Agent641
@Agent641@lemmy.world
- Comment on I like this person 1 hour ago:
Frequently delivering that bussy
- Comment on Zen 5 hours ago:
Then they hit you with “I’m Vietnamese”
- Comment on Gotta go fast 17 hours ago:
I doubt it, calibrating a focal point to a relatively nearby target, say a hundred metres or so, is fairly simple, but to apply that to a satellite, a moving target (with a changing velocity if we are talking about a satellite in an eccentric or molnya orbit) either in high or low earth orbit, that’s a distance of between 200-20,000kms.
Even a satellite in perfectly circular orbit is constantly changing its distance relative to a point on the ground, meaning you have to constantly adjust the focal point of the mirrors. At 250km, your field of mirrors (say, a 100m circle of them) would describe about 0.023 degrees of curvature, almost completely flat.
And that’s before accounting for atmospheric attenuation and scattering of the light.
On a clear night with many gw of laser energy, maybe you could peel the skin off a low orbit satellite, it even that would be impractical.
- Comment on Save me from going down a dark path 17 hours ago:
O O F O F
- Comment on It didn't always exist. But it's coming soon. 1 day ago:
What the fuck, a tabbed browser? I was sure that Gmail came before tabs.
Y’all remember when you had to just have a ahitload of browser windows open?
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- Comment on Everywhere he goes, people want to connect with him 3 days ago:
Hide yo kids, hide yo wifi!
- Comment on Anon dips 3 days ago:
Some people are just better at being Superior than others
- Submitted 4 days ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 50 comments
- Submitted 4 days ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 41 comments
- Comment on It works better if you put it in your mouth first. 4 days ago:
30cm can make a big difference
- Comment on It works better if you put it in your mouth first. 4 days ago:
- Comment on Worst thumbnail 4 days ago:
Judge ordered me to stay 100ft away from this thumbnail
- Comment on The future was yesterday 4 days ago:
IIRC there was an incident where someone went super hard on the wheel and got kind of pulled into it and clobbered on the head by one of the pins. Or maybe this was just a deep inner phobia of mine.
Any bit of machinery, even if unpowered and covered in bright numbers, with non-arbitrary mass can carry enough momentum to break bones and crush fingers
- Comment on The unAbomber. Otherwise, I agree. 5 days ago:
A broken clock can be used for parts to make a time bomb
- Comment on Why? 5 days ago:
Pepe was not created by 4channers, only popularized by them. It was an unrelated cartoonist that created the character to espouse the joy of pulling your pants all the way down to pee
- Comment on Gromit, you know what to do! 6 days ago:
Such a thoughtful gift
- Comment on Looks like meat's back on the menu! 1 week ago:
“No wheezing the mince!”
- Comment on Anon Promotes Shrimp Farming 1 week ago:
Backed by POS (Proof of shrimp)
- Comment on Stiff upper lip, perhaps? 1 week ago:
U wot mate?
- Comment on I guarantee this is a waste of time 1 week ago:
They actually used to be solid but the forktory figured out that they could use less metal and save money by making the slots
- Comment on I guarantee this is a waste of time 1 week ago:
You can’t pick up chopsticks with a fork either. They can’t be perforated.
- Comment on My friend Charlie is back.... 1 week ago:
Of course you wouldn’t, coward. That’s how you unlock wolverine skeleton.
- Comment on My friend Charlie is back.... 1 week ago:
Stretching helps. Try to touch your toes every morning. If you can’t reach them, ask someone else to touch your toes for you.
- Comment on My friend Charlie is back.... 1 week ago:
I need a big magnesium
- Comment on That's how the world works. 1 week ago:
Have you tried Asian and indian grocery stores? I get Thai jasmine rice from a Vietnamese shop near me, but they also sell it at the Indian supermarkets. They have lots of spices in bulk too.
- Comment on its actually worse bc ports are counted twice for 2.0 & 3.0 1 week ago:
15 mice
- Comment on Life never works exactly the way you want it 1 week ago:
Is it a permanent solution to all my temporary problems?! Sounds fucking lit!
- Comment on Give it 6 months 1 week ago:
The same as I feel about any of Turkey’s sovereign territory.
- Comment on I finally figured it out! 1 week ago:
Or the saltiness of an unswallowed load