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uhoh
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Q: Is this "satellite photo" the only representation of the shape of Gilligan's Island?

uhohFrom How many independent demonstrations of optical communications between ground and space have been successful? As everybody knows, the pioneering work of The Professor and his serendipitous collaborator Gilligan demonstrated the reality of ground to space optical communications back in 1964 S...

map setting gilligans-island
 
 
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uhoh
uhoh
11:43 AM
I'm personally absolutely 100% fine with it, but to anybody who looses joy over large numbers of photos, this answer has a whopping seven of them!
 
 
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Space Exploration Meta
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Q: Data collected from space exploration

user37920I posted three questions on this site. I would like to know and my present question is whether data collected pertaining to these explorations prove my participation to be successful for me and other participants. And whether the effects of these explorations are useful, successful, and having be...

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geoffc
geoffc
5:18 PM
Interesting... Raptor failed, because concrete shattered, shut up, and cut a control line on the Raptor during static fire. Good to find a cause.
"About 2 secs after starting engines, martyte covering concrete below shattered, sending blades of hardened rock into engine bay. One rock blade severed avionics cable, causing bad shutdown of Raptor."
 
 
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uhoh
uhoh
6:50 PM
@geoffc I hate it when that happens. "What's martyte?" should be asked in the main site!
 
 
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Feeds
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8:30 PM
The complexities—and rewards—of open sourcing corporate software products
Ryan Donovan on November 17, 2020
Two engineers at Salesforce talk about how they decoupled a complex library from old spaghetti logic, then open sourced that library before Salesforce had a formal process for it.
 
geoffc
geoffc
9:25 PM
@uhoh Contextually I assume he meant Coveffe. Or in this case "Material" makes the most sense as a typi.
typo
Unless martyte is a type of concrete?
I sit corrected! It is a thing!
Martyte. a ceramic fi lled epoxy. can protect structural stccl but is costly. difficullto apply. and incompatible with silicone ablatives. Havanex, a phenolic ablative
 

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