I believe that they might have had more free time than a typical ISS mission, because there wasn’t a lot of science to be done on this trip around the moon. That left more time for spontaneous goofing off. But, they probably also knew there would be more eyes on them than the typical ISS mission, so they probably also planned more things that they hoped would go viral.

One mistake? Most people are involved in at most one airplane accident in their lives. Ford has been involved in 4 where he was the pilot and a fifth as a passenger. All 3 incidents since 2015 were his mistake. The helicopter autorotation incident may not have been.

I guess cross stitching is a new hobby after he got tired of crashing planes?

I think with a lot of these health trends, it doesn’t take account for the fact that humans are animals.

Animals can’t always guarantee they’ll get enough water, or enough food, or the right kinds of food. Bodies aren’t like a machine that requires specifically calibrated amounts of inputs. Instead if you drink too much you’ll pee out more. If you drink too little your pee will be more concentrated so your body retains more liquid. If you get more nutrients than you need, the extra will be eliminated.

It’s probably true that with many things (except calories) it’s better to get a bit too much rather than too little. Maybe it’s true that for water it’s better to get nearly the maximum rather than slightly more than the midpoint amount. But, it seems unlikely to me.

You should know that almost 100% of people who have started taking dihydrogen monoxide have died and the rest are expected to die.

I think it’s just typical bad writing. The poster uses “it’s” wrong just before using “its” correctly, doesn’t capitalize at the start of sentences, weirdly capitalizes “own”, etc.

Zombies invade the yard?

Everybody wants to make their own achievement sound better.

• The UK was the third country with a satellite, but didn’t fully build their own satellite.
• Canada was the fourth, but third to fully build their own satellite, but they didn’t use their own rocket.
• Italy was the fifth and also launched a satellite they built, but used an American rocket.
• France was the sixth country with a satellite, but the first to launch outside the US or USSR using their own rocket.
• Australia was the seventh country with a satellite, but the third to launch a satellite in its own territory; France launched from Algeria in 1965 which had been independent since 1962. But, Australia used an American rocket, not its own design.
• West Germany was the eighth country with a satellite, but it was launched from a US rocket on a US base.
• Japan was the ninth country with a satellite, but it used its own rocket from its own territory. So, 9th with a satellite, 5th to launch outside the US and USSR, 4th to launch from its own territory, and 4th to launch with its own rocket.

It’s more “I want to continue to hallucinate in the super useful way that all humans normally do, and not fuck up my brain so that useful hallucination of reality gets knocked out of whack.”

A series of still images, if the frame rate is fast enough, appears to us as smooth motion. Our eye can only focus on a tiny spot at any given time, but our brain fills in the rest of the visual field as if it’s high res based on the last time we glanced somewhere, some extrapolation and interpolation, etc. We’re somehow able to pull the sound of someone’s voice out of a crowd of noises and ignore all the irrelevant sounds to hear what someone’s saying. And then these sounds get somehow directly translated to words and concepts in our head. And if you’re looking at someone in the face as they’re talking, you can read emotions there, instead of just seeing a wrinkly slab of meat with some wet spheres near the top and some disgusting wet holes below. That’s all “hallucination” in some way. But, it’s all incredibly useful.

I know that 99% of the time if someone takes hallucinogens they come back to reality just fine. Sometimes the trip even makes them feel better. But, is it really worth messing with your brain’s delicate and super useful hallucination of the world around you?

Oops, I messed up. That should have been Explorer 5.

Canada was the 4th country with a satellite, and the 3rd country to fully construct its own satellite. It called that satellite Alouette 1, followed by Alouette 2, then ISIS 1 and 2 (International Satellites for Ionospheric Studies, not the other one).

The list of launches is pretty funny.

• Sputnik 1 (success); USSR
• Sputnik 2 (success); USSR

Then an absolutely frantic series of US attempts

• Vanguard 1A (failure); USA
• Explorer 1 (success); USA
• Vanguard 1B (failure); USA
• Explorer 2 (failure); USA
• Vanguard 1C (success); USA
• Explorer 3 (success); USA
• Vanguard 2A (failure); USA

Then another Sputnik

• Sputnik 3 (success); USSR

Then more frantic attempts by the USA

• Vanguard 2B (failure); USA
• Vanguard 2C (failure); USA
• Explorer 4 (success); USA
• Pioneer 0 (failure); USA
• Pioneer Explorer 5 (failure); USA
• Vanguard 2D (failure); USA
• Pioneer 1 (partial success); USA
• Beacon 1 (failure); USA
• Pioneer 2 (failure); USA

Then 1959 started with Luna 1, a partially successful launch from the USSR.

A 12.5m crater doesn’t sound that big. Sounds like what you get from a bomb in a war zone. Bad if you happen to be right next to it, but If you’re a few blocks away you might have shattered windows, but no structural damage.

Where did you get the numbers btw? I took a quick look and couldn’t find any details on how big the asteroid was.

225m for a hit where there’s no atmosphere to slow it down. I wonder if something that would cause a that size of crater on the moon would even make it to the Earth’s surface, or if it would burn up before it hit.

When you have no other options, are you going to wish you knew how to garden or not

Why would you imagine there would be a situation where you had no other options? If you had no other options, are you going to wish you knew how to unicycle?

There is no way to prepare for a food system breaking down. People will die of starvation if that happens. People who have gardens will have those gardens raided by hungry neighbours, or seized by the authorities. Ultimately, the food system breaking down would probably mostly hurt poorer countries because the richer ones would divert any available food their way.

prepping properly is actually things like learning to garden well

A garden is never going to be a primary source of calories. I know someone who has a massive backyard garden with at least 10 pool-table sized raised beds and a bunch of other smaller areas with berries, etc. He loves gardening but he can’t keep up on his own and hires help for it. And, even then, it’s mostly just extra things for salads. Sometimes he dedicates a full weekend to preserving things, but even then, what he has is just a supplement to his grocery shopping.

The Trojan Room coffee pot camera existed before the web existed. Before the web it was a client/server protocol on a local network. They only made it into a webcam after the web was invented and started supporting images.

What I remember is that when the first web browsers capable of displaying images were launched, people found a way to sample a single frame from a camera and load it into an image tag to get an extremely slow frame rate camera. People had been trying to make video calling a thing since the 1960s, and I think the first “webcams” were new attempts to demonstrate that. They basically came out at the same time as XCoffee being available on the Internet, but they had more publicity behind them. IMO, what made the coffee pot special was that it was so clearly useless to everybody except a few people in a lab in Cambridge. It was revolutionary that bandwidth and camera hardware was so cheap that someone could allow anybody on the planet to just check out the level of their coffee machine on demand at any time.

whenever I leave the hoose

Canadian, eh?