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Cake day: March 17th, 2024

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  • No idea if anyone has done anything to make this more than an idea, but if you want to de-orbit someone else’s satellite safely you could use a laser broom. Whe you vaporise stuff with a laser, the material that ablates off of the object imparts a bit of thrust to that object. This means that zapping a satellite with a laser can potentially slow it down just like pushing it with a rocket. It also has the benefit of being useable on any other troublesome debris, and it can be reused between jobs (assuming you solved the engineering challenges of Big Space Laser)




  • It’s not the equivalent of being involved with a terrible trade deal like mercosur

    What on Earth does your opinion on Mercosur’s trade deals have to do with whether or not the UK is sharing data with them?

    The chart has no year

    I gave you the year in my first reply to you: the most recent year of data in the source (a partial source, but it gives us a limit) is 2024.

    what the units are

    It’s PPP, it is the international dollar. PPP is strictly a relative measure, units are not important.