There are plenty of cities in western countries where drones are entirely prohibited and you need to drive to the countryside to fly it, observing various nature reserves and restricted airspaces.

It is also very common that training, a test or license, insurance, etc. are required.

The odd thing is that buying is restricted. Does that include ordering online?

Couldn't have put it better myself. I'll note that some take it to an extreme - such as myself, and I've taken guff for being a workaholic, but my work and hobbies take up a lot of my time, and it doesn't bother me at all.

Working does give a purpose to life. As a social species, we are built for it.

I do work with some wheelchair bound people. They are generally as happy as everyone else. Working, supporting themselves, driving their own cars. Living a life with as much normalcy as they can achieve. Isolation is not good for humans,

That is very true. It certainly could start one if everything aligns.

While looking for NORADs site, I came across a couple gems: https://pocketworld.org/space-... https://orbitalradar.com/track...

Not like all those things are in one area, it looks worse than it is. But the "nothing to see here" folks remind me of people looking for RF spectrum. They so often think of bandwidth as something infinite. I sometimes have to point them to the Big NTIA map on the wall and say "Find a place!" It's a cool map, so I might as well share that as well. https://www.ntia.gov/sites/def...

You forgot third: He delivers results often enough to keep the believers believing. Tesla really is an electric car company that builds actual cars. SpaceX is actually flying rockets, and has achieved reusability, opening the door for dramatically cheaper space access.

Little of that is his own genius, but he does seem to have a knack for getting actually smart people working on visionary stuff.

Who's afraid, middle cow and?

My only hope is that it is at night, some of these things might be interesting if it happens right after it gets dark. Tequila and popcorn FTW.

I'm convinced they wanted to see Hunter's cock over anything else on it.

I am not surprised. Once people get past the anti American Propaganda, Like we'er all getting shot and killed, that we Lynch gays, that most of us are homeless, and dying in the streets, that our cities have no mass transit, that people not of European origin are also lynched, and hat every single thing about the USA its corrupt, and evil.

That if you are poor, you have no options other than starving to death.

Actual experience is often radically different.

We live in an age where people who have never been here, and have bought into the hatred front, would claim to know everything about the USA.

And finally, the Orange shitgibbon is being throttled back, so the haters are. going to have to eventually revert to other forms of hate, or just relive their believe that the country agrees with him.

And here's the part where I really make people go Reeeeee!, the run up to the 2024 election had Democrats abandoning their traditional platform for a left wing academic one. TO the point where they rejected science and biology, believed in performing medical experiments on children, that there was no difference between male and female, and ended up objectifying women, at least the fecund ones, as "birthing people, which would exactly imply that is their which at one time was considered a bad thing.

And let's not forget that the Party quite vocally told the Teamsters union they would win without them. Abandonment of the working class in their face.

So unless we want another Republican President, we'll need to remember a few things. The working class is important. Include men in the equation, try to get young men back, and consider the demographics and the number of people who are likely to vote for you. There just aren't enough Academics, there aren't enough far left liberal "white" females, most of us know exactly what a man is and a woman is. We don't want biological men playing on girls teams - how terrible that progressives have got to the point of allowing ideology to punish women for being women.

Finally on that last note, observe the attacks resulting from my heresy.

Calculating launch envelopes has to be getting pretty computationally complex.

It's like the game frogger, except you can't go backwards.

Understand that this Kessler event that you claim is not a risk, is not something that is necessarily invoked on purpose. That rocket disassembling itself could do it.too

People need to understand that there is a lot of LEO sats up there, and not just StarLink. Other nations are starting their own Satellite based internet systems. Other uses are being found for that neighborhood.

And maybe the critical threshold isn't quite there yet. Yet.

So none of the products of collisions go to a higher shell?

And those who dismiss a Kessler event at LEO seem to neglect all of the losses in whatever the dead sats were doing, and the expenses of replacing them after that claimed extremely rapid de-orbiting non-event.

It is true, a Kessler event either accidental or purposely created, would be a long term disaster at Geosynchronous orbit.

But one in LEO would be a short term disaster, no matter how much the this isn't a problem people minimize it.

A Kessler event is not precluded from LEO. Give a rogue state a rocket, doesn't even have to be a large one, just capable of launching say 100 pounds of sand or little ball bearings, and place it in a retrograde orbit. and release the payload.

That it doesn't take as long to clear the debris, isn't all that relevant, the LEO areas will be unusable for a while.

It is directly linked to gaming communities in general, so the "to protect kids" excuse glue better with it.
But as you can see with the article, they're already slipping the same thing to everywhere else.
Let's say the purpose here was to be the test lab rat.

Yeah - it seems like you could integrate NTP into setting up the computer. And it is true most don't care, but some of us could use that enabled from the getgo.

I've had too many conversations - "My computer isn't correcting or decoding." Are you using an NTP service? "Huh? what's that?" So now I gotta tell them to download Meinberg NTP or the like, then talk them through setting up and using. I mean, if MacOS can do it by default, why can't Windows?