Have you paid any attention the Green party lately? They’re a total mess.

When it’s 10 o’clock in New York it’s 1985 in Toronto. DoFo is Mike Harris 2.0

Lol! What gave you that idea? We signed NAFTA after all.

I wonder what this will mean for the case happening at Sauble Beach. It was recently decided that the Saugeen Ojibwe Nation are the rightful owners of the beach, but since the federal government was paying for the SON’s lawyers they say the feds aren’t liable. Then the province pushed it onto the township, which was a creation of the provincial government and didn’t exist at the time of the treaty. It’s a whoooole lot of bullshit. Not that they own the beach, that it’s the responsibility of the municipality to make them whole. Meanwhile the shores of the beach are awash with lawyer bills piled higher than the dunes.

That’s how I use Bing. 😻

Why in the fuck did Biden announce his resignation on that platform?

Love the launcher, hate the payload?

Starlink will never be orbital trash in any meaningful way

You’re right. They’ll be atmospheric pollution. That’s what “burn up on reentry” means.

I’d like to see what people’s reactions would be if we put all the 6,219 starlink satellites in a pile on the ground and lit them on fire. Would they say “fuck yeah! Fast internet!” or would they say “are you out of your mind?”

And they plan on having 12,000 or something each lasting about 5 years.

Do you know what all those puffy clouds coming out of the engines at engine cut off and start up are? Kerosene or methane and oxygen. Do you know what injecting methane and kerosene into the upper atmosphere does to the planet? No, no one does because it wasn’t ever a problem when there were 5 launches a year. Now that there’s 5 launches a month we’re getting to the find out stage.

Same with starlink. What does aerosolized aluminum (and whatever else is “just burning up” on reentry) do to the upper atmosphere? When there were one or two satellites a year how would you know? Now that there’s several a month (20 in the last launch that didn’t make it up) we’ll find out.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say none of that will prove beneficial to life on earth. But yeah, the rocket is pretty cool.

Take it one further, don’t use starlink.

I thought that spacex was “incredibly important” once. Now I realize it’s a fast track to a more fucked earth. By the time we get to “planet B” “planet A” is going to be a fiery ball of shit.

And when it’s ten o’clock in Toronto, it’s 1980 in rural Canada. She’s still here and still serving.

And now we’re in the “is burning up thousands of satellites bad?” phase of space exploration. I’ll be waiting for spacex to do the right thing.

maybe to wait to have at least some hard number looks like a good idea.

Good plan. So they’re holding off on starlink launches to let the science catch up, right?

I fully expect they did. I think this is partly why Elon went from “there’s no planet B” to a Saudi simp. Way to much money to be made to waste time on the concerns of scientists and the welfare of the planet.

If they’re taking tips from Google, why would they get better?

All of them?

Much like everytime you see “nothing burger”

I usually take the chess/checkers idiom to be more like “the left hand didn’t know what the right hand was doing” Not that one is smart and one is dumb, but that they’re going in completely different directions and playing by different rules.