aaro [they/them]

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Cake day: October 22nd, 2020

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  • Just the rulings bit taken from the summary and trimmed down:

    The full text of the operative clause of the Order reads as follows: “For these reasons, THE COURT , Indicates the following provisional measures:

    (1) By fifteen votes to two, The State of Israel shall, in accordance with its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, in relation to Palestinians in Gaza, take all measures within its power to prevent the commission of all acts within the scope of Article II of this Convention, in particular:

    (a) killing members of the group;

    (b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

    © deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; and

    (d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

    […]

    (2) By fifteen votes to two, The State of Israel shall ensure with immediate effect that its military does not commit any acts described in point 1 above;

    […]

    (3) By sixteen votes to one, The State of Israel shall take all measures within its power to prevent and punish the direct and public incitement to commit genocide in relation to members of the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip;

    […]

    (4) By sixteen votes to one, The State of Israel shall take immediate and effective measures to enable the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance to address the adverse conditions of life faced by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip;

    […]

    (5) By fifteen votes to two, The State of Israel shall take effective measures to prevent the destruction and ensure the preservation of evidence related to allegations of acts within the scope of Article II and Article III of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide against members of the Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip;

    […]

    (6) By fifteen votes to two, The State of Israel shall submit a report to the Court on all measures taken to give effect to this Order within one month as from the date of this Order.

    omissions by “[…]” are just the names of each judge and whether they approved or dissented.





  • just gonna reconcile the “space is too big” folks with the “this is a surefire guarantee” folks

    each of these dots is roughly the size of a car, maybe up to a bus. Imagine walking around the entire equator, with only 60,000 cars dotted around the earth; for the entire journey, you have probably like coin flip odds of seeing a single car within a few hundred yards of you. This is compounded by the fact that even if you were to see two, and not only that they were both in your way and you had to go around them (this very loosely represents a possible collision), in space, not only do they have to occupy this exact same orbital ring, they also have to be at the same altitude, which can vary by thousands of miles, and in the same place at the same time, which is dependent on timing faster than a second.

    This isn’t to suggest Kessler Syndrome isn’t real - the Iridium 33/Cosmos 2251 collision happened by accident and has since caused 2000 unique pieces of orbital debris, and this was just random bad luck. A single nut or bolt at orbital velocity can have well over hundreds of times the energy of a bullet from a high powered rifle and can dislodge tens to hundreds of like pieces from another satellite, causing the problem to compound. Still, space is so vast that this is somewhat unlikely. Additionally, this already happened, most or all of the debris is still there, and we still didn’t get Kessler Syndrome yet.

    The problem compounds with factors like shared orbits (Starlink), a large number of objects (Starlink), especially when they share one altitude (Starlink), and formation flight (Starlink). big-cool