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Heh, Avogadro’s number as an address. If you could find miniature roadrunner and coyote figurines, one on each side of a track would be appropriate.

Made a lot of progress on the model railroad in the 9 months since I last posted about it (thanks Covid). Have pretty much all the track in place,...

The only work in the garden lately was cutting down an old pole used to hang a clothesline from years ago, already cut a couple of small logs to be...

PC Computing (magazine) - never had a subscription, but read it pretty regularly (bought a copy or the library) Used to like browsing computer...

Rocket Lab is set to start its busiest year with the dedicated launch of a micro-satellite aboard their Electron rocket for OHB Group. Named “Another...

I am not sure how much of our fig crop we will actually get to eat. The 'foreign invaders' have turned up to gorge themselves. I m sure I have posted...

Virgin Orbit now targeting Sunday for 1st spaceflight. The four-hour launch window opens at 1 p.m. EST (1800 GMT). ...

Here are some samples from the soundtrack of "Forbidden Planet". Yes, excellent space music. ...

The K Dwarf Advantage for Biosignatures on Directly Imaged Exoplanets (Giada N. Arney). Oxygen and methane are considered to be the canonical...

Wormholes may be lurking in the universe – and new studies are proposing ways of finding them. QUOTE: Some wormholes may be “traversable”, meaning...

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Not good at sharing, but here goes. Am 65, have high blood pressure + diabetes II, etc. About 2 weeks ago caught a bad sore throat. Could not be seen...

Michael Anteski permanently banned for a long and persistent history of revisiting closed ATM topics, as in this latest instance. This, in spite of...

Previously covered ATM(s). Thread closed.

Well, I really did go to the library often. So there's that. TV shows and radio music were on when they were on, until VCRs came along. Then we...

publiusr suspended for political and off-topic post.

Talking about how increasing the budget for space as part of some other bill or package is probably ok, but the rest is completely off topic and...

So basically Lockheed Martin have palmed passed it off to NASA before anything else breaks?

And yet the empirical evidence says you are wrong. Most recent problems SpaceX have encountered have been with newly made boosters and second stages....

If you want to have statistically valid data to base your specific product curve on, certainly. I was naming it in the more general sense that a...

I don't think so. I cannot imagine any scenario where the tidal interaction would cause the Earth to spin up. My educated-guess hypothesis is that...