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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: Hertz jumped the gun (Score 2) 214

As others said, it depends on if you have home charging or not.
If you can charge at home, EVs are great for commuting, it does require some additional planning for long trips, but it's getting much better.
Also cost to charge at home is 1/3rd or less than cost for gas. Cost to supercharge is often very similar to the cost for gas, sometime even more than gas.

Rentals are generally for people away from home, so EVs for the rental market mostly doesn't make sense right now.

Driving a rental EV right now as main EV is in the body shop. coincidentally. But I'm not away from home.

Comment Re:The longer you leave it, the worse it will be (Score 1) 320

They are only charging for real world IPv4 addresses. Internal non routable IPv4 addresses will still be free.
  Honestly, that's fine, I don't need many real internet addressable addresses anyways.
Private IPv4 addresses 192.168.x.x, etc, will be free, likely forever.
Even for these cloud database type systems, I'm not sure why you need a routeable address..

Comment Re:Productivity is so subjective (Score 1) 185

If there was an excess of labor I'd say a national program to encourage 32 hour work weeks with a livable wage. :Less would get done per worker, yes, but that worker wouldn't be so burned out and they may have less sick days and less mistakes. It wouldn't compensate fully, no, but the government could arrange taxes to encourage 30 hours instead of 40 in order to keep the population itself more healthy. That said, there is a labor shortage, so I'm not sure it would work, maybe it would.

Comment Re:In Opposite news (Score 1) 44

Lol, well it stopped calling anyways. I did just find this. https://www.reddit.com/r/Googl... sounds like the same issue. Oh well, they phone is long gone now. We wern't sure what to do as we couldn't pull the battery and it kept turning itself on if we shut it down (likely the power button issue).

Comment In Opposite news (Score 1) 44

One of my friends Pixel 3s was crashing and dialing 911 itself the other day. It did it 3 times until we finally pulled the sim card because we got tired of telling 911 there wasn't an emergency. Traded it in for a Pixel 6 the next day. Wondering if it was all Teams fault??? I don't think they had Teams installed??..

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