Terra Bella

manaskarekar wrote: post #4

This post makes me wonder about space pollution/saturation. Are there any resources that talk about what is a safe number of satellites for different altitudes and the effects of space pollution? I have heard of the Kessler Syndrome, any suggestions that discuss this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

As long as the satellites are under a certain mass, they will eventually get too close to Earth and burn up once they are pulled into reentry.

Re: Terra Bella

#7

Post by kanche » Fri, Mar 11, 2016, 4:57 PM UTC

taylorwc wrote: post #2

This project is amazing. The site's scrolling should be memorialized in a museum of awful user experiences for posterity's sake.

Does anyone really like this kind of scrolljacking pages? Not responding properly on an MBP 2015. The project looks so interesting that I tortured myself by scrolling till the end.

To me it feels similar to invasion of space.

Re: Terra Bella

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Post by taylorwc » Fri, Mar 11, 2016, 4:58 PM UTC

kanche wrote: post #7

taylorwc wrote: post #2

This project is amazing. The site's scrolling should be memorialized in a museum of awful user experiences for posterity's sake.

Does anyone really like this kind of scrolljacking pages? Not responding properly on an MBP 2015. The project looks so interesting that I tortured myself by scrolling till the end. To me it feels similar to invasion of space.

I couldn't agree more. I'm constantly surprised by the number of people that implement it.

Re: Terra Bella

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Post by S4M » Fri, Mar 11, 2016, 4:58 PM UTC

taylorwc wrote: post #2

This project is amazing. The site's scrolling should be memorialized in a museum of awful user experiences for posterity's sake.

Yep, it's a very ambitious project, but the scrolling is utterly broken for me (firefox 43.0 on Debian), and seeing from other comments, I'm not the only one.

Wonder how someone can possibly ship a website where the scrolling is so broken.

Re: Terra Bella

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Post by throwaway812 » Fri, Mar 11, 2016, 5:00 PM UTC

manaskarekar wrote: post #4

This post makes me wonder about space pollution/saturation. Are there any resources that talk about what is a safe number of satellites for different altitudes and the effects of space pollution? I have heard of the Kessler Syndrome, any suggestions that discuss this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

> Are there any resources that talk about what is a safe number of satellites for different altitudes and the effects of space pollution?

Lots. It tracks radius squared, if not cubed. As altitude gets large (which you need for orbit anyway), you can fit a ton of small satellites safely.