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by ringshall 9y ago
In classic MacOS, the full name was "application program".
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by ringshall 10y ago
Do you know of any publicly-available reference for this? It's the kind of stark fact that effectively illustrates working conditions in those factories.
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by ringshall 10y ago
The forward-only time machine in Futurama is probably the only paradox-free time travel premise that's possible. Even that had a giant plot hole re: the motion of the planet, solar system, etc.
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Almost surely(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by ringshall 10y ago|0 comments
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by ringshall 11y ago
This makes me very happy. Congratulations to the team behind this. I can only imagine how many hours of work, how many checks and re-checks, how many second-guesses, how many inspirations it took to make this happen. Very well done. The peo
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by ringshall 11y ago
Reminds me of a charming story from Yuri Gagarin's flight: "Both he and the spacecraft landed via parachute 26 km (16 mi) south west of Engels, in the Saratov region at 51.270682°N 45.99727°E. It was 280 km to the west of the plan
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by ringshall 11y ago
Just a small correction - the Halifax Explosion happened in 1917, not 1916.
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by ringshall 11y ago
This is a better link than the current one in the headline: https://www.ornl.gov/news/ornl-achieves-milestone-plutonium-... It's more recent (Dec 22nd, 2015) and discusses a new achievement: first production of Pu
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by ringshall 11y ago
I'm not sure this is correct. According to one source[1], "The name of a newly discovered exoplanet is dependant on the name of the star which it orbits and also if any other exoplanets orbiting the same host star have been discov
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by ringshall 11y ago
Yes, not sure how that typo happened. Got it right the second time, though :)
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by ringshall 11y ago
I agree with you in the sense that space exploration is at its core a human, not national, achievement. National divisions are silly when seen in the context of the vastness of space. In a similar vein, I think Gene Roddenberry was right in
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by ringshall 11y ago
Interesting note, as of today, the US is the first country to have successful spacecraft missions visit all of the classical planets. There is one big exception, of course: the Soviet Union was the first to have a spacecraft visit Earth, wi
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by ringshall 12y ago
Carl Sagan discussed this in episode 8 of Cosmos. This segment of video[1] progresses from Leonardo DaVinci's flying machines to a relativistic space craft in about 7 minutes. A spacecraft accelerating at 1 g, closer and closer to c, a
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by ringshall 12y ago
Relevant to this discussion is Warren Buffet's 1975 memo to the board of the Washington Post regarding investment strategy for their pension fund. He advised being patient, investing like an owner, and eschewing highly paid money manag
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Living Without a Cellphone(wsj.com)
75 points by ringshall 12y ago|42 comments