You are right, I was thinking the definition more being taking it up market, fancier etc. didn’t realise the term was more for the human effect.

So only mildly infuriating?

Photo is under the red dot (you can see the play area in the background of the photo) nvm, no you can’t. But that’s where it is!

As in, their reception’s front door has a letter box.

They should give me tea in a mug instead of a waxed paper cup (and plastic lid!) then!

This is right by the cafe/site office/car park though. The reception desk is about 20m to the left and staffed during daylight hours year round.

Not like it’s in the middle of nowhere.

I get your point, there are very few bins elsewhere (mostly by the other car parks) and that’s fine. It’s just that the place that gives you rubbish makes it hard to responsibly get rid of it.

I think it’s a pretty good description. Has a tarmac car park, cafe, bike hire, 3 go ape routes, wheelchair accessible routes and until recently, bins!

I think the site office has a post box

No racoons here. The previous bins had spring loaded flaps to keep the animals out.

They had some reasonably nice bins with wooden shells around them and spring loaded doors to keep the birds etc out.

You can hear to some level, the boats and actions in the vicinity of the cable. So it might provide evidence in case of a break.

It also lets you know if the cable is moving round on the seabed etc, this is useful as it can cause wear.

I seem to remember it being used to check the health of power cables too (they have fibre cables embedded within them)

BBC (pre launch): https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55463366

After launch: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/05/style/japan-wooden-satellite-hnk-intl/index.html

Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LignoSat

Laughed at the alt text, you have to be careful with definitions!

Things fall into the thicker parts of the atmosphere because drag from the tiny amounts of air up there. if that is shrinking, then you can get lower before you have the same amount of drag? Therefore lower orbits might be more feasible?

Lower orbit means faster though, so it may not be linear? Would be interesting to see (someone else do) the maths.

Doesn’t that just mean that lower orbits can be used? Less air resistance?

Then you are using it for music and pay the full rate.

Ah, I was thinking more of a spinlaunch thing. Yours would make more sense, but would require a fuckton of industry in space or on the moon to have it work. I wonder how much more effective a self contained spinlaunch style thing would be on the moon.

You still need to fire an engine on the far side of your orbit though which makes it more difficult as it still needs to be able to propel itself (while surviving the acceleration)

Look for a square or an X (or a square with an X in it) right Infront of the stop line for the lights. If it’s there, that detects a car waiting.

There may be more of them further up the road to detect more cars waiting/arriving.

They are basically using big loops of wire to detect cars through magmatism.

They tend not to detect cyclists, so I often have to move to the side and wave cars forward so lights on side streets will change.

Isn’t that the vault that is unstable as we underestimated climate change?