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"The Bouquet Residence" flashback intensifies... :) But I understand "Target" was a surname and not the word? Never knew that.

Ah the Big City, one step closer to an internet experience. We didn't have to ask "which stores has this town" but "which town has a store". :) ...

Fortunately, the brain quickly adapts, and it learns to trust the eyes and reprograms signals from the vestibular system to reconcile the mismatch.

Really great service. Maybe they could also add some bio about each of the astronauts and images. That would be amazing.

Perseverance has already recorded the noise during its flight and people are divided into two groups - the one who believes it is something in the...

Along that train of thought, could it be that due to global warming, increased melting of polar and near polar ice has led to an increase in the...

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.