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If the UTC-TAI offset remains at -37s, then it also means the UTC-GPS offset remains at -18s. TAI and GPS have a constant 19s offset from each system.

I concur with building picoballoons. It's much more economical. It's hard to recover from a malfunctioning rocket that carried your precious payload, but a burst Yokohama is just a…

The current zeitgeist is clearly anti-plastic. Only time will change their minds. Fortunately, the healthcare industry (hospitals) will always use plastic for preventing contaminat…

NASA is a great PR firm. In my opinion, the real heroes are CalTech-JPL, Arizona State, and the other institutions that NASA slaps their logo on to.

This page view is invaluable to me for various reasons. I have been viewing it every day for years. Thank you for your work.

Veritasium has a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TKSfAkWWN0

The cover reminds me of John Harris's _A Dream of Starlight_. https://www.alisoneldred.com/john-harris/fine-art-prints-1/s...

It's the current trend in selling the fear of climate change caused by fossil fuels. People get desensitized to prior campaigns, like oil drilling, pipelines, gasoline cars, and pl…

The TrueType engine used to render the fonts on your screen uses bytecode.

Martin personally gave me a tour of the factories back in 2002. I got to see first hand things being made from parts. I overheard him pitching an idea to an engineer, and then a ye…

The key reason is the Coordinated part. By letting the Moon handle it's own timekeeping, it reduces the hassle of getting regular updates from Earth clocks. Earth-based atomic cloc…

Has the author ever been to an Oktoberfest?

You seem to have read the Old Testament. I would encourage you to also read closely the New Testament. In Matthew 23:23, Jesus affirms we should give tithes as well as justice and …

It's no longer necessary to follow the Mosaic law because Jesus fulfilled the requirements of the law and paid for the sins of his people. If you would like an in-depth answer, goo…

Try reading this article as if it were from The Onion.

They are US Senators, not US Representatives.

Shamir's scheme is related to Reed-Solomon error correction.

For an academic library, we interact with the faculty to find out what they want. Their departments are given a budget and we buy what they want. For a public library, we get input…

I bought the Data Analysis book thanks to your post.

Thank you for writing this article and especially skipping the unneeded proofs that a programmer usually has to step over to apply quaternions.

Darknet Diaries podcast episode 105 tells a cautionary story about these dedicated secure phones.

There will be a salvage company to carry away anything worthwhile, possibly paying Amazon pennies per pound. Some of the salvage will end up at salvage bid yards or flea markets.

A similar feat was accomplished in Chicago. "During the 1850s and 1860s, engineers carried out a piecemeal raising of the level of central Chicago. Streets, sidewalks, and building…

How much did you pay in the end?

From FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss, in his book Never Split the Difference, the US government always negotiates with terrorists.