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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • The biggest hazard is launching the payload, if it fails it falls out over a large area causing contamination of the nuclear fuel. The high orbit of the test vehicle lowers the risks for the other outcomes you identified, and they are planned to remain in these so called “disposal orbits” for many hundreds of years. Things can get very very far apart in space. The Russian recon satellites were operated in low earth orbit and their failures were well documented and even attempted to mitigate by the soviets, though they did fail with very bad consequences at least three times.






  • i don’t know about “Real” but I’ve got another one that threw me off.

    I’m middle aged, an avid skier, and I was sitting on the lift with a couple young dudes, probably 18-24, shooting shit about the awesome conditions. Now, I’ve heard “low-key”, and I know what it means and how to use it, but, I was relating a story about some gnarly line I had done that morning and they both kept parroting “hikee hikee”. It took me till several hours later sitting over a pint at the base to parse out they were saying “high-key” as a sort of qualifier for how dope my story was. Still haven’t heard it since but that was the moment I officially became an “old man”.