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by areoform 3y ago
I am the author of the essay, 'Explosions Are Great, Actually.' https://1517.substack.com/p/explosions-are-great-actually My essay argues that the starship test flight and it's destruction were great sig
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Who Is in Space?(whoisinspace.com)
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A Technical Film Report on Project Deep Ops (1972) [video](youtube.com)
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by areoform 3y ago
> How long until it’s open season on hunting them. In 2011, the subgroup had 39 members. Yes, let's go hunt a sentient, intelligent species trying to protect themselves and their young to extinction; forever losing their
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by areoform 3y ago
Orcas are genuinely amazing creatures. We have observed evidence for culture within them, and witnessed them engage in social learning behavior identical to humans. So much so that it's important to consider their culture when we consi
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11 years ago today SpaceX's Dragon docked with the ISS for the first time(twitter.com)
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If Not a Node Then What?(3dincites.com)
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Pew Research Center: Majority of U.S. Twitter users say they’ve taken a break(pewresearch.org)
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by areoform 3y ago
The paper's author Dr. Phil Metzger is such a rockstar. He is The Expert on the mechanics of soil erosion by rocket exhausts, and writes a lot about the problem in an approachable way, https://twitter.com/DrPhiltill&#x2
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High-Frequency Traders Push Closer to Light Speed with Cutting-Edge Cables(wsj.com)
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by areoform 3y ago
I don't usually reply to such comments, but there are more things in heaven and earth, Pseudo0, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. > we live in a society where men can give birth Biology doesn't deal in absolutes. C
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by areoform 3y ago
I'd like people to remember another quote, this one from Voltaire; > You believe things that are incomprehensible, inconsistent, impossible because we have commanded you to believe them; go then and do what is injust because w
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Twitter’s DM encryption is a modest security improvement over the status quo(platformer.news)
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Phonaesthetics(en.wikipedia.org)
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Perlin Noise: The Near Universal Texture(twitter.com)
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Benjamin Franklin Would Have Loved Bluesky(theatlantic.com)
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Hack Etymology(etymonline.com)
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Twitter shuts down autocomplete for search(twitter.com)
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Women of Salerno(en.wikipedia.org)
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by areoform 3y ago
> Profit itself is unethical. This statement is unethical. It's a very strange thing to claim that profit is unethical. In tech companies, profit is an indication that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts — i.e.
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by areoform 3y ago
I don't think it helps to call them "degenerate." They're human beings. Some of them, more clever than you. Who are trapped in lives of quiet desperation. We think we are civilized, but we are just as barbarous as the wo
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by areoform 3y ago
The coldhead of one of these sensors (MIRI) functions optimally at temperatures less than 7˚K (i.e. 7˚ above absolute 0). The other sensors run at temperatures under 40˚K. For reference, the melting point of nitrogen is, 63˚K. Any sunligh
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Magnetic Field Around Uranus Are a Chaotic Mess(smithsonianmag.com)
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Wallace Line(en.wikipedia.org)
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by areoform 3y ago
As a team member, one request that I do have is that don't make Clubhouse's mistake. Someone once told me that Clubhouse was like a house party, where your behavior reflected on who invited you. So it kept the initial community qu
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by areoform 3y ago
Bluesky is absurd in both its small village feel and the breadth of people who post there and you can interact with. It's the same vibe as very early clubhouse. Broke artists next to philanthropists.
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by areoform 3y ago
You're absolutely right! The inner belt starts at, > The inner Van Allen Belt extends typically from an altitude of 0.2 to 2 Earth radii (L values of 1.2 to 3) or 1,000 km (620 mi) to 12,000 km (7,500 mi) above the Earth.[3][13] In
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Claude Shannon's Mighty Mouse(technologyreview.com)
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by areoform 3y ago
This plan is an insane waste. Other than Zarya and the other Russian built modules, the American, Japanese, and European ISS segments have held up quite well. Despite the intense thermal cycles and stress, these modules continue to operate
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The Ecosystem of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch(twitter.com)
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