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Also, there's an archived version, with web20230311073417 before....
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Howard NYC commented on
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Scott Sanford 508: please post the link... thx...
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Scott Sanford commented on
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please post the link... thx Since explicitly asked, okay: Go to the WaPo site in the usual way... /2023/03/08 is the date... /multiverse-novels/ gets you the file. I hope that's understandable to humans but not to bots....
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ilya187 commented on
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You forgot "books" before the date...
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JohnS commented on
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Greg Tingey @ 512: John S & SSIt happens. About 10 years ago, doing a shortish circular walk, near a friend's house in S Wales, I found One of these - not normally found in the UK at all.But, this was on a rural side-road, which at that point was next to a major dual carriageway.The seed had clearly come off a passing lorry! Don't doubt it a bit. My point was the video was ABOUT seeds flying off of the hopper cars, but you couldn't SEE any seeds in the video. All you could see was hopper cars passing...
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Adrian Midgley commented on
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Orientation of a large lightweight satellite. Circular and spin stabilised? Two very long cables with a weight on each end along the gravity gradient? The transmitter could be on the end of the stabilising string closer to where you want it, power Tx if that is how it is used. But still may be a better justification for them to take computation out of the atmosphere, along with its power generation, power consumption, and heat dissipation. Putting it in space, and powering it from what is there, solves a couple of problems. Moving the data is rather easier....
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