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Kenny Ball - Midnight in Moscow

Good morning.

That thing where you think you’re reading The Onion and then realize you’re not.

That thing where you think you’re reading The Onion and then realize you’re not.

Los Angeles Times

At least it’s fully tested.

At least it’s fully tested.

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misfitwashere: Don’t know which Orbiter or mission. Just a really nice picture. Love this shot. The Space Shuttle Atlantis streaks skyward as sunlight pierces through the gap between the orbiter and ET assembly. Atlantis lifted off on the 42nd space shuttle flight at 11:02 a.m. EDT on August 2, 1991 carrying a crew of five and TDRS-E. A remote camera at the 275-foot level of the Fixed Surface Structure took this picture.

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Don’t know which Orbiter or mission. Just a really nice picture.

Love this shot.

The Space Shuttle Atlantis streaks skyward as sunlight pierces through the gap between the orbiter and ET assembly. Atlantis lifted off on the 42nd space shuttle flight at 11:02 a.m. EDT on August 2, 1991 carrying a crew of five and TDRS-E. A remote camera at the 275-foot level of the Fixed Surface Structure took this picture.

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That said, we’re going to stick with noncommittal language here just in case some charismatic young gun comes out of nowhere and steals the show.

That said, we’re going to stick with noncommittal language here just in case some charismatic young gun comes out of nowhere and steals the show.

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Dire Straits - Romeo & Juliet

lookhigh: Lost In Space The crew of Apollo 14 hoped to reach the rim of Cone crater, a more recent impact crater about 1,000 feet wide a little over a mile from the Antares lander.  However, the terrain was hillier than expected, and the crew lost sight of the crater rim among the ridges of the hills. Eventually, they had to turn back because they needed to save enough oxygen and other supplies to return safely to the lander. High-resolution photos of the area taken with LRO’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) reveal that they had come within about 30 yards of the rim, just a minuscule distance considering they had travelled over 250,000 miles to get there. (NASA) Photo: Ed Mitchell consults a map on his way to Cone crater during the Apollo 14 mission.

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Lost In Space

The crew of Apollo 14 hoped to reach the rim of Cone crater, a more recent impact crater about 1,000 feet wide a little over a mile from the Antares lander. 

However, the terrain was hillier than expected, and the crew lost sight of the crater rim among the ridges of the hills. Eventually, they had to turn back because they needed to save enough oxygen and other supplies to return safely to the lander.

High-resolution photos of the area taken with LRO’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) reveal that they had come within about 30 yards of the rim, just a minuscule distance considering they had travelled over 250,000 miles to get there. (NASA)

Photo: Ed Mitchell consults a map on his way to Cone crater during the Apollo 14 mission.

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Meta.

Meta.

Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain, 1942

Kittens are all around you. Stay vigilant.

Kittens are all around you. Stay vigilant.

thesuperficial.com

Tweets from the President are signed -BO.
Politics aside, I’m happy this is a thing.

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The Salmon of Doubt

A collection of articles, interviews, short stories, and speeches by and about Douglas Adams.  Good stuff.  The title comes from an unfinished Dirk Gently novel Adams was working on at the time of his death, the first ten chapters of which are included in this recording.

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I can imagine Newton sitting down and working out his laws of motion and figuring out the way the Universe works and with him, a cat wandering around. The reason we had no idea how cats worked was because, since Newton, we had proceeded by the very simple principle that essentially, to see how things work, we took them apart. If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have in your hands is a non-working cat.
Is There an Artificial God?. Douglas Adams’ speech at Digital Biota 2 Cambridge U.K., September 1998