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If a tropical cyclone hit Oregon it would probably have started as a hurricane, not a tornado. Typhoons form west of the International Date Line, and they move predominantly west. Typhoons are pretty much guaranteed to never move east acros
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A site giving a whizzy CSS example with no demo?
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14y ago
Assuming people don't have multiple Twitter accounts.
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In a couple of minutes of hunting I found the Kaguya data archive [ http://l2db.selene.darts.isas.jaxa.jp/index.html.en ] and the Chandrayaan-1 data archive [ http://issdc.gov.in/CHBrowse/index.jsp ]. So, uh, yeah, both countries released t
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I haven't looked at everything, but the Perl variable identifier regexp is incorrect, as Unicode characters are allowed as of 5.12, which was released in 2010. For that matter, same goes for Java, except Unicode letters are allowed.
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14y ago
And was linked here back then: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1763663
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I'm trying to figure out how these are different from the binary pulsar PSR B1913+16 (other than they're white dwarfs and the binary pulsar is two neutron stars). PSR B1913+16 is two neutron stars orbiting each other in a tight spiral, and
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They can (in theory) observe them using an observatory named LIGO, or Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. It's essentially lasers set up to shoot along long corridors such that any changes in the distance between the ends c