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Maybe the ants have the explanation? https://xkcd.com/638/

Storing electrons is certainly more convenient than paper. But pity the poor Sumerians and their clay slabs! Office workers had to also be...

That's quite true. A few years ago my cat decided for whatever stupid reason to chew and swallow a half empty spool of bobbin thread on the floor of...

Transporter-1 This first Rideshare will see 143 spacecraft going uphill o_0 The current sats/launch record is 104 aboard an Indian PSLV...

It would be nice if they explained what the breakthrough was supposed to be. Also, they haven’t had a test flight yet, which strikes me as important.

Another screenshot Scroll to 1+ hour in the video, which is about when Phobos emerges from the fog bank. Michael Baylor @nextspaceflight...

I knew exactly what scene that would be. I can mostly recite it from memory.

A proposal to replace the giant radio telescope at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico with a new facility suggests it could be used for tracking...

Ah, that’s too bad. She was 65, so not that old. JMS has talked about the “B5 curse” where a number of the main cast have died. Richard Biggs...

Pre-internet hospital patients' notes used to get bulky really quickly. Laboratory results would arrive in envelopes at the end of office hours,...

My son in law has asserted that, like the shark in Jaws, they’d find a license plate in my dog’s stomach.

My adult niece just contacted us to let us know her two elementary-school-aged kids have tested positive for COVID. One has a fever, the other has no...

The evidence is that the vaccines are equally effective against the English variant, but may have some reduced effectiveness against the Brazilian...

Hmmm.... a show-stopper for sure.

That would have been the punchline to one heck of a magic trick.

Just watching the news and the South African and English variation has made to the maritimes in December with a case of each on at the same...

"'Major reusable launch breakthrough' by private rocket firm i-Space prior to IPO" https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202101/1213057.shtml

Good question. Apparently the Early Apollo Surface Experiments Package (EASEP) is not working, other than the laser reflector. According to NASA the...

Are the new vaccines effective against the new, supposedly more deadly virus? Or will we need a new Operation Warp Speed?

I was in the U.S. Army from 1976-1981, all no internet, and manila folders full of paper were the ultimate data storage tool.

I would think that if stranded astronauts needed tools or parts from an abandoned site. No one would blame them for doing what they needed to...

1 card Monty.

That's the card I picked! (Glad to here it all came out all right.)

In his tummy they found half an unchewed Milk Bone treat, and half a playing card... 9 of clubs!

I hope your dog does well. A number of years ago, our dog ate a pack of sugarless gum. That’s far more toxic than you might think. She spent...

When I was a teenager we had some toy Pomeranians. One of them had a habit of eating things too big for her, so we tried to watch the size of food...

The most serious eating-related episode for our dog came when he got hold of a length of dental floss, unbeknownst to us. It looped over his tongue...

Much of my military career was pre-Internet...or World Wide Web, that is. Some units/functions had networked systems but not in a sophisticated...