We really should do something about these #chinese #ccp #rockets falling from #space #uncontrolled *all the time* in #random locations: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/h.. Apparently the #ccp has so little regard for human life that they allow their #rockets to #fail #launches onto their own people.
Apparently #google #users will get a #free #upgrade from 15GB to 1TB #disk #space in the #cloud https://lowendbox.com/blog/google-is-upg.. I can't confirm if this applies to #email and #google #drive .
I really want to #revisist the #superpermutations #problem https://groups.google.com/g/superpermuta.. I may ask a #university to #devote some serious #computation #resources as we seriously know very little about the #problem #space , only having #solutions for small values of N. I believe finding #symmetric #patterns could be a #feasible way of #drastically #reducing the #resource #requirements .
According to #hackernews #comments , #chinese #space #rockets are falling on #civilians *all the time:* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=322.. Apparently soon a 23 tonne random piece will land randomly, possibly in a #populated area, and they don't give a single fuck: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/j.. Insane.
#russia is now #refusing to #launch #european #satellites into #space - so much for that #security and #independence https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/r.. Thank god the #uk is not #relying on these #idiots ...
I very much agree that #flatpak and #snap are not the #future for #package #management https://ludocode.com/blog/flatpak-is-not.. So many issues, including extreme #disk #space use!
As #scottmanley points out, it looks as if the #space #community is not happy about a recent #test the #russian #military did to de- #orbit an old #spy #satellite #explosively https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvdQcDDU.. It's still not entirely clear if the #iss #space #station is going to be okay, and it's entirely possible that the #chinese #spacestation will be affected in the future as the #orbits of the #debris #decay - damn. This was pretty reckless!
The #iss #space #station cannot catch a break. It is being de- #funded , avoided some #chinese created space #debris recently and now some #russian created debris over the weekend: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/d.. Bare in mind, this space station is old, it's falling apart at the seams. It's being held together with #ducktape and love.
Awesome work on I2C and #spi operating multiple #devices in #space on a #robust #network https://hackaday.com/2021/09/29/robust-i.. I also heard the use of #usb and the like in space too. Great work.
The problem is with dismantling the #spaceforce , #democrats , is that if other #state #actors have a #military presence in #space - the #us and #west *must* also: https://timcast.com/news/democrat-lawmak.. How the fuck do you think #gps works? Or #satellite #communications ? What do you think will happen if these things are targetted #strategically ? Perhaps we need to reframe this in terms of a #twitter #outage to make them care...
Very interesting, as I expected - it looks like some #raspberrypi 's are still going after 5 years in #space #orbit - meaning that #commercial #hardware is a lot more #robust to #radiation than was made out... https://hackaday.com/2021/09/22/astro-pi.. They are even looking to add *more* of them given the #success of the existing Raspberry Pi's.
Just a small #fire on the #iss #space #station that tripped a #smoke #alarm https://www.euronews.com/2021/09/09/smok.. Apparently it was likely #burning #plastic in one of the #russian #modules - fun times!
Looks like a viable #alternative to #gps could be #tgs https://microgps.cs.princeton.edu/ I really suspect we will need a #satellite alternative super soon. A single #space #collision could entirely wipe out the entire system as it exists.
@barray on Thu Jul 29 18:25:53 UTC 2021 said: &eOkay, the new #fastandfurious #film is pretty insane. They literally go to #space ... Also I don't know why they won't let the #brian character die as he did in real life. Honestly I found myself getting #bored - it was simply too much of a stretch of belief.To be fair, there was reference to #tokyodrift in the latest #fastandfurious #film - as well as references to pretty much all of the other films. I guess they needed to in order to establish why there was a secret brother this whole time. Still less than half way through though, so let's see.
Awesome! Looks like the #hubble #space #telescope is back online! https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/.. Apparently a new #computer and a #reboot was enough to get it back online again. Apparently it ended up just being a #powersupply issue, specifically the part that monitors the supply rail to make sure it is correct: https://hackaday.com/2021/07/16/the-fix-..
At this point, I wouldn't rule out the #hubble #telescope having been #hacked https://www.npr.org/2021/06/23/100956735.. Currently #nasa believe it is that some part has #degraded - but we'll see. Fixing a #component failure in #space will be a super pain in the arse in any case.