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- comicstrips@lemmy.world
Title text:
If you don’t know where you are on Earth, the angle of satellite dishes can help constrain your latitude. If some of them are pointing straight up, you’re probably near the Equator, right under the ring.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3156/
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Hey I am into this! Check out this site I built for tracking satellites!
It is comforting knowing that our planet is protected by a dense layer of floating garbage. 🫡🚀🗑️
I’d appreciate if I could use your website without advertisement cookies. Would you mind complying with EU cookie law?
I’m not familiar, what is the law, that we cannot use authentication cookies or google/twitter analytics cookies?
The ‘cookie’ law is (mainly) the ePrivacy Directive, that requires websites to get a user’s informed, specific, and affirmative consent before storing or accessing non-essential information on their device.
To comply a website must inform users about their cookie usage (who is using it, why, and how long they are stored, I think) and allow users to easily withdraw their consent at any time (though there’s no requirement to easily decline).
Actualy looking at the site, it already might be? I’m not sure, I don’t remember the specifics of the law. But there is a banner pop up and you do inform cookies are used and why, and there’s an easy way to withdraw consent.
Whats the difference between the thin green horizontal ring and the wide orange horizontal ring that is slightly tilted?
Green is active, orange is debris or dead sats. When a GEO sat runs out of life / power / fuel the operators are supposed to move it out of the main corridor to make room, so often they are in the same ring but higher or lower
