Van Rijn
Order of Kilopi

I avoid Twitter. However, why not just ask your questions and see if someone can answer them?

And here I thought 9mm handguns were fired in the foot. :rolleyes:

Heh, I remembered it as pop pop fizz fizz in my post above. Whups. I linked to a video with that and the “can’t believe I ate the whole thing”...

Is the forum on dedicated hardware, not the cloud? I have had periods of slow responses followed by database errors. It feels like what might happen...

Well, I looked into it, and it appears that more recently they have started offering video as a separate service here at a modestly reduced cost over...

Do they break out prime video there? Here, we get Prime and video is one of the features, like music, but the real reason I got prime was for the...

Don’t get excited until there is solid independent verification. Decades ago there was an anomalous gravity measurement (I think underground, but I...

He was suffering from advanced dementia when he died. The same thing happened to my mother, and while I was sad to see her go, it was a relief as...

I didn’t see it for a number of days, but ran into it at least a couple of times in the last day or so.

Maybe. I can certainly see where they could have decided that the first model was found to have too many design issues and couldn’t go forward. (I...

I think "Abelian" is just easier for some people to say than "commutative".

Interesting. I have Adblock software, but I didn’t think it affected YouTube ads because it didn’t used to and I doubt video would be affected by...

In old machine code, there was a situation that didn't differentiate between the binary that represented code and the binary that represented...

That reminds me, I am happy I have power from SMUD and not PG&E, and my area is probably one of the lower risk areas for fires. I sometimes get...

I was just thinking about watching the next lunar landing. If the U.S. does it, I expect there will be high definition video coverage during flight...

One of these things is not like the others. Well, that’s good to see. Looks like NASA really is getting serious about going back to the moon. ...

I expect it is. I've seen variations on that a number of times in various stories or on-line discussions. Like phrases along the lines of "Flat...

That is a moon hoax video with long debunked claims. I really dislike watching nonsense videos, especially when they go over claims I've seen many...

Hello JStewy, welcome to the board. I assume you’re specifically looking for missions where astronauts left LEO and not the many robotic...

Ah, I liked Ultima Thule as a name. Apparently, some thought it sounded too much like the Thule society, which is tied to the Nazis, so they renamed...

Thanks for the links. Those stories were fun to read. I think I have read a little by Sheckley, but I never read anything from that series.

Never heard of this before. Off hand, I would guess something named that would be used to grease jetliner bearings or some such. Looking it up, I...

I don’t remember a lot of jingles from the `60s when I grew up, and I would guess they were fading out or evolving because most people were now...

I am very skeptical of the suborbital flights, as I doubt the economics would work out, and I also wonder if countries would be happy with regular...

The effect of solar wind in popular press tends to be a tad overstated. Venus is the second most massive terrestrial planet in the system, so there...