merc

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

The Hu -> The Ho

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

It took looking at that in a different font to see it was a capital 'i' not a lower case 'l', as in Weird Artificial Intelligence Yankovic.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago
[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Blur -> Blue

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago
[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago
[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There are lots of ways to get satellites in polar orbits.

Of course there are, but the customers are mostly not at the poles, so any times the satellites spend at the poles is wasted.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

and also allow as a path to reinvigorate our domestic aerospace defence industry.

Avro Arrow centenary edition in 2059.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Do you mean Thiel?

Vance may be much smarter than Trump (low bar) and have actual plans for evil, vs. doing awful things on a whim. But, JD Vance doesn't have Trump's cult of personality. Whoever comes after Trump will return to the same normal relationship that a president has with their party. With the modern GOP that means intense squabbling and infighting. I doubt a president Vance could get much if his evil plan passed, even if the GOP did still control all the branches of government.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Geostationary satellites orbit at a height of 35,000 km. That means there's a huge lag, making the satellites unsuitable for interactive Internet, and it also means they're far away, so you need a big directional antenna to send data to them.

Starlink is awful, but you definitely don't want geostationary satellites for Internet.

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