Well, I'm not alt-right and I think that way. Your point is invalid.
(before you start arguing that I am alt-right - nope, I'm moderate/centrist. But the fact you'd think I'm alt-right shows the extreme left way of thinking.)
He's male. He's white. He's likely not gay or transsexual. And he's not a member of the leftists. In this day and age, would you ever need any more proof that he's a sexist, racist nazi scum?
While that's all true, A LOT of debris don't end up in random stable orbits everywhere. A tiny percentage of the total, but still a large number, simply due to the absolutely massive total.
The crash literally produces millions of pieces. Metal splashes droplets everywhere. Solar panels turn to shards. Electronics scattered in tiny pieces. All these can cause damage to other satellites and produce more debris. And even if 0.5% of them end up in a moderately higher orbit, once you have full-scale Kessler syndrome at one orbital altitude, it's only a matter of time until it spreads to all of them.
"near instant (in geological terms)" means timescales of 1000 years. Not 50. That graph gives resolution of 64 years per pixel at the smallest scale, and even then as NGRIP record might point large changes on 200 years time scale, EPICA follow a much milder change.
B) depends on deployment mechanism. Imagine a charge shooting the payload like a shotgun in prograde direction. Most of the balls will not descend considerably.
C) it certainly is slowed down a lot and made much more risky. We're not sure about full extent of consequences.
It's a good rough estimate. A very small number of shards will move a little faster than that, most will move slower. This is the max any considerable number of shards can reach.
These new satellites are in polar orbit, so collision with (not all that uncommon) equatorial orbit satellites will be perpendicular. And ALL objects in orbit are traveling at orbital speed or very close to it, so is that really what you meant?
Also - don't neglect natural decay. Kessler syndrome depends on density (number) of satellites+debris in orbit. The number is naturally falling as orbits decay - and grows with new deployments and/or crashes.
At perpendicular collision, the max speed change would be sqrt(2) of the original... or exactly the Earth escape speed. So no orbit around Earth would be safe.
The US has enough sway to drain these countries' resources dry and by not absorbing them it doesn't have to provide any support that would be normally benefit them as US citizens.
If anything, the Russian method is less harmful to the conquered in the long run.
Every satellite can fail, and get out of control. The more satellites, the higher the chance.
As two satellites crash, they create thousands of tiny debris of space junk - that can crash in other satellites creating more space junk. Some of that junk will be sent into higher orbits (due to energy of the crash), endangering other satellites and creating more space junk that will take longer to decay...
We're not far from the Kessler Syndrome. I don't mind a launch that delivers one or five good 1-ton satellites. But the hundreds of cubesats give me creeps.
Considering this is connected with Earth spin, any vehicle traveling east, pushing itself against the ground/water/air, is slowing Earth spin, while travel west increases it.
So we should tax all eastward travel and use the money to subsidize westward transportation.
While the situation may be normal regarding Earth's history, and in past humanity history it would merely mean increased cancer incidence, magnetosphere primarily protects electronics from coronal mass ejections. This has only a history of several decades and was never exposed to diminished Earth magnetic field.
So, no, life on Earth won't be wiped by the demagnetization, and no enormous natural cataclysm will occur. But you might find electronics fried at nuclear power plants affect our daily life, especially when accompanied with fried satellites, fried electronics of tractors farming fields that provide our food, fried hospital equipment, and so on, and so on. The resulting cataclysm would be direct result of our reliance on electronics, the accompanying minor bump in cancer incidence negligible by comparison.
Fluctuations in past magnetic field on decade basis was hard as heck to measure on short period basis, because it takes solidifying rock/clay to lock the magnetic particles, and these don't form neat linear progression over time - the stamped pottery was the first that allowed to set samples in chronological order with decade dating precision.
Past global temperature is much easier to estimate, as its 'records' are 'frozen' as yearly growth of trees; each ring recording how warm and how dry the year was, through changing cellular structure and amount of growth. Fossilized trees allow to determine that, year by year; and events like volcano eruptions depositing specific unique substances in given year's ring across all tree population of given world area allow correlating samples of different age. Similarly deposits at bottoms of lakes create similar records.
In other words: we *just* discovered wild fluctuations in magnetic field. Meanwhile, for a long time, we have *known* there were no similar fluctuations with global temperature.
If the internal procedure requires special shipping procedures, the customer must follow them, or pay for them. If the procedure requires a whole factory floor, you provide such a factory floor for sale, for its full price. If there is no internal repair procedure for given part, you don't provide one, period.
