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Thread on the Apollo Launch Umbilical Tower (LUT) / Mobile Launch Platform (MLP) and the purpose of the swing arms that extend from the tower to the mammoth Saturn V.
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What other techniques do we use to hunt for alien worlds?Introducing the transit technique!For this technique we measure the light of a star & if a planet orbits a star
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1/ In two weeks I spoke to over 15 civilians who had just come from #NagornoKarabakh. They provide an important account of developments from those parts of region, which stay
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#IsraeliSpaceWeek Yesterday at the #RamonSpaceTech Conference 2021 @EyalBenZeev had a discussion with astronauts (husband and wife) @AstroKarenN and @Astro_Doug on work/life balance in an all-astronaut family.It was a wonderful panel
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1)Benghazi. It was the summer of 2012. The British abandoned Benghazi. They determined the city was too dangerous. On June 11 th, 2012, the British Ambassador’s motorcade was attacked by
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Elon Musk clubhouse key points:1/x 2/x - Elontime to mars: 5 yearsneeded: large rapidly reusable rocket (like aircraft), orbital refueling, high efficiency low cost propellants, local propellant production on Mars
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It would be hard to overstate how powerfully Reagan’s anti-statist, anti-institutionalist, cowboy individualism shaped the world views of the white, 50-something conservatives and centrists I know.https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/132
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Thread of most memorable moments in TV shows.1. The Vampire Diaries: When Klaus killed Jenna in order to break the hybrid curse. 2. Prison Break: Death of Brad Bellick when
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One of the things I do for a living is design governance models. I'm very good at it. People pay me lots of money to do it.What truly annoys me
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Hmm, he was born with six fingers in each hand. What more? He grew up watching Frank Worrell, Clyde Walcott, Everton Weekes at the Wanderers club. And soon Denis Atkinson
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Surreal to keep seeing headlines & videos (even on @LastWeekTonight) from Detroit’s TCF Center, where I heard “Stop the Count” while opening absentee ballots inside. Like @juliecmoroney, the memories are
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the mcu and its ableism, racism, and general erasing of identities: a thread im going to break this down character by character. there are likely going to be examples i
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me: "post apocalyptic game"creative directors: *cheering*me: "but you can't have a religious cult in the game that eschews technology because of the hubris of the old world""creative" directors: me: "s
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In 1944, the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion of the US Women's Army Corps was formed. It would be the only all-Black, all-women battalion to serve overseas during WW2. Its
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Warning: Long dramatic thread below (on my $GME loss)I started this account 4 years ago with the purpose of documenting my trading journey. Something to look back on. To that
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Today in pulp: well I think you can guess who this artist is... Born in Brooklyn in 1928 Frank Frazzetta (with two Zs) showed amazing talent even at an early
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