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Cake day: January 2nd, 2024

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  • Floor 2 is a fucking mystery. Its too low to walk around the perimeter, but they didn’t install a floor in the middle. There’s not enough room for insulation between the sun-beaten roof and the living space, but that might be less of an issue because of the huge holes in the trim letting in a steady flow of outside air. That vaulted ceiling also means the house will lose all its heat in the Winter.

    There’s no window or exhaust fan in the bathroom.

    It looks like there are holes in the outside wall where windows could be installed, but there are metal flaps there instead. Best case scenario is there is no wall insulation between those flaps and the interior drywall, getting wet and doing biology.








  • Those rockets miss, but the plane in front dropped flares just prior, so the pilot may have believed a heat seeking missile was launched.

    The wing breaks off at the engine. Was the engine hit with a missile?

    Those engines are 50 years old and probably haven’t been getting their regular maintenance on account of the 3 day special military operation going a bit over schedule. Maybe unmaintained SU-25s just randomly have their wings fall off sometimes?













  • Sorry to disappoint, but exploding something at GEO would make things worse.

    All satellites in orbit of Earth will experience atmospheric drag. Even the Moon is bumping into gas atoms.

    Geostationary satellites will eventually fall. It might take millions of years, but eventually the thin atmosphere will slow those satellites down enough that their orbit will fall into the thick, lower atmosphere where they’ll burn up or crash into the Earth’s surface.

    Exploding a satellite up there will just make a shotgun spray of projectiles that will still take millions of years to fall. Assuming the projectiles shoot off in all directions fairly evenly, then the ones that get shot backwards relative to the motion of the satellite will end up in a lower orbit that will decay faster. The pieces that get shot forward might actually escape Earth orbit all together and become little asteroids orbiting the Sun.

    The thing that’s special about geostationary orbit isn’t that the orbit of things at that altitude does not decay. That altitude is special because at that altitude, orbital speed is equal to the Earth’s rotational speed. A satellite at that altitude over the equator will remain over that same longitude - it won’t rise and set like the Moon, it will remain in the same spot overhead both night and day.