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eps · 2026-09-15T20:40:50

First country to admit putting weapons in space.

andai · 2026-09-16T00:11:04

I was wondering, didn't they have something like this fifty years ago? Wasn't that the whole point of the space program?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative

eps · 2026-09-14T06:51:14

This still can be gamed.

eps · 2026-09-11T22:40:39

Works fine here.

eps · 2026-09-05T21:48:39

> I think we are stronger together

That's pretty damn obvious to everyone with a half of brain, yet here we are being pulled apart.

panick21_ · 2026-09-06T04:19:08

Except its not actually obvious. The US achieved most when they worked mostly by themselves. And the recent explosion in US activity, specially SpaceX is also highly separated from Europe.

There is a very credible argument to be made that excessive cooperation leads to incredibly heavy overly political programs that are completely static and can't adjust because of international agreements.

That doesn't mean working together isn't good but they way they have been has been pretty questionably in many ways (along with a lot of space policy).

pvaldes · 2026-09-07T08:03:45

> And the recent explosion in US activity, specially SpaceX is also highly separated from Europe.

If any of this machines use Python or Linux internally, then we could find some obvious connections with Europe and the people at charge of it.

panick21_ · 2026-09-07T08:10:18

Of course but that isn't part of government to government cooperation. I'm not saying no supply chains reach to other countries.

eps · 2026-09-05T21:47:17

What an odd question to ask.

mrtksn · 2026-09-05T21:57:03

what’s odd about it?

TurboTveit · 2026-09-05T22:33:29

One odd thing about it is that it was launched from a country that is not a member of the EU?

mrtksn · 2026-09-05T22:36:06

So? Ariane flies from french guiana and has all the participants flags on it.

nkoren · 2026-09-05T22:47:03

Fun fact: French Guiana is a part of France -- and very much part of the EU -- despite not actually being in Europe. In roughly the same way that Hawaii is a part of the United States of America, despite not actually being in America.

mrtksn · 2026-09-05T22:51:39

You are right

eps · 2026-09-01T09:01:33

The expression is "To know is to be able to explain".

It holds up very well in a lot of situations.

kaffekaka · 2026-09-01T18:18:07

Not least in the sense that to know something well _and also_ be able to explain it well is worth so much more than to just be an expert

eps · 2026-08-31T08:06:38

But w/h does.

eps · 2026-08-31T08:03:36

Also have/want if old/new is already taken.

eps · 2026-08-25T07:42:28

The difficult part, which is glanced over, is calculating the number of leap years for the year "slide" in Part 5.

A bit more guidance there would go a long way.

eps · 2026-08-25T07:40:12

There are only two dates that aren't symmetrical - 3/14 and 2/28 - and they are easier to remember in the mm/yy format.