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Ephemeris listing, if anyone knows how to get RA/Dec from it:

https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=2026%...

Superpolynomial subexponential runtimes. / Even though in practice it would take you several lifetimes, / If you ran it long enough you'd always find those two primes. / Superpolynomial subexponential runtimes -- Eric Hughes (2000)

Which was partly a rehash of Koenig as the snarky alien diplomat on The Starlost (1973 Canadian series) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=oro+%22starlost%22&iar=videos

As they said in "Yes, Minister": "under consideration" means we've lost the file; "under active consideration" means we're trying to find it.

In a series of lectures in 1938, tv inventor Philo Farnsworth explained the need to develop "the tools to make the tools to make the tools" to make high tech stuff. He originated the phrase.

FWIW, Rare Disease Day is celebrated on Feb. 29.

In 2019 an injured siberian tiger came to a russian border post and refused to leave until he was taken to a rehab facility.

Signed webpage schemes have been around since the 1990s. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pgp-signed+webpages&ia=web

Recording the TLS session doesn't work. The content is only authenticated with a symmetric session key. The content is not signed by the server's private key. Anyone can use the same session key to forge a different session with a modified webpage and new auth tags. The hash of the webpage is not signed by the private key. This is intentional. The protocol is not intended to bind the content to the private key.

Protactile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protactile developed out of hand-over-hand tactile signing of ASL and fingerspelling

During the early days of the Russian invasion in 2022, it was realized that almost all of Ukraine's redundant offsite backups were in various locations in Kyiv.

Tech support people have to learn elaborate methods of getting people to tell what they call the enter / carriage return button... ⏎ ↩

In round numbers, a Mag-1 quake is 1 kg of TNT, Mag-3 is 1 ton, Mag-5 is 1 kiloton, and Mag-7 is a megaton. <<insert lots of handwaving>>

In 2016, Clinton spent $576.4 million and Trump spent $332.4 million. In 2024, total spending including PACs was $1.6B for Biden/Harris and $1.1B for Trump. There was less money behind Trump both times.

Ditto the makers of scientific instruments, and the manufacturers of moveable type. The printer's ligne was 1/6 of a continental inch, and the typographic pointe was 1/12 of a ligne.

After it was discovered that radiation was the result of atoms randomly decaying over long periods of time, there was speculation about making them release all their energy at once. There were sci-fi stories in the 'teens and 20s about discovering a ray that could be shined on radioactive material to make it go foof. There was no concept of neutrons, critical mass, or slamming hemispheres together. The idea was that the bomb residue would be nonradioactive because it all decayed.

Interesting that many of the early steam mills used a steam engine to pump water into a water tower, which then drove a conventional water wheel to power the millworks.

Armchair metrologist here. Did metalworkers back then use 16ths, or 12ths and 24ths? I'm familiar with the use of 1/12th lines ''' and multiples of 1/144th points ''''.

From the 1500s, there were large numbers of Irish mercenaries called 'Wild Geese' who served in continental armies, and there have been communities of ethnic Irish people there for centuries. In particular a large number of Jacobite refugee families settled in Normandy after 1691. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_Wild_Geese

It sounds like there were two different factions within the museum: one which intended to scan all the works and put 2D and 3D scans and models online, and one which did not want any scans to be released. The grants were obtained by Group A; Group B seems to have veto power.

For reference: a comprehensive backup + security plan for individuals https://nau.github.io/triplesec/

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. -- Descartes

At several points in time, the Pentagon proposed mothballing the SR-71 and relying on sat-recon. And each time, the aircraft-recon imagery people screamed bloody murder and insisted they needed the aircraft imagery. And then one day the Pentagon announced that they were shutting down the SR-71 ... ... and there was a thundering silence from the aircraft-recon intel people. Almost as though there was already a replacement for the SR-71 but nobody could talk about it.

In the late 1800s there was a cottage industry of mechanics and ironmongers selling and repairing small steam and kerosene engines used by rural mills and farms. There were horse drawn steam threshing machines. Bicycle repair shops sprang up. The Wright brothers got into the bicycle business before horseless carriages. There were many intermediate tech skills that led up to working on motorcars.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140228123520/http://www.unshel... your kid is a reader

https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHDparenting

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Raising+Girls+With+ADHD+&ia=web

Paper from last fall https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jeu.70040

They've known about the Paulinella genus for several decades, but they're always glad to discover a new species. This genus acquired a photosynthetic symbiont "only" 100 million years ago, and it's only partway through the process of losing its genes. It's a snapshot of the evolutionary process.

TBH, this has almost nothing to do with the origins of life.

The nearest approach is 0.988x Lunar Distance (379,868 km), 60 Earth radii out. The size is very roughly 6.7 meters, 22 feet. If it hit the atmosphere, the airburst would be about 5 kilotons. Airbursts like that happen every few years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_air_burst#After_1900

There are people using water-hungry artificial brains to generate Dune memes. At this rate we're going to run out of irony.

Lutetium-176, element 71, better than 1 part in 10^18.

They wanted him to pay almost six years worth of his normal post-tax income. Did you have to pay six years worth of income? It took him a lot of work to get it down to 'only' 18.7k€.

This ranks right up there with the author who wrote a children's book about a village where they had to turn over 102% of the potatoes they grew. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomperipossa_in_Monismania

Nothing is preventing you from building a new long-duration probe and launching it on a thousand year journey.