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  • Here is a plot of the average altitude for the past year. Because the ISS’s orbit is so close to earth it is always losing altitude due to air drag and it is frequently being raised back up using the rockets attached to it.

    The original post was from December 2024. It would be hard to notice a change in the rate by looking at this plot and if the rate of descent had changed, it could have easily started more than a year ago.

    This plot shows the orbital height of the ISS over the last year. Clearly visible are the re-boosts which suddenly increase the height, and the gradual decay in between. The height is averaged over one orbit, and the gradual decrease is caused by atmospheric drag. As can be seen from the plot, the rate of descent is not constant and this variation is caused by changes in the density of the tenuous outer atmosphere due mainly to solar activity.

    Edit: This post shows that at different times the ISS’s rate of descent ranged from 0.2km/month to 12km/month. This all using data prior to 2021. So the ISS is well equiped to handle the 5km/month OOP mentioned.













  • vatlark@lemmy.worldtoRiddles@catata.fishThree Dieties
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    I don’t think this would work if the middle diety says ‘truth’.

    If the other two answer ‘wisdom’, you would know that the middle is Truth but you wouldn’t know the other two.

    If you add the rule that the deities are guaranteed to give different answers.

    Then if the other two answer ‘lie’ and ‘wisdom’, then the middle one could either be Lie or Truth.

    I would like someone to prove me wrong, I’m not great at these types of riddles.





  • vatlark@lemmy.worldtoRiddles@catata.fishThe Check
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    If x is the dollar amount written on the check and y is the cents amount.

    The original check amount was: x+y The amount that teller handed the lady was: 100y+x/100 The amount the lady found in her bag was: 100y + x/100 - 0.05

    We know the lady found twice the amount of the original check: 2(x+y) = 100y + x/100 - 0.05

    They want you to solve for the original check amount x+y.

    I messed up my algebra somewhere because I got: x=(5+9800y)/199 which if you set y = 0.63 you get x = 31.05 so I’m off somewhere.


  • I’ll be the first to admit that the Whitehouse’s text is written persuasively, but from what I found the ICC hasn’t claimed jurisdiction over Israel or the US despite the Whitehouse’s claims.

    The Panel agrees with the Prosecutor’s assessment that the ICC has jurisdiction in relation to crimes committed on the territory of Palestine, including Gaza, since 13 June 2014, under article 12(2)(a) of the ICC Statute.3 It also agrees that the Court has jurisdiction over crimes committed by Palestinian nationals inside or outside Palestinian territory under article 12(2)(b) of the Statute. The ICC therefore has jurisdiction over Israeli, Palestinian or other nationals who committed crimes in Gaza or the West Bank. It also has jurisdiction over Palestinian nationals who committed crimes on the territory of Israel, even though Israel is not an ICC State Party.

    https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/2024-05/240520-panel-report-eng.pdf