• yojimbo@sopuli.xyz
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    9 months ago

    Wow, I’ve never heard about “GIZCHINA”. It definitely isn’t gizmodo - right? 🤔 Right!

    • it is a Czech company with entire capital stock consisting of 4USD 😎 (cca 100 CZK)
    • the text is showing hight probability of AI generation. Which adult human being is going to write eg: " In this article, we will discuss the FAA report in detail, including the risks posed by falling satellites, the causes of these risks, and the potential solutions to mitigate them." 🤖
    • it does not say anything else than this - much more likely human written thing here - only the original is only 1/3 as long. That is IMO how come the AI Writing is literraly jumping out on you from the article. 😱

    This is my least favourite century yet.

  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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    The thumbnail image isn’t even a satellite…

    The dragon capsule isn’t going to suddenly fall out of orbit somewhere unexpected…

    • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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      The dragon capsule isn’t going to suddenly fall out of orbit somewhere unexpected…

      It’s highly unlikely, but the possibility isn’t 0. Like, what if an untracked asteroid hits it out of orbit?

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        Well, the chance isn’t zero, but that example, being knocked out (disabled or destroyed) by an asteroid has never happened to any spacecraft, ever. Statically the chances of that happening are very very close to zero.

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    Injure? Injure?? If someone gets nothing but a boo boo from a falling fucking satellite then they need to go buy a lottery ticket right away.

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      One can get hurt without a direct hit. E.g. when a window bursts from a shockwave and hurts people inside a building.

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      Satellites will have thoroughly fragmented by the time they reach the ground, you’d be hit by a piece of a satellite.

      Assuming the study being referenced wasn’t actually badly flawed, which it appears to be.

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      I recommend you never buy a lottery ticket - because clearly you don’t understand how luck works.

      If a satellite were to smash through the roof of my office and land harmlessly on the floor, I reckon I’d be quite startled and might bump my knee on the bottom of the desk…

      There’s definitely a risk of injury, and you’re far more likely to be injured than killed.

      I’d probably also have to pay a couple hundred thousand dollars to repair my home, since I don’t think insurance covers falling satellites and I’m certainly not going to try and sue a company on the other side of the world when they probably didn’t do anything against the law anyway. Bruised knee would be the least of my problems.

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    This completely ignores the fact that the 2034 Full Self Driving beta release roadmap includes falling satellite avoidance capabilities.

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    9 months ago

    This article was either written by AI, or a human with an IQ of 50

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    So far, no one has ever been killed by a meteorite. There’s been a scary injury, some unconfirmed rumors and at least one engine block was cracked in half.

    That said, death by thing falling from space is totally how I want to die. Bonus points if I’m totally disintegrated and just MIA. ( Circuitboard. It was man made. Has anyone seen Uriel? ) A falling satellite will be fine.

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    Perhaps fetching all of that junk might be a good idea? Perhaps a satellite trash collector satellite.