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Really trivial stuff that bugs you
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I get my prescriptions from a mail-order pharmacy and I've had some weird packaging experiences with them. Most of the pills come in plastic...
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Sixty Minutes (CBS) had a segment about NASA's lunar program last night (LINK). The emphasis was on women involved with the program, but they did at...
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I don't know if it is buried in this thread among the 4500+ posts, but I'd find it interesting to know the pros and cons of this launch site. I...
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Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys, by Michael Collins, 50th Anniversary edition (50th of the first moon landing, that is) of a book...
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I find generally things work pretty well. My company used to use WebEx and it seemed to have a lot of problems. And we have one customer that...
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:lol: Too bad you didn't get a video.
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02:36 AM
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Star Trek: Lower Decks (CBS All Access - animated)
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I happened upon episode 1 on Comedy Central this evening. I could only stand about the first 10 minutes of it. My impression of it from the trailer...
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2021-Mar-03,
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Not clear yet if it was a leg failure or if it was engines not working perfectly and landing too hard or a combination. I'm guessing the landing...
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2021-Mar-03,
11:44 PM
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It just went boom!
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2021-Mar-03,
11:37 PM
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It sounds like legs did not deploy. It is leaning, but it is on the ground.
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2021-Mar-03,
09:56 PM
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Looks like they are trying for about 5:30 pm Eastern (4:30 Central)
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2021-Mar-03,
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Not yet scrubbed for the day, at least according to the public announcer from SpaceX.
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Ignition and immediate abort
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09:09 PM
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T minus 4 minutes
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02:50 PM
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Never?
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11:35 PM
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Scott Manley's analysis of Neutron, including questions about financing, the market they are trying to compete in, and questions about design.
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2021-Mar-01,
07:53 PM
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M 5.3 earthquake near Point MacKenzie, Alaska
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This is the USGS website on aftershock forecasts; has some nice graphs of aftershocks over time from various size quakes.
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2021-Mar-01,
04:16 PM
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100.3% ? Someone get three doses? ;)
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2021-Mar-01,
02:11 PM
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Some Non-trivial Things That Annoy Me.
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That sounds like Ohio, though I don't know of any mass-vaccination centers close by. But its a hodge-podge and nothing centralized. I'm not...
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2021-Mar-01,
01:49 PM
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Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket
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I assume they are marketing it as the best rocket in the 'Verse. ;)
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2021-Feb-27,
03:07 PM
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Flight director for NASA's Mars Perseverance - great story
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Very inspiring story. What does it mean to be a 'flight director' though? From what I read, she's an engineering team lead (robotic arm).
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2021-Feb-26,
08:50 PM
Swift
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:lol: That would be funny if they marketed them that way. Now with a 4.7 mm wavelength!
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2021-Feb-26,
05:18 PM
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What are you watching?
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My wife and I have been watching CNN's Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy; two episodes so far. I love it. The food experiences were one of our...
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2021-Feb-26,
05:03 PM
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Atlantic Ocean circulation is the weakest in at least 1,600 years
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CBS News No, we're not going to reenact the movie "Day After Tomorrow", but we are changing the climate. Nature Geoscience Abstract:
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2021-Feb-26,
04:56 PM
Swift
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Flight director for NASA's Mars Perseverance - great story
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This is inspiring. CBS News
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2021-Feb-26,
04:16 PM
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Adventures in DIY
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Ditto. This applies both for shop tools and cooking tools.
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2021-Feb-26,
04:15 PM
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Stuff you just don't get.
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Cartoon Laws of Physics
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2021-Feb-26,
04:09 PM
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Idiocy is even worse than Covid. There is a treatment and a vaccine (education), but like the Covid vaccine, it is not completely effective, and...
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