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You would think so, but I have not found a single person who wants to take me up on that.

I find this to be very familiar. I worked endlessly to be able to have no responsibility and endless freedom. My partner passed away several years ago now, and I still haven't fill…

I was an early user of Starlink, starting with the original terminal (today I have the 3rd generation high performance terminal). Being in a very rural area in MT where there was n…

Thank you for the correction, but are you sure that is accurate? I was definitely under the impression that although their position was normally updated by the ground (to the AGC, …

Today it is the same thing (part of an 811 call). In the distant past, it was a separate call. Around 2000 land owners are affected, and anecdoctally it seems to add a few days to …

Good question. They definitely do have launch control centers. All available information online does seem to indicate that is the case that the silos themselves are unmanned. My un…

It is how Apollo navigated, although both the ground (via ground tracking) as well as the crew (via locating stars through a extant, and the Apollo computer having a database of th…

I live several miles from a Minuteman silo in Montana, maintained by Malmstrom Air Force Base. The underground cabling between sites is also an interesting read ( https://minuteman…

I don't consider it esoteric, but YMMV.

Ratio can't be negative, but ROI can. Positive ROI is the percentage of the ratio being 1 or higher. Negative ROI is the percentage of the ratio being less than 1. Or, from a "comm…