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Re:The NASA/ESA Mars Sample Return mission has been canceled on Monday September 21, 2026 @04:19PM (#49792814)
Beyond earth orbit launches actually is not that low [1]. MSR has a long history of revival and cancellation.

[1] https://spacestatsonline.com/launches/beo

Re:Lost Soviet Moon Lander May Have Been Found on Monday February 16, 2026 @02:45AM (#47032093)
The word "lost" is a little bit confusing in this context. It successfully landed and operated several days, but it's location was only approximated.

We've seen landers in recent years that crashed unintentionally in precise known locations. Does this mean that they were not lost?

There is huge increase of orbital launches in recent years [1] done mostly by SpaceX and China is also planning to double its numbers in the coming years. The risks will be even higher.

[1] https://spacestatsonline.com/launches/country

Re:2025 Orbital Launch Stats on Sunday January 04, 2026 @02:47AM (#46485873)
New record in 2025: 324 launches. Chart by year: https://spacestatsonline.com/launches

SpaceX alone launched 165 Falcon 9 rockets which is more than half of the orbital launches worldwide. Decline of Russia continues, China with significant increase.

Allowing this on Github means that Microsoft silently approve it?
Re:Study: Social media probably can't be fixed on Thursday August 14, 2025 @03:17AM (#44897641)
Why can't it be fixed? Just remove algorithms and show only subscribed content in chronological order. That's how most of the early platforms worked and it was fine.
Re:Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023) on Friday August 01, 2025 @02:37AM (#44753639)
Stats that are based only on the number of satellites can be very misleading as they don't differentiate between a 5 ton comm sat and an 1 kg cubesat.
Re:Scientists tame chaotic protein fueling 75% of cancers on Monday January 22, 2024 @02:49AM (#39087316)
I'm already skeptical with all these cancer research results being practical. One would say cancer is already curable when looking on the HN search results for cancer from the past 10+ years
"“Stability AI has copied more than 12 million photographs from Getty Images’ collection, along with the associated captions and metadata, without permission from or compensation to Getty Images,” Getty wrote in its lawsuit."

The hypocrisy of Getty Image is insane here, given it's dark past.

Re:Longevity of Recordable CDs, DVDs and Blu-Rays on Friday October 07, 2022 @04:21AM (#33118657)
Not sure about the claims that blue ray's longevity may be less than cds and dvds. The technology greatly improved in the past decade (the article was written in 2010) and multiple sources saying the opposite. M-DISC brds seem to be capable of long term archiving.
It's not that simple from any point of view. First you cannot just replace a single SLS with 100 Electrons.
I'm sure in the long run the US would rather deal with Russia than with a China occupying anything Russian in Eastern Asia.
Re:Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends on Saturday March 05, 2022 @11:42AM (#30569013)
>they are afraid to stand up to their own government

I think you are not aware on how authoritarian regimes work and relates to those trying to oppose.

Re:NATO leaves Black Sea exposed as Russia invades Ukraine on Friday February 25, 2022 @08:46AM (#30467164)
It's not like NATO to deploy forces there to fight the Russians. This is a more complex military, strategic and political issue with many implications.
Re:NATO leaves Black Sea exposed as Russia invades Ukraine on Friday February 25, 2022 @08:39AM (#30467097)
In short, South China Sea is more important than the Black Sea
Re:Why I will never buy another Samsung device on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @02:59AM (#30425161)
We can bash Samsung here, for this particular case, but is this something only Samsung does?
Re:Starship Update [video] on Friday February 11, 2022 @06:15AM (#30300045)
>15,517 tons

What is the source for this and how was this calculated?

Not many you can do by commenting here anyway. Just wanted to point out that something else may be the reason of the ban.
I have multiple google accounts with one of them having adsense and never had problems.
Re:People don't want to run their own bank on Friday February 04, 2022 @08:00AM (#30206254)
Many people underestimate how hard is to store securely and reliably a crypto wallet key on long period.
Re:Does my site need HTTPS? on Monday January 31, 2022 @03:25PM (#30153758)
>"I can't afford a certificate."

>They're free.

May be free but is it still applicable on hosting providers like Godaddy?

Re:Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web? on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @06:01AM (#30084041)
Also, youtube videos sometimes don't have posting date in their description, not sure why. And I hate when platforms use contextual time like '1 year ago' instead of posting date.

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