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People are losing their shit with no regard for how much shit they need to be keeping in reserve, in order to lose later.
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Every time I think I've found the dumbest chart in a NASA document, they find a way to top it. But here is the current frontrunner.
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Dear space lazyweb, in reading through tech reports on ISS I found a mention once that the space station water system is run by a full-time ground team of 12. For the life of me, I can't seem to dig up this reference again. Can anyone point me to it, or the correct number?
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NASA's long-term plan is to add an entire pointless space station to the Moon landings by 2028. But for now we have to make do with a weird orbit and depending on Elon Musk to finish a project in time.
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Alright, I'm going to take a year off the twitters and see what else I can do with the time. Follow for blog post notifications, blog.pinboard.in for actual Pinboard stuff. Great Slate 2022: under no circumstances give any politicians money. See you all in 2023!
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RIP to former Senate majority leader Harry Reid, whose death at age 82 prematurely cuts short a promising future in Democratic politics
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The better decision here would have been a Covid Bowl, with an asymptomatic bracket matched up against athletes who are mildly ill. "WE SMELL VICTORY!" "WE CAN'T BUT IT WILL BE OURS!"
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Again, the problem here is not spending money on space exploration, but spending money on lack of space exploration. The opportunity cost to real space science of building another modular space station (the first one would have bought us 15 Webb space telescopes) is outrageous.
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The bureaucratic lesson of the space station is that a combination of large enough sunk costs and triply redundant international partners can give a spacecraft sufficient shielding from Congress. NASA is now applying this to the Moon missions, which is why they are so insane
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If you don't speak acronym, what this says is that NASA will launch Gateway (a tiny and unnecessary space station), and then add three modules with living space, life support, fuel, followed by the large habitat that's notionally supposed to go to Mars, for multi-year testing.
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An interesting tidbit in NASA's "Strategic Campaign Operations Plan for Exploration" is that they're trying to sneak building a second ISS in lunar orbit under the Congressional radar. The Gateway made no sense on its own, but it is just the seed for another modular space station
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Sure, yesterday was rough, but no one is celebrating how D.C. reported *no* covid cases on five of the last ten days. The capital's innovative approach to reaching Covid Zero could serve as a model for the rest of the nation.
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Maybe don't use three significant figures in the percentage estimate if the bounds of your "95% confidence interval" (for an exponential process!) are sixty points apart
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CDC's estimate for the prevalence of Omicron last week dropped significantly from 73.2% w/ a 95% prediction interval of 34-94.9% down to 22.5% w/ a 95% prediction interval of 15.4-31.5%. 12/25 estimate is 58.6% with a 95% prediction interval of 41.5-74%. twitter.com/ozair_naqvi/st…
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The PvP is glitchy and the controls remain frustrating, but Twitter is still the best first-person shouter out there
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Imagine if the NTSB routinely changed their findings about why a plane crashed for fear of what it might do to public confidence in air travel, or the economic impact it would have on airport Cinnabons. That's where the CDC is at, filling a leadership vacuum left by the President
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