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Why does it take 10 days? Because it's not powered the whole way. You fire the engines briefly from earth to get to near-escape velocity, then coast to the moon, all the while slow…

Two what? Two yutes? What? Ohhh... Youths... Two youths... I'll see myself out.

Very Cool! I had Smalltalk-80 back in the mid 80s and loved it. Prob forgot most by now tho. Just cool you've made it a thing again.

Waiting for an obligatory WinampAI post because... It Really Whips the Llama's Ass.

I spent approx 1 year working on a very hush project at FDA. It (I shit you not) had requirements to allow rerouting of drug application and progress reviews (workflow system) arou…

I've long been a fan of HP Voyager series calculators. I used an HP-11c daily at work years ago. I still have it, an HP-15c, and and HP-12c. The 11c and 15c are both probably still…

Interesting. Nobody writes about the Rural Electrification project which was to run electricity to very remote farms, then high speed internet to them. Turns out satellite (or Star…

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When I started we had a clear distinction between titles and the duties associated: Assistant (entry level) Associate (3-5 yrs) Research (7 or more yrs) Senior (typically >10yrs) W…

"53 teeth are from one shark and experts estimate the shark would have been close to 50 feet long."

Chang resecured himself to the space station and made his way to the main hatch while Huan brought Tiangong-3’s weapons online. The station crew had realized they were moving to wa…

I'm not signing up or creating a "free" account without at least seeing a sample of it. JMHO.

Good article, but the author is using low numbers for the "speeding bullet" stats. Like many jobs both around the house and industrial stuff, know what you are doing before you att…