@briankrebs btw there were more revelations about hegseth's involvement in crypto even dodgier than the ones i wrote about that jacob silverman surfaced later. tldr he was on an advisory board of INX, a shady af israeli crypto exchange […]

@trabex Yes, I agree.

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Generating video is *immensely* energy intensive. Let's say they produced 3,000 10 second clips for this ad (suspect that'd be an underestimate). At 1KWh per clip it's 3 megawatt hours.

Maybe ~400-500 households usage for a day?

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The #uscg members can be seen later in the video moving throughout the superstructure of the ship with their weapons drawn.

#pambondi wrote that “for multiple years, the oil tanker has been sanctioned by the United States due to its involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting […]

More on the #us seizure of an #oiltanker off the coast of #venezuela

The #uscg members were taken to the #oil tanker by helicopter from the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford…. The Ford is in the #caribbean after arriving last month in a major show of force, joining a fleet of other #warships […]

"In the short term, a major collision is more
akin to the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster than a Hollywood-style immediate end of operations in orbit. Indeed, satellite operations could continue after a major collision, but would have different operating parameters, including a higher risk of […]

This really highlights how incredibly dependent we are on Starlink's continued perfect collision avoidance maneuvers. So far they've done it, but they keep adding more satellites and making it harder.

Other megaconstellations are now launching as well, and they all need to communicate PERFECTLY […]

We set up a CRASH Clock website here: https://outerspaceinstitute.ca/crashclock/

Note that this is a probabilistic calculation. A catastrophic collision could happen sooner than 2.8 days of no maneuvers. In our (extremely computationally expensive) collision […]

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The CRASH Clock uses the current density in altitude bins (averaged over eccentric orbits) of satellites, rocket bodies, and tracked debris, assuming typical cross sections for each type and orbital speeds. This calculation tells us how long to a collision if all orbital maneuvers were to […]

We also did this calculation for the catalogue of satellites, trackable debris, and rocket bodies from 2018, before megaconstellations, showing just how much less safe megaconstellations like Starlink have made orbit.

The densest part of orbit in 2018 had a […]

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Starlink themselves report an average of 1 collision avoidance maneuver every 2 minutes between Dec 2024-May 2025. So that's another (terrifying) double check on this calculation. Starlink themselves report an average of 1 collision avoidance maneuver every 2 minutes. So that's another […]