Proton has been used to reach a parking orbit before. Afterwards, Block has been used successfully boost into final orbit.
Apparently, this was the first time the Block, too, was needed to reach the parking orbit, because the satellite is so heavy. I wonder whether the insurers had figured this out and set the premium accordingly.
Anyway, it seems like the Block got confused about its new role. Software testing?
Idea (perhaps not new): Would it be possible to dilute their mailing lists with billions of seemingly valid e-mail addresses, spam to which would generate mail-openings and responses, but, in the end, no sales for their end-customers? Their costs would rise. Simultaneously, the customers would be increasingly unwilling to pay for false leads. Oh so sadly, some spammers might be squeezed into unprofitability. Would this be a practicable approach?
Idea (perhaps not new): Give them some of their own medicine. Would it be possible to dilute their mailing lists with billions of seemingly valid e-mail addresses, spam to which would generate mail-openings and responses, but, in the end, no sales for their end-customers? Their costs would rise. Simultaneously, the customers would be increasingly unwilling to pay for false leads. Oh so sadly, some spammers might be squeezed into unprofitability. Would this be a practicable approach?
I've been monitoring the orbit using Home Planet for a week or so now. If the final firing blows partly to the side, increasing Mir's inclination instead of braking it, so that it stays up longer than planned, and swings farther north and south, it could conceivably hit Chernobyl. It would only have to change course by about 150 km and stay up about 45 min too long. That is, if it doesn't hit east coastal South America, the Atlas Mountains, Italy or the Balkans first. If it stays up another whole orbit, it wouldn't even have to change course much.
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Proton has been used to reach a parking orbit before. Afterwards, Block has been used successfully boost into final orbit.
Apparently, this was the first time the Block, too, was needed to reach the parking orbit, because the satellite is so heavy. I wonder whether the insurers had figured this out and set the premium accordingly.
Anyway, it seems like the Block got confused about its new role. Software testing?
Idea (perhaps not new):
Would it be possible to dilute their mailing lists with billions of seemingly valid e-mail addresses, spam to which would generate mail-openings and responses, but, in the end, no sales for their end-customers? Their costs would rise. Simultaneously, the customers would be increasingly unwilling to pay for false leads. Oh so sadly, some spammers might be squeezed into unprofitability.
Would this be a practicable approach?
Idea (perhaps not new): Give them some of their own medicine.
Would it be possible to dilute their mailing lists with billions of seemingly valid e-mail addresses, spam to which would generate mail-openings and responses, but, in the end, no sales for their end-customers? Their costs would rise. Simultaneously, the customers would be increasingly unwilling to pay for false leads. Oh so sadly, some spammers might be squeezed into unprofitability.
Would this be a practicable approach?
I've been monitoring the orbit using Home Planet for a week or so now. If the final firing blows partly to the side, increasing Mir's inclination instead of braking it, so that it stays up longer than planned, and swings farther north and south, it could conceivably hit Chernobyl. It would only have to change course by about 150 km and stay up about 45 min too long. That is, if it doesn't hit east coastal South America, the Atlas Mountains, Italy or the Balkans first. If it stays up another whole orbit, it wouldn't even have to change course much.