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Re:The Day the Space Station Lurched by ypcx on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @04:57AM (#28058787)
And just like that, we've been set back by 10 years in waiting for a chair at the Milky Way Galactic Federation of Planets, which requires a 100 year continued presence of humans in space.
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Re:The Day the Space Station Lurched by rlpb on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @06:14AM (#28059267)
What kind of Galactic Federation defines their requirements in terms of time intervals defined by the orbital period of some random planet using numbers that are nice and round but only in some alien base?
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Re:The Day the Space Station Lurched by rbanffy on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @09:48AM (#28060956)
It's mostly a coincidence. It's defined as three times the half-life Rhodium 101.
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Re:The Day the Space Station Lurched by WalterBright on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @06:17AM (#28059294)
A Hollywood scriptwriter federation.
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