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How did Russian cosmonauts know where they were? The Globus INK (1967) showed the position of their Soyuz spacecraft on a rotating globe. It is an analog computer built from tiny gears. I reverse-engineered the wiring (which inconveniently had been cut) and we powered it up. 🧵
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Just published an article: Velocity Based Animation with Compose dev.to/jamesmorrissey/veloci…
Big thanks to @bentrengrove for the feedback and review!
#androiddev #jetpackcompose #compose #animation #android
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Here are some more photos from amazingly well preservered Swedish shipwrek Bodekull, which sunk in the archipelago outside Stockholm in 1678 and is one of the best preservered ship wrecks in the world
📸 Ingemar Lundgren, Ocean Discovery/VRAK - Museum of Wrecks
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‘Pass the word for Dr Maturin,’ said the Captain, looking angrily at the wombat, 'Come now, Stephen, your brute is eating my hat.' 'So he is, too,' said Dr. Maturin. 'But do not be perturbed, Jack; it will do him no harm, at all. His digestive processes-'
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Former President George W. Bush: “The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.”
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Here's a really obvious comparison to get you started. Comparing the voting record of Scott Morrison with Anthony Albanese theyvoteforyou.org.au/people…
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Maps. I love them. Love reading them , love planning adventures. Love seeing how things relate topographically.
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‘Jesus, Mary, and Joseph,’ whispered Stephen. All three patients had broken out in a mulberry-coloured rash, extraordinarily widespread and most ominously dark: there was no possible doubt – this was gaol-fever, and gaol-fever of the most virulent kind.
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Look at her 😭⚓️🤍😍
Behold! #ENDURANCE The lost ship of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest #Shackleton has been found on the floor of the Weddell Sea. After more than two weeks of searching, the @Endurance_22 project found the ship on Saturday. bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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The LNP ICAC proposal is a corrupt attempt to placate voters demands without risking their corrupt activities being exposed. It’s no wonder Labour won’t support it
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Initial conditions:
m1=111.5 m2=28.8 m3=109.1 (solar masses)
v1x=5.682 v1y=-6.626 v2x=-3.955 v2y=5.175 v3x=0.87 v3y=-4.568 (km/s)
x1=-8 y1=-5 x2=18 y2=-1 x3=17 y3=25 (AU from center)
Music: Where is My Mind? – Pixies/Cyrin
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This footage has to be seen to be believed
Every vote for a Liberal is a vote for Barnaby Joyce
Labor needs to hammer that message
The man's an embarrassment and a climate action saboteur. He's Morrison's deputy PM.
#auspol #afternoonbriefing
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As Israel seems to have beaten its fourth Covid wave – this one a Delta variant wave – some observations. 1/
arieh.substack.com/p/israels…