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Cool demo.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Thanks. Very amusing. It put a smile on my face.
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I was trying to figure out why the Russians would want a nuclear anti satellite weapon.
If it wraps the EMP around the world covering part of the sphere, it'd be every satellite near enough in that orbit. If they lost command and control capability it might be a bunch of falling stars at once.
It would really really tick off a whole bunch of people though.
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At least humans are... consistent?
Jeremy Falcon
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Space exploration is just the search for another planet we can move to when there's nothing left to destroy on this one.
"Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat." Will Rogers
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WALL·E (2008) - IMDb[^] says "Hello"
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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That's too cynical for me. Space exploration is becoming focused on mining resources elsewhere besides our planet.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. - Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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Regulation of added debris is a must.
Space is big but not unlimited unless you go really deep.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Deep subject
"Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat." Will Rogers
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easy one
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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The problem is that we want that junk to be there!
Well ... not as junk. But we are very excited about those operations leaving junk up there. For example: Which IT guy is critical to StarLink, planning up to 42,000 satellites in space, because it contributes to the space junk? Which free-market, free-competition guy is negatative when five competitors to StarLink each want to put another set of 40-50,000 satellites in the sky?
We are not willing to sacrifice unlimited communication capacity just to reduce the amount of space junk.
We are not willing to sacrifice free competition just to reduce the amount of space junk.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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I agree. The new stuff will probably have to be able to dodge debris if staying long in orbit.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Just getting worse.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Hey with the amount of debris out there, could the cumulative shadow of the stuff reduce the amount of solar radiation hitting the Earth thereby reducing the effect of global warming?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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Possibly, we ain't done yet!
"Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat." Will Rogers
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Space is big. Really big.
It's not like you can reach the outer stratosphere, take a look around, and see a debris field.
This is not entirely unlike the so-called plastic garbage patch ("the size of Texas") floating around in the Pacific. Have you seen an actual picture of it?
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The animation is not to scale.
Increase the size of the parts further and it will look even scarier.
Decrease the size of the parts till they are to scale and you won't see anything as they are all far smaller than a pixel.
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We ought to send up a giant horseshoe magnet and just pull the debris out as a cloud between the sun and the earth like a beach umbrella to mitigate climate change. Brilliant, right?!? Right?!?
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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[SPACE IS BIG]
[SPACE IS DARK]
[ITS HARD TO FIND ...]
[.. A PLACE TO PARK]
Burma Shave
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Now that's funny, I don't care who you are. Larry the cable guy
"Ten men in the country could buy the world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat." Will Rogers
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modified 5-Mar-24 13:12pm.
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I mentioned to @jmaida I'd give another example of closures in the language that shall not be named (rhymes with GuavaScript). Closures can not only be used to fake OOP, as it were. They can also be applied to functional concepts. In functional programming, there's a concept called currying. And like anything in tech, it sounds way more complicated than it is.
const fooBar = function(foo) {
return function(bar) {
return foo + bar;
};
};
Let's get fancy now with some modern syntax.
const fooBar = foo => bar => `${foo} and ${bar} sitting in a tree`;
console.log(fooBar, fooBar());
console.log(fooBar('sup')('dawg'));
So you're probably thinking, ok but that's whack. What the fudge do people use currying for? Two reasons actually.
Let's say you got a function to call with the same parameters over and over again, and it just looks nasty. And nasty code is... well nasty. You can clean it up with a curry.
const supDawg = fooBar('sup')('dawg');
console.log(supDawg);
Ok, so that's cool. But let's be real, it's not practical. A practical application of currying would be analogous to an abstract base class in OOP-land and how that helps with reuse. Also, kinda like how an abstract class is never supposed to be directly instantiated, the "abstract" logic should never be directly called outside the scope of the outer function. But, being functional, you get another benefit too.
const doTheHardStuff = function(x) {
const z = doSomethingComputationallyExpensive(x);
return function (y) {
z + y;
}
}
const finishTheJob = doTheHardStuff(10)
finishTheJob(20)
finishTheJob(30)
Now, as you might imagine, that gets hard core what the fudge. But when you need currying, it's super cool. It's also useful in distributed programming when you want to cut down on network requests without polluting a global/module namespace and not relying on static variables, etc. So, yay currying and closures.
Jeremy Falcon
modified 5-Mar-24 13:15pm.
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Message Closed
modified 5-Mar-24 13:11pm.
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