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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 81 points 2 days ago (10 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 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 2 days ago (2 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 2 days ago

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

[–] jaxxed@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

He likely brought a ton of capital with him.

[–] seemefeelme@infosec.pub 2 points 2 days 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 2 days ago (1 children)

I like your funny words, magic man

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 9 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Ste41th@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

“Mach yeet” is now added to my list of sentences I never knew I wanted to read

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

As an engineer I would like to second this motion to get "Mach Yeet" adopted as an IEC standard technical term.

[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

If I could have crowbarred "moist" in there somewhere too, I'd have set the lexical tiktok on fire.

...if there is even one, don't come at me TNETENNBA fans!

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days 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 2 days 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 7 points 2 days 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 2 days ago

Does not live up to the hype.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day 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.

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[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Scary. In whose hands will this technological marvel be?

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 21 points 2 days ago (2 children)

changes on Earth’s surface down to the centimetre

These things really fuck with nude sunbathing.

[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Some of us are blessed with

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

[–] hraegsvelmir@ani.social 7 points 2 days 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.

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

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

[–] PlantJam@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days 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 day ago (2 children)

Impressive that it has the resolution to identify fonts

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

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

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

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

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] PlantJam@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days 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 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

they've had spy sats since the 1960s

its not that bad

[–] espentan@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Just what we needed, more surveillance /s

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[–] tfowinder@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago

This is really cool.

Anyone know where can I publically find satellite data which is regularly updated, for hobby projects.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

I recall a Judas Priest song about this.

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