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I know it blew my mind too when I first started building this! It's such a cool project to get to build!

Wow thanks! If you like this, on Monday I'm planning to release an update that will let you rewind the viewer all the way back to 1959 and see the first launch of Sputnik. Then let it play forward to today sped up so you can see the growth of satellite counts. Also a new public API to fetch the TLEs from any date. I'm hoping this will let folks do interesting stuff with all that data - maybe AI training or research projects etc.

Wow thanks so much!

Yes, so I'm taking every telescope/radio/radar reading I'm allowed to redistribute and then collecting them into a time series database and fetching the most recent reading for each sat into a text file. That's the TLE download in the public API. Then I use Rust WASM to propagate those readings into positions that are synced with the viewer time. This allows us to very roughly forecast where they will be for the next couple days.

It's cool because it's too much data to transfer over the network, so we only transfer the most recent reading and then calculate positions live in the browser.

Green is active, orange is debris or dead sats. When a GEO sat runs out of life / power / fuel the operators are supposed to move it out of the main corridor to make room, so often they are in the same ring but higher or lower

Yeah that's what my one guy said was enough at the time, and we've got some European partners who never brought it up, so maybe it's good enough with the banner?

I'm not familiar, what is the law, that we cannot use authentication cookies or google/twitter analytics cookies?

Indeed, that's a joke I'm always saying, that every sat is the size of rhode island

Yeah for all we know stars are black hole poop

Hey I am into this! Check out this site I built for tracking satellites!

https://spacebook.com/explorer

this is brilliant, I'm slain

Whoa whoa, what do you want to do, crash the entire US stock market over here?! Our whole economy is propped up by the story that AI is the future and will replace all jobs forever. We've got MS paying OpenAI paying Nvidia, and that's making the line go up.

So let's be cool with throwing around "numbers" that "prove" the emperor has no clothes. Because, like, we gotta pretend he does at least until the next thing that needs every video card ever.

My hypothesis is the decline is caused by a multifaceted change in environment:

cost of living crisis caused by inflation, folks are making only about 1/3rd what their grandparents made for the same labor
debt crisis caused by the above, crippling debt causes anxiety
educational treadmill, folks are working harder for top jobs, so schooling takes longer and is much harder
hormonal crisis, many young women are on hormonal birth control which is well known to significantly reduce libido in a large percentage of the population
food supply crisis, cheap, poor quality highly-processed food make folks just slightly less healthy all the time, possibly can affect libido with lowered testosterone caused by preservatives
social media crisis, evolution caused us to want to be nosy about 70 members of our tribe, not hundreds of millions. Social media is causing us to have the social equivalent of Daredevil's acute hearing, but it's addicting so folks can't easily shut it off (as I write on social media...)
fitness crisis, many folks just aren't healthy enough to lift and run, so they have less testosterone which lowers libido for everyone regardless of sex/gender
reproductive fear, folks realize they have it bad with little hope of improvement, so they don't want the same for their offspring
perfectionism causing a lack of confidence, being able to see the best in the world at any second on your phone causes acute perfectionism that prevents folks from even trying. Look up rates of musical instrument playing to see how few are even starting compared to 20 years ago. Skills in an area lead to increased confidence which makes a person more confident
protective parenting combined with extremely restrictive schooling, leads to less "free time" where folks can hang out and build social skills
hyper niche porn on demand, every person can access the porn of their choice on demand at all times. This causes unrealistic tastes and lack of confidence.
infection fears, everyone is taught from a young age to be afraid of STDs and pregnancy, so it's a looming fear in many
entertainment quality, we've created the most addicting games, movies, shows, and apps. These make it more interesting to sit and zone out than socialize
anxiety/depression crisis from the above leads to a population with lower libido, SSRIs are well known to reduce libido in a large subset of the population

All in all, we've got a society that is nearly perfectly designed to reduce libido in the population. Those that manage to avoid or ignore these challenges find a very small dating pool compared to decades past. Those that pair off are less likely to have offspring, such that we will likely have a population collapse in the next hundred years. Hopefully by then have figured enough of this out that we build a society that makes it easy to be a human who finds joy and love in other humans and not in a screen.

wordsmith, you've caused me to laugh, well done!

We didn't use Pringles, I think it was these big peaches cans

I once made one of these with a bigger can and mounted it on an old 10' satellite dish. Managed to get Wi-Fi across several thousand yards without issue

I'm playing through Another Crabs Treasure and this post gives me flashbacks

I don't mind the memes, content is content after all. However, this one got me laughing

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Many fall in the face of chaos, but not this one, not today

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Temba, his arms wide

The vibecoders are becoming sentient

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Stupid Sexy Trek

Holy time warp, Batman