It seems that Gizmodo is now shilling for SpaceX.
Still, China is choosing to play with people’s lives and property, designing a rocket that, instead of performing a safe and controlled reentry after launch, flies into a rapidly decaying orbit.
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Phillies were oh-so-close last night. Astros made two outstanding defensive plays (leaping catch at the wall; stab of hot smash at first to end it) to preserve the victory.
I haven't watched much baseball this year. I turned it on in the 7th, so those were probably the only 3 innings of baseball I've watched all season.
I picked pretty good ones
So Philadelphia and Houston football played each other last night, too?
The Eagles faired better than the Phillies. Admittedly the Texans are more on the level of the other Texas baseball team rather than the Astros.
Most rockets re-enter in a controlled manner. The ones that don't are because they escaped Earth's gravity entirely. This is the second time China has simply shrugged about where the rocket will re-enter.
Yeah, it's not a SpaceX thing, all of NASA's launches have provisions for a controlled* re-entry.
*controlled in that they can be targeted into an ocean
I guess I read "controlled reentry" to mean something much more specific than "hit an ocean".
Fair enough.
It is. Most items in low-earth orbit are small enough to burn up entirely in the atmosphere. Larger items will make it through to impact the Earth. The upper atmosphere is tenuous but random. We don't know how much it will slow down the object so where it will impact is anywhere along its next tens to hundreds of orbits. That will be most of the Earth. Therefore those objects need a plan to fire their rockets at specific times to definitively re-enter at a specific point so we know it will impact the ocean.
Recommended article on the same site: Was this common knowledge? A lot of people in the comments saying everyone knew this but I played a good bit of SMB and had never heard of it.
I definitely did not know that. I've never been good enough to come all that close to beating the game, but knowing this, I may need to give it a shot this evening
I knew about it. I had Nintendo Power, maybe it was in there
Antares launch at 5:50 AM on Sunday. CT should be able to see it at +120-+150 seconds. It's a resupply to the International Space Station.. Prolly low on Nespresso Freddo Intenso pods...
New record high of 83° here in StL today, getting us acclimated to Cayman Islands weather
Early morning Celtic Cafe Radio awash with shanties, bagpipes, German flutes, choirs singing Civil War songs, etc.
I might have to check out their 2/19/2022 Newfoundland playlist...