Is it speed? It’s speed, isn’t it?

Yes, freely and indiscriminately, but only inside Silicon Valley

Hopefully “actionable” means that a sister satellite can vaporise the owning company’s ceo and director from orbit, that would be nice.

I loved this and the other trilogy of his that I’ve read, brutal and dark certainly, but his character writing is mint. I need to read more of his stuff!

Free tube just doesn’t load, piped gives an error saying Got error: “Sign in to confirm that you’re not a bot”, and even actual YouTube via vpn and an adblocker it glitchy as hell.

How very dare you suggest such a thing. This kind of thinking must come from your warped mind, and very definitely not be based on the slew of mines and chemical plants left to poison the landscape, and especially not the multitude of poorly-capped methane-leaking oil wells scattered around the US by those same companies!

Please do, I’m always more interested by the maintenance/construction vehicles of any given mode of transport I think

In a word, yes

And I’ll be fucked if I can get them right first time round half the time!

How the hell should I know, I’m not a rocket surgeon

Fuming

Im not mad about this current one.

Now that is a silly hat

It’s not the only problem with them, and potentially not the biggest either - there is no plan to remove or maintain them when they die other than de-orbiting them into the upper atmosphere. A recent study suggests that this will critically harm the ozone layer, and that adding metallic particles in the quantities implied by the number of starlink satellites that Elmo plans to launch could do far more damage to the ozone layer than our previous attempts to screw it up!

Article - https://www.sciencealert.com/satellites-like-starlink-could-pose-new-threat-to-our-healing-ozone-layer

Study - https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GL109280

Sick, never heard of them before, thanks

Beyond me, it’s a great app

Glad to have helped! I’ve been consistently amazed by this app, it’s really hard to catch it out. I tried really hard walking around an old stately home belonging to an Edwardian plant-hunter, tried it on all kinds of obscure plants and trees from Asia, the Americas and all over. I can’t remember it truly failing. I think it’s backed by a quite lively community of plant nerds - if something really is unusual, the community looks at the photos, and tries to solve it, and then that in turn teaches the app. It’s a great system.

So, I’m a filthy cheat and used PlantNet. It suggests, with a fairly high degree of certainty, that this is Arabian Starflower, which is a cool name.

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/7167d808-5879-4240-b192-3f733a58d27b.png

I’d like to see one of these for the UK tax system

I’m surprised and saddened for it to have taken so long for someone (in this case, me) to have mentioned Astronaut Dolphin Detective from Mr Pickles.