#23From2023 - #Orbital – Optical Delusion (Label: Orbital). Considering they’ve been raving for more than 30 years, brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll still sound energized on this year’s set of electronic thrill rides. From the pop inflections of “Are You Alive?” to the aggressive shakedown of “You Dirty Rat,” collaborators Penelope Isles, Sleaford Mods and others help vary the mood and tempos on an album showing no signs of flagging since 90s classics like Snivilization.
While we are talking about Musk and Starlink, let's discuss the Kessler Syndrome.
Some evening not too long from now you may look up, and instead of the stars and a few Starlink satellite trains marching along, you might see a night sky filled with brilliant sparkles. You check the news and learn the International Space Station has been destroyed as well humanity's weather and other Earth observation satellites. What's happened?
@mastodonmigration space debris has been a problem everyone watched coming
"The problem of space junk adds up to around 200 tons of our trash. The clutter in Earth's orbit includes defunct spacecraft, spent rocket boosters and items discarded by astronauts such as gloves, wrenches and toothbrushes."
'You know, there is nothing we can do about #damage to the TPS. If it has been damaged it’s probably better not to know. I think the crew would rather not know. Don’t you think it would be better for them to have a happy successful flight and die unexpectedly during entry than to stay on #orbit, knowing that there was nothing to be done, until the air ran out ?'” https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150130-what-caused-the-columbia-disaster
Partial results on the analysis of the ejecta from the SpaceX Starship launch. The visible and infrared spectra of the fine particles that rained down on Port Isobel do not match the concrete or the Fondag that was picked up on the beach. (twitter.com)
We have more samples to analyze to get higher confidence, then we will send samples to @Prof_Hafner...