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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Seems like it. SSTL (who made this satellite) do loads of earth observation stuff already so the MOD probably just bought time on those satellites like you said.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What does ctrl do on its own?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

They didn't even bother moving the other ones away after one was hit? Then there looks to be one painted on the floor at the bottom of the image

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (14 children)

You can't really grow the same crop in the same field season after season (without fertiliser), because they'll sap the specific nutrients they need from the soil. If you do that over and over eventually the soil wont have any food for that crop. Growing something different each season that takes different nutrients from the soil lets it recover the other ones. I don't know how it recovers on its own, circle of life stuff probably. Modern farming can cheat by artificially replenishing the nutrients with fertiliser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I didn't think the vogons were the ones with the answer to the ultimate question in H2G2

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

He was, and was part of the reason remain failed because they thought it would be an easy win

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

What about soft cheeses like brie and camembert?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, fair enough, that makes sense. So your receiver was getting a 5.1 signal, but it really did just ignore half the channels when you set it to output 2.1.

That's not the problem I think most people here are complaining about though, which is sound mixing / dynamic range / editing making speech too quiet, rather than having the wrong settings.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I don't think missing channels get muted, they just get shared into what's available. A 5.1 soundtrack played on a 2.1 system is going to share Centre between L and R, and put SL onto L and SR onto R. I have an old surround sound system that can't decode the new codecs that Disney plus etc use, but the Chromecast knows this so just sends it out a 2 channel boring signal. Dialogue is fine because it just goes to the two speakers equally, rather than be cut out. If your system is set up to output to 5.1 speakers but you just haven't plugged in the centre speaker, then that's a different thing and you would miss stuff, same as if you didn't plug in the front left speaker.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Could just be sitting sort of cross legged with his right leg tucked in underneath

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