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    Impeachment articles filed against RFK Jr., claiming abuse of power

    This sentence cannot be formed in the language of American politics. You are either a commie fascist Walker or a dirty hippy Chewer. That's one symptom of having only two parties. There is no one left to suggest that the right answer could be a combination of Walker and Chewer ideas.
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    It’s hunting season in orbit as Russia’s killer satellites mystify skywatchers

    This is a legitimate point. Very aware of corona, and it going into operation in 1959. Two years later. They weren't sitting on this tech waiting for a legal loophole to launch it. They found themselves having to take the path that was "quickest to market", so to speak. OT: anyone know how...
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    It’s hunting season in orbit as Russia’s killer satellites mystify skywatchers

    Do you have source for this? The US was nowhere close to just "start[ing] satellite surveillance". Up to this point the "space" race was really the ICBM race. If you can accelerate your payload to orbital velocities, that's the ultimate ICBM, isn't it? The fissile material in a single stage...
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    Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band

    Why did it take 20 years to write this article? Oh, you mean you're trying to tell me that the crap they play these days wasn't already some muddled, commercialized machination of a soulless entity that has never had a meaningful feeling in their entire existence?
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    AI video just took a startling leap in realism. Are we doomed?

    Proof AI is racist. Just assumed the middle aged balding guy is white, tf
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    Why are two Texas senators trying to wrest a Space Shuttle from the Smithsonian?

    I don't necessarily disagree, but there is something to be said about the intimate setting. It forces there to be a path one takes around and through it, and that path to keep moving. I recall one of my earliest visits to nat air and space in DC that the room with the lunar module mock up was...
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    Why are two Texas senators trying to wrest a Space Shuttle from the Smithsonian?

    Yup. Been trying to react my original post; I haven't figured out what the criteria are for one to no longer be able to edit their own post, but this one qualified. I suppose I could just change my sn to gotfunkintold
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    Why are two Texas senators trying to wrest a Space Shuttle from the Smithsonian?

    @GrumpyExSpaceDude @EricBerger FYI, the shuttle in NY is Enterprise, housed in the intrepid carrier on the west side of Manhattan. It was only ever an aerodynamic test model (read: drop from plane, does this brick really fly?). It has been in New York since before the shuttles were retired and...
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    Here’s how a satellite ended up as a ghostly apparition on Google Earth

    It wouldn't have appeared blurry from the "dark side of the sat" any more than it did from the sun drenched side. The B2 appears blurry because those five layers are mostly on top of each other due to relative speeds, but off by enough to make the result not very helpful. What it would have...
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    Nintendo’s new system for sharing digital Switch games, explained

    I just picture the evil Nintendo overloads laughing and drinking baby blood celebrating how good they're going to look offering this feature. But I'm an old man so ignore me. It's just, back in my day, my paid license for a game was a physical thing that included all that was needed to play...
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    The CDC buried a measles forecast that stressed the need for vaccinations

    Everyone makes a big deal about STEM, ignoring the fact that the Confederate Republican states have long ago replaced "History" with "'Murca is great." So we have generations that complain about freedom of speech, not knowing why it's important, not understanding how something like the...
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    The CDC buried a measles forecast that stressed the need for vaccinations

    If there exists a subset of CDC leadership that still believe "do no harm", I have a solution for you: Lord Kennedy the Younger says, study autism-vaccine correlation (again)? Ok, here: people stop vaccinating, people get sick and die and it spreads horribly. At the same time, autism, I'm...
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    Elon Musk and Trump win fight to keep DOGE’s work secret

    The only thing they got wrong was thinking it would take 500 years to get here. First they take the fluoride out of the water. How long till we hear replacing the water in our municipal systems with brawndo Gatorade will be better than any vaccine we've ever had.
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    Elon Musk and Trump win fight to keep DOGE’s work secret

    Let's all (non billionaires/corporate entities) just put our taxes into escrow accounts. Same as you'd do with rent when the landlord doesn't reasonably maintain your building. Very much the same.
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    Rocket Report: Falcon 9 may smash reuse record; Relativity roving to Texas?

    Me, triggered? Please read the question before getting all dickish. I read and understood the body of the article just fine. I asked about the use of the word "roving" in the headline, because that didnt reconcile with me. It may very well be a typo but I don't assume to be the smartest...
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    Rocket Report: Falcon 9 may smash reuse record; Relativity roving to Texas?

    IIRC, von Braun was still a proponent of SSTO even when they started on Saturn v. However he was humble/smart enough to take his colleagues' arguments seriously and eventually saw the light. Nazi or not, that's the way a leader should be. Traits that seem to be lost to some today. Yeah you...
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    Rocket Report: Falcon 9 may smash reuse record; Relativity roving to Texas?

    So, anyone want to talk about the article? Was I the only one that got as far as the second half of the headline and saw that Relativity may be "roving" to Texas?
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    Alphabet spins off laser-based Internet backbone provider Taara

    s/higher data rates/lower latency/