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I think the vast majority of his haters

Well yeah. Because you know, he’s a rapist.

He hasn’t even got as far as a pull request to the main branch.

Please for the love of God go watch his content and then come back and tell me that you think there is even the most microscopic chance that he is innocent of literally any crime ever.

That has never in the entire history of the human race being an individual who looks more guilty than he does. He gives off rapist energy, out of every pour, how can you possibly be defending him?

When he was born the midwives probably said oh here’s a bad one.

Please provide evidence for your accusations otherwise shut the hell up.

He is a disgusting individual who frankly deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison and you are excusing his crimes on baseless accusations. What is wrong with you?

Yes lots.

Perhaps the solution here is to buy only from reputable sellers?

You know like with literally anything that’s a commodity, someone’s going to try and sell you a fake.

It’s always the ones you most expect.

When I moderated a sub on Reddit I think I implemented a requirement that a poster must have at least positive three karma.

Was amazing how many scammers couldn’t even be bothered to do that little effort. Seriously they could have just upvoted each other but they couldn’t even do that.

All you have to do is introduce the smallest barrier to entry and it cuts bots admissions by about 95% as most of them out there are only looking for the lowest common denominator. They are unwilling to put in any effort at all.

A concave mirror would focus all of the light from a wide area into a single point. What you’ve created there is a giant space laser. One that only works at night because you need the sun on the opposite side of the Earth to reflect it.

Also all of the previous problems about it needing to be massive, or close to the Earth and moving faster apply.

You can tell he wasn’t that interested in writing this, but he’s clearly being told he has to, and I have to admit I agree.

The guys made a top, I don’t care.

So at this point if a piece of technology is used at any point during the news story it should be on here?

It’s hardly news that police can track phones is it, I remember watching CSI and them doing that back in the '90s.

Characters on the show right?

Probably easier if you know Star Trek and know that they’ve never said the word Quark to mean “a quark” basically ever. They say the words plasma, quantum, neutrino, and phase variants an awful lot though.

Also yeah the game is inherently unfair and confusing to people who’ve never played it before.

Very temporary. If it’s going to be very has to be close to the Earth or no one will see it. But if it’s close to the Earth it moves so fast there’s no point, orbital speed for that altitude is something like 7.8 km per second.

The only way to make this work is to have a truly vast mirror and have it out at geostationary orbit, then angle the mirror as needed to turn on or off the sun but then you’re going to be covering a significant area of the planet.

To demonstrate how utterly insane this idea is, this is the sort of thing a civilization would do if it decided it wanted to terraform Mars. Doing this wouldn’t be the efforts of a single corporation it would have to be a global effort, we don’t currently have the capability of putting something that massive in orbit, we don’t have a way to reliably control the mirror, we can’t even manufacture a mirrored surface that large, and there have been zero studies on the environmental effects of doing this. It would honestly probably be easier to build a space elevator.

Oh and even if we did do all of this, despite it being impossible, it would only work for a couple of years and then the mirror would get pushed out of orbit by light pressure. The only way to counter that is extremely complicated mirror geometries, and even more mirrors, making the total surface area in the hundreds or even thousands of kilometer range.

Well unless the mirror is 20km across, they won’t notice because the whole idea is insane.

This is like the Romans thinking they are going to build aircraft, we are no way we are near the level of technology required to do this. This is like stage 2 civilization level stuff.

Read the article

It’s because no one ever reads the article they just read the headline and make up their own story.

In this guy’s head Elon Musk personally did this.

Even SG-1 aliens speak English.

Yeah and then they had counselor troi pretend to be a Russian.

I mean I don’t like the guy either but let’s stick to reality shall we?

Literally the second paragraph in the article

Still, the ambassador had nothing on senior enlisted crew members of the littoral combat ship USS Manchester, who didn’t like the Navy’s restriction of onboard Internet access. In 2023, they decided that the best way to deal with the problem was to secretly bolt a Starlink terminal to the “O-5 level weatherdeck” of a US warship.

So this is one thing he is not responsible for.

My ISP gave me an access point called CSP218891F Which I’m rather worried about.