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Jeff Bezos loses attempt to block the Moon-landing contract NASA gave to SpaceX(arstechnica.com)
245 points by _Microft 5y ago|236 comments
2492.
Bielefeld Conspiracy(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by _Microft 5y ago|0 comments
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by _Microft 5y ago
The colored bands seem to be semi-transparent, so all can be shown in the same graph instead of having to show an own one for each of them (i.e. it is purely a display problem where the bands overlap).
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by _Microft 5y ago
I understand that it must be depressing for people who see masks only as infringing on their freedoms and nothing else, because they are currently at the mercy of society. If someone sees mask wearing instead as a joint effort to fight the
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by _Microft 5y ago
"Tumblehome is a term describing a hull which grows narrower above the waterline than its beam", with "beam" being its width at its widest point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumblehome
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Bioorthogonal info storage in L-DNA with high-fidel. mirror-img DNA polymerase(nature.com)
5 points by _Microft 5y ago|0 comments
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Feed system for 29 Raptor rocket engines on Super Heavy Booster(twitter.com)
7 points by _Microft 5y ago|1 comments
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by _Microft 5y ago
Scent sample collection by putting a dust cloth under the chair of someone who was interrogated (as it is described in the article) was shown in the German movie "The Lives of Others" [0]. Fast forward to ~4:30min if you are not i
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Ingenuity completes 10th flight on Mars, Perseverance starts search for life(nasaspaceflight.com)
1 points by _Microft 5y ago|0 comments
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by _Microft 5y ago
Turns out we are extra lucky today because Scott Manley just released a video which shows an animation of orbit raise and how Starlink satellites from a single launch change orbital planes via precession. https://twitter.com&#x2F
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The Dangers of Dimethylmercury(chemistryworld.com)
2 points by _Microft 5y ago|0 comments
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Blue Origin has a secret project named “Jarvis” to compete with SpaceX(arstechnica.com)
1 points by _Microft 5y ago|0 comments
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by _Microft 5y ago
"Based on this exposure level, the estimated rate of TTS within 14 days of the second AZD1222 dose was 2.3 per million vaccinees. By comparison, within the same timeframes, the estimated rate of TTS within 14 days of the first dose wa
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Rare thrombosis with thrombocytopenia after second AstraZeneca dose(thelancet.com)
4 points by _Microft 5y ago|1 comments
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by _Microft 5y ago
Ingenuity disables its optical height detection system a short distance over ground because kicked up dust could interfere with it. It proceeds downwards until it makes contact with ground. To reliably detect the acceleration of that, they
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by _Microft 5y ago
It's an anagram of "Slate Star Codex" but not of the others.
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‘Reckless’: G20 states subsidised fossil fuels by $3tn since 2015, says report(theguardian.com)
3 points by _Microft 5y ago|0 comments
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‘Talking drum’ shown to accurately mimic speech pattern of west African language(blog.frontiersin.org)
1 points by _Microft 5y ago|0 comments
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by _Microft 5y ago
Some hull shapes are inherently unstable. The slightest deviation from pristine vertical balance will make the ship flip. However, even hull shapes that are initially stable at some angle reach their limits. All of these examples assume th
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by _Microft 5y ago
OK, I see what you mean, you were just referring to the unintuitive mapping between latitude and position on the map.
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by _Microft 5y ago
Mercator projection does not influence how far north something appears on a map. It is making the UK appear relatively larger than it is to the US though. This is because it is not an equal-area projection and warps areas further from the e
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by _Microft 5y ago
They have a license for 7x as many (12k vs 1.7k right now) and are applying for up to 30k. The bunched ones will be freshly launched batches of satellites that have not reached their target altitude, they will spread out in the process. The
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by _Microft 5y ago
1.5 hours should be close to Starlink's orbital period which means that they will be back at the place the are currently at.
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by _Microft 5y ago
Flora Incognita, a free plant identification app for Android and iOS, developed by a German university, does that. You choose a category first, like "tree", "flower", "grass" or "fern" and it will gui
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by _Microft 5y ago
Flora Incognita is great. Very recommended!
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by _Microft 5y ago
> I think power is the only metric unit I've seen where the common unit also often follows metric notations. 1 kW, MW, GW, TW. You might just not recognize them as such. Ampere, Volt, Ohm, Tesla, Newton, Pascal, Hertz, Joule, ...
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by _Microft 5y ago
Kilometer works fine for everyday purposes, from fractions of it to orders of magnitude larger, i.e. both 0.1km and 7230km are understandable. Once you are in the realm of science and engineering, you are more likely to encounter scient
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Reconstructed path of Ingenuity flight 9 via photogrammetry(twitter.com)
96 points by _Microft 5y ago|12 comments
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Evidence for a sublimated water atmosphere on Ganymede from Hubble observations(arxiv.org)
1 points by _Microft 5y ago|0 comments
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Who was Stueckelberg, and why did Feynman think he deserved a Nobel?(twitter.com)
2 points by _Microft 5y ago|0 comments

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