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Did anyone see this? Those Pesky Russians! Might have to get Space Force on this:
U.S. claims recently launched Russian satellite is an ASAT
https://spacenews.com/u-s-claims-recently-launched-russian-satellite-is-an-asat/
Looks more and more like the space is going to be the Final Frontier.
If we start blasting away at satellites up there, that is going to leave one heck of a lot of junk drifting around, playing heck with other orbital assets.
I've heard it might be difficult to launch satellites in 100 or so years with all the space debris we're building up. Might not be a bad idea to have a NASA crew or similar to serve as space garbage patrol and clean up our satellites when they go out of service.
The Realizer's Trivia Nights / Forest Trivia Competition:
~~Forest Trivia Week Seven~~
Message from The Realizer:
And another week is done!
Week Six! Thank you to all the people who have participated in any week and especially those who have participated in all the weeks! I really appreciate it and I hope you have fun...
Anyway...
Congratulations to 
Atsvea for getting 6 out of 6 this week! It's proving to be a tight run race between Atsvea and 
Verdant Haven at the top but there's still plenty of time to catch up for others!
Thankfully life has cleared up a bit for me so I'll try and get prizes going again very soon for Week 8 - another bumper edition!
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Answers for week six:
Forest Trivia Week Six
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Question 1 -
What is the connection between these four seemingly random clues?
- Bar
- Can
- Truck
- Sorry
Answer 1 -
- Answer = They are all Vehicles with their first letter changed
- Other Accepted Answers = Anything like the above...
- Will NOT accept = Anything else, lol
Question 2 -
What is the connection between these four seemingly random clues?
- Forest
- The Rejected Realms
- Hell
- The MT Army
Answer 2 -
- Answer = They have all been commended by the Security Council
- Other Accepted Answers = Points for creativity for Aequus "their banners contain one of the four classic elements". Not exactly what I was looking for but I'm feeling kind today :)
- Will NOT accept = N/A
Question 3 -
What would come 4th in this sequence?
- Helium
- Neon
- Argon
- ?
Answer 3 -
- Answer = Krypton
- Explanation = These are the noble gases on the periodic table in order from the smallest atom getting larger...
- Will NOT accept = Anything else
Question 4 -
What would come 4th in this sequence?
- Qin
- Zhou
- Shang
- ?
Answer 4 -
- Answer = Xia
- Explanation = These are the first dynasties of China in order from the 4th to 1st
- Other Accepted Answers = N/A
- Will NOT accept = N/A
Question 5; DOUBLE POINTS! -
What would come 4th in this sequence?
- Beijing
- Kinshasa
- New Delhi
- ?
Answer 5 -
- Answer = Tokyo
- Explanation = They are the most populous capital cities in order (with Beijing the most populous)
- Other Accepted Answers = N/A
- Will NOT accept = Anything else...
Aequus (Wintreath)
Aequus (Wintreath)
Logophilia Lyricalia(Haiku)
Kissinger-Monroe (TBOTCOER)
Wan Nyan (Yggdrasil)
Texas Jaguarundi (Texas/Forest)
The Washington Federation (TRTHNBB)
Almonaster Nuevo (Canada)
America the Greater (TRTHNBB)
Krayo29 (TRTHNBB)
Macrasetia (XKI)
South Miruva (TLA)
Szaki (Canada)
Orcuo (TRR)
New United Common-lands (TRTHNBB)
MountAye (Philosophers)
Forest Trivia Competition Leaderboard | Week Six |
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Questions for week seven!:
Forest Trivia Week Seven
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Question 1 -
What is the connection between these four seemingly random clues?
- Hot Air Ballooning
- Cricket
- Lacrosse
- Tug-of-war
Question 2 -
What is the connection between these four seemingly random clues?
- Teach Addition
- Teach In America
- Super Unusual
- Armchair Antics
Question 3 -
What would come 4th in this sequence?
- Socrates
- Plato
- Aristotle
- ?
Question 4 -
What would come 4th in this sequence?
- Johann II
- Rama IX
- Elizabeth II
- ?
Question 5; DOUBLE POINTS! -
What would come 4th in this sequence?
- London - Perth
- Auckland - Doha
- Newark - Singapore
- ?
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And a reminder of the rules as per usual:
Forest Trivia Rules
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Trivia Rules
The questions will be released every Saturday
These questions will be in the style of the popular quiz show, Only Connect
I shall post the dispatch with the questions in on the RMB
From that point onwards everyone, residents of forest or embassy regions, has One Week to answer the questions
Answers Must be submitted by Telegram
Only Telegram submissions will be accepted. Any answers posted on the RMB will be suppressed.
