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I'm in the space industry and I can tell you that anyone pretending to be an authority on orbital mechanics on the internet is full of shit. I've taken entire classes called "advanced orbital mechanics." That shit is wildly hard, vaguely inaccurate, and so slow that you can only do it effectively on a computer. Even then you have to decide which variables to throw out because you if you use them all you won't be able to calculate predictions on every satellite in time for them to be useful. Then you have to take the predictions, predict how wrong they are, and predict again based on those predictions if two satellites will run into each other.

The truth is that nobody knows if Kessler Syndrome is even real. I personally fall on the side of thinking it's nonsense, there are too many variables that would have to go wrong all at once. It's like being worried about winning the lottery. There have been multiple catastrophic on orbit conjunctions that have created thousands of pieces of debris. Still no Kessler Syndrome. Even in a nightmare scenario I can only see it affecting one orbital regime. The odds of Starlink effecting the orbit that GPS is in is effectively not possible. But this is not a solved field and I am not remotely an expert, I'm just tired of people who don't know a thing about the field thinking they're experts because they have a JWST desktop wallpaper and have 300 hours in KSP. The real experts are ancient old men and women who have been doing orbital predictions for 40 years and I've seen them get into yelling matches about this sort of thing.

This post got away from me but the point is this shit is so involved it effectively can't be fact checked because you could come to whatever conclusion you want.

5 years? Mon frere it came out December of 2020.

Depends on the cost of living and state taxes in an area. Usually it's $3.50-$5.00 a gallon/~4 liters. At the gas stations in Germany on American military bases it's about $4.50 a gallon right now.

The Spaces Force is getting wild with our patches, full color, PVC, start from the ground up and fuck heraldry. Absolutely love them.

Nobody goes to Starbucks for good coffee, they go because it's the same everywhere. Sometimes I want to go get a great coffee somewhere they know how to pull a decent shot, and sometimes I want brownish sugarmilk.

I live in Germany and I have no idea what you're talking about for the first thing, maybe you mean yield-to-right in unmarked intersections or the priority road system? I'm not really sure. In either case you are just mentally inserting yield signs based on standard rules.

The stoplight thing I feel in my soul though. The amount of times I've had to stare out my sunroof to see the light above me because I stopped on the line instead of 20 feet before it.

You can find that easily. I guarantee I could find that within 30 minutes in almost any city over 100,000.

At least JJ had the decency to put it in an alt dimension where its canonicity can be properly disregarded.

I know I'll catch flak for this but they're what got me into Star Trek. I was completely unfamiliar with it and the movies were fun so I got into the shows. Obviously they share very little besides a vague aesthetic but the movies were a good bridge for me as a teenager

Kinda. There's a fast way and a slow way.

Fast way: You have to dock with the enemy ship, clear it, sit in the seat, undock from your main ship, quickly open the menu, set the ship you're in as your home ship, redock with your main ship before it flys away, and then presumably you'll want to set that back as your home ship.

Slow way, dock, clear, sit, fly somewhere (grav jumping sets whatever ship you're in as your home ship), land at a ship technician, set your main ship back as your home ship. You have to repeat this for every ship you take.

The fast way keeps you in system with your main ship so I prefer it, especially if I'm in the Serpentis system trying to make 100,000 credits collecting var'uun ships.

I saw some jet in 2010 at an airshow in Spangdahlem, pretty sure it was an F-22, transition from flying normally to what can only be described as standing on it's engines and flying through the air, horizontally, belly first. Evidently this was easy enough to be performed directly over the base at a very low altitude. Mindblowing.

Until this very second I thought my game was bugged because 0 (zero) wasn't repairing my ship. I was literally going into the menus to repair my ship mid battle.