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by black6 4y ago
While I was a NASA engineer for the past five years, NASA loved to brag that thousands of businesses from all 50 states of the union have a hand in SLS. It's not popularly known as the Senate Launch System for no reason.
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by black6 4y ago
Nothing made me doubt the moon landings more than actually working for NASA the past five years.
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by black6 5y ago
> The trucking industry would quickly find out the same thing Uber found out about their self-driving cars, which is that when a person isn’t on board, the company is on the hook for everything that goes on in that truck. Drivers do a l
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by black6 5y ago
> The change would help enable children to play outdoors later... The change would help enable the executive class to play golf after work hours...
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by black6 5y ago
I re-read the novel after my interview with that idea in mind and got a Sixth Sense vibe surrounding judge Holden in the way the character interacts with the others.
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by black6 5y ago
My first real job interview (biodiesel QA/QC lab tech) devolved into a discussion of Blood Meridian wherein my future boss asserted that The Judge was a mass psychogenic hallucinatory manifestation of the Glanton Gang's deflecting
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by black6 5y ago
Yes. It looks more like engineering notation (up to three digits to the left of the decimal and the power of 10 divisible by 3).
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by black6 5y ago
The calculus book my university used was a loose-leaf "custom edition" which came in shrink wrap. My cal IV prof told the class first day: "I cannot advise you to go down to the copy shop and run off copies of the relevant ch
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The “Pi Is Rational” Page:)(webonastick.com)
2 points by black6 5y ago|0 comments
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by black6 5y ago
Just another example of the major grift which transpired as a result of the US federal gov't throwing money around because of the pandemic.
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by black6 5y ago
OT: mango is another good topping.
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by black6 5y ago
> It’s important to know that there are exactly 86400 (24 60 60) UT1 seconds in a UT1 day. If the rotation of the Earth speeds up/slows down, the definition of a UT1 second changes since the number of seconds in a day is constant. I
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by black6 5y ago
> I guess the goal was to do something rather than nothing The appearance of not doing nothing has driven every recommendation/mandate/edict during the past 2+ years.
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Bottle-to-Bottle Honey Production – Contactless Beekeeping(youtube.com)
4 points by black6 5y ago|0 comments
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by black6 5y ago
There is a OPSEC fairy at work who will rotate your desktop 90 or 180 degrees or some other benign reminder that you failed to secure your workstation before leaving your desk.
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by black6 5y ago
> If anything, businesses have allowed us to spend way more time with family than we would if we actually had to hunt / farm / gather for food. That is untrue. There is ample evidence that hunter-gatherer societies have more
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by black6 5y ago
You're only confused about how they work today because they changed from yesterday and are most assuredly different than what they will be tomorrow .
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by black6 5y ago
Turning the FBI into a blackmail operation.
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Defeat Mechanisms in Modern Warfare(press.armywarcollege.edu)
1 points by black6 5y ago|0 comments
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by black6 5y ago
Similar in appearance, drivetrain layout, and problems as the Dymaxion Car.
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by black6 5y ago
Which hospitals?
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by black6 5y ago
Wuhan has a biolab. That biolab specializes in coronaviruses. That biolab was funded, in part, by the US NIH to conduct gain of function (a rose by any other name...) on coronaviruses. SARS-CoV-2 is a coronavirus. The SARS-CoV-2 virus outbr
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by black6 5y ago
There are still some calibration pads at Stennis Space Center leftover from their heyday in remote sensing support: https://www.google.com/maps/@30.3689672,-89.5662234,128m/dat... https://www.google.com
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by black6 5y ago
Three different headlines, three different efficacy percentages (89%, 90%, and now 85%), all of which originate from Pfizer's own studies. Color me dubious.
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by black6 5y ago
> 1. Don’t do things you do to make yourself sleep or stay asleep. It’s ok if you enjoy them. What does this even mean? The second sentence doesn't follow the first, which I still can't parse after reading it aloud a half-dozen
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by black6 5y ago
I suppose if you had a broken metal tape measure, this would be a good use, but I can't imagine cutting up a serviceable tape measure to make an antenna when there are other materials available.
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Brave New World Revisited (1958) by Aldous Huxley(huxley.net)
2 points by black6 5y ago|0 comments
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by black6 5y ago
It's just a drinking club. Would you stop hanging out with your globalist buddies on the taxpayer's dime if no one had the power to stop you?
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by black6 5y ago
That's a pretty common building code across the US for typical residential units. Hotels and the like get around it by offering multiple avenues of escape in the event of an emergency.
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by black6 5y ago
Some small subset of COVID tests are sent to larger labs to perform a more detailed genetic test to determine specific variants. The prevalence of different variants within that set is extrapolated to the population of the region from which

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