fireflymetavrse
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Comment · 8 months ago
The word "lost" is a little bit confusing in this context. It successfully landed and operated several days, but it's location was only approximated.
We've seen landers in recent years that crashed unintentionally in precise known locations. Does this mean that they were not lost?
Comment · 9 months ago
There is huge increase of orbital launches in recent years [1] done mostly by SpaceX and China is also planning to double its numbers in the coming years. The risks will be even higher.
Comment · 10 months ago
New record in 2025: 324 launches.
Chart by year: https://spacestatsonline.com/launches
SpaceX alone launched 165 Falcon 9 rockets which is more than half of the orbital launches worldwide. Decline of Russia continues, China with significant increase.
Comment · 1 year ago
Allowing this on Github means that Microsoft silently approve it?
Comment · 1 year ago
Why can't it be fixed? Just remove algorithms and show only subscribed content in chronological order. That's how most of the early platforms worked and it was fine.
Comment · 1 year ago
Stats that are based only on the number of satellites can be very misleading as they don't differentiate between a 5 ton comm sat and an 1 kg cubesat.
Comment · 2 years ago
I'm already skeptical with all these cancer research results being practical. One would say cancer is already curable when looking on the HN search results for cancer from the past 10+ years
Comment · 3 years ago
"“Stability AI has copied more than 12 million photographs from Getty Images’ collection, along with the associated captions and metadata, without permission from or compensation to Getty Images,” Getty wrote in its lawsuit."
The hypocrisy of Getty Image is insane here, given it's dark past.
[1] https://spacestatsonline.com/launches/beo