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Old 02-10-2022, 03:30 PM   #797 (permalink)
redpoint5
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
Great! Now I have to worry about somebodies lunch falling out of the sky on me. I went out to the carport on Sunday and there was an Amazon package there that said Sunday Delivery and had a similar address (only the unit number matched). I hopped on my bike for the last leg.

I was concerned about Starlink but apparently the 40 duds were not in their final orbits. The 50% greater drag overpowered the reaction wheels so they couldn't deploy the solar panels for the ion engines.
I don't look a gift horse in the face, especially when it delivers from heaven.

Last mile is the most expensive part of delivery, so you've done a great good deed.

Not aware of the Starlink issues. Can the duds boost enough to deploy solar, or are they doomed? How did they get deployed so suboptimally in the first place?

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Originally Posted by hayden55 View Post
Yup. Better get in while the getting is good. Because home prices are going way up here for work from homers from out of state.
I've seen a lot of people call it:
"The Great Work-From-Home Migration"
"The Rural Boom"
etc...

This will for sure be the reason why i pivot from manufacturing engineering back to mechanical design engineering. The pay difference isn't enough to want to work in person.
I prefer working in the physical environment rather than virtual, though eliminating commute and dress code and precise clock-in/clock-out requirements are strong motivators for WFH.

I'd have made a good manufacturing engineer if I could manage to complete the schooling required to get a job. My favorite thing is failure mode analysis and process improvement.
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