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Today, 01:09 AM

selvaarchi replied to a thread China's Chang'e 4 mission in Space Exploration

"Chang'E‐4 rover spectra revealing micro‐scale surface thermophysical properties of the Moon" This was published in the Geophysical Research...

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Today, 12:15 AM

PetersCreek replied to a thread Some Non-trivial Things That Annoy Me. in Off-Topic Babbling

Why reinvent the teenager?

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Yesterday, 05:49 PM

Noclevername replied to a thread In Theory, Supermassive Black Holes Could get Even More Supermassive in Universe Today

Why would there be an upper limit to a black hole size? What's it going to do, collapse in on itself?

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Yesterday, 04:11 PM

Noclevername replied to a thread How did we do it before the internet... in Off-Topic Babbling

Yeah, but by then their content was somewhat out of date. The Y2K-BC bug.

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Yesterday, 04:07 PM

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

Flood in the laundry room (and parts of kitchen and bathroom). The drain hose came out of the wall.

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Yesterday, 03:52 PM

Trebuchet replied to a thread The COVID-19 Discussion Thread (OTB) in Off-Topic Babbling

Of course. The county's most important "industry" is retirement, and we are just one of many examples. More than 20% of the population is over 65....

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Yesterday, 03:30 PM

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

Sure you can - she was the poet that spoke at the inauguration of President Biden and she is the National Youth Poet Laureate. Neither of those are...

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Yesterday, 02:49 PM

selvaarchi replied to a thread SpaceX in Space Exploration

Scrub - try again tomorrow.

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Yesterday, 01:17 PM

Noclevername replied to a thread What do you think is the most likely explanation for the Fermi paradox? in Life in Space

Getting back to the principle of mediocrity, we simply can't say anything about how common or rare we are. The results would look the same to us if...

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Yesterday, 11:24 AM

selvaarchi replied to a thread China's Chang'e 4 mission in Space Exploration

"Chang'e-4 concludes work for 26th lunar day following new findings" ...

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Yesterday, 07:53 AM

selvaarchi replied to a thread Reusable Rockets in Space Exploration

Do not know but my guess they might tried the 1st of the "SpaceX Grasshopper tech demonstrators". They have been making progress on the landing legs.

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Yesterday, 07:34 AM

Noclevername replied to a thread How did we do it before the internet... in Off-Topic Babbling

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

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Yesterday, 03:35 AM

Trebuchet replied to a thread Some Non-trivial Things That Annoy Me. in Off-Topic Babbling

Attacked from behind, when I didn't even know he was in the room. Hit me in the back of the knee, at what must have been just the wrong moment in a...

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Yesterday, 03:30 AM

Trebuchet replied to a thread Some Non-trivial Things That Annoy Me. in Off-Topic Babbling

Exactly! My wife is to blame!

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Yesterday, 01:57 AM

Trebuchet replied to a thread The COVID-19 Discussion Thread (OTB) in Off-Topic Babbling

My adult niece is to visit us tomorrow. I'm a bit uncomfortable with it but my wife wants to see her. My niece and her husband spent New Years Eve...

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Yesterday, 01:54 AM

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

Stuff that bugs me: We can't talk about WHY she's famous on this forum.

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Yesterday, 01:51 AM

Trebuchet replied to a thread Some Non-trivial Things That Annoy Me. in Off-Topic Babbling

Ouch! One of my parents' cats was found with a piece of string hanging out of his mouth. My mother pulled it out. And out. And out. About six...

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Yesterday, 01:39 AM

Trebuchet replied to a thread How did we do it before the internet... in Off-Topic Babbling

My wife was actually the second blind date they set me up with. The first one fell asleep during the date at someone's birthday party.

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Yesterday, 12:03 AM

Noclevername replied to a thread How did we do it before the internet... in Off-Topic Babbling

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

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2021-Jan-22, 11:48 PM

Selenite replied to a thread Some Non-trivial Things That Annoy Me. in Off-Topic Babbling

That's quite true. A few years ago my cat decided for whatever stupid reason to chew and swallow a half empty spool of bobbin thread on the floor of...

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2021-Jan-22, 10:34 PM

Noclevername replied to a thread Some Non-trivial Things That Annoy Me. in Off-Topic Babbling

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

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2021-Jan-22, 10:25 PM

selvaarchi replied to a thread Reusable Rockets in Space Exploration

"'Major reusable launch breakthrough' by private rocket firm i-Space prior to IPO" https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202101/1213057.shtml

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2021-Jan-22, 09:51 PM

Noclevername replied to a thread Some Non-trivial Things That Annoy Me. in Off-Topic Babbling

1 card Monty.

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2021-Jan-22, 09:50 PM

PetersCreek replied to a thread Some Non-trivial Things That Annoy Me. in Off-Topic Babbling

That's the card I picked! (Glad to here it all came out all right.)

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2021-Jan-22, 09:42 PM

Noclevername replied to a thread Some Non-trivial Things That Annoy Me. in Off-Topic Babbling

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

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2021-Jan-22, 08:33 PM

PetersCreek replied to a thread Some Non-trivial Things That Annoy Me. in Off-Topic Babbling

The most serious eating-related episode for our dog came when he got hold of a length of dental floss, unbeknownst to us. It looped over his tongue...

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2021-Jan-22, 08:09 PM

PetersCreek replied to a thread How did we do it before the internet... in Off-Topic Babbling

Much of my military career was pre-Internet...or World Wide Web, that is. Some units/functions had networked systems but not in a sophisticated...

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2021-Jan-22, 06:00 PM

Noclevername replied to a thread Some Non-trivial Things That Annoy Me. in Off-Topic Babbling

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...

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2021-Jan-22, 05:51 PM

PetersCreek replied to a thread Heritage sites on the moon in Space Exploration

Are you talking about the actual NASA proposal or the linked article? As for the article, it's not a NASA publication, it's quite brief and it's not...

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2021-Jan-22, 05:05 PM

Swift replied to a thread How did we do it before the internet... in Off-Topic Babbling

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...

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