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1 month agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heat_Will_Kill_You_First
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ministry_for_the_Future
Anything else I should add to the suggested reading list?
RuBisCO
A very old enzyme. Still fixing inorganic carbon in the biosphere through yet another mass extinction. Still grabbing the wrong molecule on occasion. Anyway, here are some more phosphoglycerates.
Kill your lawn, grow a garden. As you do this, look within and do the same.
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Geordie in the Ready Room, unable to count
2·3 months ago9 flybys?! And no “warp to encounter”.
The stacked spacecraft left Earth with a hyperbolic excess velocity of 3.475 km/s (2.159 mi/s). Initially, the craft was placed in a heliocentric orbit similar to that of Earth. After both the spacecraft and Earth completed one and a half orbits, it returned to Earth to perform a gravity-assist maneuver and was deflected towards Venus.
Following its Earth flyby in April 2020, BepiColombo was briefly mistaken for a near-Earth asteroid, receiving the provisional designation 2020 GL2.
Two consecutive Venus flybys reduced the perihelion near to the Sun–Mercury distance with almost no need for thrust. A sequence of six Mercury flybys lowered the relative velocity to 1.76 km/s (1.09 mi/s). After the fourth Mercury flyby in 2024, the spacecraft is in an orbit similar to that of Mercury and remains in the general vicinity of the planet.
Yeah, Earth was a little distracted in April of 2020.
And then came the thruster issues:
On 15 May 2024, ESA reported an issue preventing the spacecraft’s thrusters from operating at full power during a scheduled manoeuvre on 26 April 2024.[54] On 2 September 2024, ESA reported that to compensate for the reduced available thrust, a revised trajectory had been developed that would add 11 months to the cruise, delaying the expected arrival date from 5 December 2025 to November 2026.
What a ride! Very KSP.
The way Ap is drawn in at Mercury reminds me of airbraking at Kerbin.
So fucking cool. Hats off to the team.
What are we having in place of free borscht, free tacos?
How Swan Lake Became a Symbol of Protest [shasha not sasha, 30 min]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl7YXivMaHs
4·5 months agoReddit is the only platform left that still feels like the ‘old internet’.
Is this the episode where Data blows up a pipeline or something, then points out that the invading force will hit them with greater weapons from orbit, and the colonists will die “having never seen the face of their enemy”?