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Chad Pacific
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Lol wildly exaggerated. Largest height difference on Earth's surface is 13 miles (including underwater) vs. the 8,000 mile diameter. To quote NDGT, "The Earth is smoother than a cue ball"
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Chad Pacific
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Lol wildly exaggerated. Largest height difference on Earth's surface is 13 miles (including underwater) vs. the 8,000 mile diameter. To quote NDGT, "The Earth is smoother than a cue ball"
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Watch a Chinese rocket booster fall from space and explode near a house in southern China
All that orange smoke indicates it had hypergolic fuel onboard, which is toxic
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Well played.
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I'm not gonna hurt these passengers! Why would I ever hurt these passengers? I feel like you're not getting this at all!
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I accidentally bought a game while my VPN was on
What's your concern? I've never heard any issues with purchasing anything on VPN. In fact, it's recommended to save money by getting around geo-pricing
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Why are we focused on a room temperature superconductor instead of a less cold superconductor?
Research looks into any and all superconductors all the time. The buzz right now is because a new one was potentially found, and it happens to function at room temperature. Discoveries don't happen on a schedule. If a superconductor was discovered that functioned at -15C, that would be huge news too as I believe the current warmest ambient pressure superconductor needs -140C to transition.
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Space drugs factory denied reentry to Earth
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I don't believe there's much of a track record for private crafts reentering from orbit, intending to be recovered. Most private crafts like communication satellites breakup on reentry and don't pose much of a risk to ground population. This station was designed specifically to survive reentry intact. I'm not sure what kind of deorbit equipment that station has but I would guess that's what the FAA is concerned with. Any failure of navigation or propulsion during deorbit could result in the station losing control which would have it crashing down in some unpredictable point and time along its 25,000 mile path over ground. Undoubtedly there are some large populations below the orbit of this station
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New far-right “vision board” outlaws trans people and imprisons all pornographers
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That title made perfect sense to me, the term "vision board" describes everything in your comment
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Why does this happen?
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Pretty sure everyone knows that the power setting on the microwave just changes the duty cycle of the magnetron. I've never seen a microwave specify wattage when selecting power, usually 1-10 or 1-100, no lies involved. What it does is allows the heat more time to evenly distribute through your food while cooking with the same amount of energy. That super hot bowl and tepid soup won't have as much of a difference when it takes twice as long to cook. Hot spots don't get a chance to get as hot. Psychologically it's easier too because let's be honest, no one's waiting 5 minutes after that timer goes off for the heat to settle
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I accidentally bought a game while my VPN was on
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Also in US, and I suspect many other countries
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That pattern
They clearly didn't use the printing tiddy, if they did the pattern would be in one piece
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What is the deal with beef stroganoff right now?
A guy brought beef stew to a fight, but he soon realized his mistake.
It was not strog-enough
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I do not wish to live in the Gummy Universe.
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Sour-Hulud
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Friday Facts #381 - Space Platforms
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Second sentence of the update, and it's in bold. Yes, it sounds like players will be able to travel
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Mmmmm just like mom used to make…
Too many bugs, not quite vegan
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The colour of the Sun is white
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During the day it's white, but it's also overhead and blindingly bright so we don't spend much time looking at it. As it gets closer to the horizon Rayleigh scattering begins filtering out the bluer light and the sun becomes yellow, then orange, then red. It also gets closer to our eyeline and becomes mildly safer to look at so we look at it a lot more. This in turn leads us to believe it's always yellow
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User is trying his best
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I use that for my 3d printer. My wifi was all fine and dandy until I got an enclosure for my printer and the metal foil seriously impacted my signal strength. Used these to get Ethernet across my house, works great in a pinch!
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How long did you have to wait before retaking your drivers test?
Only took it once, I don't know anyone personally that took it more than once. If there's a minimum wait time it would be posted in your state's policies, but I'd guess they'll take your money for the second test as soon as you want the too
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What book series would you like to see made into a movie trilogy or a show with multiple seasons?
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A Chinese show has already been released and an American one is releasing on Netflix soon. The Chinese version can be streamed on Viki. I'm about 1/3 of the way through (30 episodes) and I'm absolutely loving it. They don't dumb down any of the details with the science and is staying very true to the books so far. You just have to be willing to watch a subtitled show
I'm happy to be surprised but I doubt I'll like the US version as much. Nearly every US book adaptation I've watched has been dumbed down "for a wider audience" and changed quite substantially (looking at you, Silo and Beacon 23). This is also coming from D and D of GoT infamy, so we'll see if they can turn their track record around. At least this book is finished so they have the entire source material to work with
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Is America Really That Bad?
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Your comment lacks a bit of experience/awareness about what's out there. The US is huge, you're going to find different experiences in different places. Your statement about New York being the only mass transit city in all of US is not true. My vacations to Seattle and Washington DC I had no car, went all over the city by bus and train, easily.
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Elon Musk wanting to remove dim theme from twitter
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Woooosh. We all know what it's supposed to be called. Anyone calling it Ten is doing it purposefully to further sabotage the already self-sabotaged brand of Twitter/Ten