The whole idea is that if the manufacturer can fix it, anyone can, using the same tools and the same procedures. If the tools and procedures are extremely complex and expensive - that's okay.
IF the only (internal) repair procedure for a device is total replacement and disposal of the original - then the manufacturer provides all the tools and documentation relevant, that is none. Nobody's going to force Kingston to provide repair tools for fixing fried MicroSD cards.
If the procedure they do requires a cleanroom and a special custom reflow oven, they must put these on sale, although if they cost ten million a piece to build, ten million is it.
But if broken screen replacement is ten minutes of a technician work, and a spare screen costs $20, there's no fucking reason you need to pay $200 for the procedure or discard your phone.
You're really trying to find a problem where there is none.
By installing own puppet government? Kosovo, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan. Possibly something earlier too, though I'd need to verify against the 50-year limit. Places like Panama etc.
It was especially funny in Iraq, where USA announced "first free elections", the nation happily voted for a religious fundamentalist party, then USA decided not to acknowledge results of the elections and installed own-appointed government instead.
The only difference is that while Russia just seizes the territory, USA absolutely doesn't want to acknowledge its new colonies as new states, which would make the people from these to automatically become legal USA citizens, thus the fake independency approach.
Whenever it's stuff that matters, someone complains it's not news for nerds. Whenever it's news for nerds, someone complains it's not stuff that matters.
Well, to be honest, Georgia did fuck with the Russian minorities; while one might argue against a full-scale invasion, some intervention was definitely in order.
And Ukraine? Ukraine has oil. Taking this by US standards, it's justification enough.
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Well, I'm not alt-right and I think that way. Your point is invalid.
(before you start arguing that I am alt-right - nope, I'm moderate/centrist. But the fact you'd think I'm alt-right shows the extreme left way of thinking.)
He's male. He's white. He's likely not gay or transsexual. And he's not a member of the leftists.
In this day and age, would you ever need any more proof that he's a sexist, racist nazi scum?
While that's all true, A LOT of debris don't end up in random stable orbits everywhere. A tiny percentage of the total, but still a large number, simply due to the absolutely massive total.
The crash literally produces millions of pieces. Metal splashes droplets everywhere. Solar panels turn to shards. Electronics scattered in tiny pieces. All these can cause damage to other satellites and produce more debris. And even if 0.5% of them end up in a moderately higher orbit, once you have full-scale Kessler syndrome at one orbital altitude, it's only a matter of time until it spreads to all of them.
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actual collision that happened, near-perpendicular. No detectable shards on escape trajectory, but quite a few in a considerably higher orbit.
"near instant (in geological terms)" means timescales of 1000 years. Not 50. That graph gives resolution of 64 years per pixel at the smallest scale, and even then as NGRIP record might point large changes on 200 years time scale, EPICA follow a much milder change.
A) prolly propaganda reasons.
B) depends on deployment mechanism. Imagine a charge shooting the payload like a shotgun in prograde direction. Most of the balls will not descend considerably.
C) it certainly is slowed down a lot and made much more risky. We're not sure about full extent of consequences.
It's a good rough estimate. A very small number of shards will move a little faster than that, most will move slower. This is the max any considerable number of shards can reach.
These new satellites are in polar orbit, so collision with (not all that uncommon) equatorial orbit satellites will be perpendicular. And ALL objects in orbit are traveling at orbital speed or very close to it, so is that really what you meant?
Iraq is paying its foreign debt to USA in oil.
The debt it got for a loan for rebuilding oil production infrastructure.
Infrastructure bombed by USA and rebuilt by US companies. Loan approved by puppet government.
In other words, USA robbed Iraq of its oil, legitimizing it through the process bomb-loan-rebuild-collect loan in oil.
Also - don't neglect natural decay. Kessler syndrome depends on density (number) of satellites+debris in orbit. The number is naturally falling as orbits decay - and grows with new deployments and/or crashes.
At perpendicular collision, the max speed change would be sqrt(2) of the original... or exactly the Earth escape speed. So no orbit around Earth would be safe.
Yeah, "Puppet governments don't count." Nice handwave there.
The US has enough sway to drain these countries' resources dry and by not absorbing them it doesn't have to provide any support that would be normally benefit them as US citizens.
If anything, the Russian method is less harmful to the conquered in the long run.
No *current* problem. But a risk.
