What’s more likely to happen is Starship’s will be launched where the entire ship becomes the telescope, and then we’ll have arrays of these much further away.

Not sure if it’s the same for radio, but for optical that means we can get a 9 meter mirror up there without any expensive folding mechanism, and who knows how big if we fold them as the fairing is not only wider but also longer.

Cost would go from billions to hundreds of millions or less. James Webb cost 10b.

The James Webb folding mirror is 6.5m and was folded into a 4.5m fairing…

they don’t even need to have passed the state bar in some counties

WTF

Like how many of your rulings in the past 10 years have been overturned

Can’t argue with that one lol

What makes you think he hasn’t already been given the favor years or decades ago and how he’s the one repaying it and he’ll get nothing in return?

Are they worried people will bypass a speed limiter and go faster on the 1000w motor?

The only way this would be conceivable is if FSD actually worked, the robot works and change everything we know, or spacex is sending hundreds of ships to Mars each window.

Doesn’t seem possible, nor do I think solving only 1 of the above makes it possible.

Edit: or we wait long enough for inflation to make today’s assets at a future inflated value be worth that much without losing any of it in the meantime…

The satellites may be carrying starshields on them which are national security modules with the DoD. Shooting down the wrong satellite would be attacking US national defense infrastructure.

Nevermind starshields are whole DoD satellites.

I think when I read this, I replaced starshield with starlink

the ability to put a wide variety of instruments on the Starshield satellite bus

All these LEO satellites are so low it would only cause trouble for less than 5 years. That’s part of why they are low.

If we ever had something as dense as starlink 500km higher though that’d be a different story.

Ummm… Netflix is producing massive quantities of new content.

It might not all be good, it might be repetitive or you might not like it, but it’s a lot.

TIL, thanks.

If it’s a post disease treatment isn’t it just a cure vs a vaccine then?

You left off the part where they planted even more trees to compensate but also planted them to be not farmed, with biodiversity vs the monoculture farm.

They’re going to end up on the front lines

Hopefully the Ukrainian military thought this all through in advance and had a good idea of where those reinforcements will come from, and have some surprises in store for them.

Sinai in the Yom-Kippur

I think that seems reasonable fair to count?

Edit: US Gov was convinced in '75 but that’s only by the point they were convinced, and its quite possible it was prior.

Edit: just reading more, but this was a pretty cool event from the war

The Egyptian Army put great effort into finding a quick and effective way of breaching the Israeli defenses. The Israelis had built large 18-metre (59 foot) high sand walls with a 60-degree slope and reinforced with concrete at the water line. Egyptian engineers initially experimented with explosive charges and bulldozers to clear the obstacles, before a junior officer proposed using high pressure water cannons. The idea was tested and found to be a sound one, and several high pressure water cannons were imported from Britain and East Germany. The water cannons effectively breached the sand walls using water from the canal.

Serious question: was Israel really occupied at any point in time during, this or past, post maybe nuclear power times?

I don’t think a short term raid that’s immediately repelled necessarily counts as occupation in this sense.

My Israel history is also very limited

that wouldn’t even make sense since the glass was never “bulletproof” and if you’re gonna hit him in the face, you gotta go through the glass.

The deeper they get, I imagine the more ammunition stashes they’ll pass. I wonder how much they’ve been able to claim.

Kinda defeats the purpose of doing it private and local.

I wouldn’t trust any claims a 3rd party service makes with regards to being private.