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25.9 billion km, 16.1 billion miles, 173.14 AU.

Related browser-based secret splitting tools -- https://bs.parity.io/ -- http://passguardian.com/ -- https://iancoleman.io/shamir/ -- but those do not store a pw vault file.

The US GDP shrank 29% from 1929 to 1933. International trade fell by 66% between 1929 and 1932. I don't recall hundreds of millions of people dying in the 1930s.

US mortality rates declined during the 1930s. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data-visualization/mortality-trends...

World infant mortality rates generally declined during the 1930s. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/nfant-Mortality-Rates-18...

'Bulletproof' hosting and domain services resist takedowns. Irondns.is comes to mind.

The Pentagon has an official plan for how to deal with a zombie outbreak. Grr. Arg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CONPLAN_8888.pdf

Specifically it is the frequency-based keyboard layout of traditional hot-metal Linotype machines. If you made a typo, the custom was to fill up the spoiled slug by running your finger down the etaoin shrdlu rows, and start fresh on the next slug. On rare occasions the layout clerk would accidentally let a shrdlu slug go to press, to the amusement of the readership.

Telegraph operators ranked the letters as etaonrish.

Writhing tentacles in your computer's recycle bin (mac/win). Approved by Cthulhu.

Apparently there's enough capitalism for mining colonies and merchant traders. "No!! If you shut down the mine we'll go bankrupt!!"

Unfortunately the 1970s ST animated series gave us the 'trapped in the holodeck' story format. The TNG writers leaned a little too heavily on it.

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.

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