ABSOLUTELY NO GOOGLING OF ANSWERS IS ALLOWED if you are suspected of googling, a point will be deducted. Repeat offenders will have more severe sanctions
ABSOLUTELY NO USAGE OF AI IS ALLOWED if you are suspected of using AI, a point will be deducted. Repeat offenders will have more severe sanctions
Results
After the week has concluded, I shall release the answers to the previous week's questions in the same dispatch.
There will also be explanations as to how you could have reached the answers, in case anyone is interested
Alongside this, there shall be a two leaderboards compiled. One weekly leaderboard and one overall leaderboard.
Prizes!
The person(s) who get the most correct answers each week will share the "prize pot" equally which shall be equal to 20.00 DV
At the end of each month, the person at the top of the overall leaderboard shall receive a legendary!
The person who is at the top of the overall leaderboard at the end of the term, shall receive a grand prize of 5 legendaries!
Helpful Tips
If you don't know the answer, just have a guess! There's no harm in having an educated guess, you might just be right!
Watch out for a word question! If the clues seem so random that you just can't find a connection, it could be that it's a word question! The words themselves could be the connection!
If you aren't sure about the answer to the question, when you're submitting them, try to explain your thinking to me! If your thinking is correct but you don't quite get the answer, you'll get half of a point. They all count in the long run!
Take your time! There's no rush... You have a week to answer the questions so you have plenty of time to think and trivialise!
And most importantly...
Have fun!
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~~Forest Poetry Fantasia~~
A reminder that there's only a WEEK LEFT to submit poems for our Forest Poetry Fantasia... So if you're feeling creative, give it a go!
Here's the dispatch with all the information you need –
Forest Poetry Fantasia
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Poetry has been a form of sharing stories since the beginning of time. In the 3rd millennium BCE, the oldest surviving poem was written - "The Epic of Gilgamesh". This ignited a spark which led to some of the most famous poems ever, such as Homer's "The Odyssey" and "The Iliad", being written.
As empires fell and new languages were developed, poetry remained an integral part of culture. Poetry became a way of recording history and sharing tales of gods and goddesses. Poets would often share their epics at large gatherings and festivals where hundreds of people would come to listen. Throughout time, poetry has continued to be a way of bringing people together, particularly in the Roman times when poems would be recited in front of thousands in famous amphitheatres.
Fast forward a few thousand years and poetry has evolved from the epics of old to the shorter forms which we know and love today. It's these shorter forms which we are celebrating in this competition. We invite everyone across the NationStates community to channel their creativity and let their imagination run wild!
Format
- The competition shall start on 5th May
- Participants have until the 21st May to submit their poems
- The results will be announced on the 26th May
Categories
- Haiku
- A Haiku is a poem that comprises of seventeen syllables across three lines. With line one having 5 syllables, line two 7 syllables and line three having 5 syllables.
- Although Haikus traditionally are about the natural world, your Haiku can be about whatever you wish
- Freeverse
- A freeverse (or freeform) poem is a poem that has no set structure or length, no consistent rhyme scheme and no set metrical pattern. In other words, you can do whatever you like!
- Your freeverse poem can be about anything you like! This is more of an open category for you to let your thoughts run wild
- The Environment
- This can be in any form you want! The choice is entirely yours!
- The only requirement for this category is that it must be about the environment. You could write about anything from forests to mountains, from pigeons to cheetahs! It's completely up to you! Let your imagination run wild!
- Vision
- Again, this can be in any form you want! The choice is entirely yours!
- The only requirement for this category is it must be about vision. This is a broad topic so let your imagination run wild! You could write about what you see, visions of the future, how lucky we are to be able to see, perhaps even Eurovision! There are no constraints and with such a broad topic, I'm sure you could write a moving poem...
Submissions
- Participants can submit a maximum of 5 poems across the 4 categories
- However, each participants may submit only 2 haikus
- Participants do not have to submit all their poems at once. You can submit them one at a time if you so wish!
- To submit a poem(s), participants should telegram Forest Poetry Judge. You can either attach a dispatch with the poem(s) in or write out the poem(s) in the telegram - either is fine...
- All poems shall be proudly displayed in a dispatch throughout the event
- The deadline to submit poems is 21st May
Judging
- All poems shall be judged based on three criteria by a panel of 7 judges, comprised of forestians and foreign trees alike...
