No thanks. Not because I'm anti woman, just because I'm sick and tired of everyone trying to make distinctions about everything that shouldn't matter. If a woman can walk on the moon, then great, but we don't need to act like it's something special.

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With all that dust she might get distracted.. /s

It's 2023, just man and woman won't be enough, gonna need a lot of moonlandings.

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Is that from Seinfeld?

I've never gotten to see it like that in person. Even when we go camping in the Appalachians, it's not dark enough - the view is better than at home, but still not impressive. Too close to Cumberland, I think.

I only had an idea of what it should look like because our middle school had a small planetarium in it. One of things they'd show you was the difference light pollution made.

While this is fantastic news that we are tracking such small objects and their impact, it will raise fear in people. I usually tell them, have you seen those meteor burning tails all the time on clear skies. Sometimes multiple tails. Their answer is surprised face.

It's so common that you ignore it most times.

https://www.google.com/search?q=daytime+meteor+-fireball&tbm=isch

Good lord, the mods need to add a rule banning ChatGPT crap.

It needs to be more like 5 meters wide to not burn up completely. This wont matter to people anywhere.

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

|Fewer Letters|More Letters| |-------|---------|---| |L1|Lagrange Point 1 of a two-body system, between the bodies| |NOAA|National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, responsible for US generation monitoring of the climate|

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Ha ha ha ha. You dumb bastard. It's not a schooner... it's a Sailboat.

Someone in northern France might disagree to how much of a threat it is.

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And our universe - what we know of as the universe - is almost definitely a result of, and/or interacting with. Something completely outside of it. Possible something(s) far, far more significant. And we may never be able to know what. Ever.

yeah the title of the post is pretty misleading too and speaks more to the posters opinion than the thoughts expressed in the article

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And, it's tricky because without Starlink early on, no telling what might have happened to poor Ukraine.

But in the final analysis, drone or some other asset, it's the same basic situation. Certainly from a "making yourself a potential military target" POV :(

Isolated tribes where? I don’t think they exist in the US….

Boost back will happen over the Gulf of Mexico after stage separation. Starship is going to put itself on a suborbital trajectory that will bring it back down off the coast of Hawaii.

A lot of us have been questioning the military target thing all along. Particularly because of the whole super giga constellation thing and its potential to wreck LEO.

But as long as Starlink provides military services to whomever, they will remain a military target. That's why it's so risky to mix commercial and military stuff.

Hopefully they might have finally realized that? The world wonders.

It's not much of a difference, but it's an important one of emphasize. International pressure combine with us regulations makes it impossible for them to do anything other than what the they did once known. Private war profiteering is close upon us already. Let's not blow the dam apart completely.

I'm not sure if a civilian company has any way of protecting their assets, including orbital assets, other than essentially declaring neutrality in a conflict. And this isn't even neutrality - they're not offering the same service to Russia.

I guess I just don't see that much difference.

Starlink provides the comm links to fly drones to their targets. Starlink also provides comm links to direct other assets to their targets.