🎶 turn up the radio 🎶

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.

So, I guess any kind of preservation is unlikely. I was hoping the ISS would be put into a graveyard orbit, so it could be kept as a monument, but there doesn’t seem to be the will to do that. It’s the end of an era, but hopefully that means a new chapter in space exploration is starting.

My personal favorite is Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List.

None of those words are in the bible

I’m really tired of republicans calling anything democrats do “radical” or “extreme” when they’re just pushing for the most mild stuff. I would die for some actual radical left ideas.

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So what you’re saying is that companies will start hiring LLMs as “independent contractors”?

Has this kind of ridiculous overvaluation happened this frequently in the past, or is this a modern phenomenon?

I highly reccomend using Spotube as an alternative.

I’ve been using Pop! for my newest computer but I’ve been experiencing frequent freezes. From my searching, it seems like a common problem, but I haven’t found a solution.