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Comment Re:Exploded? From what? (Score 1) 95

What is in a commercial communications satellite that can go so badly it will explode and send 20+ chunks of debris in all directions?

I'm going with hypergolic rocket fuel for station keeping and enough lithium ion batteries to keep it powered through maximum eclipse duration of around 72 minutes, especially when either of the above is hit by a micro-meteor.

Comment Re:Insane (Score 1) 216

So you get a ticket in the mail saying you were driving 12 MPH over the speed limit (a civil infraction, a penalty of 3 points and $30.00 fine) and passing in a "No Passing Zone" (a civil infraction, a penalty of 3 points and $150.00 fine) and a photo of your car /with plates in the left lane returning to the right over double yellow lines, misjudging by 30 feet.
You can:

  • Sign the ticket and except liability, send $180.00, take a 6 point hit and watch your car insurance go up 50% for at least two years
  • Contest the ticket in Court and claim you weren't driving your car the day just so the DA can ask you who was driving and possibly subpoenaing that person, lose and pay $180.00 in fine, a 6 point hit, $360 in Court Costs ($540 in total) and watch your car insurance go up 50% for at least two years
  • Go to Court, try and get passing in a "No Passing Zone" (a civil infraction, a penalty of 3 points and $150.00 fine) and except 12 MPH over the speed limit (a civil infraction, a penalty of 3 points and $30.00 fine)

Comment Re: Kamala Harris started as Willie Brown's mistre (Score 1) 333

She was a prosecutor that kept people in prison so they could use them as penal firefighters for cheap, withheld exculpatory information from the Defense consul and put hundreds of Black men in prison for simple marijuana convictions while she smoked the same shit.

Comment The "Good 'Ol Days" (Score 1) 51

Remember the days when Boeing and ULA were arguing that SpaceX shouldn't even be allowed to bid on the Commercial Crew Program (CCP), now Boeing hasn't even been able to make a single round trip. I wonder if SpaceX will get paid at the same rate per seat for the mission contracts that Boeing won't be able to fulfill?

Comment Re:Saudi Arabias Secret Plan To Keep Us Hooked On (Score 1) 58

Not really, in aircraft engines, the supersonic rotating detonation occurs in the combustion chamber, almost everything else is pretty standard jet engine. The only thing that is supersonic is the flame front. What Is A Rotating Detonation Engine - And Why Are They Better Than Regular Engines

Comment Re:The Constitution disagrees (Score 1) 174

The Preamble of The Declaration of Independence states

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness.

They are NOT rights granted by the Constitution, limited to Citizenship or territoriality, they are rights INHERENT to Mankind that the US Government is specifically prohibited from interfering with.

Comment Re:Do bots have freedom of speech? [Re:The Consti. (Score 1) 174

I also said there are millions of bots on social media right now. They're foreign, they're Chinese, they're Iranian. ...We need social media companies to go and fight back on all of these bots that are happening."

Haley is only worried about the bots because they are foreign, not because they are bots, the Five Eyes Countries really don't care because their technologies are well past simple Bots, they have direct feeds into the Social Media streams. They only get subpoenas to obfuscate have much access they have.

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