Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
The thing I wonder about is who is the target audience?maybe the people Jaguar was trying to influence? https://www.youtube.com/watch?....
I know a lot of iPhone users. I don't know any who would want that weird thing. I suppose they will sell a few, but not too many.
It's not a dumb idea by itself, only overpriced.
It is a dumb idea. You store the phone at a location where it's easy to lose, but hard to get when you need it. Indeed, movement of the ankle while walking will slowly push the phone out of the pocket. And when you need your phone (for texting, or for accessing the internet), you need to kneel all the way down to get it.
This. It is easy to steal as well. Apple is doing one of their occasional farts. They even have the pumpkin spice iPhone. Fortunately they still have tasteful iPhones. I'm an Apple products guy, but if all they had was that orange abomination, I'd wait until they regained their sanity before buying my next phone
On the one hand, this tempts me to short Apple stock.
On the other hand, it's entirely possible that my sentiments are not widely shared and they'll make money off of this.
They've had failed products before this. And this one will definitely fail Even their models look embarrassed in the pictures.
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These satellites are hundreds of miles from each other. Furthermore they are in LEO which means the orbit decays in under 5 years if they don't have regular thrust correction. We've already had satellite collisions in space and last I checked space is still fine. The only way for Kessler to be real (and that too temporary) is if someone put hundreds or thousands of tons of ball bearings above a certain size up there.
Well, Kessler's orbital mechanics work out. Objects travelling over 28,200 kpm have incredible kinetic energy. A space shuttle window was very damaged by a paint fleck. There results of larger object collisions will be all that much more impactful - pun intended. That transfer of energy will send some of the debris higher., some lower.
Just recently, the Shenzhou-20 was damaged by space junk. https://www.scientificamerican...
An Intelsat broke up in orbit recently. They are still investigating the cause. They are now tracking an increasing number of objects from the explosion. https://www.space.com/intelsat...
And since it is becoming pretty difficult to insure satellites now, a lot of sats are launched without insurance, and the companies are making them as cheap as possible. They aren't as robust, since losses will be uncompensated. https://www.space.com/space-ex...
Finally, if you want to see destruction, a country that can achieve orbit could place a bag of sand or ball bearings in a retrograde orbit, and bring the whole house of cards down as the exchange of energy and subsequent destruction occur.
Even that best case scenario of 5 years for the carnage to de-orbit, I'm not sure that people will want to wait that long to get their internet.
They are low enough that even if they did cause major pollution, it should mostly clear itself inside a decade.
The bigger worry is pollution. Burning up so many satellites in the upper atmosphere is something that hasn't been studied enough, but the work that has been done suggests that it's bad for greenhouse effect and for general air quality.
If you believe that making low earth orbit impassible for a decade is good news, I have some bad news for you.
Regardless, the nature of the energy transfer from colliding objects in space means that some of the debris will end up in a higher orbit.
The same growing season extension has happened in Canada. I looked at it some years ago. It is the yearly frost free interval dates. Even a few days can make a difference.
Let's hope the current doesn't collapse. I always thought Iceland was a cool place. (no pun intended)
I forgot to add - I nuked my back, a muscle tweaking hard and am on some really powerful muscle relaxants. So my writing style is a bit different. Wife says I'm a lot nicer today, Maybe I need to work on that! 8^)
It's hard to overstate how bad it would be. Iceland doesn't just get glaciated in ice ages, it gets catastrophically glaciated. As in "mass kills almost all of our plant species". That's why there's currently no native conifers even though there used to be, for example - virtually the whole island ends up under an extremely thick sheet of ice.
Of course, a shorter localized ice age, in an otherwise warming world, isn't as bad as a Milankovitch Cycle ice age. But it'd be pretty awful for us. Right now, we're benefiting from a warming world (though losing our glaciers and regularly getting annoying new insect species which previously couldn't survive here
The same growing season extension has happened in Canada. I looked at it some years ago. It is the yearly frost free interval dates. Even a few days can make a difference.
Let's hope the current doesn't collapse. I always thought Iceland was a cool place. (no pun intended)
It would drastically affect most of Northern Europe, also the Eastern US. But Iceland would probably be the most seriously affected. Greenland might refreeze, I believe that the "little ice age" was responsible for the failure of the Norse Colony on the shores of Greenland.
It did make for the failure. The reconstructed stories paint a terrible picture. Families living in tight quarters with their animals, slowly heading toward the end of their existence as a colony
If only Iceland had a form of Geothermal energy to keep them warm....
Oh that's a help, but doesn't sound like all that great a living to have to remain inside to keep warm. And Grindavik was evacuated earlier this year because the volcano nearby had erupted, https://www.bbc.com/news/artic... Lots of earthquakes, and heaven help any planes if they are in the wrong area.
The latest eruptions are slowing fortunately, but the risk assessment hasn't been lessened yet. Iceland is a real anomaly. A cool one, but it's a bit dangerous living there, and Gulf Stream current problems is one more worry for the good folk.
The article states: "Anthropic said it was confident, based on the digital infrastructure the hackers used as well as other clues, that the attacks were run by Chinese state-backed hackers."
They freak out when they realize they're not human, then start shooting up the place.
I expect to see these headlines every day: "Chinese EV Market Is Still imploding"
Reminds me of the Red Dwarf emergency announcement:
"Emergency... There's an emergency going on... It's still going on..."
Indeed, someone literally bought this headline for $3000.
Palms also grow in Cornwall.
I did not know that! Here in the US, they are slowly moving upwards. In the Outer Banks we're getting them. I've seen a few on the New Jersey shore. I think those in New Jersey need protection when it gets its coldest there.
But they are all pretty far south compared to the British isles. Let's hope the Gulfstream doesn't collapse.
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