tub for evidence
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Edutainment for teaching morse code
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Rinkles posted:what the hell lol i had no idea the Its Always Sunny plot point of Frank cheating at chess using anal beads was based off a headline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WycN_ZklJBo
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# ? Dec 27, 2023 11:23 |
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you only need a single bit of information to cheat at chess. read the comments on this one https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/01/cheating_at_che.html
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Big rear end On Fire posted:The chatter in the international community about the default to uncontrolled decay of decommissioned satellites and other large space debris has been getting louder the last few years too. They’ve gotten lucky but eventually someone or something of note is going to get smashed. Re-entering space debris really isn't that dangerous to people / stuff on the ground. One, it's a big planet and a lot of very small targets. Two, more importantly, anything in orbit is really flimsy. While pieces may reach the ground, it is usually small scraps and unlikely to kill someone even if you did get a direct hit. It is not like a car landing on you. More like some sheet metal and tinfoil. (Note: this is different from a spent lower stage, as seen in above vids. That is big and strong by comparison, has some heavy engines on the bottom, and generally a few hundred pounds of leftover fuel and oxidizer still inside. Nasty even if it isn't super toxic UDMH.) Controlled de-orbit of old satellites is I think more about space junk being a problem in space for other spacecraft.
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yeah the vast, VAST majority of space junk that gets deorbited won't even make it to airplane level before incinerating itself into ash, let alone the ground. the space junk problem is because anything larger than a baseball or so needs to be tracked and accounted for, so cleanup efforts make things easier for everyone.
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https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/05/10/nasa-chief-criticizes-china-for-uncontrolled-rocket-re-entry/quote:NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said Saturday that China is failing to meet “responsible standards” on space debris after a massive Long March rocket stage fell back to Earth over the Indian Ocean in an uncontrolled re-entry that is likely to be repeated with additional launches next year.
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