just because I appreciate it when people do it for me
waste -> vast
Thank you for this. Is 'waste' used in a specific vernacular? I've never heard of someone saying waste instead of vast before.
Re:SpaceX Punched a Hole in the Ionosphere
by RheingoldRiver on Friday July 28, 2023 @09:21PM
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No, it was almost certainly a typo. There is no condition under which "waste majority" makes sense, but the poster was talking about waste, and the two words share 3 letters in common, so an easy mistake to make when typing quickly.
But for anyone who's not 100% comfortable with English, "the vast majority" is not simply a case of a descriptive adjective modifying the noun "majority," but it's actually a common phrase. People don't say "the big majority" or "the large majority," it's specifically "the vast majority."
If you wanted to use a different adjective, you could say "a large majority," and that would mean something like "most but not all and the 'but not all' is kind of significant" where as "the vast majority" means "nearly all of them, and the 'not all' is insignificant."
Re:SpaceX Punched a Hole in the Ionosphere
by panick21_ on Friday July 28, 2023 @10:07PM
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I have dyslexia and English isn't my first language.
Re:SpaceX Punched a Hole in the Ionosphere
by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK on Friday July 28, 2023 @11:16PM
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This is the case where GPT enabled spell checkers could help.
None of my business of course but Dutch or German by any chance?
The real concern for meaningful space debris issues is in the regions where decay requires 100+ of years.
The articles mentions the ASAT because that's what they used to study orbital behavior and decay.
Also generally, Space.com is universally agree to be the single worst 'space news' page known. I would never use it as a source for anything.