XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics
On 3/6/25 9:05, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
Bradley K. Sherman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
| The Sun is causing Elon Musk's Starlink satellites to drop
| from space
| ...
<https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-sun-is-causing-elon-musk-s-starlink-satellites-to-drop-from-space/ar-AA1FVgNz>
Eruptions from the Sun are causing SpaceX’s Starlink satellites to fall to
Earth “faster than expected”, according to Nasa scientists.
A team from the US space agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center made the
discovery after investigating the impact of solar activity on the lifespan
of satellites in low-Earth orbit.
Trump/Musk will quash that research, no doubt.
For a moment Winston ignored the dial. He made a violent effort
to raise himself into a sitting position, and merely succeeded in
wrenching his body painfully.
'But how can you control matter?' he burst out. 'You don't even
control the climate or the law of gravity. And there are disease,
pain, death----'
O'Brien silenced him by a movement of his hand. 'We control
matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.
You will learn by degrees, Winston. There is nothing that we
could not do. Invisibility, levitation--anything. I could float
off this floor like a soap bubble if I wish to. I do not wish to,
because the Party does not wish it. You must
get rid of those nineteenth-century ideas about the laws of
Nature. We make the laws of Nature.'
'But you do not! You are not even masters of this planet. What
about Eurasia and Eastasia? You have not conquered them yet.'
'Unimportant. We shall conquer them when it suits us. And if we
did not, what difference would it make? We can shut them out of
existence. Oceania is the world.'
'But the world itself is only a speck of dust. And man is
tiny--helpless! How long has he been in existence? For millions
of years the earth was uninhabited.'
'Nonsense. The earth is as old as we are, no older. How could it
be older? Nothing exists except through human consciousness.'
'But the rocks are full of the bones of extinct animals--mammoths
and mastodons and enormous reptiles which lived here long before
man was ever heard of.'
'Have you ever seen those bones, Winston? Of course not.
Nineteenth-century biologists invented them. Before man there was
nothing. After man, if he could come to an end, there would be
nothing. Outside man there is nothing.'
'But the whole universe is outside us. Look at the stars! Some of
them are a million light-years away. They are out of our reach
for ever.'
'What are the stars?' said O'Brien indifferently. 'They are bits
of fire a few kilometres away. We could reach them if we wanted
to. Or we could blot them out. The earth is the centre of the
universe. The sun and the stars go round it.'
Winston made another convulsive movement. This time he did not
say anything. O'Brien continued as though answering a spoken
objection:
'For certain purposes, of course, that is not true. When we
navigate the ocean, or when we predict an eclipse, we often find
it convenient to assume that the earth goes round the sun and
that the stars are millions upon millions of kilometres away. But
what of it? Do you suppose it is beyond us to produce a dual
system of astronomy? The stars can be near or distant, according
as we need them. Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to
that? Have you forgotten doublethink?'
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