- Each of the three criteria shall be marked out of 10, with each poem receiving an overall total out of 30. The criteria are as follows:
- Effectiveness
- How effectively is the point gotten across?
- Is it clear what the poem is talking about?
- Are there certain techniques the writer has used to get the point across?
- Thought
- How much thought has been put into writing the poem?
- Has the writer thought about the words they have used?
- If there is a rhyme scheme, are the rhyming couplets forced?
- Has the writer included any literary techniques?
- Resonance
- Has the writer thoughtfully used literary techniques to make the point more meaningful?
- Is the poem moving in any way? Does it resonate with the reader?
Judges
We're still waiting on confirmation from a few judges from our embassy regions but here are the judges we have so far -
Our esteemed Forest Keeper... Having been hailed as a "literary genius" by all, Zerphen is a great choice to be on this judging panel. |
An ex-Forest Keeper and our current Deputy Forest Keeper! There are rumours that Garbelia may be a direct descendent of William Shakespeare! Those literary skills have definitely passed on through the generations and that's why Garbelia is an integral part of the judging panel... |
They're not a Forest Keeper, or a "literary genius" BUT they do have an 8 at English GCSE. And that's why they are the best, worst part of this judging panel... |
The Region That Has No Big Banks's foreign minister and chess master. Their poem "Back to Banks" has been lauded as one of the best poems of the 21st century by many and that is why we are honoured to have them on our judging panel. |
Rules
As with all great writing comes a few rules...
- Participants must write the poems themselves. NO AI SHALL BE ALLOWED, it won't help you anyway and ruins the point of the event...
- Do not plagiarise the work of others
- Keep all writing PG-13, in line with NationStates's T&Cs
- And most importantly, Have fun!
Good luck everyone! :-)
Max a.k.a. 
Yip Man a.k.a. 
Texas Jaguarundi
Texas' Ambassador to Forest
Forest's Ambassador to Texas
Atsvea and The Realizer
Theoretically, I think you could probably use a temporary gravity-tractor style system that would decrease the need for manned missions (which are still prohibitively expensive and part of why we've focused our long-term research on space-station-bound projects). If you have something that essentially tugs the debris down as it slowly orbits it could cause it decay orbit and eventually burn up in-atmosphere. Not my region of science though, so take all that with a grain of salt.
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Back in the early 2000's the idea of a robotic "orbital tow truck" was floated among the international space community. The idea came to pass after something collided with Telstar 4 (Actually Telstar 402R, the third to carry that name), a geostationary comms sat (carrying a boat load of television news feeds), killing it. In its death spasm, the satellite began a slow drift west along the Clarke Belt. That is an orbital belt around the equator 22,250 miles up. That belt is the only place one may put a satellite above earth that is expected to behave in a geostationary manner.
As Telstar 4 was dead, by default it was out of control. That westward drift was a problem for the operators of other satellites to the west of Telstar 4. The people flying those other spacecraft were forced to nudge them out of the way while the dead satellite passed, and then nudge them back into the "center of the box" once the coast was clear. Doing that trick required expenditures of priceless fuel. Satellites don't carry all that much gas. When they get low on fuel, they can't run down to the Stop-n-Rob for a fill up. That expenditure of fuel drastically shortened the lifespan of those satellites that had to be moved and recentered. Eventually that slowing in Telstar 4's orbit caused it to drop out of the Clarke Belt, ending the threat to other geostationary satellites. If I remember right, Telstar 4 got the viking funeral that awaits most satellites over the pacific ocean around the end of 2004.
Oddly enough, while the idea came from that event, whatever it was that hit Telstar 4 was to small to be seen on radar. The sudden change in Telstar 4's orbit along with some fine debris seen on radar is the only proof there is that it was hit. The nature of the orbital change indicates what ever hit it was not all that big. But that five digit difference in velocity made for the catastrophic failure in the satellite.
The original design original concept for the orbital tow truck was a reusable spacecraft carrying several options for deorbiting or capturing space junk. That design was later modified to a single use craft that would accomplish multiple missions during its lifetime. Then its proposed mission objectives were reduced to "problematic" space junk.
The fact is that it never came to pass because although everyone in the international community thought it was a great idea, everyone expected the US to pay for it. None of the other nations or international corporations operating in space wanted to chip in.
And here we are.
Not very Bazinga of you
Uhm... Guess I'm not a Bazinga kind of guy. But, there is absolutely no denying it. You sister is a solid 9.8 on the ten point scale.
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/bigbangtheory/images/a/a3/Missy_Cooper.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090723140420
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