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Due_Start_3597 t1_jcze5g5 wrote

Reply to comment by threebillion6 in 10 months after its launch by SpaceX, a $10,000 satellite made by students with off-the-shelf materials and powered by 48 Energizer AA batteries, is not only working, it's demonstrating a way to reduce space junk by lughnasadh

I always thought satellites had some little thrusters on them with some nominal way to make micro-adjustments?

I figured if they wanted to deorbit them, they could be by making "deorbit trajectories"?

Is that not true?

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Due_Start_3597 t1_j8k1v2s wrote

Reply to comment by Birdy_Cephon_Altera in [OC] New Mexico Now Produces More Oil Than Mexico & Venezuela by latinometrics

honestly they should use it up sooner rather than later

there still seem to be some oil economies out there that are basing their futures off oil reserves lasting when they should be basing it off whether the demand for oil goes away due to politics, ESG, activism, the youth generating in particular, other alternatives becoming more viable, etc.

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Due_Start_3597 t1_ix9ao0r wrote

Reply to ‘Without enough Latvians, we won’t be Latvia’: eastern Europe’s shrinking population | Latvia’s population is 30% smaller than it was in 1990 and by 2050 numbers will be in decline in over half of Europe’s 52 countries. by mossadnik

Does Latvia do any sort of tax benefit thing?

Tax cuts for people with 2 children? No taxes on single-family homes?

I'm wondering what incentives they've created, some other countries trying to stop population declines do things like that.

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