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Astronauts dropped a tool bag during an ISS spacewalk, and you can see it with binoculars (www.space.com)

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[–] TauZero@mander.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The joke is that the orbit was clearly originally reported in kilometers, but the article editor "helpfully" converted it to miles and reported it in miles as default, but it makes no sense now because the same "miles" number now equals two different "kilometers" numbers.

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[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Hah I didn't notice

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