This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
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.
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.
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.
And yet whenever some achievement is made, the headlines are "Musk achieves great feat"
Imagine getting a job at SpaceX thinking you're gonna build a moon base and you get put on 'Elon distraction' 😭
I like your funny words, magic man
I'm surprised I strung so many together coherently to be honest!
Have you had a chance to play Kerbal Space Program yet? If not, I think you'd really enjoy it.
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.
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.
Does not live up to the hype.
4, 3, 2, 1... Reverse! We have reverse!... And we're turning... Putting it on D....hit the gas pedal... All systems nominal! The vehicle is gaining speed at 25mph. Entering the 5north at 45mph in climbing... 65! We have reached max Q...honey tell the kids what max Q means....kids, maxQ is when the vehicle sees maximum hydrodynamic pressure.
Trying to avoid MECO at all costs until we park.
changes on Earth’s surface down to the centimetre
These things really fuck with nude sunbathing.
Some of us are blessed with
They need to launch a much more expensive satellite for that.
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.
Just what we needed, more surveillance /s
Scary. In whose hands will this technological marvel be?
India
This is absolutely fucked. Bring down the all seeing eye in the sky satelite
"All seeing" except it's using radar to evaluate typography and biomass. What am I missing that makes this "absolutely fucked"?
Impressive that it has the resolution to identify fonts
I was so confused when I saw your comment until I reread my own. It really is top notch technology I guess!
This first iteration is only capable of identifying serif fonts, still impressive though.
Aren't you a tiny blob of typography and biomass yourself?
How did you know? Really though I was looking at the picture in the article which is from similar technology about a decade ago.
they've had spy sats since the 1960s
its not that bad
I recall a Judas Priest song about this.
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.
How is that a flaw? It just sounds like a design consideration...
Yes that's how one satellite can image a lot of area.
Do you expect the satellite to see the whole earth?
You know it's night for like half of it, yea?
What are you talking about? There's only one side. /s
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.
*yeah, not yea or nay. It isn't a vote.
