astronomy

Geodad, wczoraj w Starlink Satellites Are 'Leaking' Radio Emissions

They were designed by a capitalist. Why should this surprise anyone?

The object was to get a product to market as quickly and cheaply as possible.

Corners were cut and mistakes were made.

frunch, wczoraj

Corners were cut and mistakes were made.

This is my assumption about nearly all modern tech. We’ve reached the point where it’s practically standard practice to release unfinished products and/or software. In many cases, it ends up being a particular person or small group of enthusiasts that end up finishing and polishing the product.

Not only that, but support for many tech products is shorter-term than ever. I was talking to a mechanic recently who was surprised to be informed by Alfa Romeo’s parts department, that they did not offer replacements for a particular part for the brake lines on a car that was less than 10 years old…and referred the mechanic to find a seller on eBay who makes them. There was indeed one company making the part and selling them on eBay. That was the aftermarket support, lol!

shifty, wczoraj w Starlink Satellites Are 'Leaking' Radio Emissions

This is the planet wide equivalent of the microwave interfering with the wifi signal.

atzanteol, wczoraj w 1.5TB of James Webb Space Telescope data dumped on the internet — new searchable database is the largest window into our universe to date

Okay quacks, time to go data-mining for anomalies!

FundMECFSResearch, wczoraj w 1.5TB of James Webb Space Telescope data dumped on the internet — new searchable database is the largest window into our universe to date

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/8ff32407-6358-43d8-9dd7-3afc80664da6.webp

abcdqfr, wczoraj w 1.5TB of James Webb Space Telescope data dumped on the internet — new searchable database is the largest window into our universe to date

Tangent, how would this telescope do turned around and pointed at our deepest oceans? There’s infinitely more alien life to actually find and study, and it’s still unstudied for good reasons I suppose I’m fishing for.

Dasus, wczoraj

Wait… what?

We’ve got tons of oceanographic satellites. James Webb is extremely good at picking up light. The ocean is extremely dark.

treadful, wczoraj w Starlink Satellites Are 'Leaking' Radio Emissions

The polarisation of the broadband emission shows the flux density of two orthogonal polarisations is anti-correlated with temporally shifting spectral structure observed.

lolwut

KittenBiscuits, wczoraj (edited wczoraj)

https://i.imgur.com/KZV9pQA.jpeg