Myanmar's First Satellite Held by Japan on Space Station After Coup (reuters.com) 33
Myanmar's first satellite is being held on board the International Space Station following the Myanmar coup, while Japan's space agency and a Japanese university decide what to do with it, two Japanese university officials said. Reuters: The $15 million satellite was built by Japan's Hokkaido University in a joint project with Myanmar's government-funded Myanmar Aerospace Engineering University (MAEU). It is the first of a set of two 50 kg microsatellites equipped with cameras designed to monitor agriculture and fisheries. Human rights activists and some officials in Japan worry that those cameras could be used for military purposes by the junta that seized power in Myanmar on Feb. 1. That has put the deployment on hold, as Hokkaido University holds discussions with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the two Hokkaido University officials said.
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No one asked but you blurted all that out thinking about Japan. Something between your ears is askew.
It's threadjacking (Score:3)
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I hang around forums too much, so I recognize it. He's trying to stop the discussion from going in a productive discussion.
The election was stolen, COVID-19 was engineered in a lab in Wuhan, and VI is better then emacs.
Wait, what was this story about?
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Re: fascism (Score:1)
Congratulations, you have just become one if them.
(How do you think *they* came to wanting to birn everything down?)
So will you burn yourself down first?
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The election was stolen, COVID-19 was engineered in a lab in Wuhan, and VI is better then emacs.
Wait, what was this story about?
OK... that's some pretty good snark....
but they did try to steal the election and we voted cadet bone spurs out anyway.
and, while they are still looking for the real source, odds are exceptionally good that it was not engineered in a lab in Wuhan
and vi really is better than emacs (but that's just my personal opinion 8^)
Re: It's threadjacking (Score:1)
AIDS is better than cancer too! :D
Atom(/Electron) is pustulous ebolatetanus though.
Re: It's threadjacking (Score:1)
He literally posted it to stop 'threadjackers: (that he believes to exist ... until they damn well do ;).
BTW: 'Treadjacking' and derailing is exactly what the term "trolling" actually refers to. Despite its complete misusage for "am triggered, disagree, and would like to censor" nowadays. (See: The Jargon File)
Re: Look out posters, this is a thread about Japan (Score:1)
But I prefer
school uniform sushi robot monster tentacle hentai vending machines!
It can stay! (Score:1)
They should let it live there [nbcnews.com] for a while.
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I didn't know about this!
Seventeen years later... where is he??
Space snooping. (Score:2)
Are the cameras that good? Better than what a plane could carry?
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Reprogram it (Score:2)
No point in just tossing it out the airlock. Might as well reprogram the thing to mess with the junta.
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Instead of surveillance footage it will now broadcast the hit music video for Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up."
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Re: is it really equivalent? (Score:1)
The logic was flawed from the start. That is his point.
It certainly does not belong to anyone but the people of Myanmar. The citizens and scientists, regardless of who currently subdues them.
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Trump contracted for zero vaccines to be produced, so no problem there.
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auction (Score:2)
Space Pirates!!!! (Score:3)
Maybe they could . . . (Score:2)
. . . donate it to amateur radio.
Japan has staged a coup? (Score:2)
"agricultures and fisheries" (Score:1)
riiight...
confused (Score:2)
I don't get this at all. Why would you send a satellite to the ISS? Why wouldn't you launch it into orbit?
What's the ISS going to do with it? Chuck it out of the window and hope it settles into the right orbit?
This whole story reeks.