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Submission + - Moon-bound asteroid could cripple Earth's satellites, say astronomers (substack.com) 1

KentuckyFC writes: In DEcember last year, NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) picked up an 60-meter asteroid that appeared to be heading our way. Further observations quickly ruled out the possibility of a collision but in April, the agency announced that 2024 YR4 had a 4 per cent chance of hitting the moon instead. Now astronomers have calculated the likely consequences and say the impact would create a crater 1 km across and send 100 millions tonnes of ejecta hurtling into space and towards us. The risks to astronauts and satellite systems are clearly existential. The team say this kind of risk is not considered in planetary defence plans, which now urgently need to be updated.

Comment Re:Sad (Score 1) 28

CenturyLink customers can say goodbye to stable, reliable, uncapped cheap fiber Internet

If "Lumen" is the same as "Quantum", then since I was forced to drop my slow-but-rock-solid DSL for the quantum "upgrade" a year ago, it's been neither "stable"
  nor "reliable." (And a double fuck-you for blocking *INCOMING* 25. WTF is that all about?)

And the hits just keep on comin'

Comment Re:Still dual-booting? (Score 1) 65

> Since Ubuntu Server doesn't typically have any Wifi drivers baked in you need to (hope that you can) use your LAN port or otherwise sneakernet the required packages across

Not sure when the last time you tried it was, but I just did a 24.04 server install two weeks ago. I was expecting to have just that problem when I did the initial setup on my workbench (currently lacking a hardwire after an incident with the puppy), but it supported my USB wifi dongle OOTB.

Comment Re:Is Gabe the hero of prophesy? (Score 1) 53

Has Heroic made it possible to paste a password into the store login yet? Last time I tried it on my Deck, a couple months back, it was a non-starter, since I couldn't be arsed to transcribe the 32-character random string from Bitwarden on the on-screen keyboard.

There was a github issue open for a while, but it seemed to be being ignored.

Comment Re:Makes more sense (Score 1) 66

We already have a good substitute for underwater living: being able to commute to the ocean and access its resources. There is no such substitute for celestial objects, because the commute time is too long or uses too much fuel. Earth is not limited by inability to build housing, but by resource limitations and conflicts with other humans.

Comment Re:Bluesky (Score 1) 158

I do recommend the LeopardsAteMyFace subreddit though. It's absolutely overflowing with MAGA regrets and will likely remain so for at minimum the next 4 years and maybe longer.

They should rename it to "LeopardsAteTheirFaces", 99% of the sub is all "well they might be celebrating but they ought to be regretting". And you know when they stop celebrating they won't have regrets, they'll say it's all Obama's fault and they need to vote Republican harder.

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