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NASA orders more tests on Starliner, but says crew isn’t stranded in space

“I want to make it very clear that Butch and Suni are not stranded in space."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/06/nasa-orders-more-tests-on-starliner-but-says-crew-isnt-stranded-in-space/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica Took me a minute to figure out the view: we're looking south, with the Nile river and the delta on the left, with Sinai and Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia upper left.

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Select every square that contains a basilisk:

60sRefugee ,
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@foone Courtesy of "MAD Magazine":

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The Roman empire fell because their Roman numerals weren't a form of positional notation, so they couldn't figure out binary. Their computers were terrible.

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@foone Maybe not; merchants using scales figured out early that a set of binary weights (base weight then each is double the previous) could be combined to any value up to 2x-1 where x was the largest weight. Now if some genius had figured out a way to combine this with an abacus...

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