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A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this week (theconversation.com)

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[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 78 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

And yet whenever some achievement is made, the headlines are "Musk achieves great feat"

[–] seemefeelme 3 points 1 week ago

Imagine getting a job at SpaceX thinking you're gonna build a moon base and you get put on 'Elon distraction' 😭

[–] kernelle@0d.gs 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I like your funny words, magic man

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 9 points 1 week ago

I'm surprised I strung so many together coherently to be honest!

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Have you had a chance to play Kerbal Space Program yet? If not, I think you'd really enjoy it.

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Does not live up to the hype.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[+] macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world -7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Some of these words are meaningless and detract from what you are trying to say. People should not have to be subjected to this nonsense.

[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 week ago

Which words do you mean? Because I understand them all. They convey information, the fundamental point of language, hence they don't detract. Just because you can't make sense of them doesn't mean they're nonsense.

If you're talking about "Mach Yeet", yeet refers to forceful movement. This specific combination then means really fucking fast. The exact speed doesn't matter. The frivolity of the language underscores their excitement or might just be their idiolect.

Either way, so long as it's nothing hateful or harmful (beyond hurting your linguistic sensibilities), trying to police other people's vocabulary is narrow-minded and needlessly stuck-up.

Why don't you yeet that shit (throw it far away) and come join us in watching the fascinating evolution of language?

[–] bobotron@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Au contraire, quite eloquent

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

Thank you for your public service announcement!

[+] AJ1@lemmy.ca -16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

... I think I agree with your sentiment? honestly it's hard to tell because everything you just said is delivered in this ultra-cringe meme language. I guess this is so the average middle schooler can understand what you're saying? or is this how robots think humans communicate, so when they want to pretend they're an "average human internet user", they talk in this ridiculous idiotic meme codec? idk, whatever, it's peak cringe, but ok cool comment

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 19 points 1 week ago

ain't no harm skibidi ohio guy, don't got time fo the low-rizz crowd, no cap

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Which part of "chonky boi" or "mach yeet" do you need an average middle schooler to translate for you? Contextually, it's very clear what is being said for anyone that can read and speaks English.

You think you know what was said, then insulted it saying it was dumbed down for the average middle schooler. What does that say about you?

[–] vladmech@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Wish you weren’t such a yuck of their yum, my dude.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

changes on Earth’s surface down to the centimetre

These things really fuck with nude sunbathing.

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Some of us are blessed with

They need to launch a much more expensive satellite for that.

[–] hraegsvelmir@ani.social 7 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] espentan@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just what we needed, more surveillance /s

[+] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world -13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Did you read the part where this is a radar satellite designed for monitoring the climate? That is, did you read anything besides the headline before you decided: "Yeah, I think I'm able to make informed commentary about this"?

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Did you miss the /s?

Maybe you need a high res satellite.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A lot of technology has been repurposed for other uses than what they were mutually designed. What’s to stop the operators from using such a high def satellite to spy on people?

[–] CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Probably because it’s too cheap and primitive? Why use something not specially used to spy on people when you already have significantly designed satellites with a bigger budget and better technology?

[–] espentan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Like others have pointed out, It was indeed very much tongue-in-cheek.

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Scary. In whose hands will this technological marvel be?

[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

India

[–] bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is absolutely fucked. Bring down the all seeing eye in the sky satelite

[–] PlantJam@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"All seeing" except it's using radar to evaluate typography and biomass. What am I missing that makes this "absolutely fucked"?

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Impressive that it has the resolution to identify fonts

[–] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

This first iteration is only capable of identifying serif fonts, still impressive though.

[–] PlantJam@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I was so confused when I saw your comment until I reread my own. It really is top notch technology I guess!

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Aren't you a tiny blob of typography and biomass yourself?

[–] PlantJam@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

How did you know? Really though I was looking at the picture in the article which is from similar technology about a decade ago.

[–] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

they've had spy sats since the 1960s

its not that bad

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

I recall a Judas Priest song about this.

[–] jim3692@discuss.online -2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

How is that a flaw? It just sounds like a design consideration...

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

Yes that's how one satellite can image a lot of area.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Do you expect the satellite to see the whole earth?

You know it's night for like half of it, yea?

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

What are you talking about? There's only one side. /s

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

*yeah, not yea or nay. It isn't a vote.