low skilled, high risk modern slavery type jobs, and for prison

I think you repeat yourself.

Yes… I noticed this also when I didn’t have the crushers to feed ammo production and spent the new few hours getting alerts my latest space platform was being slowly reduced to rubble 🥲

The news cycle moves a lot faster than scientific consensus.

Gotta create more terrorists if you want to fight a war on terror.

My first thought on seeing this was “I wonder what ENB preset that is?”

Such a shame, I was really looking forward to this based on the teasers shared on the game’s Discord server. I guess it’s just like big publishers to put more effort into marketing than development.

🎶 turn up the radio 🎶

That’s not completely accurate. As the NASA link you shared explains, the normal orbit for the ISS is relatively low at 400km, where atmospheric drag and orbital debris pose a risk. The article agrees that the station could be raised into a graveyard orbit (where it could safely remain for several hundred years; this a standard way to retire space hardware), but this would require more delta V than for a controlled deorbit. In turn, this means a more expensive booster vehicle and mission.

So, the ISS could be safely preserved in high orbit, but no one is willing to pay the price to move it there. This makes me a bit sad, as it means the most expensive and impressive engineering project undertaken by humanity to date will be destroyed.

So, I guess any kind of preservation is unlikely. I was hoping the ISS would be put into a graveyard orbit, so it could be kept as a monument, but there doesn’t seem to be the will to do that. It’s the end of an era, but hopefully that means a new chapter in space exploration is starting.