The_Radiation_Specialist
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But what are they going to if China, Russia, India, or a company based outside of the US decides to land a rover next to an Apollo site, and have it...

Yes, there's plenty of downside too. Distraction and information overload. Social media bubbles and echo chambers. Dark Web crime and abuse. Hacking...

Ouch! I haven’t heard of that before, but the symptoms sound like what I had when trying to wear contacts. The pebble under the eyelid feeling is...

By the way, how did the house cat knock you to the floor? I’ve been tripped by a cat, but not knocked down.

Heh. Rosie as in the Jetsons’ Rosie the Robot?

This is a case where they do make ‘em better than they used to. It’s almost embarrassing for NASA hardware to fail that quickly.

Storing electrons is certainly more convenient than paper. But pity the poor Sumerians and their clay slabs! Office workers had to also be...

It would be nice if they explained what the breakthrough was supposed to be. Also, they haven’t had a test flight yet, which strikes me as important.

I knew exactly what scene that would be. I can mostly recite it from memory.

Ah, that’s too bad. She was 65, so not that old. JMS has talked about the “B5 curse” where a number of the main cast have died. Richard Biggs...

Hmmm.... a show-stopper for sure.

1 card Monty.

In his tummy they found half an unchewed Milk Bone treat, and half a playing card... 9 of clubs!

When I was a teenager we had some toy Pomeranians. One of them had a habit of eating things too big for her, so we tried to watch the size of food...

Our puppy ate a grape. Seems like no big deal, right? A grape. But turns out grapes are toxic to dog's kidneys, even in low doses, and he's a...

Somewhat off topic for this thread (but it is OTB)... back when I was single, I had some weird/funny experiences with blind dates (or rather lacks of...

Yes. It was interesting hearing about the speech difficulty she overcame; I had never heard of such a thing (having difficulty saying certain...

Heck, we did that as kids when we went to camp, or with our school lunches. "Hey, I'll trade you half my sandwich for your cookie"

Not surprising. On Firefly they bet jobs in card games. I would be shocked if they didn't have something similar on the ISS or any isolated community.

He3 is one of the more complex types of theoretical reactor fuel to achieve sustainable fusion. There's a reason we are starting with...

I’ll be interested to see. I can’t remember hearing Sanders ever say anything about space. If I had to guess from what I have heard from him in...

Yeah, it's a big pain in the asteroids.

Incorporeal is a nebulous term (pun). Would it apply to life made of cold plasma? Of exotic particles? Structural spacetime? Extra dimensions? None...

I am in the first generation to get vaccinated for chicken pox in the US, but I’m somewhat worried that because the vaccine is so new, the oldest...

That sucks. And that really sucks. Shingles scares me, as I had chicken pox and I know some people who have had it bad. I got the vaccine a...

Yes, the problem with pressurizing with helium is that your rocket exhaust doesn't come out with a roar, but more like a high pitched squeal. You...

The coworker's wife, or the friend? :evil:

We have a starting point, a center to build from; similarity with our kind of life. We just don't know the boundaries of where to end our search. ...

Because people like to talk about it. It’s far from the only subject where nothing solid can be said but people have pet positions and like to argue...