What Is Love In My Ass

You will not go to space today

I’m so fucking tired of this red herring. You cannot make a functional, reliable, and deadly firearm using a 3D printer without access to additional materials and processes. You may as well outlaw steel pipe under the same logic. Meanwhile, this law concerns kits that can be used to assemble a working firearm in less than an hour. 3D printing a gun is a fucking stupid idea that is nothing more than a bad faith argument to distract from legislation that actually has a chance to reduce violence. If you actually care about gun control, focus on the real issues, not made up ones.

A quote from someone who will probably die long before we see the worst effects of climate change.

Space Cadet Pinball is available as a Flatpak? There is still beauty in this world 😭

True, we’ve pretty much skipped the “socialist” part of “national socialism”.

🎶 turn up the radio 🎶

That’s not completely accurate. As the NASA link you shared explains, the normal orbit for the ISS is relatively low at 400km, where atmospheric drag and orbital debris pose a risk. The article agrees that the station could be raised into a graveyard orbit (where it could safely remain for several hundred years; this a standard way to retire space hardware), but this would require more delta V than for a controlled deorbit. In turn, this means a more expensive booster vehicle and mission.

So, the ISS could be safely preserved in high orbit, but no one is willing to pay the price to move it there. This makes me a bit sad, as it means the most expensive and impressive engineering project undertaken by humanity to date will be destroyed.

So, I guess any kind of preservation is unlikely. I was hoping the ISS would be put into a graveyard orbit, so it could be kept as a monument, but there doesn’t seem to be the will to do that. It’s the end of an era, but hopefully that means a new chapter in space exploration is starting.

My personal favorite is Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List.