The_Radiation_Specialist
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Ain't that always the way it seems to go?

Paper cups can be disposable. Baby wipes can be disposable. Toothpicks. Popsicle sticks. (Though even much of what we once habitually threw away is...

Coincidentally, my wife was talking about post-pandemic vacation spots the other day and was talking about St. Vincent. I said we might want to wait...

One faire for the summer announced dates; another declared that they are already cancelling. When the first one announced dates, I immediately...

I'd buy that for a dollar.

Same here. If I'm getting into a solid relationship, it's not going to be by meeting a brand-new stranger, it's probably going to be someone I've...

As with any Conspiracy Theory, there's plenty of rationalization and cognitive dissonance to account for any inconvenient facts. In this case, the...

It may also be a problem WRT the selection process; the same algorithms that match like to like and produce social media bubbles and tailored...

There was a re-booted He-Man series in the early 2000s, it's since become a source of memes. So Skeletor may not be entirely unknown to some younger...

Heh. I have all of B5 on DVD. I’ve been building PCs for 20 years. I took a break and I bought one prebuilt in 1995, it was the most expensive...

Also, we wrote letters.

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...

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...

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

The changes have been so incremental yet profound that I had to think a minute before making my first post. The Internet and specifically the World...

By the way, I think that counts as the first orbital launch from Mojave space port, which I believe is normally a fairly quiet place.

A small rocket launch in the air - Virgin Orbit was successful this time with its air launched small payload orbital rocket: ...

On libraries: I think I mentioned before in another thread, but when I was in high school my sister worked at a local university library. Sometimes...

Byte magazine was great. It predated the IBM PC and was more about general computing than any specific computer family. I was reading that before I...

I really like Wandavision. It's definitely going places, and I like that it's a superhero show that isn't about fighting.

I've been scanning pictures from a family photo album my sister put together in high school. I have the pages scanned as full pages, but I've been...

Space Launch System Failed To Perform Fixed it for ya.

Once I had to stop for peacocks walking across the street not too far from my house. Sometimes I hear them calling too. I’m also reminded of a...

Gravitational wave detection gives us a new window to study physics and astronomical events. Both the detection and imaging confirmed some fairly...

Wouldn’t have happened. They had to see it before they could accept it. Heck, I remember reading comments from European “experts” that were saying...

Here’s an article on five ways to pronounce coyote: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/how-to-pronounce-coyote I pronounce it...