The Dutch coming in clutch with sensible laws once again!

low skilled, high risk modern slavery type jobs, and for prison

I think you repeat yourself.

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This is slightly concerning. Satellites don’t tend to explode on their own, but it is a Boeing design with a history of leaky propulsion, so who knows?

Gotta create more terrorists if you want to fight a war on terror.

From the linked article:

The 2022 injury rate at the company’s manufacturing-and-launch facility near Brownsville, Texas, was 4.8 injuries or illnesses per 100 workers – six times higher than the space-industry average of 0.8.

No mention of other industries, but a quick search shows that the injury rate is 2.4 in construction and 3.2 in manufacturing. However, it’s important to note that all industries underreport injuries, especially SpaceX, as OP’s article discusses.

Also, I think it’s interesting to note that Texas, where SpaceX are moving most of their operations, has the most worker deaths of any state.

My first thought on seeing this was “I wonder what ENB preset that is?”

One of the things I thought was neat when I visited Japan was that some places would give you change back in a dedicated little tray with rubber “fingers” that made the coins easier to pick up, so you didn’t struggle to pick them off a flat counter.

Do I have to take my shoes off? This sounds like a shoes-on activity.

A quote from someone who will probably die long before we see the worst effects of climate change.

We can hope

Science is the pursuit of truth, which is antithetical to an administration of liars.

Let’s not body shame when we can brain shame.

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.

Lazerpig! Your 3rd or 4th favorite animal historian!

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