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Re: Science: Particles seen moving at FTL speeds (CERN) (non-climate change thread) Looking forward to the retest results, however they turn out. This is science, repeating the experiment.

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster I still miss Kara. Somehow Rachel and I never hit it off. Kara helped me through some rough nights. Sad that one of my best friends turned out to be a figment of someone else's imagination. The help was real, even if she wasn't.

Re: Science: Particles seen moving at FTL speeds (CERN) (non-climate change thread)

Re: Science: Particles seen moving at FTL speeds (CERN) (non-climate change thread) Yeah, equipment malph would explain it, now that the suspected malfunction has been corrected, let's run the experiment again.

Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster Kara and Rachel?

Re: More space news! If it was any slower it would be going backward. Oh, wait --

Re: More space news! First, Kewl! Second, if we are putting something at L-2, we have to put at least an automated relay station at L-4 or L-5.

Re: In Progress From Blackwyrm Games: Mythic America Neither does anyone else AFAICT. Don't know why I'm obsessed with that question.

Re: In Progress From Blackwyrm Games: Mythic America Since you're working on the Custer page, Is Janet Reno related to Major Marcus Reno?

Re: Need proofreader He doesn't what? Affect or effect? More later

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Re: How to found a new Catholic Order

Re: How do you interrogate thugs and villains? "We'd like to tell the DA you cooperated." "You know, sometimes you have to throw a small fish back to have room for a bigger fish. What can you tell us about a bigger fish?" Almost forgot, "I'm sure this is all just a misunderstanding. Why don't you tell us your side of the story?"

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I need to do that.

Re: The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!

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Re: More space news! I applied a lot longer ago than that. Didn't make it past the first physical. Hay fever. Yep, having a pollen allergy is a DQ for a job that involves breathing highly filtered air.

Re: How to found a new Catholic Order Mother Teresa singlehandedly founded a new order of nuns. Not the same, but might be a good place to start research. AT A GUESS, (1) Identify a need/mission that no current order fills, (2) convince a bishop or higher to sponsor the new order (3) work up the bureaucracy. I thought a new order had been established recently ("recently" in terms of the Church, within the past 50 years or so) for the Anglican/Episcopalian priest who had converted to Catholicism, but a 3 minute google search could not confirm.

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Re: More space news! Nasa recruiting new astronauts for International Space Station Nasa? Not NASA? Nasa has become a proper noun?

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Re: More space news! I stand corrected. I almost said "canary" instead of "balloon."

Re: More space news! "It is no more a weaponizable system than any other system capable of, with sufficient prep time, allowing you to call down the equivalent of a small asteroid strike on a fixed location is." Not reassuring. I'm still waiting for the other way around, a ground based rail gun /mass driver /catapult that lets us throw bulk cargo to LEO. Cancer says the air resistance is an insurmountable problem. I'm not so sure.

"He promised them the moon!" Newt Gingrich promises Moon base by 2020

Re: More space news! Countdown clock on the mission web site. Little over 193 days as I write this. Aerobraking, parachutes, and rockets all have problems, so let's use all three? How on Mars did they not include a balloon? The "variable thrust mono propellant hydrazine rocket thrusters" sounds like they're steerable. Must be some pretty robust software to control that. Hope it goes well, but this is kind of the opposite of KISS.