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It's because the best food is actually Garlic Bread.

no way nah ya maybe sometimes looks good Gotta get the fresh stuff in Brazil Looks good minus the cheese!

Well there's one thing I know for sure: I want to go to Mars.

Did you know that table salt is a ceramic?

Do you think there will ever be a need to colonize Mars?

There's a lot of variation in what people call 'classical', and those who don't know better probably wrap up a few different genres into that umbrella and it just ends up being orchestral music that's not in a movie score. I like a lot of orchestral music, it's really quite versatile.

The weather is finally getting warm. I wore shorts today. And it's rainy today! That will make the plants green.

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You saw Starlink, and if you had been out there at about 9:07 you would have seen a bunch more even more closely spaced, along the same path, followed by two loners, then the last group. Here's a visualization showing where all those new sats are. https://www.heavens-above.com/StarLink.aspx?launchid=2020006&lat=51.5074&lng=-0.1278&loc=London&alt=0&tz=GMT They're closely packed like that because they just launched on Wednesday and are spreading out.

I'm telling ya, the simulation was supposed to be shut off in 2012...We're gonna start getting floating point errors by 2035...

Saw it again tonight. https://www.heavens-above.com/StarLink.aspx?launchid=2020006&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT The prediction on heavens-above agrees with what I saw. The leading group is brighter and closely packed, there are two lone sats in between which are probably close to their operational positions, and the trailing group is dimmer and more spread out. The train goes almost all the way across the sky in a big line. I imagine some of the old folks who went out to watch Sputnik 1 are seeing this too, and considering how far we've come.

Did you ever look around to see if he had actually managed to sneak in? After all, you can just buy lab coats.

The satellites are only this visible and closely packed shortly after launch. When they get into position, they are very dark and only seem to produce flares like Iridium used to, except these flares are dimmer, last longer and repeat as multiple satellites pass through the right region. I've never seen more than two Starlink satellites at a time that were already in place.

Decieve you.......will devieve you....... -Nihilanth

I saw the Starlink train from the latest launch! Very pretty.

Well it was definitely very visible. I counted 38 sats all in a line, very bright. I'll definitely be watching tomorrow for their lunar close pass! wow!

I've got a Starlink-5 pass coming up tomorrow that looks like it's going to go very close to the Moon. Maybe it's even worth driving my telescope a mile or so to photograph them crossing. First I have to see what they look like tonight if the clouds open up enough...

CLOUD ONE READIES ITSELF FOR RETURN TO KERBIN "Time...Dr. Kerman? Is it really that...time...again? Hm." CLOUD ONE has spent a long time orbiting Duna. Its crew have landed in one place on Duna, and in two places on Ike. They have uncovered various interesting tidbits of information about the systems, and have now done just about all they could do with the limited capabilities of the not yet fully operational space station. The lander crews will now pack up their things and lift off of their respective planets to reconvene at the orbiting outpost... https://imgur.com/a/Ipk2s1l When CLOUD ONE arrives back at Kerbin, it will be outfitted with a full suite of modules that will allow it to perform as a hub for a full exploration of the Jool system.

I have also been working towards V-rank on the remaining two levels in VVVVVV, and practicing for an eventual no-death run of that game.

I started playing Hollow Knight.

I have been thinking about a certain type of planet, and seeing as how KSP2 will have a binary system, I think it might be possible there... I would make a toroidal planet.

http://www.satflare.com/track.asp?q=StarLinkLaunch&sck=1#PASS

The sats will fly in my sky tonight, albeit low. I will be watching!

The satellite in GEO has a lot more angular momentum than you because it's rotating around a really big radius. That means that if you go straight up towards it, you'll start drifting west because you only have the angular momentum you got from the ground, which is a lot less than you need to orbit the Earth high above it. In order to match the velocity of the satellite you'd have to pitch eastward at altitude and accelerate, but by then the sat that was originally right above your head would be much farther along. The most efficient way to get to the satellite would be to get into low orbit as usual, then do a Hohmann transfer.