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by pgreenwood 4y ago
Anyone's guess I suppose, but Neil Armstrong is quoted as saying that he thought they had a 90% chance of returning to the earth safely and a 50% chance of a successful landing. Quote is at around 19.00 https://www.youtube.c
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by pgreenwood 4y ago
Definitely look up the Sinclair Method. The idea is to always take naltrexone an hour before you drink. Also you only take naltrexone when you drink (this is key). Then just drink as normal. The naltrexone blocks the alcohol buzz, and you l
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by pgreenwood 4y ago
Reminiscent of the fact that "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is a grammatically correct sentence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffal...
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by pgreenwood 4y ago
I would think we should call ejector seats that fire through the floor "rejector seats".
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by pgreenwood 4y ago
It is true in every right skewed distribution. Furthermore almost every distribution is skewed.
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by pgreenwood 4y ago
Yes, like the way modern shopping centres seem to be designed to disorient.
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by pgreenwood 4y ago
Anyone know of any good use cases for a 3D models or simulations at the city scale apart from eye candy, e.g. public presentations of future urban development? I worked in this space for a while and I never found much of a use case for seri
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by pgreenwood 4y ago
SHYLY SLYLY
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by pgreenwood 4y ago
It doesn't seem to be saying that colorless green ideas sleep furiously. Is that what you love?
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by pgreenwood 4y ago
That would be called cislunar space.
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Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin – Lex Fridman(youtube.com)
1 points by pgreenwood 4y ago|1 comments
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by pgreenwood 5y ago
David Fravor was talking about the Tic-Tac video which was over ten years before the Gimbal video in the article.
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by pgreenwood 5y ago
Right, this is how I understand it too. Is it not true if you took two photos of the same subject, with say a 24mmm lens and 70mm lens, and the then cropped and enlarged the image from the 24mm lens shot, you'd end up with the same ima
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Reaction-Diffusion Playground(jasonwebb.github.io)
2 points by pgreenwood 5y ago|0 comments
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by pgreenwood 5y ago
Fair enough, many are ugly, but I generally quite like the way they look. Lots of scope for different shapes and colours and textures. They can be blended in with the local geology via the choice of rocks. You can put benches or pathways on
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by pgreenwood 5y ago
You can leave at will if you're not an Australian citizen or a permanent resident. If you are, then you currently need an exemption, e.g for work or business, or you're going to live in another country.
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by pgreenwood 5y ago
We're expecting the policy to start to be lifted when we reach 80% double vaccination rates, in around 4 to 6 weeks time.
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by pgreenwood 5y ago
As I understand it most meteorites, especially small ones, are cool when they hit the earth. https://planetary.msfc.nasa.gov/Meteorites_and_Craters.html
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by pgreenwood 5y ago
Nutty article suggesting Covid and other diseases came from meteorites
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Origin of new emergent Coronavirus and Candida diseases–Terrestrial or cosmic?(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
2 points by pgreenwood 5y ago|2 comments
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by pgreenwood 5y ago
Yes, it can happen due to alpoecia areata which can be stress related. I had a beard hair turn white almost overnight. I am normally clean shaven but a large section of my facial hair fell out at once and almost immediately grow back white.
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by pgreenwood 5y ago
About two years ago I woke up to find 40% of my facial hair gone. It was due to alopecia areata, and I was going through a very stressful period. It mostly grew back but completely white (Funnily I'm left with a narrow black section in
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DNA from sediment reveals epic history of Denisova Cave(phys.org)
3 points by pgreenwood 5y ago|0 comments
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by pgreenwood 5y ago
I'm reminded of the joke "If Microsoft Made Cars" from the 90s. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/pnw/microsoftjoke.htm And 25 years later here we are... ' For all of us who feel only the deepest love and
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by pgreenwood 5y ago
It could well be true that 77% of people are smarter than average if intelligence is a heavily skewed distribution.
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by pgreenwood 5y ago
Could also be true in an unbiased datasource in a skewed distribution.
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by pgreenwood 5y ago
Can you elaborate on how you reach that conclusion? A taxation system than encourages more efficient use of land leads me to the opposite conclusion.
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by pgreenwood 5y ago
The difference is you can opt out of the crypto game, not so easy with natural resources like land.
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NASA Fastener Design Manual [pdf](ntrs.nasa.gov)
4 points by pgreenwood 6y ago|0 comments
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by pgreenwood 6y ago
As a counterpoint, there are examples where the introduction of species has been spectacularly successful for ecosystems. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/25/yellowst...

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