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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association
« Last post by Jubal on Today at 10:26:04 AM »model
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association
« Last post by Glaurung on Today at 09:39:39 AM »statistical
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association
« Last post by Jubal on Today at 09:32:41 AM »Sample
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History, Science, and Interesting Information - The Great Library / Re: Space yays
« Last post by dubsartur on Today at 07:10:59 AM »Past NASA disasters have not had that effect, but a collapse in confidence in NASA might be damaging. Another of Ceglowski's points is that only national space agencies have expertise in the tedious issues around keeping primates healthy outside the atmosphere. The private space firms focus on rocket science and telecommunications even if their patrons have dreams of space stations or Mars colonies.
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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association
« Last post by Glaurung on May 21, 2024, 12:04:44 PM »stool
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History, Science, and Interesting Information - The Great Library / Re: Space yays
« Last post by Jubal on May 21, 2024, 10:05:34 AM »Ceglowski has posted a long essay in the style of a business or policy paper with his criticisms of the Artemis program. I sure would take a bet that NASA will not land astronauts on the moon by 31 December 2026 but having some manned spaceflight seems better than dropping more bombs on Arabs or tax cuts for billionaires or other things the actually-existing United States would do with the money. https://idlewords.com/2024/5/the_lunacy_of_artemis.htm And half a dozen countries or alliances have serious space programs now so if the USA loses interest the rest of us will keep going.I substantially agree with you, though I'd be more worried for the future of space exploration about things like the critiques he makes of the lander system: having a bunch of astronauts die on the moon after their multi-storey landing capsule fell over feels like the sort of thing that would really tank wider support for space travel.
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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: May pub - 30th or 31st?
« Last post by Jubal on May 21, 2024, 09:41:31 AM »Ooh, do let us know how that goes though!
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General Chatter - The Boozer / Re: May pub - 30th or 31st?
« Last post by indiekid on May 21, 2024, 09:40:58 AM »I can't do either as traveling down to the UK Games Expo. Enjoy folks!
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History, Science, and Interesting Information - The Great Library / Re: Space yays
« Last post by dubsartur on May 21, 2024, 06:34:07 AM »Ceglowski has posted a long essay in the style of a business or policy paper with his criticisms of the Artemis program. I sure would take a bet that NASA will not land astronauts on the moon by 31 December 2026 but having some manned spaceflight seems better than dropping more bombs on Arabs or tax cuts for billionaires or other things the actually-existing United States would do with the money. https://idlewords.com/2024/5/the_lunacy_of_artemis.htm And half a dozen countries or alliances have serious space programs now so if the USA loses interest the rest of us will keep going.
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Discussion and Debate - The Philosopher's Plaza / Re: Cultures are Weird
« Last post by dubsartur on May 20, 2024, 04:32:58 AM »In a 'Surprised Eel Historian' story Fisheries and Oceans Canada caught someone trying to smuggle 109 kg of chilled eels https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-officials-seize-around-500000-worth-of-elvers-from-toronto-pearson/
The Globe and Mail (older and less politically conservative of the two Toronto papers which call themselves national) has a story about the decline of small prairie hamlets (they call them towns but a few hundred people is only a town in the legal sense) through the lense of the decline of their hotel-bars https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-on-the-rocks-the-death-and-life-of-canadas-little-bars-on-the-prairie/
The Globe and Mail (older and less politically conservative of the two Toronto papers which call themselves national) has a story about the decline of small prairie hamlets (they call them towns but a few hundred people is only a town in the legal sense) through the lense of the decline of their hotel-bars https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-on-the-rocks-the-death-and-life-of-canadas-little-bars-on-the-prairie/