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the Wrong Stuff

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The phantom found Edward Everett Hale a century too early; by the time we invented satellites, the specifics of his 'brick moon' proposal were dismissed as science fiction.
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The phantom found Edward Everett Hale a century too early; by the time we invented satellites, the specifics of his 'brick moon' proposal were dismissed as science fiction.
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Compact Graphs

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People may complain about readability, but even with jpeg compression, extracting the data points is usually computationally feasible if there aren't too many of them.
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People may complain about readability, but even with jpeg compression, extracting the data points is usually computationally feasible if there aren't too many of them.
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Space Typography

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And over heeee[...]eeeere (i)s Saturn.
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And over heeee[...]eeeere (i)s Saturn.
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jepler
3 days ago
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Kerning space program
Earth, Sol system, Western spiral arm
cjheinz
4 days ago
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Nice!

Typical Seating Chart

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Now that airlines have started adding wheel locks to their drink carts, less than half of flights have one accidentally fall out through the hole.
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Now that airlines have started adding wheel locks to their drink carts, less than half of flights have one accidentally fall out through the hole.
Pylgrimm
7 days ago
I see this airline is wasting sitting room on the engines. Just sell it as "heated seats" and charge extra.
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fxer
7 days ago
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Trash hole is also the economy section lavatory
Bend, Oregon
dukeofwulf
7 days ago
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Extra miles? They could charge extra for the tail-gunner seats. I'd pay.
iustinp
7 days ago
+1 to that!
cjheinz
7 days ago
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LOL!
JayM
7 days ago
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Hahaha
Atlanta, GA

X Value

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The value of n is still unknown, but new results constrain it to fall between 8 and 10^500, ruling out popular 'n=1' and 'n=2' theories.
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The value of n is still unknown, but new results constrain it to fall between 8 and 10^500, ruling out popular 'n=1' and 'n=2' theories.
2bithacker
10 days ago
This is all completely wrong. x = 120, X = 88, n = 110.
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gordol
9 days ago
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Why do I always have to solve for x? We broke up years ago!
Earth
deebee
9 days ago
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More spaceship games, less complicated math/particle physics!
America City, America
macr0t0r
10 days ago
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Well, great. That makes nearly all algebra tests worthless if students already know the answer. I hope they understand how publishing this will incur a great cost to the education system.

Decay Modes

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Unlike an Iron Age collapse, a Bronze Age collapse releases energy, since copper and tin are past the iron peak on the curve of binding energy.
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Unlike an Iron Age collapse, a Bronze Age collapse releases energy, since copper and tin are past the iron peak on the curve of binding energy.
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