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Fantastic work. I especially like the Code view, but when combined all together it looks amazing. The minimal settings seem just the right size and look as well.

I need this web page somehow linked up to me in 1984-88.


Would be interesting to see a good write-up of just how much publishers ripped off other peoples work in these early days.


I think the early french film - A Trip to the Moon - was pirated by edison and others in the united states and the original filmmakers didn't make any money

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon

specifically:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Trip_to_the_Moon#Release


Very common, many such cases. The reason Hollywood is on the west coast is because it was outside the effective reach of Edison's patents.

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Sl4gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JmUF...




I don't see a way to slow down. So they would be travelling thru that solar system at .2c. At that speed, they wouldn't be in that solar system for long.

Imagine this was Proxima Centauri doing the same mission on our solar system. Assuming that some of the swarm was on target enough to go thru the inner solar system:

Mars is ~13 light minutes from the sun. So double that for the whole diameter of the orbit, 26 light minutes. At .2c that's 130 minutes total transit time (less really unless it passes really close to the sun). So probably less than 2 hours total in the inner solar system. And that's assuming you can hit that small of a target from 4.25 light years away.

Light distance Sun-Saturn is 1.3 hours. 2.6 diameter. 13 hour transit time for most of the solar system.

You don't know where the planets actually are going to be, or were to point a camera or any other instrument, except the sun. And you have probes that weigh grams.

That's a tough problem, without considering the laser.

But I like thinking about it.


I honestly thought that the scrollbar didn't work at all until I read this comment. If I put the site on my right monitor, I can grab the scrollbar by just going to the edge. But on my left monitor, where I typically have the browser, it's almost impossible.

I too find it very annoying, especially for such a long article.


Sorry, I'll try to make it more accessible.

It expands in the app as you hover over it. Probably needs a similar thing for the website.

Or I just need to give up and revert it to the standard one. :)


My understanding is they went with 800 to 1000 nm (infrared), or ~ 375 to 300 THz. I'm not sure as to the total combined bandwidth of all of WiFi 6 or 7, but 75,000 GHz band gives them a lot to play with.


He's the one that really got me obsessed with hard sci-fi in my teens, with Eon.

Followed by The Forge of God and Blood Music. I don't won't to ruin the endings of these two, but who knew you could end books like that?!

Queen of Angels was the weirdest detective book I'd ever encountered, with futuristic CSI way ahead of its time.

The power levels of the conflicts in Moving Mars and Anvil of Stars seemed unimaginable.

Slant, one of my favorites, felt like something like cyberpunk, but something else as well.

I've always thought him as my favorite of the Killer B's (Bear, Brin, Benford). And one of the authors that really changed how I thought about things


I would like to see the same study done with a drastic change in exercise and muscle mass.

I have always struggled with my weight. I find that the solution is always diet. Exercise does make me feel better, but doesn't seem to have much effect on my weight loss, if at all. At least in the short term.

I assume more muscle mass, would mean a higher resting metabolic rate. But how much. Is the effect large or small? Is it like this study, where sure it changes, but not enough to ever be able to eat like a "normal" person?


Diet is definitely the easier win. Working off a burger in the gym takes forever


In the short term, it is the easy winner. I'm just wondering if getting into much better shape has a large long term effect on the metabolic factor.


Wow, nice job. I spent so much time inside the Programmer's Reference Guide as a teenager. My copy was completely wore out with pages falling out.

Writing machine language by hand on the C-64 is the closest I've ever felt to the hardware as a programmer. 3 registers, some flags and interrupts.


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