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"NASA revises its low Earth orbit commercialization plans" https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4152/1

The 'blood clotting' problems with the AstraZeneca vaccine has put a big damper on the vaccination programme in Australia. A couple of instances have...

I don’t remember how long I tried watching Lost. I liked watching a show with Mira Furlan and I got a big kick out of seeing an Apple II in a bunker,...

If you had asked me around 1980 how many people I would expect to be in space in 2020, I would have said, barring nuclear war, at least hundreds, and...

The Fermi thing doesn't need any resolution. No offense to Enrico Fermi, but the paradox is based on a flawed premise to begin with. As we...

Yeah. I think we watched an episode and a half, back-to-back. The engine, the polar bear, and the point at which I said, "Time for this guy to be...

I expect there is a joke there, but I’m afraid it went right over my head. (And Australia strikes me as a nice country, but my ancestors came over...

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Today while in the middle of the woods I saw some happy birthday signs, I left my cell phone at home so no picture of it. Also over the last 5 days I...

You think every fall of a civilisation will be followed by rise of a new one? Maybe. But what I'm suggesting (as a hypothesis) is that every rise of...

Yes and it's understood that some SO2 in the atmosphere of Venus does get oxidised to SO3 and H2SO4. The limiting factor is low level of atmospheric...

Related to this, I have become the default finder of lost items for my family. I usually start by looking in the least likely and most ridiculous...

Ah well, stock photos are the clipart of this millennium. And they're every bit as sterile.

parallaxicality, what would you define as "cured"? What would be the qualities of an individual who has been "cured"?

Well, it is arguably the most abused font in the history of the Internet, going back to some of the earliest home-brewed home pages. But really, I...

Found the missing keys.

As long as every letter appears individually and at a pace below anyone's reading speed. Bonus point if the presenter reads the slide literally....

Only total extinction would, in my opinion, end human potential for advancement on Earth. Human nature is to adapt and learn. We independently...

Certainly Earth is a spaceship too. And that brings to mind another comparatively simple solution to the Fermi paradox — one more radical and...

Same with all the fun transitions and effects in PowerPoint.

Sounds very familiar. "This part is NEW, the problem must be elsewhere!" Or "no this is a simple opamp, they don't fail. Look further." And of course...

This Super Heavy grid fin's a little too large for repurposing as a coffee table ...

It bugs me that you have source material in Comic Sans readily available. The only acceptable excuse would be someone in your house being a primary...

In ancient Rome, the man who financially underwrote gladiatorial games and selected the programme was called the editor.

I have spent altogether too much of my engineering career proving to other people that my design is working properly, and the issue is with “the...

Stream: cryotesting SN-15 with liquid nitrogen... https://youtu.be/CfdFqchowds

Especially because it turns out you can bribe humans to do both the cattle thing and the graffiti thing pretty cheap.