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  • For two decades, spacefaring nations have operated under a simple rule: any satellite sent into orbit must have a less than one in 10,000 chance of injuring someone on the ground. The rule was written when a few dozen objects reentered the atmosphere each year. By early 2026, with more than 9,000 Starlink satellites in orbit and filings for constellations totaling over 70,000 spacecraft, that arithmetic no longer holds.

    Researchers have now done the math that regulators have not. A study published in the journal Acta Astronautica calculated the collective probability that debris from eleven major megaconstellations will hit someone. The result was 40 percent. The figure represents a fundamental gap between how safety is assessed and how risk actually accumulates when tens of thousands of objects come down.

    [The original] rules evaluate satellites individually. A constellation of 30,000 satellites, each with a one in 10,000 casualty risk, yields a collective probability of approximately 95 percent that some satellite will cause a casualty. No regulator currently computes or limits that cumulative probability.

  • The Hawaiian diaspora is the most severe in the entire world when viewed per capita. More Hawaiians have been forced out of Hawai’i than any other group of people have been forced out of anywhere else

    Plus the US quite literally holds massive amounts of Hawaiian lands that were seized when the US overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy, and could easily return that land to the Hawaiian people, it just chooses not to do it. Mostly by refusing to recognize any Hawaiian leadership and treating them on par with how other US native people are treated. If native Hawaiians had a recognized government the way indigenous peoples on the mainland do, the government would have to turn that land over. So they refuse to recognize

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  • I havent seen this much love gayness in a room since Narcissus discovered himself

  • You can allow the labor saving aspect of digital price tags without allowing the price-gouging bullshit of variable pricing.

    Changing sku tags, doing markdowns and markups etc, are some of the more pain in the ass tasks in a big box store, or any store for that matter. Automating that wouldnt be such a bad thing, so long as it doesnt also allow variable pricing bs

  • but why??

    Conservatives went feral after a black dude became president. Its not rocket science…

  • A fairly large number of people have different sized feet. When I sold shoes for a couple years, we always checked the sizes to make sure they were a match. 8/10 times there was a mismatch people would get visibly upset that we checked, or try to rush us and say its fine so we wouldnt check. Only like 2/10 times would people be like “oh Im so glad you checked, I only tried on one of them”. Honestly its common enough of a thing that Im surprised shoe manufacturers dont offer a way to order different sized shoes.

    A lot of professional athletes also have custom made shoes, skates, etc that accommodate their different sized feet. The reality is that its very common, yet people act more uncomfortable about having different sized feet than I ever saw anyone act about missing toes or having some kind of legitimate deformity

  • With wings that is called “trashed”. Fry them half way, then sauce them, then finish frying them

    Its literally the best way to have wings, but a pain in the ass to find a restaurant that will do it. Let alone one that offers trashed wings as a menu item

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  • This copper is perfectly fine. Although I dont think “aight” is a standard grade of copper, its copper enough to verifiably be copper upon closer inspection

  • Chirps (chips made of powdered cricket) exist, but they never took off. People have tried a lot of ideas, its moreso that consumers havent really shown much motivation towards insects as a protein

    Keratin protein bars is one of the better ideas Ive heard. Even still a lot of people wouldnt touch it if they saw it was insect-derived protein on the label

  • People who have literal geriatric fathers when theyre born tend to be wonky, especially with regard to being very tall or very thin.

    Technically having a kid in your late 30s is a geriatric pregnancy. Trump made that thing when he was 60+. Everyone Ive ever met with that old of a father was either very tall, very thin, or both. Usually both

  • Hes literally 79. Its not like hes on his deathbed

  • Aesthetically, one of my favorites is Zoom Earth. Visually its really impressive. Not the best for granular detail on a local area’s weather but still very cool

    https://zoom.earth/

  • Thiel links these religious themes to what he calls the exhaustion of the Enlightenment story of progress and the crisis of modern liberal democracy, arguing modernity’s faith in reason, institutions, and global cooperation is breaking down under the weight of geopolitical conflict and technological upheaval. He has suggested the stagnation of transformative innovation, rising bureaucracy, and a growing reliance on supranational bodies are signals that the modern era is ending and that a new, more openly theological politics is emerging in its place.

    Within this framework, Thiel has repeatedly singled out Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg as emblematic of what he calls “legionnaires of the Antichrist”—figures who seek to halt or tightly control scientific and technological development in the name of safety or planetary survival. In leaked recordings of a four‑part “Antichrist” lecture series, he described the modern Antichrist not as a reckless technologist, but as a “Luddite who wants to stop all science,” adding, “It’s someone like Greta,”

    Lets say for the sake of argument his overall idea has merit, but hes way off in choosing Thunberg. Who do we know, what major political figure, has massively undermined society’s faith in reason, institutions, and global cooperation? What major political figure has rejected scientific advancement that would save the planet in favor of the archaic “drill baby drill” model of propping up destructive industries like coal, oil, etc.? What major political figure has argued that the United States should have unilateral control over the western hemisphere, and has time and time again reduced global cooperation via the UN, treaties, etc.?

    I dont even think most of his argument is that far off base. I also think its plainly obvious that Donald Trump is the antichrist if there is one. His followers wear the mark of the beast on their foreheads (MAGA). He seemed to suffer mortal wounds, or came close, and yet miraculously survived (Covid. Or almost being shot in the face). He literally calls himself the “President of Peace” which is such a blatant ripoff of the “Prince of Peace” aka Jesus Christ. The antichrist is someone who will turn good people into bad people by convincing them that being on the side of evil is actually righteous. Look at the moral denigration of his followers who will never see the light.

    There was a website that tracked all the ways he was similar to the biblical descriptions of the antichrist that is ten miles long. They stopped updating it years ago before he even reached a second term in office. Its only gotten more obvious in the interim. Trump is literally the antichrist

    https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

  • However bad this year is, the 2028 Olympics in LA will literally be a near repeat of the Nazis hosting the Olympics in Berlin in 1936

  • I heard yo mama is too large to be collected and put somewhere safe

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    Deficit Between Minimum Wage and Annual Cost of Living of US States (OC)

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    Deficit Between Minimum Wage and Annual Cost of Living of US States (OC)

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    High Art

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    I’m Sorry Trevor

  • Technology @lemmy.world

    New fuel cell could enable electric aviation

    news.mit.edu /2025/new-fuel-cell-could-enable-electric-aviation-0527
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    Blue Highways

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    watermark vintage, straight from the vault

  • World News @lemmy.world

    Our papal tracker: would you bet money on the next pope?

    www.economist.com /interactive/graphic-detail/2025/05/04/our-papal-tracker-would-you-bet-money-on-the-next-pope