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Today, 05:48 PM

grant hutchison replied to a thread Stuff you just don't get. in Off-Topic Babbling

Except you could have a party instead of the graduation ceremony. And then go on to the post-graduation party. Grant Hutchison

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Today, 05:44 PM

grant hutchison replied to a thread Stuff you just don't get. in Off-Topic Babbling

A colleague tells of a near-miss in this regard. He and his wife arranged to attend his daughter's graduation because they thought she'd want them to...

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Today, 04:36 PM

grant hutchison replied to a thread Stuff you just don't get. in Off-Topic Babbling

Perhaps it has to do with the fact that I've always emerged at these "graduation points" in my life heartily disenchanted with the organizations...

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Today, 12:03 AM

grant hutchison replied to a thread The least realistic space movie in Small Media at Large

Much like Interstellar ... Grant Hutchison

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Yesterday, 06:31 PM

grant hutchison replied to a thread Trivial (or not so trivial) stuff that makes you happy. in Off-Topic Babbling

Art in unusual places. In this case, happened upon today, the pillars under a local bridge approach road. Here's what they look like: And here's...

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Yesterday, 06:07 PM

grant hutchison replied to a thread Stuff you just don't get. in Off-Topic Babbling

I tried The Big Bang Theory a couple of times, but never really got that, either. So I've no idea what you're talking about. Does that put me in...

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Yesterday, 04:38 PM

grant hutchison replied to a thread Stuff you just don't get. in Off-Topic Babbling

Graduation ceremonies. My home town today is full of (mainly) young people wearing hooded gowns, wandering around the streets with their families...

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Yesterday, 04:04 PM

grant hutchison replied to a thread Really trivial stuff that bugs you in Off-Topic Babbling

Yes, that was the attempted joke. Given that "It's not the heat, it's the humidity" is a common enough phrase to have become a snowclone, I thought...

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Yesterday, 12:56 PM

grant hutchison replied to a thread The least realistic space movie in Small Media at Large

Nah. It wasn't critically slated enough to ever become a classic. Grant Hutchison

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Yesterday, 12:16 PM

grant hutchison replied to a thread Really trivial stuff that bugs you in Off-Topic Babbling

Not the heat? Grant Hutchison

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Yesterday, 12:15 AM

grant hutchison replied to a thread Adam Steltzner - chief engineer ? in Conspiracy Theories

It happens a lot. There are various reasons: A person is in charge and feels obliged to do it A person volunteers, and then finds out they're bad...

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2017-Jun-22, 11:32 PM

grant hutchison replied to a thread Artificial satellites and ISS in Conspiracy Theories

It's bandied about in the corners of the internet that sort of stuff is bandied about in. Quite a popular notion with flat-earthers, for reasons you...

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2017-Jun-22, 08:40 PM

grant hutchison replied to a thread Artificial satellites and ISS in Conspiracy Theories

And the "antics" are disproportionately represented in the visuals we see from the ISS, because people like to look at antics, and less so at a few...

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2017-Jun-22, 06:20 PM

grant hutchison replied to a thread Stuff you just don't get. in Off-Topic Babbling

I had a colleague at medical school who essentially threw away a career she would have been good at and enjoyed, because she wouldn't play the game...

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2017-Jun-22, 04:52 PM

grant hutchison replied to a thread Stuff you just don't get. in Off-Topic Babbling

Not a great question, for sure. But with these things you've got to try to figure out what the question-setter wants, and give it to them. A book...

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2017-Jun-22, 12:12 PM

grant hutchison replied to a thread Adam Steltzner - chief engineer ? in Conspiracy Theories

Yes, I've seen expert colleagues of mine perform just as badly when being interviewed by journalists. The one time I was interviewed (about something...

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2017-Jun-21, 11:13 PM

grant hutchison replied to a thread Adam Steltzner - chief engineer ? in Conspiracy Theories

I'm guessing you haven't interviewed many clever but social awkward people. Am I right? Grant Hutchison

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2017-Jun-21, 10:43 PM

grant hutchison replied to a thread Adam Steltzner - chief engineer ? in Conspiracy Theories

Actually, I don't know who the guy is. Grant Hutchison

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2017-Jun-21, 10:42 PM

grant hutchison replied to a thread Adam Steltzner - chief engineer ? in Conspiracy Theories

That turns out not to be the case. In repeated studies, people who look for these stereotypical "clues" of lying behaviour perform no better than...

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2017-Jun-21, 10:00 PM

grant hutchison replied to a thread The least realistic space movie in Small Media at Large

Yes. Thorne's book to accompany the film is very loyal, but contains a succession of statements that amount to either "for artistic reasons,...

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2017-Jun-21, 09:50 PM

grant hutchison replied to a thread Artificial satellites and ISS in Conspiracy Theories

Or, if you don't have a conspiracy claim, you could just post your questions outside the Conspiracy Theories section. It would avoid confusion. ...

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2017-Jun-21, 07:58 PM

grant hutchison replied to a thread Really trivial stuff that amuses you... in Off-Topic Babbling

Yes, that's what I meant about the "Brass Tacks" typo not feeling right as an April Fool joke in 1950s Britain - some convoluted narrative, sure; a...

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2017-Jun-21, 04:31 PM

grant hutchison replied to a thread Observable Universe in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

As a supplement to atoniseb's answer, the reason have stuff that's receding faster than light between ourselves and the CMB is because the matter...

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2017-Jun-21, 02:32 PM

grant hutchison replied to a thread Artificial satellites and ISS in Conspiracy Theories

When the sky is dark enough to see satellites, they're mostly in Earth's shadow. So you need to look in the right direction, at the right time of...

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2017-Jun-21, 12:49 PM

grant hutchison replied to a thread The palaeogenetics of cat dispersal in the ancient world in Science and Technology

I like the phrase "cat dispersal". It's like the opposite of "herding cats", but probably almost as difficult. Grant Hutchison

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2017-Jun-21, 11:20 AM

grant hutchison replied to a thread Artificial satellites and ISS in Conspiracy Theories

Likewise, if you're on the ISS, you spend half your time in the glare of reflected light from the sunlit Earth below (making seeing stars and...

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2017-Jun-20, 11:06 PM

grant hutchison replied to a thread Artificial satellites and ISS in Conspiracy Theories

And another image of damage to a satellite caused by debris impact. Grant Hutchison

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2017-Jun-20, 11:02 PM

grant hutchison replied to a thread Artificial satellites and ISS in Conspiracy Theories

There's a recent and interesting statistical analysis of the problem here. Grant Hutchison

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2017-Jun-20, 10:48 PM

grant hutchison replied to a thread Artificial satellites and ISS in Conspiracy Theories

Despite what the makers of the movie Gravity seemed to believe, relative velocities are much lower than that. Edit: Though, of course, it's the...

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2017-Jun-20, 09:43 PM

grant hutchison replied to a thread Really trivial stuff that amuses you... in Off-Topic Babbling

Hmmm. It doesn't feel right for the time and place it happened, but I may be wrong. It certainly would have run the risk of offending the readers,...

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