fireflymetavrse

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Mapping Alien Continents: Achieving Optical VLBI for Exoplanet Imaging(nasa.gov)
3 points by fireflymetavrse 2mo ago|0 comments
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by fireflymetavrse 7mo ago
The word "lost" is a little bit confusing in this context. It successfully landed and operated several days, but it's location was only approximated. We've seen landers in recent years that crashed unintentionally in pre
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by fireflymetavrse 8mo ago
There is huge increase of orbital launches in recent years [1] done mostly by SpaceX and China is also planning to double its numbers in the coming years. The risks will be even higher. [1] https://spacestatsonline.com/launc
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2025 Orbital Launch Stats(spacestatsonline.com)
2 points by fireflymetavrse 9mo ago|1 comments
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by fireflymetavrse 9mo ago
New record in 2025: 324 launches. Chart by year: https://spacestatsonline.com/launches SpaceX alone launched 165 Falcon 9 rockets which is more than half of the orbital launches worldwide. Decline of Russia continues, Chin
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by fireflymetavrse 1y ago
Allowing this on Github means that Microsoft silently approve it?
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by fireflymetavrse 1y ago
Why can't it be fixed? Just remove algorithms and show only subscribed content in chronological order. That's how most of the early platforms worked and it was fine.
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by fireflymetavrse 1y ago
Stats that are based only on the number of satellites can be very misleading as they don't differentiate between a 5 ton comm sat and an 1 kg cubesat.
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Australia's first orbital-class rocket stalled seconds after liftoff(arstechnica.com)
9 points by fireflymetavrse 1y ago|1 comments
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2024 Orbital Launch Stats(spacestatsonline.com)
2 points by fireflymetavrse 2y ago|0 comments
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by fireflymetavrse 3y ago
I'm already skeptical with all these cancer research results being practical. One would say cancer is already curable when looking on the HN search results for cancer from the past 10+ years
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2023 Orbital Launch Stats(spacestatsonline.com)
1 points by fireflymetavrse 3y ago|0 comments
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by fireflymetavrse 3y ago
"“Stability AI has copied more than 12 million photographs from Getty Images’ collection, along with the associated captions and metadata, without permission from or compensation to Getty Images,” Getty wrote in its lawsuit." The
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by fireflymetavrse 4y ago
Not sure about the claims that blue ray's longevity may be less than cds and dvds. The technology greatly improved in the past decade (the article was written in 2010) and multiple sources saying the opposite. M-DISC brds seem to be ca
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Sky Giant: Turkey Mulls to Complete the Second Antonov An-225 Mriya(oryxspioenkop.com)
1 points by fireflymetavrse 4y ago|0 comments
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by fireflymetavrse 4y ago
It's not that simple from any point of view. First you cannot just replace a single SLS with 100 Electrons.
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by fireflymetavrse 5y ago
I'm sure in the long run the US would rather deal with Russia than with a China occupying anything Russian in Eastern Asia.
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by fireflymetavrse 5y ago
>they are afraid to stand up to their own government I think you are not aware on how authoritarian regimes work and relates to those trying to oppose.
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by fireflymetavrse 5y ago
It's not like NATO to deploy forces there to fight the Russians. This is a more complex military, strategic and political issue with many implications.
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by fireflymetavrse 5y ago
In short, South China Sea is more important than the Black Sea
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by fireflymetavrse 5y ago
We can bash Samsung here, for this particular case, but is this something only Samsung does?
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by fireflymetavrse 5y ago
>15,517 tons What is the source for this and how was this calculated?
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by fireflymetavrse 5y ago
Not many you can do by commenting here anyway. Just wanted to point out that something else may be the reason of the ban.
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by fireflymetavrse 5y ago
I have multiple google accounts with one of them having adsense and never had problems.
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by fireflymetavrse 5y ago
Many people underestimate how hard is to store securely and reliably a crypto wallet key on long period.
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by fireflymetavrse 5y ago
>"I can't afford a certificate." >They're free. May be free but is it still applicable on hosting providers like Godaddy?
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by fireflymetavrse 5y ago
Also, youtube videos sometimes don't have posting date in their description, not sure why. And I hate when platforms use contextual time like '1 year ago' instead of posting date.
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by fireflymetavrse 5y ago
I find 100 GB mdiscs somewhat cheaper per GB than the 25 ones.
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by fireflymetavrse 5y ago
No chance of bear attack, according to a popular meme.
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by fireflymetavrse 5y ago
I'm now considering removing all the videos uploaded, some of them more than 10 years old. Not worth the risk of an account ban.

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