[-] Person264 9 points 1 month ago

ASAT missiles are only suitable for low earth orbit, you'd need a rocket about the size of a falcon 9 to reach GEO where Intelsat was sitting. Think people might notice that. Wouldn't need the satellite to be on a suicide mission, could just slap a gun on it like the good old days.

[-] Person264 7 points 2 months ago

But then quickly rebounded and is up 50% over the past 5 days. In fact it's up 93% in the past month.

[-] Person264 7 points 3 months ago

I found it much better than the day after, probably because of the smaller scale of the story. The build up at the start of Threads is probably one of the most stress inducing things I've watched, it feels so real.

[-] Person264 6 points 3 months ago

It's on the Tibetan side of Everest, and it reads like it's on China National Highway 318 (G318 on Google maps), which is actually really not very close to Everest but I guess it's the nearest main route on the northern side. Totally misleading headline. The average elevation of the Tibetan plateau is 4500m so the actual headline is "china builds an EV charging station on a main road in Tibet". The base camps that most international travellers use are on the Nepalese side.

[-] Person264 9 points 6 months ago
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[-] Person264 7 points 8 months ago

I don't think missing channels get muted, they just get shared into what's available. A 5.1 soundtrack played on a 2.1 system is going to share Centre between L and R, and put SL onto L and SR onto R. I have an old surround sound system that can't decode the new codecs that Disney plus etc use, but the Chromecast knows this so just sends it out a 2 channel boring signal. Dialogue is fine because it just goes to the two speakers equally, rather than be cut out. If your system is set up to output to 5.1 speakers but you just haven't plugged in the centre speaker, then that's a different thing and you would miss stuff, same as if you didn't plug in the front left speaker.

[-] Person264 6 points 9 months ago

I think the atmosphere can increase in volume when it gets warm because it's not a proper closed system, so the pressure doesn't go up in the same way.

[-] Person264 8 points 11 months ago

I think people don't like your suggestion/implication of Farage being the one pushing through reforms more than liking Tories.

[-] Person264 6 points 1 year ago

Lizards typically breathe faster than humans

[-] Person264 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think your concerns are valid, but on the whole electric vehicles have the potential to improve more than ICE vehicles https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/electric-cars/running/do-electric-vehicles-produce-more-tyre-and-brake-pollution-than-petrol-and/

The extra mass of current EVs probably (note I don't know for sure) doesn't cancel out their other benefits, and as battery tech (and tyre tech I guess) improves they'll get better.

[-] Person264 9 points 1 year ago
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