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Today, 04:40 PM

KaiYeves replied to a thread What are you reading? in Small Media at Large

I found The Aeronauts from the TIME-LIFE series “The Epic of Flight” at a library booksale on Saturday. Because it’s about early balloonists, it...

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Today, 04:33 PM

KaiYeves replied to a thread Will we ever stop using paper? in Science and Technology

Having worked in a Congressional office, I would add cranks. Cranks LOVE faxing their Congressman rants about how he is an evil baby-eating...

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Today, 03:52 PM

Swift replied to a thread Will we ever stop using paper? in Science and Technology

According to this from the Stanford School of Medicine, it is because of incompatible EHR (Electronic Health Record) systems. I know all of my...

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Today, 03:44 PM

Swift replied to a thread SpaceX in Space Exploration

Too dang early here in EDT as far as I'm concerned.

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Today, 02:51 PM

Trebuchet replied to a thread Will we ever stop using paper? in Science and Technology

And the real estate industry. They fax everything.

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Today, 02:50 PM

Trebuchet replied to a thread SpaceX in Space Exploration

Nuts. Too dang early in the morning here on the west coast!

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Today, 01:33 PM

selvaarchi replied to a thread China's Tianwen-1 mission in Space Exploration

"China to announce name of its first Mars rover" http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2021-04/19/c_139890645.htm

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Today, 01:20 PM

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

Congratulations to NASA and the team :clap:

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Today, 12:08 PM

Noclevername replied to a thread Does anyone still believe that Apollo 11 landed on the moon after Chang'E-4 in Conspiracy Theories

Your reply has nothing to do with what I posted: That's still valid regardless of what your thought experiments say the answer "should" be. ...

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Today, 11:58 AM

Swift replied to a thread Does anyone still believe that Apollo 11 landed on the moon after Chang'E-4 in Conspiracy Theories

I told you before to knock off the smart comments. Next one gets you infracted. If you are going to claim such a conspiracy you will have to...

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Today, 10:33 AM

Noclevername replied to a thread What are you reading? in Small Media at Large

It would of course be difficult to do more that a brief overview of the various dominant philosophical traditions in one book or even one series. I...

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Today, 06:48 AM

Noclevername replied to a thread Does anyone still believe that Apollo 11 landed on the moon after Chang'E-4 in Conspiracy Theories

Ah, yes, dismiss, disdain, and disrespect. Your fallback position when you have no answer is to go on the attack.

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Today, 05:38 AM

Noclevername replied to a thread What are you reading? in Small Media at Large

I've always been interested in history and philosophy, in my own amateurish self-taught way. I have read a few of the "Classical" writings of Western...

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Today, 05:27 AM

Noclevername replied to a thread Does anyone still believe that Apollo 11 landed on the moon after Chang'E-4 in Conspiracy Theories

It must be hard to argue using factual information too, because you haven't been so far. Others managed it here, so maybe it's not so hard after...

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Today, 05:21 AM

Noclevername replied to a thread Does anyone still believe that Apollo 11 landed on the moon after Chang'E-4 in Conspiracy Theories

Why, what do you have? 'Cause what you've shown so far fails to convince anyone.

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Today, 05:19 AM

Noclevername replied to a thread Does anyone still believe that Apollo 11 landed on the moon after Chang'E-4 in Conspiracy Theories

Why not just look up the observations from multiple sources? Those things were widely tracked by telescopes all over the planet. Even from the Soviet...

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Today, 05:14 AM

Noclevername replied to a thread Does anyone still believe that Apollo 11 landed on the moon after Chang'E-4 in Conspiracy Theories

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose

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Today, 02:52 AM

KaiYeves replied to a thread Trivial (or not so trivial) stuff that makes you happy. in Off-Topic Babbling

Today I went to play mini golf with my Mom and my brother J. at a local course I had never been to. I didn’t realize it was themed to our local area...

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Today, 12:29 AM

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

A few days ago, I did a little work on my project. Yesterday, I re-did it, because it didn't look quite like what I wanted. Today, I re-re-did it. ...

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Yesterday, 09:02 PM

Selenite replied to a thread Does anyone still believe that Apollo 11 landed on the moon after Chang'E-4 in Conspiracy Theories

Great resource. Thank you.

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Yesterday, 05:56 PM

Noclevername replied to a thread Does anyone still believe that Apollo 11 landed on the moon after Chang'E-4 in Conspiracy Theories

GCR exposure depends on how much of the sky you are open to. This has been pointed out repeatedly. The VAB is not uniform. Apollo craft were...

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