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Today, 04:56 PM

Swift started a thread Flight director for NASA's Mars Perseverance - great story in Space Exploration

This is inspiring. CBS News

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Today, 04:16 PM

Swift replied to a thread Adventures in DIY in Off-Topic Babbling

Ditto. This applies both for shop tools and cooking tools.

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Today, 04:15 PM

Swift replied to a thread Stuff you just don't get. in Off-Topic Babbling

Cartoon Laws of Physics

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Today, 04:09 PM

Swift replied to a thread The COVID-19 Discussion Thread (OTB) in Off-Topic Babbling

Idiocy is even worse than Covid. There is a treatment and a vaccine (education), but like the Covid vaccine, it is not completely effective, and...

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Today, 04:04 PM

Swift replied to a thread Relativity Space in Space Exploration

Launch one and then we'll see how much of a competitor you are to SpaceX.

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Yesterday, 08:36 PM

Swift replied to a thread Freshwater fish in "catastropic" decline worldwide: pollution, overfishing, damming in Science and Technology

The Holocene extinction (AKA Anthropocene extinction or Sixth Mass extinction) is an on-going event and it will just continue to get worse, and it is...

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Yesterday, 06:50 PM

Swift replied to a thread What are you watching? in Small Media at Large

I've been watching some videos on Youtube made by this fellow C.W. Lemoine. He is a retired fighter pilot (both Air Force reserve and Navy reserve)....

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Yesterday, 03:45 PM

Swift replied to a thread The COVID-19 Discussion Thread (OTB) in Off-Topic Babbling

With over 28 million cases and over half a million deaths in the US, we have to have reached the point where pretty much everyone knows people who...

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Yesterday, 12:30 PM

Gigabyte replied to a thread Disease and pandemics thread (because it's science) in Science and Technology

Pretty much zero. Which also happens to be the number of flu cases.

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2021-Feb-24, 03:34 PM

Swift replied to a thread Fish Fight in Fun-n-Games

:lol:

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2021-Feb-24, 02:00 PM

Swift replied to a thread The COVID-19 Discussion Thread (OTB) in Off-Topic Babbling

I think a lot of the huge uptick was from bad human behavior during the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays (traveling and getting together in...

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2021-Feb-24, 01:52 PM

Swift replied to a thread Some Non-trivial Things That Annoy Me. in Off-Topic Babbling

Yes, the morning news is overloaded with it.

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2021-Feb-24, 10:20 AM

Nicolas replied to a thread SpaceX / Inspiration4 mission - all civilian in Space Exploration

And knowledge of the airflight principle "no problem is so bad that you cannot make it worse" also translates well to spaceflight.

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2021-Feb-24, 02:49 AM

Swift replied to a thread SpaceX / Inspiration4 mission - all civilian in Space Exploration

Interview with Hayley Arceneaux. Seems like a neat lady. LINK

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2021-Feb-23, 06:36 PM

Nicolas replied to a thread Mars 2020 Rover - "Perseverance" in Space Exploration

What was the data path for that video? All stored onboard of Perseverance and then uploaded afterwards, or sent realtime to MRO or something and sent...

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2021-Feb-23, 04:13 AM

Swift replied to a thread Mars 2020 Rover - "Perseverance" in Space Exploration

I'm reminded once again about what the BA said about the Phoenix lander being imaged by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter:

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2021-Feb-23, 04:06 AM

Swift replied to a thread SpaceX in Space Exploration

GSE? Ground Support Equipment?

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2021-Feb-22, 07:22 PM

geonuc replied to a thread Middle-aged kit building in Off-Topic Babbling

Thanks. I'd hesitate to guess. While I've been working on it for the past year, I don't usually put in that many hours (minutes) at a sitting. For...

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2021-Feb-22, 07:19 PM

geonuc replied to a thread Middle-aged kit building in Off-Topic Babbling

In building the model, I'm amazed the ship carried two dozen men. La Pinta was not very big.

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2021-Feb-22, 04:30 PM

Swift replied to a thread NEW MEMBER? Introduce yourself in this thread. (Continued) in Forum Introductions and Feedback

Hi JW999, welcome to CQ.

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2021-Feb-20, 11:52 PM

Swift replied to a thread Boeing general news, because it's popular in Science and Technology

CNN.com

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2021-Feb-20, 07:23 PM

Nicolas replied to a thread SpaceX in Space Exploration

I doubt the FAA cared too much about why it crashed in the context of preventing that in the future. If SpaceX wants to crash ten of them, go ahead...

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2021-Feb-20, 05:23 PM

grapes replied to a thread Question about Earth tides in Science and Technology

Those earthquakes are huge, but not large enough to explain the change in earth's rotation. But, the rotation has changed a lot, that's the activity...

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2021-Feb-20, 08:03 AM

Nicolas replied to a thread SpaceX in Space Exploration

Sounds like a healthy approach by FAA. Let SpaceX do the investigation at their pace (and keep up) plus don't care about someone blowing up his...

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2021-Feb-19, 11:04 PM

Nicolas replied to a thread Mars 2020 Rover - "Perseverance" in Space Exploration

MRO was launched 17 years ago. Quite an experienced workhorse!

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