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vermontdevilon Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 commander, has died

One strange aspect about Apollo 8 is that all three astronauts have passed away on the 7th day of the month.

Frank Borman Nov 7, 2023 William Anders June 7, 2024 James Lovell Aug 7, 2025

vermontdevilon Safer roundabouts are replacing traffic signals (2023)

Carmel, Indiana has over 150 roundabouts and they are building more. I believe we have less than 5 traffic light intersections now but I'm not 100% sure.

The movement around Carmel is remarkable compared to driving next cities (Indy, Fishers, etc). Fishers and Westfield are building more roundabouts as well.

As for one person who commented about high traffic locations - Carmel would make an overpass for those intersections though they are not many.

vermontdevilon Ask HN: Why aren't there any cars in Nineteen Eighty-Four?

Come again? UN Plan?

vermontdevilon Amazon Alexa is on pace to lose $10B this year

Alexa, print my CV

vermontdevilon World military expenditure passes $2T for first time

My theory - similar with guns, the more we have the higher chances of it being used (guns and military).

We need to have less of both, not more. But I know it won't happen. Not for a long time.

vermontdevilon James Webb telescope reaches its final destination in space, million miles away

To show the comparison (737 for example here)

https://icdn2.digitaltrends.com/image/shuttle-948x1500.jpg?v...

vermontdevilon I resigned from Twitter

He announced his resignation of course via a tweet:

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1465347002426867720?s=20

vermontdevilon The red warning light on Richard Branson’s space flight

My apologies. Not Sturckow but a different person, Mark "Forger" Stucky.

vermontdevilon The red warning light on Richard Branson’s space flight

Telling they fired Sturckow when he was pretty outspoken such as this:

In another e-mail, in 2019, he urged his fellow test pilots to be more transparent: “Failure to admit mistakes in flight test is a cancer that must be nipped at the bud.” Stucky, whom I wrote about in the magazine in 2018, had been particularly troubled by Mackay and Masucci’s unwillingness to take responsibility for what he perceived to be their mistakes on the July, 2018, flight.

vermontdevilon The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks

Not really. They are more concerned about government cracking down on the banks due to these acts.

vermontdevilon Over 96% of Apple Users Have Blocked Facebook from Tracking Them

How was this tracked if you turned off the “allow apps to track” setting?

vermontdevilon Someone Has to Run the Fabs

Where is the de-emphasizing of STEM in the US? I see nothing but STEM being promoted everywhere in colleges, high schools, camps, etc.

vermontdevilon Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years

What is shocking is the number of active cases right now. 250 or so around the world. Wow.

vermontdevilon SpaceX wins contract to develop spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon

What actual flights? Not the New Shepard? That's a suborbital rocket. They haven't gone to space yet!

vermontdevilon Suez Canal says traffic in channel resumes after stranded ship refloated

I enjoy reading all the various ideas people come up to solve a complex issue. I know it's mostly not realistic but always good to see how imagination come forth.

vermontdevilon America’s bald eagle population continues to soar

Just wait till you learn of Down East.

vermontdevilon Egypt prepares to start move to new capital, away from the chaos of Cairo

King moved to Versailles so that he could control the nobility in one central location.

vermontdevilon Electric car that charges itself

Airports have 24/7 service to jump start your car etc.

vermontdevilon SpaceX delivers 3rd batch of Starlink satellites in two weeks

Saw from one of the Space reporters on Twitter that this booster will do an April launch of another Starlink mission.

vermontdevilon Rocket Lab Unveils Plans for New 8-Ton Class Reusable Rocket

Batteries. Imagine all the weight.

vermontdevilon Paul Taylor, the engineer who created the TTY machine for the deaf, has died

He was instrumental in the development of one of the earliest relay services in the mid-80's in St. Louis. The way it worked back then was more of a community collaboration among many hearing volunteers and the deaf community. The volunteers would work as relay operator, making phone calls for us deaf and relaying the conversation with us through TTYs. Some of the volunteers were my friends' parents which made for awkward moments at times!

But it was very helpful in bridging the gap between the hearing and deaf communities in St Louis and the rest is history.

Lots of respect and admiration for Paul Taylor as a very instrumental trailblazer for the Deaf.

vermontdevilon Bison rangers wanted to oversee U.K. herd

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vermontdevilon U.S. to require negative Covid-19 tests for international air passengers

Cue black market negative tests for sale.

vermontdevilon 1937 film explains how a car differential works

Always loved to watch the opening sequence (motorcycles).

vermontdevilon Amazon reportedly has Pinkerton agents surveil workers who try to form unions

How do you think May Day was celebrated?

The Haymarket Affair [1] which occurred in 1886

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair

vermontdevilon The man who invented the Zamboni

I love this story - the fact it was invented in Los Angeles not in Minnesota or Canada etc.

vermontdevilon Diego Maradona has died

“ If I was in a white dress at a wedding and a muddy ball arrived... I would stop it from the chest, without thinking about it”.

Diego.

vermontdevilon Pfizer and BioNTech Conclude Phase 3 Study of Covid-19 Vaccine Candidate

You can follow Dr Eric Topol or Dr Florian Krammer on twitter as they for sure will be able to explain the data in layman terms. Great people to follow. There are others as well.

vermontdevilon Pfizer and BioNTech Conclude Phase 3 Study of Covid-19 Vaccine Candidate

“I don’t know enough about the reporting process” yet continues to come up with a theory based on nothing.

vermontdevilon Kandi K27 electric car available in California for $7,999 after rebates

Only a few hours a day. The rest everyone is snarled in bumper to bumper traffic.