pocketstar

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Comment · 2 years ago

A gyro by definition IS inertial guidance.

Comment · 2 years ago

This is an incredibly naive approach. All asteroids emit light in the infrared, to detect and track asteroids just takes an infrared telescope making apparent motion against any background completely irrelevant. NASA is working on this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEO_Surveyor

Comment · 2 years ago

inkl has pretty good variety of news sources for a reasonable subscription fee, i subbed for years then started using apple news. Unfortunately i cannot recommend inkl because you have to email support to cancel your subscription, they offer a 50% discount if you try to cancel but that business practice of sign up with one click, email support to cancel i cannot condone.

Comment · 2 years ago

Fatigue is why we use steel for everything, no other alloys have the practical strength and infinite life.

Comment · 3 years ago

Not all asteroids are “bright” enough to be imaged from earth, the problem is the low albedo asteroids you cant see, thats why we need this: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/neo-surveyor/in-depth/

Comment · 4 years ago

Running the case this hot will degrade the battery significantly faster, hot battery reduces short term capacity and hot battery reduces lifetime capacity. MacBook(2015) has similar issues.

Comment · 4 years ago

https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html

Comment · 6 years ago

What is phage bacteria?Bacteriophages are a virus. If phage therapy is successful, there shouldnt be any target bacteria left to kill.

Comment · 7 years ago

inkl.com has been around a lot longer than “apple news” and seems to have much more news sources. Im going to be voting for the underdog with my money.

Comment · 7 years ago

Canada? Or Common Wealth? Judging from how you spell “cheque”. Signatures still mean something in some countires, just not the US.

Comment · 7 years ago

vrbo.com works for renting large places too.

Comment · 7 years ago

imo the best way to combat this is to answer the call and waste as much of the scammers time as possible. Call spamming only scales because most people ignore or hangup immediately. If you waste 30seconds of a scammers time thats 30 more people they cant call. And that 30 seconds costs THEM money. I just answer say “hi” to start the recording and leave the phone on my desk until they hangup. Perhaps i dont completely understand the backend but if more people wasted the scammers time it would quickly become too expensive for them to continue.

Comment · 7 years ago

Just pulled my Mac SE out of storage. Great to see what the little machine can still do!

Comment · 7 years ago

“As the supersonic solar wind flows past objects in its path, such as planets or smaller bodies...”

>essentially anything moving with any velocity is supersonic in space

Comment · 8 years ago

Wow, something I am working on made it to HN FP?! Happy to answer questions.