• Quetzalcutlass
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    5 months ago

    NASA are so dumb for sending their satellites all the way into space. Why don’t they simply float them above the trees as the wise and majestic owl teaches us?

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      5 months ago

      They would hit the mountains at that height, and the FAA requires them to be up above airplane traffic anyways. After that, it gets crowded right above the launch pads, and sometimes there’s shooting stars and stuff, so some satellites are forced to go even higher.

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        5 months ago

        Wait, which mountains are between the us and Europe again?

        • SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca
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          5 months ago

          It’s either over the mountains, or your owl will have to thread the needle between the Azores and Greenland.