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A 3-tonne, $1.5 billion satellite to watch Earth’s every move is set to launch this week
(theconversation.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2025
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Speaking as a layman, I just think it's fuckin' awesome how a big chonky boi can be propelled upwards at Mach Yeet and get casually dropped off in orbit.
Even though Musk is a cunt, I still love watching SpaceX streams to see big bits of metal get put upwards by lots of fire and noise, and then fuckin' land where they started seven or eight minutes later.
Science is fuckin mint, man.
Some of these words are meaningless and detract from what you are trying to say. People should not have to be subjected to this nonsense.
Au contraire, quite eloquent