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Inspector General: NASA will miss 2024 Moon landing “by several years” [pdf](oig.nasa.gov)
1 points by starwind 5y ago|1 comments
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by starwind 5y ago
If anyone likes more folklorish stories, The Issa Valley is a really good read
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A 1980s space telescope may have seen planet nine(gizmodo.com)
172 points by starwind 5y ago|128 comments
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by starwind 5y ago
Relevant part: For the recent work, [Michael] Rowan-Robinson redid his search from nearly 40 years ago and found three points in the data from late summer 1983 that indicate some object moving across the sky. The data sources sit low on the
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by starwind 5y ago
There's basically no consequences for overclassification, but the penalty for underclassification could be a job loss (or in the extremely unlikely case, jail)
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by starwind 5y ago
Thanks! That always confuses me
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Cache of documents declassified by the NRO for its 60th anniversary(nro.gov)
103 points by starwind 5y ago|49 comments
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by starwind 5y ago
Letter explaining some of the information available here: https://www.nro.gov/Portals/65/documents/news/press/2021/202... "The SIGINT satellite story" looks interesting: https:/
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by starwind 5y ago
Ironically, most of the government doesn't adhere to these recommendations
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by starwind 5y ago
The painting they chose for the cover—Storm on the Sea of Galilee—was stolen in the Gardner Heist in 1990 and has yet to be recovered. It’s believed to be Rembrandt’s only seascape
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JPMorgan sues Tesla for $162M for breach of contract regarding stock warrants(theverge.com)
30 points by starwind 5y ago|14 comments
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by starwind 5y ago
Text of lawsuit here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.56... First 5 paragraphs are worth a read
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by starwind 5y ago
I just wish universities connected with trade schools. Why couldn't I get a minor in aircraft maintenance or welding while I was majoring in economics?
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by starwind 5y ago
There’s a bootcamp that does something with a university near me in analytics that has called me a couple times to teach there. They tout their connection to the university but it doesn’t look like the bootcamp and the university really int
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by starwind 5y ago
"U.S. State Department Spokesman Ned Price said the test had created more than 1,500 pieces of trackable debris, and hundreds of thousands of pieces of un-trackable debris."
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Russia hits satellite with missile creating large debris field(arstechnica.com)
37 points by starwind 5y ago|7 comments
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by starwind 5y ago
> When Kominek approached Boulder County regulators about putting up solar panels, they initially told him no, his land was designated as historic farmland. That's Boulder for you, they're super progressive right up until progr
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A redditor gets caught up in a triangulation scam and investigates(old.reddit.com)
110 points by starwind 5y ago|21 comments
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by starwind 5y ago
This is pure speculation: if someone worked on some kind of communication involving nuclear missiles, they might work for the NSA and have Q. But otherwise I can’t think of a reason they would. That said, NSA is a world almost wholly unknow
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by starwind 5y ago
What limits are you talking about?
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by starwind 5y ago
I've always noticed that cash has a way of disappearing from my wallet with me wondering "what did I spend it on?" With a credit card I have to think: will I punch myself in the face when I see that on my statement?
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by starwind 5y ago
Exactly. $10k skimmed out of my bank account is a huge problem for me while it gets resolved. $10k skimmed off a credit card, eh, I'm never that close to my limits anyway
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by starwind 5y ago
I can't speak for Australia specifically, but most EU countries sharply cap the interchange fees that credit card companies can charge so they don't really have rewards to speak of
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by starwind 5y ago
I heard about one guy who couldn’t pass the poly no matter how many times he took it. He chalked it up to Catholic guilt. He ended up going to work for a different company doing rocket stuff (I think the ULA) cause he could use his clearanc
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by starwind 5y ago
LOL from reading the New York Times reporting on the DoD’s internal UAP (UFO) reports last summer me and a guy I worked with guessed which compartment it fell under. We went to our FSO and asked for access to that compartment and he was lik
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by starwind 5y ago
cryptography would fall under TS/SCI through an intelligence agency or the DoD. Q is actually pretty narrow
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by starwind 5y ago
They still ask about sexual preferences, but really it's more about anything not publicly known that could be embarrassing. No one cared that I'm bi and not out to my mom but they wanted to know that I would go to my FSO and let t
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by starwind 5y ago
yeah it does suck, so I blocked hn and reddit and a bunch of other sites on my ipad (I guess I can override it but I can resist that urge for some reason) and only look at hn/reddit on my laptop
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by starwind 5y ago
I have a browser plugin set so I can only spend 15 minutes/day on hn and reddit. Literally nothing else works for me
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by starwind 5y ago
Trees don't easily grow in the Denver climate so yeah I wonder how well the trees will do, too. I live like 15 minutes south of downtown and none of the trees around me look particularly healthy. If I drive east towards Brighton or Eli

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