For being an anonymous coward, you sound awfully much like you think you own the place. Please stick around and learn not every person agrees with you.
The comments on this article are just amazing in their juvenile self-righteousness. Apparently, the only people who should be allowed to decide what goes into orbit are the astronomers that look at the stars that might obscured, or not. I had read so many just in the first comments, I had to make a response, which was, "I didn't know astronomers were the most important people on this planet."
Yes, I went into troll and flamebait territory with a few of my comments, but only in direct response to the same level of drivel in another comment, such as
This is vandalism, and there are victims. It's going to disrupt ongoing astronomy work - work that is funded by our taxdollars. The grant managers who now have to shift money around will absolutely find this expensive beyond the launch costs. The grad students and junior researchers who have been waiting for time on telescopes, whose studies and careers will be delayed because of this launch will definitely find this "super evil."
If that's not worthy of a flamebait response, nothing is.
So your reasoning is that we should abandon all space activity, dismantle our rockets, deorbit every satellite and space station, and never again dare to pollute the cosmos with our random junk, even if we think it is important.
I'm cool with that. Do you have a newsletter I can subscribe to?
Sorry, I didn't mean "real" as opposed to "imaginary". I meant "real payloads" as in "objects that have an important function, and are expensive".
They could have put a beach ball full of fireworks material, and made a great light display for 30 seconds as it burnt up. They chose to do something slightly different.
From what I can see, it would be more like hanging a small (animal-safe) mirror in a random tree in one of the national forests, and every few minutes having it magically move to another random tree in another national forest.
When this Humanity Star is on the night side of the planet, it is in the shadow of the Earth, and so is dark. When it isn't in the shadow of the planet, it is either on the day side of Earth, or at the polar regions. It looks like it isn't going to be that much of an impact on the poor down-trodden astronomers that 90% of the comments are making it out to be.
It flew overhead of my location last night while I was making these comments, and again a couple hours ago. Last night it was in the shadow, so invisible, and now it is morning so it is again invisible.
Can you ramp up the melodrama a bit please? Please tell us how it is going to force granny out of her house, lead to famine in the Rift Valley, and cause more volcanoes to light up the Ring of Fire.
It's their test launch, they can do with it as they fucking wish. And besides, they can't offer the space to a paying customer, because it is a test launch. How stupid are you that you can't figure out both of those issues?
I didn't know astronomers were the most important people on this planet. I fail to see why their complaints are any more concerning that the people who want to see a bright Humanity Star with everyone else who isn't one of the elites.
The left also has a hard time with reading comprehension. His explicit statement is that the left doesn't care if a government action or regulation is constitutional. As long as it is to their liking they push it as the only answer.
It's kind of like when your teacher/parent demanded you do something by the time they counted down from 10. But when you still hadn't done it by the time they got to 1, they started with ever larger wooden spoons.
That's how I remember it...
Spoons? You were lucky.
And what the hell is this concept of a parent 'counting down from 10'? We might have had a word of warning, or not, depending on how loud the crying was.
Slashdot Mirror
One of the best shows ever.
Are you saying they sent forth a messenger who was carrying piece of sporting equipment?
Let the music industry try to make their own streaming service. I'd love to see the crap that produces.
Apparently the Copyright Royalty Board, and say your work was an 'artistic interpretation performance'.
The only Russian words I know are "dos vadanya", and that's only because they said it in every cold war movie of the 80s.
For being an anonymous coward, you sound awfully much like you think you own the place. Please stick around and learn not every person agrees with you.
The comments on this article are just amazing in their juvenile self-righteousness. Apparently, the only people who should be allowed to decide what goes into orbit are the astronomers that look at the stars that might obscured, or not. I had read so many just in the first comments, I had to make a response, which was, "I didn't know astronomers were the most important people on this planet."
Yes, I went into troll and flamebait territory with a few of my comments, but only in direct response to the same level of drivel in another comment, such as
This is vandalism, and there are victims. It's going to disrupt ongoing astronomy work - work that is funded by our taxdollars. The grant managers who now have to shift money around will absolutely find this expensive beyond the launch costs. The grad students and junior researchers who have been waiting for time on telescopes, whose studies and careers will be delayed because of this launch will definitely find this "super evil."
If that's not worthy of a flamebait response, nothing is.
So your reasoning is that we should abandon all space activity, dismantle our rockets, deorbit every satellite and space station, and never again dare to pollute the cosmos with our random junk, even if we think it is important.
I'm cool with that. Do you have a newsletter I can subscribe to?
He owns Slashdot's servers? I didn't know that. Sorry, disregard my former comment on his self-righteousness.
Sorry, I didn't mean "real" as opposed to "imaginary". I meant "real payloads" as in "objects that have an important function, and are expensive".
They could have put a beach ball full of fireworks material, and made a great light display for 30 seconds as it burnt up. They chose to do something slightly different.
From what I can see, it would be more like hanging a small (animal-safe) mirror in a random tree in one of the national forests, and every few minutes having it magically move to another random tree in another national forest.
When this Humanity Star is on the night side of the planet, it is in the shadow of the Earth, and so is dark. When it isn't in the shadow of the planet, it is either on the day side of Earth, or at the polar regions. It looks like it isn't going to be that much of an impact on the poor down-trodden astronomers that 90% of the comments are making it out to be.
It flew overhead of my location last night while I was making these comments, and again a couple hours ago. Last night it was in the shadow, so invisible, and now it is morning so it is again invisible.
Is that the 'porn rule'? Is their already porn for this thing? That was fast, and you are a freak.
I mean 'freak' in a good way, of course.
Can you ramp up the melodrama a bit please? Please tell us how it is going to force granny out of her house, lead to famine in the Rift Valley, and cause more volcanoes to light up the Ring of Fire.
The "Humanity Star" is a ... self-indulgent art project.
That someone made and launched with their own money, not yours. So stop giving them shit already.
I don't think you understand how orbits work.
Plus, you don't put real payloads on test launches. There was no guarantee of making orbit.
It's their test launch, they can do with it as they fucking wish. And besides, they can't offer the space to a paying customer, because it is a test launch. How stupid are you that you can't figure out both of those issues?
I didn't know astronomers were the most important people on this planet. I fail to see why their complaints are any more concerning that the people who want to see a bright Humanity Star with everyone else who isn't one of the elites.
By the way, I meant dollar or pay estimate. Not hours again.
Do you mind giving a rough estimate for a typical week? Or for a 'great' week with a convention in town?
What is your definition of 'neocon'?
How many cartoon birds have hands?
I find it amusing that all three of your statements apply to the Right as well.
I didn't say they didn't. I simply explained why GerryGilmore was making the wrong argument.
The left also has a hard time with reading comprehension. His explicit statement is that the left doesn't care if a government action or regulation is constitutional.
As long as it is to their liking they push it as the only answer.
Our mom and dad never counted to or from any number. They told us to do something, and we got spanked if we didn't.
It's kind of like when your teacher/parent demanded you do something by the time they counted down from 10. But when you still hadn't done it by the time they got to 1, they started with ever larger wooden spoons.
That's how I remember it...
Spoons? You were lucky.
And what the hell is this concept of a parent 'counting down from 10'? We might have had a word of warning, or not, depending on how loud the crying was.