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I’ll be interested to see. I can’t remember hearing Sanders ever say anything about space. If I had to guess from what I have heard from him in...

Because people like to talk about it. It’s far from the only subject where nothing solid can be said but people have pet positions and like to argue...

Oh, it was seen. It was even called a chicken and egg problem. I read arguments about it probably thirty years ago. One big issue was that per...

NASA made a recommendation. NASA doesn’t have the means yet to enforce it. Only if that is set forth in a future treaty and the various space...

Maybe because they look a bit like rocks? They are my coffee or Vegemite. ;) If someone puts them in a fruit salad, I won’t eat it, as it makes the...

I didn’t realize that Bridenstine was too young for the moon landings, but it makes sense, he looks fairly young. Without commenting on the rest of...

Oh! I wasn’t commenting on grammar, it was quoted and worked well enough. Besides, I rarely comment on grammar or spelling in posts anyway unless...

“what kind of computer you need”? They are supplying computers? At my job, pre-COVID-19, we had a telecommute policy for a while, but management...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

Yes, I *think* in this idea the fourth spatial dimension is supposed to be a stand-in for the conventional time dimension, is somehow supposed to...

Amusing item: I was cooking dinner and while sitting down a bit while something cooked, looked at a news site video on my tablet. I set it down...

There might be a local place (we have a good number of asian specialty markets around town) but it would probably take some looking, and that isn’t...

Well, in my case regarding coffee, it makes sense since I *really* don’t like typical coffee and would have liked to have known about the difference...

Even better: My landline goes out in a power outage. I could get a battery backup unit for the cable modem but if I need to I’ll use the cell phone....

There are many things that can act as a clock, and how we see them is observer dependent. For instance, how long a particle takes to decay, if you...

That’s interesting - not the anti-Vegemite disgrace bit, but how many recent immigrants are there. Most of my ancestors came over in the mid to late...