Posts by Heggisist

Before we put half a million broadband satellites in orbit, anyone want to consider environmental effects?

They're going up one way or another

No matter what they're going to launch. If it's in the US or China or Russia, these satellites are going to launch. If the US puts the brakes on, the only result will be companies leaving the US for other countries that will let them keep launching. At least letting them launch here would mean better economic development here and at least some controls.

It's been 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system

Re: Learn both?

There is also a advantage to fractions beyond how people naturally think (like no one things that glass is 0.5 full, it's half full). Anyway a fraction is more precise then a fraction that's not using the lowest common denominator. As a example, write exactly 1/3 in a base 10 system. You can't.