Because it's uniquely on the bottom of the earth unlike every other continent where defining east and west is trivial.
I think their objection is defining west or east to a circle on the south pole.
If I drop a hoola hoop on the south pole, what part of the hoola hoop is the western part? Which part is eastern? North and South are easy.
Which, by the way, is THE ENTIRE FICKING POINT OF THE RESERVES IN THE FIRST PLACE
for graceful demand destruction and rationing to take place before it runs out. Because if you don't do that everything breaks...
I'm prefacing this by saying my background is playing KSP and inadvertantly making my own Kessler syndrome when running out of fuel braking during a station rendezvous 😅
Yeah you're fundamentally trading energy. It depends on how the impact happens but orbital scientists think in terms of the average velocity of a collision event and their likely angle. 30⁰ head on at 7km/s is roughly normal I think?
A head on collision means that you have the full kinetic energy of both satellites to work with. Some parts get thrown up into massive orbits even up into medium earth orbit. Others deorbit due to hitting at the right angle to lose enough kinetic energy that their orbit drops.
Overall your debris ends up in a plume heading in the direction of both satellites, shaped like a flat cone. In the case of starlink they might have to deorbit the entire constellation while they still have control over them since that cone is invariably going to shotgun blast one or more satellites on the next orbital string
Yeah that's a mess because I understand both perspectives.
On one hand yes he is innocent until proven guilty.
OTOH a sovereign nation doesn't have to admit anyone they don't want. They could deny you entry for having blue eyes. You aren't a citizen, aren't even in the country, and are entering for work.
OTOOH (3rd hand?) Canada is part of the British Commonwealth and observes British common law as their base legal system, so he should be considered innocent, especially since he hasn't been convicted of anything yet.
The only good news is any debris you generate has some part of its orbit extremely low due to starlink satellites being so low themselves. That'll stop being true once debris finds something else to hit higher up but it's easier to deorbit stuff this low since there's really quite a bit of atmospheric drag at periapse.
Thanks for the reaction meme for the next time my parents ask how things are (my town is known for being wimdy)
It's like how Mordhau is just people who are hilariously good at the game beating the shit out of each other until they burn one another out or they die from heart disease IRL.
I guess they're saying if you excluded the top 10% and only considered the 90th percentile and below (most regular people), the median of that value would be living on less than $40k a year. Personally I wouldn't be surprised if it was a lot lower and their "60% live on less than $40k" is understating the issue. That's a household with two parents earning minimum wage or doing gig work which is an incredibly common low income setup.
The attackers specifically targeted orphaned projects on AUR so it's no wonder most of those aren't familiar to us.
Happy birthday lemmy.zip!
It's why it's so incredibly common (I'm also a survivor.) I often wonder how many people are pedos but you just never know. The apathy surrounding it must mean a lot more of them than we realize are pedos...