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Aren’t you supposed to edit grafana dashboards via the UI?

Organ donation is opt out. Do you consider that evil?

Aluminum already burns up on re-entry though. The only things that typically make it through are high melting point materials (like titanium and carbon), or low ballistic coefficie…

Related to this (though maybe not directly applicable), in certain scenarios there is a difference between what can be reliably detected vs tracked. For example, in the context of …

What's your criterion of being ready for live tests? Under what conditions is loss of innocent life okay?

People getting killed by drunk drivers didn't volunteer for it either. It doesn't matter how you spin it, the metric that matters (there is nuance, but put bluntly) is "How many in…

You hit the nail on the head. People often jump to reactions without looking at bigger picture. It is entirely likely that Uber engineers evaluated this scenario, and (correctly) d…

Depends on how you define concern. For killing a spacecraft? Small debris. For creating more debris? Big debris.

1cm objects are currently essentially impossible to track.

I study orbital debris for a living - I'd like to assure you that you don't need to feel too worried about that. Orbital debris is generally consolidated in very thin altitude band…

To be fair, Falcon 9 stage 1 has never been to orbit either.