His wife took over the channel after Beau was burned-out.

The End of Eternity (Asimov) might be short enough for you, and has some interesting ideas about the implications of time travel.

Make sure to choose lamp fittings that don’t trap the heat.

I typed the URL that was literally printed in the packaging of a [new] Logitech mouse, and the page didn’t exist! Like, how?!‽

Los Caracoles? (west out of Los Andes)

Yeah, not sure the UK Labour party are going to be receptive to a free speech argument, given recent events. If anything, an updated law might make X liable for the real-world problems it causes.

DrinkMate are the main alternative.

• 1st world = US, NATO, and their allies.
• 2nd world = USSR, China, the Warsaw Pact, and their allies.
• 3rd world = everyone else.

e.g. Switzerland would be a 3rd world country by the original definition.

From 2005: “The Israeli Defence Ministry will appeal against a supreme court ruling banning the use of Palestinian human shields in raids, officials said.” - it used to be policy. They wanted to continue.

This is almost as bad as Lindybeige’s proposal for a french navy motto: “To the water! This is the hour!”.

Or in the local language: “à l’eau, c’est l’heure”

Deviant has a good talk about this kind of thing (including some other situations to think about) in “A Talk About Risk & Preparedness” - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6ihrGNGesfI

Wouldn’t that mission need to have already been in space in 2013 though?

Imagine being one of the people to make that measurement though… You’re in the observatory with some notes and a spreadsheet to calculate the keyhole orbit parameters. You have a big stack of business cards from journalists wanting to publish the result as soon as you calculate it.

If you made the measurement and it… wasn’t good - imagine the result of telling the world that life would end in 2029 - would you maybe be tempted to call the other scientists around the world and discuss whether or not to reveal the actual result?

New hydro power in Ethiopia - it’s nowhere near me, but nice to see how optimistic the young people are there.

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Yes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqhXsEgLMJ0 is a nice explanation.

So about 6 terayears (1.9E+20 seconds) if it’s made from the same steel.

Corn is a word for the predominant food crop, even before the creation of maize which is what americans call corn today.

Create the special bookmarks with %s to take you directly to documentation pages for whatever you type - e.g. bookmark doc.qt.io/qt-6/%s.html and give it a keyword.

Same with Wikipedia (this one might be easier via search engine keywords) - so typing “w test” would bring you straight to the disambiguation page for the River Test

Same for anything with reference numbers - e.g. RFQ numbers - create a bookmark that lets you type a number into the URL bar and go straight to the official page.

Finishing your climb before any afternoon thunderstorms is often one of the good ideas when you are climbing a very long metal cable.

What do you mean, “employer”? Anyone who fills that form, by definition, doesn’t work in the US. The form certifies that your income is not associated with a US business.