i love living in a sci-fi dystopia

doublejj

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You can do a lot with all that paypal cash, the gift that keeps on giving. SpaceX plans on leveraging their starlink internet system to fund future projects. Starlink and other systems will clutter up orbital space and make ground based astronomy problematic, there are issues.

Someone could use starlink to fly a drone or RC plane using FPV into a target half way around the world and it would be difficult to jam. Just like the US military drones only much cheaper and much more accessible. But then again you can do it with 4G cellphone service and a dongle now, but that can be jammed by conventional means.
eventually we will have to band together to fund an earth day cleanup of the stratosphere....
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DIY-HP-LED

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eventually we will have to band together to fund an earth day cleanup of the stratosphere....
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If shit starts to collide in orbit there can be a cascade effect with may small pieces whizzing around in different orbits. All low earth modern satellites including starlink have a means to de orbit as do boosters, geosynchronous satellites can be parked out of the way if they break down to make room for another one in the slot. However this is just one of two American companies who are planning on doing this, there will be other countries and companies who will occupy this space too in coming years.

 

Fogdog

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I read that book when I was a kid. Read it again a couple years back and I was even more amazed at the prophecy presented in the story. Vonnegut was among my favorite authors when I was a teenager back in the 1970s.
Vonnegut was great one in dystopian sci fi genre. My fave of his is Slaughterhouse Five


John Brunner

The Sheep Look Up

it changed my life.
 
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DIY-HP-LED

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I read that book when I was a kid. Read it again a couple years back and I was even more amazed at the prophecy presented in the story. Vonnegut was among my favorite authors when I was a teenager back in the 1970s.
Used to read Vonnegut and found some of his stuff funny, Breakfast of Champions was a classic. He had a unique take on society people and technological issues.
 

doublejj

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Austin, Texas (CNN Business)Four astronauts are preparing to return home from the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, ending their five-month mission to the orbiting laboratory. The astronauts set a record for the longest time in space by a crew that launched aboard an American-built spacecraft.
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doublejj

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Seems like they just got there. It's been 5 months already?!

Wow. Time flies.
The United States spent nearly a decade without the ability to launch astronauts into space after the retirement of the Space Shuttle program in 2011, and NASA was forced to rely on Russian Soyuz spacecraft to get astronauts to the ISS, which the space agency says left the multibillion-dollar orbiting laboratory understaffed.
SpaceX developed the Crew Dragon capsule under NASA's Commercial Crew Program, which, for the first time in the space agency's history, handed over much of the design, development and testing of new human-rated spacecraft to the private sector.
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The Monarch

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Fact is when these accidents happen Musk and Tesla point to the documentation saying that it's a driver assist and the driver should keep their hands on the wheel. Then of course he goes on social media and posts and reposts videos of people reading a book, taking a nap, eating lunch, etc. in their Tesla while it's on autopilot. :roll:

Musk should be held directly responsible for this crap.
Any other country he would. Here, he gets to manipulate his shares and flip off the SEC on Twitter.
 
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