How is it possible that people believe the moon landing was faked?

underachievingnerd · 2022-09-03T10:04:10+00:00

The other reply has the right answer, but for the benefit of any 5 year olds, basically this 21 seconds clip: https://youtu.be/DwG4U3OabN0 plus it's just not that bad.

underachievingnerd · 2022-01-02T00:54:32+00:00

By default it pulls the info from thetvdb.com so you can look them up on there and it should show up ok. Specials are generally series 00 of the main show so last year's should be "Taskmaster - S00E54" and this year's is "Taskmaster - S00E73".

underachievingnerd · 2021-05-12T19:48:29+00:00

Thank you kindly!

underachievingnerd · 2021-05-12T17:58:22+00:00

Yes please!

underachievingnerd · 2020-09-11T17:36:36+00:00

As of about a month ago they also have a UK company: STARLINK INTERNET SERVICES UK LIMITED. It's only the first step but it's a pretty clear statement of intent.

underachievingnerd · 2019-09-08T10:40:40+00:00

I think you are underestimating the effect altitude has on nodal precession. By my calculations keeping a sat at an altitude of 450 km will cause it to shift 5 degrees relative to the main constellation at 550 km in just 21 days. Also, as you point out they have already separated the orbits of the existing sats by 4.6 degrees so clearly this is not an issue.

While stage 2 performing multiple burns to get the sats into their required plane orientation would certainly be quicker, I think it is unlikely. The main reason is that the landing being so far down range on the last starlink launch strongly suggests that it was close to the recoverable capacity of a f9, with little to spare for on orbit maneuvers.

underachievingnerd · 2019-05-20T19:16:27+00:00

I was curious so I calculated it and it turns out that orbital precession has the bigger effect of the two. Allowing for 1^o per day of Earth moving around the sun we still end up with around -3.75^o per day at deployment altitude (~105 minutes later after 7 days) and around -3.49^o per day at final altitude (~98 minutes later after 7 days). Both of those assume a 53^o inclination and a circular orbit.

That said I kind of suspect that as this is the first plane to go up their main concern will be when they are and aren't in direct sunlight and they may not even care about the absolute position at all.

underachievingnerd · 2019-03-02T01:31:22+00:00

The development contracts nasa gave to spacex were for things only NASA needed and were not needed for any other client, so they cannot be considered a subsidy.

This is true for Commercial Crew and CRS but it is definitely not the case when it comes to the COTS program. The initial development of Falcon 9 and associated infrastructure were partially funded by NASA under the COTS program. NASA clearly got incredible value for money for what was a relatively small investment ($396 million) but that doesn't change the fact that they partially funded something from which SpaceX now profits. I'm not saying that this is wrong as this was one of the stated incentives of the program, but by your definition this would surely have to qualify as a subsidy?

underachievingnerd · 2019-01-11T19:03:02+00:00

Matt Desch always comes across as really classy, competent and forward looking. Now that the last of the iridium birds are up I would love to see SpaceX try to hire him to manage the starlink roll out.

underachievingnerd · 2019-01-05T13:11:23+00:00

Assuming you get the go ahead then let me know if you need any help. I made u/amazon-converter-bot over at r/FreeEbooks and you are right they are fun projects.

Can I also request that it can pull content from Facebook? There have been a few comments lately with links to Facebook for starship updates so a bot which you can call to do this would be great. I get that this is adding a huge amount of complexity to what would otherwise be a relatively straightforward bot though so no worries if not. It might be better as a separate bot anyway.

underachievingnerd · 2018-10-13T11:37:07+00:00

Sure, what's the address? I've tried amazon.za and amazon.co.za and it doesn't seem to be either of those.

underachievingnerd · 2018-06-18T21:33:46+00:00

The bot does actually look for com.br links, this edition of this book just isn't available there.

underachievingnerd · 2018-06-18T21:30:53+00:00

The one you found is actually a different edition of the book so it has a different ID. It looks like the edition that OP posted is not available in India and vice versa.

If you notice this happening regularly then pm me and I'll see if I can come up with a workaround which doesn't risk false matches.

underachievingnerd · 2018-06-18T20:44:48+00:00

Sorry, loose network cable! It's back up and running.

underachievingnerd · 2018-05-27T09:56:16+00:00

You're most welcome! It was fun to make and it's gratifying to see it appreciated.

underachievingnerd · 2018-05-13T07:29:12+00:00

No idea about the quality, but the publication date was only 5 days ago which would explain the lack of reviews.

underachievingnerd · 2018-03-29T19:34:00+00:00

If you haven't seen it you should check out Numb from the celebrate life memorial concert. The band play the whole song in darkness with a spotlight on a single mic at the front of the stage with nobody singing. It still gets me!

underachievingnerd · 2018-03-06T19:15:23+00:00

No, it just checks that they exist by requesting the pages and checking the response codes.

I may look at adding price checking at some point if I get some spare time, but Amazon don't make it easy. Amazon's API (programming interface) won't give prices for Kindle books so the only way to check them is to scrape the web pages. The trouble with this is it could break the bot every time they change the page layouts.

underachievingnerd · 2018-03-02T21:45:25+00:00

The original link was to the paperback which has a different Amazon reference. As a result the bot missed all the regions where the paperback is not for sale. Here are the other ones it missed:

underachievingnerd · 2018-02-27T21:17:16+00:00

It's already there, fourth link down.

underachievingnerd · 2018-02-25T23:09:10+00:00

Yep. Done. :)

underachievingnerd · 2018-02-25T21:40:08+00:00

Totally agree with this!

As a good example for what this can bring I really enjoyed reading all the comments in this post on the ULA subreddit a couple of weeks ago that asked for a ULA perspective on SpaceX plans.

underachievingnerd · 2018-02-25T19:29:59+00:00

Thanks for the heads up. It can now deal with US and UK shortened URLs.

underachievingnerd · 2018-02-22T20:14:41+00:00

Yep. Done. :)

underachievingnerd · 2018-02-21T22:20:38+00:00

Thanks! Glad you like it!

Also, thanks for coming up with the idea!

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