Every satellite can fail, and get out of control. The more satellites, the higher the chance.
As two satellites crash, they create thousands of tiny debris of space junk - that can crash in other satellites creating more space junk. Some of that junk will be sent into higher orbits (due to energy of the crash), endangering other satellites and creating more space junk that will take longer to decay...
We're not far from the Kessler Syndrome. I don't mind a launch that delivers one or five good 1-ton satellites. But the hundreds of cubesats give me creeps.
I don't think the Gulf monarchies have all that much influence over ISIS.
The lack of recent successful terrorist attacks in Israel is the result of an their absolutely paranoid security levels.
Depends on orbit, but yes, look up Kessler Syndrome.
That's like calling raping native women "enrichment of the populace's genetic pool".
" (that leaves out you, me, and most people)" - well, until the nearest grand leak.
Don't worry, it will happen sooner or later.
Considering this is connected with Earth spin, any vehicle traveling east, pushing itself against the ground/water/air, is slowing Earth spin, while travel west increases it.
So we should tax all eastward travel and use the money to subsidize westward transportation.
While the situation may be normal regarding Earth's history, and in past humanity history it would merely mean increased cancer incidence, magnetosphere primarily protects electronics from coronal mass ejections. This has only a history of several decades and was never exposed to diminished Earth magnetic field.
So, no, life on Earth won't be wiped by the demagnetization, and no enormous natural cataclysm will occur. But you might find electronics fried at nuclear power plants affect our daily life, especially when accompanied with fried satellites, fried electronics of tractors farming fields that provide our food, fried hospital equipment, and so on, and so on. The resulting cataclysm would be direct result of our reliance on electronics, the accompanying minor bump in cancer incidence negligible by comparison.
Fluctuations in past magnetic field on decade basis was hard as heck to measure on short period basis, because it takes solidifying rock/clay to lock the magnetic particles, and these don't form neat linear progression over time - the stamped pottery was the first that allowed to set samples in chronological order with decade dating precision.
Past global temperature is much easier to estimate, as its 'records' are 'frozen' as yearly growth of trees; each ring recording how warm and how dry the year was, through changing cellular structure and amount of growth. Fossilized trees allow to determine that, year by year; and events like volcano eruptions depositing specific unique substances in given year's ring across all tree population of given world area allow correlating samples of different age. Similarly deposits at bottoms of lakes create similar records.
In other words: we *just* discovered wild fluctuations in magnetic field. Meanwhile, for a long time, we have *known* there were no similar fluctuations with global temperature.
You don't make design changes.
If the internal procedure requires special shipping procedures, the customer must follow them, or pay for them. If the procedure requires a whole factory floor, you provide such a factory floor for sale, for its full price. If there is no internal repair procedure for given part, you don't provide one, period.
The whole idea is that if the manufacturer can fix it, anyone can, using the same tools and the same procedures. If the tools and procedures are extremely complex and expensive - that's okay.
Then you replace the motherboard.
IF the only (internal) repair procedure for a device is total replacement and disposal of the original - then the manufacturer provides all the tools and documentation relevant, that is none. Nobody's going to force Kingston to provide repair tools for fixing fried MicroSD cards.
If the procedure they do requires a cleanroom and a special custom reflow oven, they must put these on sale, although if they cost ten million a piece to build, ten million is it.
But if broken screen replacement is ten minutes of a technician work, and a spare screen costs $20, there's no fucking reason you need to pay $200 for the procedure or discard your phone.
You're really trying to find a problem where there is none.
By installing own puppet government? Kosovo, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan. Possibly something earlier too, though I'd need to verify against the 50-year limit. Places like Panama etc.
It was especially funny in Iraq, where USA announced "first free elections", the nation happily voted for a religious fundamentalist party, then USA decided not to acknowledge results of the elections and installed own-appointed government instead.
The only difference is that while Russia just seizes the territory, USA absolutely doesn't want to acknowledge its new colonies as new states, which would make the people from these to automatically become legal USA citizens, thus the fake independency approach.
Whenever it's stuff that matters, someone complains it's not news for nerds. Whenever it's news for nerds, someone complains it's not stuff that matters.
And THIS is exactly why Trump won't be impeached.
For Trump, Pence is better than any insurance policy.
Well, to be honest, Georgia did fuck with the Russian minorities; while one might argue against a full-scale invasion, some intervention was definitely in order.
And Ukraine? Ukraine has oil. Taking this by US standards, it's justification enough.