Infographic source: rykllan
https://x.com/_rykllan/status/1812678267826049310
https://x.com/_rykllan/status/1812678271504388110
144 launches in 2024 is now looking unlikely, given the ongoing investigation into Falcon 9 the upper stage failure on the Starlink 9-3 mission.
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A Lifestraw is a mechanical filter for particles as small as bacteria, but it won't filter out any dissolved compounds like salt, so it wouldn't keep you hydrated.
!murica@lemmy.world
Anyone else see this briefly before the site went down again?
That is definitely not a norminal amount of ice.
Follow-up tweets:
SpaceX: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1811804948675617115
The team made contact with 10 of the satellites and attempted to have them raise orbit using their ion thrusters, but they are in an enormously high-drag environment with their perigee, or lowest point of their elliptical orbit, only 135 km above the Earth
Elon: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1811638892879020243
We’re updating satellite software to run the ion thrusters at their equivalent of warp 9.
Unlike a Star Trek episode, this will probably not work, but it’s worth a shot.
The satellite thrusters need to raise orbit faster than atmospheric drag pulls them down or they burn up.
SpaceX: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1811805147833729260
Each pass through perigee removes 5+ km of altitude from the highest point in the satellite orbit. At this level of drag, our maximum available thrust is unlikely to be enough to successfully raise the satellites.
SpaceX: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1811805238699131093
As such, the satellites will re-enter Earth’s atmosphere and fully demise. They do not pose a threat to other satellites in orbit or to public safety.
Sounds like they aren't able to save the satellites, but hopefully they got some useful data.
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Works (mostly) fine in Firefox for me.
whoever is doing the bread/toast
I believe that would be the host instance for this entire event, toast.ooo.
Thanks! Looks like a good start! I notice that there are some dark red pixels at the edges of some regions. I suspect this is because the original source image has black gridlines overlaid. Also, some of the colours don't match the available colour palette exactly. Would you consider tweaking the template?
Thanks! :)
I should have paid closer attention to the "⇧" character in the keybinds menu...
The !canvas@toast.ooo event begins in 2 days! Any Tims interested in placing some pixels in the 2024 Fediverse Canvas?
A bit of history if you are curious...
This was the original r/place event, and the only one that Grey and Brady discussed on the podcast.
Grey and Brady faces, Numberphile "pi" logo, Flaggy Flag, HI logo, Nail and Gear, CGP Grey flask icon, "r/hellointernet", White Cross, and "Tims!"
Last year, we were unable to secure a single large territory, but managed to claim and hold multiple small territories.
CGP Grey bot, Nail and Gear, split Grey and Brady face, HI logo, 137, and Flaggy Flag. Unfortunately, this region was steamrollered by a streamer and did not survive to the end of the event.
CGP Grey bot, plane crash corner, Flaggy Flag, HI logo, and Audrey.
Another HI logo, 137, and bees.
Near the very end of the event, we managed to secure a whopping 24x24 region on the "taskbar" at the bottom of the canvas. We had to fight off a barbie to get it (true story), but the Tims held strong!
And finally, our humble patch on !canvas@toast.ooo last year.
The !canvas@toast.ooo event begins in 2 days! Would this community be up for placing some pixels?
There are already a few Tims organizing in the "Tim Army" Discord but I thought it would be nice to have some people from here as well.
What do the Tims say?
Link to the Canvas: https://canvas.fediverse.events/
Link to the Tim Army Discord: https://discord.gg/GJnj7avh
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