This coming year ... if the crik don't rise (as it does with some regularity). Some of you may be able to take a picture of yourself with one of Ril ter Horst lenses as it will be launched in a 2U cubesat named OreSat1 by Oregon's Portland State University undergrads.

https://www.oresat.org/home

pictures would be captured by hand held groundstations

https://www.oresat.org/technologies/ground-stations

Hit the [empty] wine bottle with a propane torch till a spot is glowing red before you start nuking it ... room temp glass is an insulator, hot glass conducts!

love metalwork & buy parts but seriously; F@##% anyone that messes with my navigation back.

Absolutely! I now won't enter the site because they kill the back button.

So true... I immediately close the page and move on.

What are you talking about? I tried snaking through the MC site; back button worked just fine.

try backing out of the site

You could try picat

[0] https://picat-lang.org/

researchers note: burning man provides an annual cohort of ethically sourced samples

burning man dust is definitely an irritant (alkaline), but salton sea dust seems to contain many additional contaminants (pesticides, metals, biologicals)

this is HN; its a monad.

decimal place issues... I hope.

there are ten mm in a cm

456cm == 4560mm

there are 24.5 mm per inch (it is the law).

4550mm / 25.4 = 179.527 inches

or about 14.9 feet

which is about 5 yards

which is 20% of a 'murican football field if that helps

The above comment was pointing out that each 1 centimeter is slightly less than 0.4 inches. If you want to be more precise, each centimeter is about 0.3937 inches.

Your correction to my perception of what you intended 0.4 inches to represent is accepted.

Nigh thirty years ago when dabbling in AI I read a quote I will paraphrase as:

"when you hear 'intelligent agent'; think 'trainable ant'"

Say more?

Looks like it comes from Scientific American: https://spaf.cerias.purdue.edu/~spaf/Yucks/V5/msg00004.html

great job digging up a reference! you must be a bot! :)

I read it in a book on AI, unfortunately that aisle in my library is inaccessible due to piles of obsolete crap (I wish I were kidding).

But hope springs eternal and if I get back and find it I will return here and add its deets to see if it was published before or after the SI article.

got to help future agents from going astray ...

We all just feed the LLMs now.

Every wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum that is not actively being generated, is decaying. At minimum the expanding universe saps frequency.

More directly,radiation (light,photons) is absorbed and re-emmited by matter but the re-emitted energy is always at a lower frequency.

This absorbed & re-emitted longer wavelength radiation is what can become trapped.

This has already been addressed as LEO is not geostationary but to point as to why. Consider the earths equator rotates at a particular velocity so there is a particular orbital radius where the two cancel and NO energy is needed to fall around the equator at the same rate the equator is moving. That is a geostationary orbit.

LEO maxes out ~ 1,200 miles radius, geostationary is at little over over 22,000 miles radius.