perilunar

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by perilunar 3mo ago
I find the opposite: a 24 hr analogue clock shows you directly where you are in the day without any thinking or even looking at the numbers; with digital you always need to do a bit of mental arithmetic. Also, 100,000 seconds is 27 hours, 4
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by perilunar 3mo ago
Be the change you want to see: start using ‘a third past’ instead of ‘twenty past’ and see what happens.
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by perilunar 3mo ago
Sure you can — you just fire it went pointing ‘backwards’. But either way, you still need a burn to circularise the orbit when you get there.
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by perilunar 3mo ago
Ideally, whatever time is used locally, UTC, and Unix time.
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by perilunar 3mo ago
In the Southern Hemisphere Sun Clock does default to counter-clockwise rotation (because the Sun is to the North and appears to move that way). You can also set direction manually.
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by perilunar 3mo ago
24-hour analogue clocks should have midnight at the bottom and noon at the top. Why? Because that's the way the sun moves. See https://sunclock.net
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by perilunar 3mo ago
I think that once a large number of people are living off-Earth, we should just use Unix time to coordinate and for all technical work. Planets can use a local solar time and calendar. Habitats in free space could just move to Unix time and
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by perilunar 3mo ago
Chippy = carpenter (from wood chips) Sparky = electrician
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by perilunar 3mo ago
It seems that you hold the camera vertically to take a landscape photo, and horizontally to take a portrait photo. That’s going to confuse people.
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by perilunar 3mo ago
Slow return trip to where? There’s plenty of both on Earth, so no point. But it may be easier to send bulk resources from Titan to the Moon or HEO than from Earth. I think the delta-V is lower, anyway.
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by perilunar 3mo ago
> when I hang it from the ceiling everything will line up with their actual azimuth to the horizon I guess that makes sense at high latitudes. More generally, if you align the plane of rotation of the orrery with the ecliptic, and rotate
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by perilunar 3mo ago
oh, yeah, that works. And double three-finger click to clear. Still, ctrl-click should also work.
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by perilunar 3mo ago
I'm on a laptop with a trackpad — there is no right click. Usually Ctrl-click works as a right-click, but in this case it doesn't.
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by perilunar 3mo ago
Cool. Unfortunately long press didn't work for me with a trackpad (Safari on macOS), so wasn't able to flag at all. Maybe add a test for ctrl-click or shift-click?
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by perilunar 3mo ago
> Then we should have timezones based not just on longitude, but also latitude Of course. In Australia the southern states do summer time, and the northern states don't.
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by perilunar 4mo ago
> If the Communists had won in Vietnam nothing would have happened to America They did.
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by perilunar 4mo ago
There's an old quip about aircraft design that "a plane isn’t ready to fly until the documentation is heavier than the airplane". Can't find a source for it though.
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by perilunar 4mo ago
Wouldn't that be cholecystitis (and a cholecystectomy), not pancreatitis?
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by perilunar 4mo ago
"Breaking distance": how much shorter the car is after the impact.
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by perilunar 4mo ago
Brake or break? Both are correct: if you don't do one you do the other.
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by perilunar 4mo ago
The Russians can't even take Ukraine — what makes you think they have a hope in hell of taking the US?
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by perilunar 4mo ago
Well, Quake and VRML were contemporaneous, but VRML was a plugin in the browser — it was never as fast as Quake, and not intended as a game engine, though there were many worlds and models built in VRML that were at least as detailed as the
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by perilunar 4mo ago
Probably won't work because the ultra-wealthy don't get ultra-wealthy by earning wages .
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by perilunar 4mo ago
https://archive.is/uZs5H
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by perilunar 4mo ago
The celebrity comes with the award (Australian of the Year). He could have refused the nomination if he had wanted to.
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by perilunar 4mo ago
> If we ever manage to cure cancer ... then people will die of something else. Well yes, people will still die, but in the process average life expectancy goes up. I think Aubrey de Grey once said that if you cured cancer and aging then
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by perilunar 4mo ago
There's an old saying in biology: "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" [1], which is how the developing embryo of an animal (the ontogeny), goes through stages resembling the evolution of the animal (phylogeny). I sometimes thi
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by perilunar 4mo ago
> cassettes for music Yes. Lots of mentions here about CDs, but cassettes are a better tech for small children. Mine loved playing tapes, and could use a cassette player well before they could read. The bigger physical buttons help too.
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by perilunar 4mo ago
> Kids don't really use phones anyway My kids used the home phone for many years before they got their own cell phones. They would call their friends and grandparents. (The grandparents loved it)
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by perilunar 4mo ago
Re VoIP phones: don't most home routers come with a phone port that you can just plug a regular old phone handset into? My ISP provides a home phone number with the router and it just works as it aways has. I guess technically it'

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