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ASAT missiles are only suitable for low earth orbit, you'd need a rocket about the size of a falcon 9 to reach GEO where Intelsat was sitting. Think people might notice that. Wouldn't need the satellite to be on a suicide mission, could just slap a gun on it like the good old days.

They have one sigint satellite Olymp-K creeping around up there, why not a second that doesn't have a Wikipedia article

Concord

You don't need to put it in the gear opposite to the direction it'll roll. Generally you want to put it in the gear with the lowest ratio (which in my car I think is first), as that will require the most amount of force to turn the engine. But also some engines shouldn't be rotated backwards because that might damage them. So that would mean put it in first facing downhill or reverse facing uphill.

You can opt out of audiobooks and save the extra cost they added the other month. https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2024/05/spotify-saving-basic-plan-audiobooks/?source=CRM-MSETIP-84b484ca1c047788624

I think the atmosphere can increase in volume when it gets warm because it's not a proper closed system, so the pressure doesn't go up in the same way.

I too watched veritasium today

They meant to say you interpreted the comment incorrectly, but that got autowronged to "commenting correctly".

They mean outrun in terms of acceleration/speed in a straight line, not outlast

That is well cool

The radioactive source isn't used for power in smoke detectors, it's used to detect smoke. What small scale devices use radioactivity actually for power?