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That is truly sad, will the internet thereby solve the human population growth issue? That really generates a nostalgia about what we did before the...

Ha! Rule can have more than one meaning. I guess they serve moon beer there. In my day I was slow to learn that the wine club offered free or cheap...

About a year ago, my sister asked me to review a parts list that her son had come up with to build his own computer, because she knew that I had...

Until China, lunar soil was delivered to Earth by only two countries - the USA and the USSR. The last mission to deliver lunar soil was carried out...

New generation wifi routers discussed here: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/wi-fi-6e-arrives-at-ces-2021/ One looks like a rather...

Yes, I think about what it would have been like if back in the sixties they had used SLS-like development practices. They went from Mercury to...

Perhaps I missed it, but I don’t recall where you said it wasn’t meant to be about the universe. I specifically asked you if you were arguing...

Agile vs. Waterfall development, plus a dedicated & focussed leadership. The leadership isn't just Musk, it's also SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell...

Yes. Whether the odds of that going wrong have shifted or not, the stakes when things do go wrong seem to be perceived as much higher now than...

It looks likely that the international border restrictions in Australia will continue for most of 2021. ...

Covid cases have being going up here, the government has put part of the province in a red zone meaning that people should have contact with people...

At that university was my first introduction to the internet. The dorm I was in only had a terminal down in a room the basement it was only a green...

At a nearby university the engineers had a saying engineers rule the world or ERTW and also they had a pub that cloud only be used once a month in...

Most introductions to Newtons law of gravity include a thought experiment about firing cannons of ever increasing power till the cannon ball goes...

Wait. Are you saying that meeting a person in the real world, discovering a mutual affection, then arranging to spend time together to see what...

So, as an addendum, part of my issue isn’t just space, but access and organization. Space sure is an issue with books, though, and I end up storing...

Exactly. I’m not much of a music listener, but decades ago I dealt with the record organization and storage problem. Then when I bought an Apple...

Even I, a confessed and confirmed Luddite, have moved beyond that. The problem was just the physical storage space.

I just watched Scot Manley's video of the SLS -- um, how do I put this? -- non-success and then a NSF one from Boca Chica. The contrast could...

As an outsider to dating and finding people to date, I notice that I've seen it go from entirely offline, to mostly offline with dating/matchmaking...

30 of 48 European countries have populations smaller than London. 44 of 56 US states and territories have populations smaller than New York City.

But if you look for games on the Internet using Bing, likely the first result will be on game theory and the second on hunting. Somewhere near the...

But SpaceX went from 1 Merlin to 9 and then to 27. So a small step like 3 to 4 is mathematically proven to be a lot more simple. (tongue still in...

Back in some previous century I was looking for books about games in the card catalog at a library. When I came to the end of the games section I...

So if you're in outer space then you are not in the atmosphere any longer, thus reentry. I'm not disagreeing that there is very thin atmospheric...

Only if intelligent life is evenly distributed. And if the Copernican Principle applies to intelligent life. Neither is a given. We currently have...