lunar17

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

From the linked article:

The 2022 injury rate at the company’s manufacturing-and-launch facility near Brownsville, Texas, was 4.8 injuries or illnesses per 100 workers – six times higher than the space-industry average of 0.8.

No mention of other industries, but a quick search shows that the injury rate is 2.4 in construction and 3.2 in manufacturing. However, it's important to note that all industries underreport injuries, especially SpaceX, as OP's article discusses.

Also, I think it's interesting to note that Texas, where SpaceX are moving most of their operations, has the most worker deaths of any state.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My first thought on seeing this was "I wonder what ENB preset that is?"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Such a shame, I was really looking forward to this based on the teasers shared on the game's Discord server. I guess it's just like big publishers to put more effort into marketing than development.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

One of the things I thought was neat when I visited Japan was that some places would give you change back in a dedicated little tray with rubber "fingers" that made the coins easier to pick up, so you didn't struggle to pick them off a flat counter.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do I have to take my shoes off? This sounds like a shoes-on activity.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Science is the pursuit of truth, which is antithetical to an administration of liars.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

True, we've pretty much skipped the "socialist" part of "national socialism".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

🎶 turn up the radio 🎶

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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.

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