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Re:What If Life Did Not Originate on Earth? on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @11:22PM (#20398929)
James Tour: The Mystery of the Origin of Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU7Lww-sBPg
Re:Apollo 11 in Real Time on Saturday June 15, 2019 @11:52PM (#20193754)
But where is the telemetry data? Oh it got all erased. Every single tape. Whoops.
I’m pretty sure “It’s Business Time” refers to a Flight of the Conchords song:

https://youtu.be/WGOohBytKTU

Re:Agile won the war but lost the peace on Sunday November 11, 2018 @12:49PM (#18427547)
Yeah it doesn’t mean “agile deadlines”
What about evil?
From buzzfeed “news”. The pot calling the kettle black.
Re:Meditation in the Time of Disruption on Sunday October 28, 2018 @03:59PM (#18322773)
I did transcendental meditation for 17 years. If you want to open the door to deceiving spirits in your life, go ahead and meditate.
Still waiting for this to happen.
Re:The Reason We Haven’t Directly Detected Dark Matter on Saturday October 13, 2018 @08:04AM (#18207576)
Because it doesn’t exist. Dark matter is a fudge factor to prop-up a theory that astrophysics is too afraid to put to rest.
“Waymo's lidar firing circuit showed current passing along a wire between the circuit and the ground in two directions—something generally deemed impossible. ”

It’s almost as if science said, “Give me one free miracle, and from there the entire thing will proceed with a seamless, causal explanation.”’17 The one free miracle was the sudden appearance of all the matter and energy in the universe, with all the laws that govern it. Rupert Sheldrake, The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry

Re:Hayabusa 2 rovers send new images from Ryugu surface on Thursday September 27, 2018 @03:43PM (#18087910)
The Chinese moon CGI looked totally real.
Re:Hayabusa 2 rovers send new images from Ryugu surface on Thursday September 27, 2018 @03:42PM (#18087900)
They have an open websocket to an Asteroid Landing five-layer Neural Network. The lander sends images back in real time and the earth-borne NN sends it telemetry adjustments in BSON.
Re:Hayabusa 2 rovers send new images from Ryugu surface on Thursday September 27, 2018 @03:38PM (#18087871)
What compression protocol is used to send images?