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The wiki on lagrangian points also has a bunch of useful info on this stuff. Gravity is absolutely incredible https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point

This is incredible work for anyone, let alone a high schooler. Seriously impressive! I hope this turns into something I can buy (maybe a diy kit), in the future!

"The analysis revealed that both the CVR and FDR data were not recording during the four minutes leading up to the aircraft's collision" How does this even happen where two systems…

Exactly, evolution also will leave things at "good enough for function". It may well be that our sleep cycle so happened to level off at "good enough" considering our other evoluti…

Ha! I said this the other day to a friend as well. The 'typical' (Mercator) view has Greenland looking nearly as big as the continent of Africa. Reality is that it's about 1/4 the …

TIL that the likeness of Einstein was licensed. Proceeds go to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which is fitting considering his support and investment: "Albert Einstein is one …

https://archive.is/2025.01.01-212538/https://www.ft.com/cont... Non paywalled link

Yep definitely agreed on the existing padding, it just seems that, given the article, more is needed in some fashion.

This is interesting and I don't doubt the problem exists, but just considering the physics of a person riding a bike, it seems tough to envision an effective safety system. Maybe e…

As far as I know, you can drop back to desktop mode on SteamOS and be on your way.

Mainly packaging and bundling everything together in one drop-in package for every day users to get access to. I've run Linux for 20+ years now, and gotten steam games working a fe…

Harmonic is great, been using it a long time now. Prior to that I used Materialistic... I'll give this other one a try but I've been totally happy with harmonic, so it'll take a lo…

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This exactly. The biggest problem was that it came down with no gear or flaps (as far as I'm aware at least).

I think this hits the nail on the head. I do believe it would be very unlikely for Elon to be using the dittman account as much as it is used. That is the simplest possible explana…

It is sure seeming like LCDM needs some work. It's not really clear if a timescape approach solves the outstanding issues though