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Comment Re:Defensive maneuvering is a requirement now (Score 2) 7

Only micro-movements are necessary to avoid most space junk*, using tiny "cold" thrusters which are not enough to serve as a rapid-response spy-probe. High-end spy probes probably have lots of fuel and big nozzles.

Don's spy-probe: "Hey Xi, look, my nozzle's bigger than yours!"

* If they have short notice to swerve, then small engines are probably not good enough, but that situation is probably not (yet) common enough to justify carrying large thruster systems.

Comment Re:No More HP (Score 1) 49

There's like a dozen different ink cartridge gimmicks HP uses to fuck over consumers. In my case one had to press a "confirm" prompt every time one printed if the color cartridge was past an alleged expiration date even if I was only printing in black-and-white.

HP used to have a good reputation, then seemed to turn evil on a dime. Was there a board meeting where they had a "let's be evil" vote and it passed?

Comment Spacecraft been maneuvering for decades (Score 1) 7

...Hydrazine nozzles are probably the simplest technique, being it doesn't need ignition, but are not as powerful as ignition-based path adjustment mini-rockets.

Maybe the speed and degree with which military satellites maneuver has increased of late? They probably can't tells us without having to kill us. You ask first!

Comment Re:Meta (Score 1) 22

To be honest, if I had that much money I too would chase pie-in-sky ideas.

But this VR chase is stupid. Meta should purchase the Second Life or Roblox franchise, get a web-based world working well with FaceBook, and THEN gradually add 3D and reach stuff. He has it backward.

Comment Re:Meta is like Trump (Score 1) 54

It hasn't been proven in court, but there's been more solid evidence presented than there was against Cosby.

No fan of Darth Cheeto, but that is simply not true. Cosby was deposed in a civil suit and admitted in his testimony to drugging women so he could have sex with them.

Who, BTW, totally also did all that shit

He totally did (see above). It is, in fact, why he is not currently in prison because, despite the DA granting him immunity for said testimony to remove his 5th amendment protections, that deposition was used against him in his criminal trial and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacated his conviction as a result.

Comment Fake News! (Score 2) 23

Fake news! The glaciers are really growing, CNN just plays the video in reverse, everyone knows it, even backward people know it, I checked with Eric. The atmosphere loves USA gas, it tells me all the time, air loves talking to me just after lunch, telling me how competent I am to a hymn of trumpets and tubas. So grand!

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