Yeah, but a change that drastic (like a minor planet collision) would basically remove the possibility of life on earth in any sense.

I’m speaking in like evolutionary epochs. Our satellites in deep orbit, like JWST, will remain in those orbits for hundreds of thousands to millions of years with little to no degradation (minus collisions with small debris).

So assuming that someone is the in millions of years and happens to look in those orbits, they’ll find stuff we made millions of years before.

Before being able to park stuff in space, everything we made had to survive corrosive atmosphere, tectonic shifts, and corrosive rains. In space it can just kinda chill without ever having to deal with that.

It is wild that the longest living manmade structures have already been built. Satellites and space debris in stable orbits will be around for millions of years, way longer than anything could ever survive on earth

That’s even cooler, would be pretty spooky if modern historical records and knowledge got lost and then all that was left was a gap in written information and several hundred large man made objects that can be seen with basic optics or even the human eye under the right conditions.

You’re right, they’ll just become deities because their motion is regular and visible.

Then when they do de-orbit, a great schism will occur and the resulting wars will end in the re-industrialization of society and they’ll be replaced

What I love about GPS is that it’s so pervasive that maps have basically vanished overnight. And in 1000 years there will be no physical evidence of it.

The only thing future archaeologists would be able to tell is that one day, we stopped making maps, and suddenly we started listening to the stars.

Sure, the rest of the execs split the other savings. The CEO just got the lion’s share. That bonus alone even with your numbers, would be enough to keep almost 700 of those employees.

Everyone I’m voting for is someone I’ve met and had drinks with lol, we’re an elderly town on average (average age of 55), but a lot of the candidates are younger workers out here.

Your county commissioner and school board director probably don’t have much to do with the genocide, but a lot of these elections are literally “schoolteacher” vs “guy who thinks girls shouldn’t be taught to read” in places and I think taking a stand in those cases is worth it.

Local elections usually have a lot less people with party affiliations too.

I’m fine with that, AAA games should be leading the way on solving the rendering equation in novel ways. Luckily they get so excited when they find something that it’s published in detail and they do dozens of SIGGRPH presentations on it and after a while everyone else gets it for basically free.

Spend 8 years and millions of dollars building out engines and tools for mediocre games so good games can selectively use those tools in fun ways on tight budgets.

Yeah, my time with the DSA in Asheville has a lot of splitting attempts trashed. We had a good contingent that was also SRA and the only thing that got us was one of the leadership being implicated in some sexual abuse.

The chapter still goes on though and is run my more teachers and service workers now as there help to organize both those groups or here and move away from the reading group status of the old guard.

Sadly I’ve been a passive member for a while now after moving away from Asheville, but they do good work out there

As someone who deals with lidar and other geospatial data for work, this tracks. A scene the size of a small town can be gigabytes in size

Libs will Photoshop anyone to the left of Biden or to the right of Obama in there.

That area always gets hit pretty hard, but this was any 10’ higher than they’ve ever gotten. Just around the corner from that Wendy’s is a giant apartment complex where they didn’t get the evacuation order until that Wendy’s was underwater and the road was already gone.

Yeah, they got used to it. They also want someone they can fantasize about on the TV

The star links sucked anyways. Can really only handle like 100 connections before they overheat and they put them all on 192.168.0.0/24 address space so when you have 500+ people trying to connect it just straight up didn’t work.

Luckily switching to 10.0.1.0/16 is easy, but most of the people they were handed out to didn’t know that. Meanwhile HAM radio just works. It can also support unlimited connections.

You joke, but I remember having an original Motorola Droid and running over it in a car after leaving it on the bumper in a parking lot. Then a couple days later having it fall off the car again while driving on the beach and it still worked.

My brother found out that just punching the top after you pulled the sides off fixed it. There were literal fist marks and broken plastic on top of his, but it worked.

Guess percussive maintenance would temporarily re-connect the circuit or something lol

The issue is that without a principled party and constant education and agitation those contractions historically have dumped power into fascism.

The heightened contradictions only prepare people for revolution.

Why pay them when everyone uploads stuff in an open file format and you can just steal it?

Well the workers make the profits, the execs steal them