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The New Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas Is Smaller or Rarer Than It Looks(avi-loeb.medium.com)
4 points by TheBlight 1y ago|4 comments
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by TheBlight 1y ago
We don't know if they're all rocks or not yet.
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by TheBlight 1y ago
Or detecting more unusual interstellar objects like 'Oumuamua.
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by TheBlight 1y ago
Doesn't that roughly coincide with the Younger Dryas?
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by TheBlight 1y ago
I don't think there's unanimous consensus that universities teach "critical thinking skills."
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by TheBlight 1y ago
Why is this on HN?
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by TheBlight 1y ago
Perhaps there's benefit to pregnancy for both the mother and baby and fully detaching them from the experience might have negative consequences.
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by TheBlight 1y ago
This is a technical forum not a subreddit. Plenty of other venues for this stuff.
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by TheBlight 1y ago
Doesn't answer the question though.
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by TheBlight 1y ago
Don't let what people who don't know that much more than you say freak you out too much.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
People don't strictly want to play games as much as they want to experience alternate realities. That's why Doom/Quake resonated. People want these simulations to be as realistic as possible.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
For the same reason solar panels aren't going to stop people from drilling and sucking up every last drop of oil.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
Super skeptical of all hacking attribution claims made by MSM.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
ATACMS is usually pronounced "Attack 'Ems", FWIW.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
Yeah wind has never been known to blow fires 50 meters.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
Seems like the most likely explanation to me. If he were arrested for being a spy, presumably the DOJ would want to showcase it.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
I'll never know what influenced that decision.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
Why is this acceptable but if referring to Islam as a "mystery cult" a comment would be flagged immediately? I fully expect my critique here to receive a flag.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
How is social security being dismantled? What exactly are you talking about? Do you even know?
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by TheBlight 2y ago
It's foolishness to think many millions of voters don't also agree with these cuts. They don't value these programs.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
The EU doesn't have a significant tech industry.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
AIUI that involved the scheduler for multiple processes not threads.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
I suspect multi-threaded programming for spacecraft is frowned upon at NASA.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
Why do you say that?
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by TheBlight 2y ago
Presumably something with a heat signature since they're operating at night.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
>rn on bsky there's an early twitter dynamic of like mark hammill following tech journalists Lmao
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by TheBlight 2y ago
Is "intolerance" objectively defined?
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by TheBlight 2y ago
Cool but you could always play ASCII chess in your terminal by telnetting into FICS.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
This is all bs. It was most likely due to an ISI walk-in. https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/05/13/what-pakistan-knew-abou...
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by TheBlight 2y ago
Does China have mixed gender submarine crews? Does Russia?

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