SpaceX is launching a lot of satellites, but they are designed to mitigate the risk of space junk. Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic haven’t even reached orbit, so they can’t contribute to the space junk problem yet, and will probably have a good mitigation plan when they do get there. The FCC actually requires junk…

You don’t have to swap the thermostat, just don’t enroll in that kind of program. Some places have that for dumb thermostats, too, where they install a box on your system, and give a discount as compensation.

I think the ICE trucks would have been for the more rural routes.

Is Disney/Nat Geo coordinating “Shark Week” with Discovery now? Or just co-opting?

But that doesn’t mean you want to hear back from them.

Social does not always mean broadcasting to the entire public. Sometimes it can be a selected group of friends. That’s still social. It doesn’t have to include anyone you don’t want involved.

They may not know, if all they discovered is the data repository. It could even have been aggregated from multiple malware sources.

A few years ago, I used one of those discount places. Paid the weekly rate, and it was less than the daily rate from the name brands. They said to just leave the car in the airport parking lot when we left, no need to get a shuttle or anything.

That’s why you need MFA, so a stolen password is not enough to break your accounts.

See IIHS. If they made sufficient noise about it, it could be accepted by all manufacturers. Without any government intervention at all. Just as they have for impact protections.

but we don’t make national laws for one outlier city.

You’re right for the simple kind of glider ride. Get pulled up to some altitude, glide down at some rate of altitude loss.

But why close it for cars? Especially as they can use when the train is passing, which is not possible the next street over. Even most of the trucks can read, and happily use the detour. So you want to block everyone that uses it safely because 0.1% of trucks can’t read.

The thing about sewers is they are gravity-driven. That means if you lower it here, you have to lower it the entire length downstream, possibly several miles, to keep the proper drainage slope.

The cars probably appreciate being able to go through when a train is there, which they can’t do at the next crossing. Why close it for the 99% of traffic that can read signs and use it safely?

It’s a short distance from a grade-level crossing, so they can’t raise the track without raising many of the streets for miles in both directions. And since tall trucks can use the grade crossing, it’s only a slight detour.

The only thing I can think is the periodic reboost has been 100% Russian Progress modules for the last decade. And nearly half the docking ports are equipped for Russian Progress or Soyuz. We could absolutely take those over, but it would require some engineering and new hardware.

I did think about adding that to my comment, but missed the 15 minute window. But I think terns have a much longer migration, and much of it is over open ocean, so doing that with an ultralight would require dedication and could be quite dangerous. The goose migration is over land, so they could take the ultralight…

Birds are not insects. There is an instinct to migrate, but not an instinct about where to migrate in most birds.

Step 1: find a drone that can travel several thousand miles without a recharge, and do it at a speed suitable for the birds to follow.