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What Is a Lunar “Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit”?
Tracking with Closeups
lunar-gateway ,  artemis ,  orbital-mechanics ,  halo-orbit
3 56 2 July 2022
Live Coverage: NASA Space Launch System Wet Dress Rehearsal
The Happening World
nasa ,  space-launch-system ,  wet-dress-rehearsal ,  watching-paint-dry
73 591 2 July 2022
United Launch Alliance Atlas V / USSF-12 Launch
The Happening World
space ,  atlas-v ,  united-launch-alliance
4 79 2 July 2022
Top Gun Maverick partially reverse engineered via FOIA
Books and Media
14 390 1 July 2022
Cooking Vegetables the Way Restaurants Do
Tracking with Closeups
cooking ,  vegetables ,  roasting ,  parboiling
6 139 1 July 2022
The Last Human
Context
artificial-intelligence ,  human-endowment ,  eschatology
1 71 1 July 2022
The 100 Prisoners Puzzle: A Combinatorial Conundrum
Tracking with Closeups
mathematics ,  probability ,  puzzles ,  combinatorics
0 56 1 July 2022
Science Ain't What It Used To Be
The Happening World
3 60 1 July 2022
Development log: 2022-06-30
Site Development Log
0 28 30 June 2022
Steel Cubes vs. Ice Cubes for Keeping Drinks Cold
Tracking with Closeups
steel-cubes ,  ice ,  heat-capacity ,  latent-heat-of-fusion
6 67 30 June 2022
Probing Oscillations of the Earth's Core with Underground Nuclear Test Explosions
Context
seismology ,  nuclear-testing ,  geology
0 54 30 June 2022
More Amazing Results from DALL-E 2 and an Open Source Clone
The Happening World
artificial-intelligence ,  computer-graphics ,  dall-e-2 ,  dall-e-mini
29 433 30 June 2022
SpaceX: SES-22 Launch
The Happening World
3 63 30 June 2022
Girardoni "Wind Gun" Air Rifle c. 1779
Continuity
guns ,  military-history ,  repeating-firearms ,  air-guns ,  lewis-and-clark
1 39 29 June 2022
Rarity: A Righteous and Short Commencement Speech
Context
courage
1 38 29 June 2022
ETSET 3.5 Released
Fourmilab
etset ,  e-books ,  publishing
0 55 29 June 2022
Flying Mach 10 at Ground Level
Tracking with Closeups
aviation ,  hypersonic-flight ,  dont-try-this-on-earth
1 38 29 June 2022
Emma Haruka Iwao on Calculating 100 Trillion Digits of π
Context
pi ,  emma-haruka-iwao ,  google-cloud
0 47 29 June 2022
Chinese FAST Radio Telescope Detects SETI Candidate Signal
Tracking with Closeups
3 65 28 June 2022
International Space Station Conjunction with Saturn
The Happening World
2 64 28 June 2022
Follow the Duck—Scott Manley in Zero G
Context
scott-manley ,  zero-g-flight ,  parabolic-arcs
1 79 28 June 2022
The Famous Dutch Flower Auction Has Gone Online
Continuity
netherlands ,  royal-floraholland ,  dutch-auction ,  software-eating-the-world
0 53 28 June 2022
Vacuum Tube Computer Part 28: An Emulator for the Hardware!
Continuity
computing ,  vacuum-tube ,  emulator
0 43 28 June 2022
World War – H. G. Wells Style
Books and Media
3 78 27 June 2022
The Brian Williams Memorial Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect Reading Room
Books and Media
gell-mann-amnesia
9 172 27 June 2022
Nikola Tesla’s Wireless Power Transmission—Could It Have Worked?
Continuity
nikola-tesla ,  wireless-power ,  crackpot
8 166 27 June 2022
NASA-DoE "Fission Surface Power" Micro-Nuclear Reactor
The Happening World
fission-surface-power ,  micro-nuclear-reactor
2 39 27 June 2022
The Secret Life of Components—Linkages and Mechanisms
Tracking with Closeups
mechanisms ,  tim-hunkin ,  mechanics ,  linkages
0 46 27 June 2022
BepiColombo Second Mercury Fly-by
The Happening World
space ,  mercury ,  bepicolombo ,  spacecraft ,  gravity-assist
0 50 27 June 2022
"The Invisible Rainbow A History of Electricity and Life", Arthur Firstenberg (2017)
Books and Media
radio ,  electricity
6 60 27 June 2022