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Comment Re:The Mystery of the Soggy Shipment (Score 1) 131

It's adding to the cloud cover, which will reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the earth, which will cause temperatures to drop, which will plunge us into the next ice age. Then us humans will need to start burning fossil fuels again to drag us out of the ice age, just like we did last time.

Comment Re:No thanks. (Score 1) 21

I've been using duolingo for a bit because I work on a demolition crew, and apparently I've been designated liaison with the hispanic construction workers we occasionally work with. I've pretty much reached the limit of progress with duolingo, and really just need to hang out with some native spanish speakers for a bit. Luckily one of my wife's friends is moving back to town, and her Mexican husband is all on-board with hanging out with a bottle of tequila and making fun of me in spanish :)

Comment Re:potential profit lost vs. cost (Score 1) 273

Lost revenue can indeed be loss. They don't pay cash for those buildings. If the revenue is reduced, they still need to pay the bank their monthly notes. To simplify, if you buy a car and have a $100 monthly note, but you drive for Uber and make $200 month, your revenue covers your costs. If you stop driving for Uber, that $100 becomes a loss.

Comment Re:No rear sensor? Pass (Score 1) 45

Not necessarily a deal killer for me, but it's one of the reasons I stuck with Pixel 5. It's right where I put my finger holding the phone, anyway. A bigger deal killer for me is size. Am I the only person who doesn't want to carry a backpack for my phone? The 5 just barely fits in my pocket. When do we get a Pixel Mini? I'm seriously looking at the flip phones or (gag) the iphone mini.

Submission + - Wild solar weather is causing satellites to plummet from orbit.It will get worse (space.com)

schwit1 writes: The change coincided with the onset of the new solar cycle, and experts think it might be the beginning of some difficult years.

"In the last five, six years, the satellites were sinking about two and a half kilometers [1.5 miles] a year," Anja Stromme, ESA's Swarm mission manager, told Space.com. "But since December last year, they have been virtually diving. The sink rate between December and April has been 20 kilometers [12 miles] per year."

"Generally speaking, increasing solar activity — and its effect on the upper atmosphere — is good news from a space debris perspective, as it reduces orbital lifetimes of the debris and provides a useful 'cleaning service,'" Lewis said.

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