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by ahazred8ta 2mo ago
It was also somewhat popularized by the navigator in the Star Blazers / Yamato series. Anime nerds FTW.
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by ahazred8ta 2mo ago
Apparently -tamo is a superlative, and 'gautama' means 'the one who has the most cows'. There are reconstructed languages loosely based on proto Indo European. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambahs
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by ahazred8ta 2mo ago
Japan and Nepal prohibited immigration for centuries. France used to prohibit entry without a permit. The Sentinel islanders prohibit immigration in the present day. Was it illegal for them to do so?
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by ahazred8ta 2mo ago
You can buy rocks engraved with "Nothing Is Written In Stone". https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nothing+is+written+in+stone&ia=ima...
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by ahazred8ta 2mo ago
Bill used to be a magazine pinup boy. https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/bill-gates-ceo...
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by ahazred8ta 2mo ago
The accelerating Risset Rhythm is like the rising Shepard Tone illusion. https://www.illusionsindex.org/i/risset-rhythm https://cantonbecker.com/risset/
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by ahazred8ta 2mo ago
Cool. Looks good. But on Android Chrome the 'about' box covers the entire map, and the timeline slider is in the way too.
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by ahazred8ta 2mo ago
English: God gave us teeth; God will give us bread. Lithuanian: Dievas davė dantis; Dievas duos duonos. Sanskrit: Devas adadat datas; Devas dat dhanas.
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by ahazred8ta 2mo ago
An entertaining uplift story modeled after the 1-on-1 interviews part of Childhood's End. It's a hoot. ... About Tycho's Uraniborg observatory: "Your species' best habit began there. We are sentimental about instru
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by ahazred8ta 2mo ago
There are certainly some people with severe autism whose behavior is emotionally flat and they don't SHOW emotions much. But that's a far cry from not having any emotions. Explain the word 'Stoic' to him. There's
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by ahazred8ta 2mo ago
The idea of what should happen is irrelevant, because we have not seen this "dense housing" actually materialize in US LVT jurisdictions any time in the past 100 years. The township of the Fairhope Single-Tax Corporation near Mo
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by ahazred8ta 2mo ago
An LVT results in new McMansions getting built on quarter acre lots and being taxed at the same rate as SFHs and trailers on quarter acre lots. It's the perfect way to allow rich people to buy out poor people and pay the same tax as po
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by ahazred8ta 2mo ago
325 mg aspirin pills were originally 5 grains. A carat was 4 grains. The unit was used by apothecaries, jewelers, and bullet makers.
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by ahazred8ta 2mo ago
In Canada, Santa's postcode is H0H 0H0. In the 1800s a letter addressed Sromfidevi England was eventually delivered to Sir Humphry Davy.
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by ahazred8ta 2mo ago
Clocks at NIST Boulder in Colorado run faster than NIST Gaithersburg in Maryland by about 1.55 microseconds per year because of the 1500 meter altitude difference. It's about 1 nanosecond per year per meter. They both have to use a fud
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by ahazred8ta 2mo ago
They're pretty sure the primordial environment was a hydrothermal vent in an anoxic high phosphorus soda lake with methane, ammonia, and UV exposure. Nowadays those lakes don't have the methane and ammonia, so that environment isn
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by ahazred8ta 2mo ago
They made a walking robotic exoskeleton for a snake. https://lifeboat.com/blog/2023/01/madman-invents-robot-suit-...
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by ahazred8ta 2mo ago
There's a diagram of the size of everything in the universe from quarks to the whole observable universe. https://www.universetoday.com/163927/everything-in-the-unive...
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by ahazred8ta 2mo ago
The old process depended on a small amount of undocumented residue that was removed in the new process. Obligatory FreeFall reference http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1500/fc01415.htm
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by ahazred8ta 2mo ago
As Kevin Bacon put it in Quicksilver, "What happened to all that money?" "Nothing happened to it. The money's still there. It just belongs to somebody else now."
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by ahazred8ta 2mo ago
IP-locating databases have mostly switched to showing the default location as being in the middle of a lake, so that people will know it's not a real house. related: Null Island at 0° / 0° https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by ahazred8ta 2mo ago
Also https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-31/shipwreck-cargo-revea...
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by ahazred8ta 2mo ago
> In 1968, analyst Richard Brandon told the ACM that the typical programmer was "excessively independent ... often egocentric, slightly neurotic, and he borders upon a limited schizophrenia. The incidence of beards, sandals, and ot
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by ahazred8ta 2mo ago
The Smokey Stover themed "WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS IS FOO" (1938) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2pljKyCgwc
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by ahazred8ta 2mo ago
At least it fixed itself.
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by ahazred8ta 2mo ago
Bugger. The reaction wheels have gone bad. https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/reaction-wheel-failure...
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by ahazred8ta 2mo ago
The name has been cited as Uhackatik and/or Uhaachatik. Northern Quebec, 25 km wide. 51.2° N https://craterexplorer.ca/uhackatik-impact-crater/
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by ahazred8ta 3mo ago
James Burke's book version of 'Connections' https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55024.Connections Also Douglas Coupland's 'Microserfs' , described as "Here's a guy who se
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by ahazred8ta 3mo ago
It was mentioned in http://www.terrydunkle.com/glass.php and in a Sky & Telescope magazine article from 1989 which explained why Perkin-Elmer began using very meticulous step by step procedure checklists after that. To
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by ahazred8ta 3mo ago
In 1968, a team of Perkin-Elmer technicians were carrying the million dollar Copernicus space telescope mirror to the other side of the lab. They tripped over a piece of scrap lumber. Shaka, when the walls fell.

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