Maddy, the main developer of Celeste is trans. Not that it matters for gameplay on a platformer but the main character is canonically trans as well. I don’t even think it really comes up that much in the story line. It shouldn’t matter.

But because of that, I such a gem of a game is banned in countries that would execute you for being trans.

Yo like Angine de Pointrine! The KEXP video game them a huge boost. So happy about that.

Oh yeah ofc. The Hubble upgrades and repairs are a good example to show how good planning, good technology and will can ensure long standing missions delivering incredible science.

The planning for these mega constellation is different for sure and the goal is money, not science, which is sad. That’s why they will burn in the atmosphere no matter what.

Just here to comment that I only pasted the title of the article as the title of the post. I find the content of the article interesting. I’m not actually asking that question, though answer it if you please.

There will be no repairs in space. Everything they launch is set and done and comes crashing back in the atmosphere 5 years later. They fully expect radiation and debris to render the space data center satellites unusable after 5 to 7 years (in the article). We all know that after 5 years those chips will be obsolete anyways.

This is a huge issue, the amount of mass being sent into orbit that is planned to just burn up in the atmosphere 5 years later.

The article goes somewhat in depth about it. Basically, heat dissipation in space is a solved physics problem. It is now in the engineering domain to try to make it more lightweight, efficient, scalable and ultimately cheap. Ars Technica does reference a great video by Scott Manley where he just does the math to figure out how large the heat sink panels need to be. His back of the envelope math leads him to believe that a starlink sized solar panel or something in that order of magnitude will be enough.

Though I am confident they are going to try really hard to make it work. They just want to time it so that VC doesn’t hold the short end of the stick when the music stops (lol I love mixing analogies like that). I am worried of the impact of launching so many vehicles into space. They will launch a lot of vehicles, there is no denying that, even if it doesn’t get to 1M satellite constellation. All the shit they send to LEO will have to fall back down eventually. It will burn up in the atmosphere. That’s a lot of extra stuff in the atmosphere. That’s also a lot of stuff up there that will interfere with astronomy. A lot of stuff that can lead to Kessler syndrome.

We live in the same word as billionaires. They exist, they don’t exist in a vacuum though maybe, briefly, they should.