Hell March Intensifies
sp3ctr4l
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Well, nearly all biological lifeforms would ... more or less wither and die, rather quickly.
Give water infinite surface tension?
Yeah, whole lotta internal processes stop working ... life as we know it is... kinda mostly built around water acting like water.
Wait, we have to learn this again?
Did we not do this... 20 years ago, with the music industry?
You don't need to suspect that, you need to be 1000% sure of that.
Even in good economic times, what is it, like 90% of newly started businesses fail in a year or two?
Yeah, the 'start your own business!' advice is yet another laughable boomerism, easily dismissed by a casual glance at any data from the last 50 years, but no, no, they know better than reality, donchaknow?
Just... yeah, I'm sure all the banks are really just itching to give out a $250,000 business startup loan right about now.
Not like bank failures have been steadily climbing, not like the credit markets are seizing up, bond markets going fucking haywire.
No no no, everything's just fine.
... I suspect people are going to be very shocked to discover the differences between a recession and a depression.
History is apparently stupid though, learning from it is evidently a social faux pas... we just love continuously having to learn what mistakes look like by slamming our faces into them with reckless abandon.
Ok, so you admit the scenario I describe is possible, just not 'likely' in your view... after initially dismissing it.
Did you read the article?
What happened was not that the whole main rocket zoomed right past a Starlink Sat, while still doing the initial burn sequence.
What happened was:
"If confirmed, this incident occurred nearly 48 hours after payload separation, by which time the launch mission had long concluded. CAS Space will coordinate with satellite operators to proceed. This calls for re-establishing collaborations between the two New Space ecosystems," the company added in another X post a few hours later.
... One of the sats released by Kinetica 1 whizzed by SL6709 at a 200m distance. 48 hours after the Kinetica 1 launch.
So... that would have occurred during when said K1 deployed sat... was doing some kind of orbital stabilization manuever, most likely, no?
Either that, or, even worse... it wasn't, it doesn't have much of its own ability to trim and adjust its own orbit... which would mean it is just stuck, on an eccentric orbit, possibly stable, possibly not... that crosses above and below the altitude Starlink sats are at... and there's like ten thousand of them...
... which CAS Space does not seem to either have accounted for, or have the ability to account for.
So yeah the situation that is currently occuring, that is from the article we are talking about, yeah, that does not to me seem like an unlikely thing, given that it is, or something pretty close to it, seems to be currently happening.
Given that CAS Space said:
"CAS Space will coordinate with satellite operators to proceed. This calls for re-establishing collaborations between the two New Space ecosystems," the company added in another X post a few hours later.
That would seem to me to imply that they had previously been in contact with SpaceX, to be able to coordinate launches and do trajectory deconfliction... but that this coordination ceased... for some reason.
https://payloadspace.com/china-calls-nasa-on-orbital-conjunction/
Looks like China's been asking for help from NASA with this sorta stuff in the last few months... I guess SpaceX didn't get the memo?
Nobody's sure what the ... correct procedure or chain of command is here?
... Does Starlink actually publish and make all its Sat locations snd trajectories, in highly accurate detail, available to Chinese space companies/agencies?
Thats a legitimate question, I don't know.
You'd have to have basically a real time syncronizhed data sharing operation going on, given how many Starlink sats there are, how often they make orbital adjustments or fail.
Yup yup, best find those bootstraps and start pullin', reaaal hard.
Oh what, you're obese and crippled and old and tired?
... did I stutter ...?
Well it sure is a good thing SNAP basically doesn't exist anymore, otherwise these brain dead morons, these wayward souls, they'd have a chance to be tempted into becoming profligate hypocrites in another way!
You see, God, Trump, they're the same thing, and this is all a good thing, because now they'll have a chance to prove themselves before the sacrificial altar of capitalism, just as Jesus wanted.
Just uh, start a business or something, in the midst of a rapidly worsening economic depression, can't be that hard, right?
... Unless they functionally constitute a massive, fast moving, kind of net, that anything trying to climb to a higher orbit has to pass through, and hope to not collide with, as showcased by this article we are commenting on.
Anything that's trying to break through VLEO, well, if a collision happens on its way to LEO, or beyond, some of those debris will be headed to LEO or beyond.
Don't forget how hundreds to thousands of them routinely fail and/or otherwise deorbit themselves, thus necessitating constant replenishment.
Its basically the least sustainable, most insane space paradigm currently actually possible with our tech and resources.
After all, I'm sure we can just undo a Kessler Syndrome cascade effect.
Right?
Its a cult.
What you are trying to describe... is a cult.
These people are brainwashed fanatics, to the point of either intentionally or unintentionally, nearly/effectively or actually committing suicide, for/because of the cultic belief structure.
We saw this with COVID.
Thousands of people, live blogging or live streaming their own deaths, basically caused by their adherence to idiotic nonsense ideas, that they held with the level of conviction of a religious extremist, many of them literally to their last breath.
Its literally a death cult, being a MAGA-type conservative.
They don't believe they exist in "reality", as any one not in the cult would understand it.
They'll drink the KoolAid, they'll off themselves to go to the spaceship behind Hale-Bopp... because nothing can change their core beliefs.
Just because their method of effective/literal suicide is economic/political doesn't make it not a literal death cult.
It really is not that conceptually difficult to understand the basics of how a tariff works.
You can explain it to a middle schooler, without numbers, and ...
(well ok, if we're talking about roughly year 2000 middle schoolers, not roughly 2025 tiktok addict brainrotted middle schoolers)...
... most of them would get it.
Just like how most of them could be taught that drinking poisoned KoolAid will kill you.
EDIT:
The BITE Model of Cults:
https://freedomofmind.com/cult-mind-control/bite-model-pdf-download/
Just go checkoff each one of the subcomponents of each main component there, that you routinely see MAGA adherents/leaders being subjected to, or enforcing on other MAGA adherents/leaders.
I'm not even kind of joking, it's literally a death cult.
I'm not using reverse psychology on you.
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... I must be very old school, out of touch, or just doing my own thing...
Because I would do corduroy pants and a tweed vest with elbow patches, over a hoodie.
But then basically either totally cheap flats for shoes, or basically 1's boots, but in whatever shade of brown leather works best with the jacket.
... I also now actually have a proper tobacco pipe, haven't smoked in years, but that seems like it would work with that old kinda getup too.
... Am... I the last living hipster?
I definitely hated all the other hipsters for entirely missing the point, in one way or another, thus, arguably, I am qualified as a hipster.