parcec

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by parcec 3y ago
Aren’t you supposed to edit grafana dashboards via the UI?
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by parcec 5y ago
Organ donation is opt out. Do you consider that evil?
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by parcec 5y ago
Aluminum already burns up on re-entry though. The only things that typically make it through are high melting point materials (like titanium and carbon), or low ballistic coefficient objects (like spent rocket stages).
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by parcec 7y ago
Related to this (though maybe not directly applicable), in certain scenarios there is a difference between what can be reliably detected vs tracked. For example, in the context of debris orbiting the earth, our radars can take LEO census me
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by parcec 8y ago
What's your criterion of being ready for live tests? Under what conditions is loss of innocent life okay?
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by parcec 8y ago
People getting killed by drunk drivers didn't volunteer for it either. It doesn't matter how you spin it, the metric that matters (there is nuance, but put bluntly) is "How many innocent lives are lost in traffic related acci
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by parcec 8y ago
You hit the nail on the head. People often jump to reactions without looking at bigger picture. It is entirely likely that Uber engineers evaluated this scenario, and (correctly) decided that it was safer overall to turn off reactionary bre
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by parcec 8y ago
Depends on how you define concern. For killing a spacecraft? Small debris. For creating more debris? Big debris.
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by parcec 8y ago
1cm objects are currently essentially impossible to track.
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by parcec 9y ago
I study orbital debris for a living - I'd like to assure you that you don't need to feel too worried about that. Orbital debris is generally consolidated in very thin altitude bands. Rockets on an escape trajectory spend very litt
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by parcec 9y ago
To be fair, Falcon 9 stage 1 has never been to orbit either.