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I hope to be proven wrong.
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GORDON wrote: As I understand it, those satellites are mainly to bring web to dark corners of the earth. Fine. Those of.us who need low latency will never use it.

So.my reaction is "oh.great, now they last billion peeps on earth can tell me they banged my mom "
Like Troy said, these aren't the geostationary super high orbit satellites, they're planning for much lower latency, so it should be more useful.
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GORDON wrote: So.my reaction is "oh.great, now they last billion peeps on earth can tell me they banged my mom "
To be fair to them, you should just assume everyone on Earth has banged your mom.
Troy wrote: SpaceX could become a global juggernaut.

It's interesting how open they are about their business practices. Live streaming everything, giving info about rocket development.
I love everything they're doing. Sometimes privatization works.
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How far is the moon from the Earth? (let's say, in terms of the diameter of the Earth?) Get an answer in your mind.

It's this far.
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That's pretty far.
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Someone in the world just saw that picture and believes that is how the solar system looks.
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Vince wrote: That's pretty far.
Right? I know I've learned this before, and yet I was surprised to see that picture. In my head, it's like 1 or 2 Earths away.
Leisher wrote: Someone in the world just saw that picture and believes that is how the solar system looks.
Got I hope so.
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TheCatt wrote: Right? I know I've learned this before, and yet I was surprised to see that picture. In my head, it's like 1 or 2 Earths away.
Honestly, it is about twice as far as I would have guestimated if given two cut-outs on a sticky board.
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And on a sane note, saw a bright "star" near the moon last night, knew it was a planet. Guessed Venus.

Installed a "sky map" app on my phone, it says it was Jupiter.

Pulled out my kid's cheap telescope, pointed it in the right direction. I could clearly see Jupiter and at least 2 moons. First time I've ever directly observed another planet's moons.

So I have that going for me, which is nice.
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Nice! When we were on vacation last year we could see Saturn, Jupiter and Venus all about once. But we had no telescope for the moons
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I should probably invest in a cheap telescope. We have so much less light pollution here.
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India officially joins the space race.

Their rover should also finally end conspiracy theories about the moon landing...you know, if those people weren't batshit crazy.
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Starhopper lifts off.

SpaceX is killing it lately.
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Leisher wrote: Black moon coming.
Can't wait to see it!
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So... a second new moon due to the arbitrary setting of days in a month. Wow. The wife gets a third paycheck this month! Has nothing to do with the black moon, but involves the same amount of science.
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I bet you wouldn't be snarky if it was called a White Moon, racist.
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