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19 Jun 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Powell Quesne
One of the coolest things about spacewalks rarely nailed by science fiction is the enormous value of a drone tech assist: "It has an elbow, shoulders and even wrists, and it [is] the first robot able to 'walk' around the Russian part of the Space Sta...
19 Jun 2021 7 minute read 3 comments Powell Quesne
The columnar view slides about fifty places to the right until it's centred on the scroll of robotics, as requested, and then the human anchormen take centre screen. They look like classic, old-school robots -- two of them, clad in riveted metal cyli...
18 Jun 2021 9 minute read 5 comments Seth Carter
I'm an economist-in-training. More specifically, I'm a PhD researcher and student in economics trying to gain the skills I'll need to become a professional. Most of the time, this process consists of me making numerous and embarrassing mistakes that...
17 Jun 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Powell Quesne
Bandwidth Explosion: "An optical solution that uses four 200 Gbps wavelength lanes to reach 800 GbE." Read. "Of more than 9,000 satellites sent into orbit since 1957, SpaceX has already deployed 1,677." Read. "Promising advances in rocket propulsion"...
15 Jun 2021 1 minute read 0 comments trutle
Flat earth, anti-vaccination, fake moon landing, the great reset... conspiracy theories run this world at an ever rapid rate of growth, like the covid-19 vaccine conspiracy theory, which has been loved by conspiracy theorists all around the world, bu...
15 Jun 2021 1 minute read 2 comments Cje95
After the big freeze that happened across Texas in February that crippled the electrical grid Texas's Grid operators were put on the hot seat to get this issue fixed. While rolling power outages might be common or at least heard of in other states in...
14 Jun 2021 3 minute read 1 comment LateToTheParty
Introduction Mass shootings are extremely tragic. Innocent people get harmed and killed for no good reason, and their families are left to mourn their loved ones. If they are fortunate enough, they can seek and get justice against the perpetrator(s)...
14 Jun 2021 4 minute read 0 comments tych0_21
The European Gypsy Moth (Lymantria dispar dispar) is a species of moth introduced to North America in the 1860s and has since become one of the most notorious pest species in the deciduous forests of Northeastern North America. Unfortunately, the sp...
14 Jun 2021 6 minute read 3 comments The Archivist
When you dream, can you tell you are dreaming? How do you tell what is true and what is not? Do you honestly listen to the opposite view and suspend your disbelief in order to see things differently? How do you tell if the opposite view you've found...
13 Jun 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Powell Quesne
"CHAINSPLIT!" It's a rim howler, alright. It's not just a distant, ghostly, undifferentiated whine anymore. He can hear the regular scooping of the thing's initial roar through his space helmet. The wall has to be right in front of him now, just beyo...
