This legitimately made me sad when I heard they might lose this satellite. It’s the farthest humans have ever sent anything beyond Earth, and it might always be the case. The science data coming back from this is invaluable.
We’ll surely get faster. Remember that Voyager 1 actually made a pass around one of the planets (Jupiter?) specifically to slow it down so that it could start gathering data. It would not be (relatively speaking) hard to send something out at a far greater velocity.
I’m glad they do, a lot of the missions I work around have been flying for 20 years when their original mission duration was supposed to be 5 years. The science they do is fantastic.
We can absolutely go way faster. The fastest thing we’ve ever built is currently the parker solar probe. Relative to the sun, it’s traveling so fast it could do a flyby of earths entire width in (I’m just guessing, don’t quote me) probably a couple seconds.
I just did the math. Parker’s top speed is around 430,000mph. So with the earth being a bit over 7900 miles across it would take a minute for Parker to traverse the width of the earth.
Ah yes, the “We’ll pay someone else to be green for us without meaningfully improving our environmental policy” move.
Toss some money away, get a nice tax write-off, and don’t bother following up to make sure these supposed CO2 offset numbers are actually what they are advertised to be.
The frustrating part is that the whole idea is great on its face: pay to capture the co2 you generate where they can do so at scale, but this just... clearly doesn't do that.
Oh cool! Our town does something similar in the summer. One street is dedicated to the farmer’s market, and several chunks of parking are converted to outdoor seating.
They used to do that here too on the street in front of the movie theatre downtown where’d they’d block off the street on weekends for the farmer’s market or other events. Eventually, they just put permanent bollards up and now it’s not a drivable street at any time. Too bad it’s just a single street on a single block. That area has way more stuff that would benefit from not being cut through by constant traffic
I noticed that because the bookstore at the college I attended now only has cup nissin ramen in paper cups instead of styrofoam. Otherwise, I probably wouldn’t have noticed at all.
OMG. I completely forgot they used to come in those. It’s like “let’s not just have this very degradable plastic have really salty food in it, let’s go ahead and add some water and microwave it.”
I wonder why we are finding micro plastics in people. /s
And damn isn’t everyone who lives outside of London indignantly pissed off that the city is being designed for its residents rather than them. Funny that a lot of them also suddenly seem to care about the plight of the working man unlike never before—just so long as we’re talking about the plight of the white van man being able to drive around London.
And couldn’t they use trains to London, or is the infrastructure lackluster? Or is it just the convenience of a personal vehicle? I’m genuinely curious
The public transport infrastructure is good enough to handle most people’s needs. Trains and buses cover the entire city and are regular enough to rely on.
There will always be journeys that require cars, but a lot of people just want comfort, especially if they come from more car-centric parts of the country
Public transport in and around London is some of the best in the world, there’s even countless park & ride stations which can help with people who are genuinely too far from a station or bus stop to do the whole journey on public transport.
There’s no genuinely valid reason that 99% of people would need to drive in London at all really, just people feeling mildly inconvenienced and blowing a gasket over it.
Another big aspect though, is that we also have our deeply unpopular conservative party in power currently with an impending election where they’re expected to perform so badly, they’re potentially going to get banished to the history books. So naturally they’re stoking up a load of none-of-that-green-rubbish and i-will-be-dead-before-you-take-by-diesel-powered-child-flattener-from-me sentiment in the hopes it turns some of their previous knuckle-dragging voters back away from other parties. The result of this is people in Surrey with minimal intention of ever even visiting London already because of the Daily Mail’s conspiracy theories, complaining loudly online about all the woke militants imprisoning them on a train or whatever bullshit they spout.
The cost is insane. We were looking at going down to London from Lancashire this weekend for a concert, and it would have cost £235 for both of us, return.
Of course the car would cost too, fuel, parking etc but no where near that price.
National Rail prices are definitely out of control, and the London Underground is definitely too expensive as of now. But the latter is the only London-specific transport issue, and something that can’t be helped until the government starts increasing the budget for TFL and allows them to subsidise journeys even more. I don’t see this happening, though. London is basically demonised in the press for being too rich, too diverse and full of the metropolitan elite. Funneling even more money to London while continuing to ignore the crumbling infrastructure in other parts of the country is a sure-fire way for the next government to become unpopular
This same thing is happening in Kansas City, where the city’s been building a streetcar system the last five years. The suburbanites spent a ton of money trying to get residents to vote it down, but we like having better public transit, so it got expanded instead.
Same with lots of food plastic, which used stuff like cardboard, wax paper, balsa wood, newspaper, glass, or aluminum back as recently as a handful of years ago.
I’ve switched to alternatives just because they pack down easier, and I’m not taking the garbage out with six plastic containers anymore.
All types of blisters, whether this box type or the one that needs firefighter grade pneumatic cutters to open, ought to be banned entirely. Even medical applications no longer use them!
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