jonaslanglotz
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mourning_stationery [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324054
It's a reference to https://xkcd.com/2883/, which I've always liked and was suprised there was no tool to check when you last had astronauts over for dinner.
Looking up the location of the ISS at a specific time is easy. Looking up the closest passes of the ISS to a specific location for the last 30 years on-demand is more complicated.
But I agree with your point that it does remain difficult to intercept and poses the shot-exchange problem.