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A gyro by definition IS inertial guidance.

This is an incredibly naive approach. All asteroids emit light in the infrared, to detect and track asteroids just takes an infrared telescope making apparent motion against any ba…

inkl has pretty good variety of news sources for a reasonable subscription fee, i subbed for years then started using apple news. Unfortunately i cannot recommend inkl because you …

Fatigue is why we use steel for everything, no other alloys have the practical strength and infinite life.

Not all asteroids are “bright” enough to be imaged from earth, the problem is the low albedo asteroids you cant see, thats why we need this: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/n…

Running the case this hot will degrade the battery significantly faster, hot battery reduces short term capacity and hot battery reduces lifetime capacity. MacBook(2015) has simila…

There is one! https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html

What is phage bacteria?Bacteriophages are a virus. If phage therapy is successful, there shouldnt be any target bacteria left to kill.

inkl.com has been around a lot longer than “apple news” and seems to have much more news sources. Im going to be voting for the underdog with my money.

Canada? Or Common Wealth? Judging from how you spell “cheque”. Signatures still mean something in some countires, just not the US.

vrbo.com works for renting large places too.

imo the best way to combat this is to answer the call and waste as much of the scammers time as possible. Call spamming only scales because most people ignore or hangup immediately…

Just pulled my Mac SE out of storage. Great to see what the little machine can still do!

“As the supersonic solar wind flows past objects in its path, such as planets or smaller bodies...” >essentially anything moving with any velocity is supersonic in space

Wow, something I am working on made it to HN FP?! Happy to answer questions.

only the exterior blankets would have such extreme temperature cycles, the inner aluminum hull would have a much more stable temperature. The diurnal would be much more benign. Sti…

NASA’s box requirement is 70C. That means the ICs in the box are much hotter, parent is probably refering to IC temp, not unit.

ULA has 100% mission success. The Atlas family has 100% mission sucess since 1957. The ULA markup is justified for a high value mission. BO and spaceX have big shoes to fill when i…

A malicious chip inside the USB-C connector with pass through power to the fan seems reasonable.

perhaps the website and post was made on the iPad? /shrug

is this an ad?

>Has there been a study addressing whether these clean rooms are completely counterproductive to their stated goal? What is a cleanroom's stated goal? Implying the cleanroom's only…

A bacteriophage? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage

commodity motion sensors are thermal sensors[0]. Perhaps a FLIR[1]? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_infrared_sensor [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_looking_infr…

SPOILER :(