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by vidanay 3y ago
And GPS isn't spontaneously created by lightning striking a tree.
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by vidanay 3y ago
My favorite Hickam story is the ultimate "Do you know who I am?" "And I am on the National Space Council that oversees NASA," https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/08&#x2
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by vidanay 3y ago
We had Christmas paper tubes, balsa fins cut with a dull xacto knife, a hand carved nose cone and a super glued washer as a thrust ring.
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by vidanay 3y ago
Well, my grandfathers surname was Hickman, and I was born in WV. (I know, Homer Hickam is different...but it's close)
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by vidanay 3y ago
LOL. Me and my friends designed a two stage rocket, and of course we insisted that our first attempt use "D" size engines. The first stage took the rocket up about 75-100 ft and when the second stage lit off, the rocket somehow ki
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by vidanay 3y ago
188.5 million chickens are slaughtered DAILY. https://thehumaneleague.org/article/how-many-chickens-are-in... Approx 58 million chickens have been culled in the United States due to bird flu. https://www.cdc
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by vidanay 3y ago
You've died of dysentery.
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by vidanay 3y ago
A tornado within the city limits of Chicago is pretty rare, but tornados within 100 miles of Chicago are quite common. https://www.weather.gov/media/lot/severe/chitorlist.pdf https://www.weather.go
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by vidanay 3y ago
Daisy, Daisy, Daisy.
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by vidanay 3y ago
Back in the 80's as broke teenagers, we would always go to "third run" theaters. These were almost always theaters that saw their hey-day back in the 60's, but they would play six month old blockbusters for only $1.50 a
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by vidanay 3y ago
Every time I've interacted with one of these multi-discipline facilities (in the US), it didn't matter if you walked across the hall or across Antarctica, each office treated you uniquely and you had to fill out the same damn pape
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by vidanay 3y ago
About six months ago, Starbucks opened their THIRD store in our medium size town (~60k pop). It's a rare moment to not see a car in the drive thru line, and typically four or five cars. Crazy.
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by vidanay 3y ago
If you build an online order at the Subway website, you will see a line item for "Sandwich artist tip". In-person ordering has the same thing on the POS during checkout (like so many places do these days)
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by vidanay 3y ago
Northern Illinois (not Chicago)
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by vidanay 3y ago
Don't give them any ideas.
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by vidanay 3y ago
My wife bought lunch for our son and his friend yesterday. $32 for a 6" sandwich, chips, a cookie, and bottled water at Subway (x2). $32 for barely better quality than a fucking Lunchable. Oh, and the POS system automatically presented
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by vidanay 3y ago
I can't remember the titles off-hand, but I remember a couple of movies in the last 30 years actually having an intermission.
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by vidanay 3y ago
The biggest problem with the DS2 water tank is the goddamn fill lines are orthogonal to the direction you have to hold it while filling. WT actual F?!
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by vidanay 3y ago
Since the MCMXX's
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by vidanay 4y ago
1988 Geo Metro could get like 54 MPG. Impossible to build and sell due to 2023 regulations.
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by vidanay 4y ago
That short interview with Cal Breed was the absolute best 60 seconds of video I have seen in quite a while. The raw footage should be re-edited into a longer video.
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by vidanay 4y ago
A big thick column of black smoke from a carbeque might be the only time I would forgive someone for holding the phone vertically.
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by vidanay 4y ago
The bigger question is: Why are there 17 "everything" pizzas, two sausage and pepperoni pizzas and one only cheese pizza for 100 people? And the first 15 people eat the three simple pizzas.
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by vidanay 4y ago
Why am I picturing Charlton Heston running around shouting "You have to pay for the ice cream!"
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by vidanay 4y ago
RIP Al Jaffee https://apnews.com/article/al-jafee-mad-magazine-cartoonist-...
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by vidanay 4y ago
I've seen it once in 25 years. Management told an engineer that she would be layed off/terminated "when she is done with the project she is working on". She milked the project for almost four months and then quit on her
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by vidanay 4y ago
Wasn't/isn't there a player who uses 70's era wooden racquets (new manufactured - old tech)?
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by vidanay 4y ago
> 2)Make sure the car is as easy to start and drive away as physically possible - don't add anything extra fancy to keep it safe other than what's already there from factory, keep the keys on a shelf right in front of the main
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by vidanay 4y ago
Similarly, if I only watch the first 10 minutes of a Netflix video and then turn it off, why does it then recommend similar content forever after that? I accidentally watched 5 minutes of a Polish show six months ago (I don't speak Pol
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by vidanay 4y ago
I jumped from Chrome to Edge ~3 years ago, and ever since it has been a steady downward trend with each release. I switched back to FF a couple weeks ago when the giant Bing Button appeared and can't be easily removed.

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