Fun Facts

[Rose White]

Interesting names of people from the past that I have learned about recently:

• Praise-God Barebone (1598-1789) England, Puritan preacher nominated to Cromwell’s assembly
• Public Universal Friend (1752-1819) USA, genderless Quaker evangelist
• Learned Hand (1872-1961) USA, legal scholar and Court of Appeals judge

 

[Rose White]

Old English, also called Anglo-Saxon, had two words for male: “mann” which could also mean all humans and “wæpenmann” which meant person with a weapon and/or a penis.

 

[Rose White]

Over 9,000 satellites are orbiting Earth with almost half inactive. America has launched the most satellites in space, about 2500, and 2/3 of those are from Space-X in the last decade. Imagine someday USA is called USX.

 

[Friday]

Miami-Dade county terminated the lease with Miami Seaquarium (the aquarium which kept orca Lolita in a punch bowl for over 50 years). The aquarium did not leave when their lease ended in April and have now been served an eviction lawsuit. Miami Seaquarium is suing the county for violating their federal civil rights.

LMAO… What to DO with the highly regulated species still in care / in residence? Bad politics.

 

[Friday]

Over 9,000 satellites are orbiting Earth with almost half inactive. America has launched the most satellites in space, about 2500, and 2/3 of those are from Space-X in the last decade. Imagine someday USA is called USX.

It only costs about 100k to launch a private satellite (nasa/spaceX/etc. it’s closer to 10million, but private companies launch small sats for “minimal” fees). There is so much “debris” / inactive / private satellites it’s actually dangerous to launch space flight out of orbit. As even something aspirin sized is deadly, something the size of a house? <low whistle>

 

[Rose White]

What to DO with the highly regulated species still in care / in residence? Bad politics

lol—you’re going to like this, the plan is for Miami-Dade county to take care of them Imagine the residents—the billionaires in their high rise condos—getting a tax bill for care of Flipper. My guess is that they’ll be sold/leased to aquariums/circuses in China, Middle East, Russia, etc.

There is so much “debris” / inactive / private satellites

When Mark Kelly was on the ISS my oldest was in kindergarten and his school got to ask the astronauts questions on live satellite connection. My son asked if they could see satellites and space junk and he said no. Possible reason I just thought of: ISS is about 100 miles lower in orbit than most satellites and the windows point toward the earth.

But yeah, I wonder if they have to coordinate the launches to avoid the satellites? Or if in the future there will be some kind of space vehicle that harvests inactive satellites…

 

[Friday]

But yeah, I wonder if they have to coordinate the launches to avoid the satellites?

According to the NASA website? Yep. But it’s an aspirin flying in orbit that they’re most afraid of. As they can’t track them. Like how a grass straw can imbed itself in a tree, or engine block, during a tornado? Things that fly faster than bullets make even something like grass armor piercing. Much less anything sturdier. Big bada boom.

Or if in the future there will be some kind of space vehicle that harvests inactive satellites…

I expect that there are companies who are already working on that. In the meantime I do know the alphabet agencies (of many countries) and certain hacker collectives use them extensively.

That’s part of the problem with how “cheap” they became about 20 years ago. Maintenance costs more than the acquisition. So companies buy them, use them, then don’t (for many reasons). Agencies and creative freelancers? Borrow/Acquire/utilize them in various ways until they need fixing.

 

[Rose White]

Humans are the only animals that have uvulas.

 

[abovedown]

The Voyager golden record, a copy on each of the voyager spacecrafts, has greetings in 55 human languages and one whale language.

So the whale things is not just about that star trek movie?

 

[Rose White]

In ancient Egypt (before 2000 BC) hyperactive children (diagnosed with something like hyperkinesis/ADHD) were treated with opium.

 

[notsurewheretoturn]

Humans are the only species cats meow at.

 

[Rose White]

Humans are the only species cats meow at

Aka “yelling”