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    Nah. Dwarf fortress would ask you to roast bad code by calling it !!!terrible!!!.
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    And then if the events are spacelike separated, the answer is physically undefined.
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    The upper portion appears to be an Apollo LM accent stage.
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    My bet is uneven heating between the inside and outside, followed by buckling towards one side caused by slight assymetries in the initial state. I don't think we're actually seeing thermal expansion here, but actually contraction due to water loss. So it's probably among the line of "Outer...
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    Gaming Orbital Margins

    One thing I'd rather like to see is a game that presents you with some conservative, algorithmically determined default mission profile (time, propellant requirements, etc.), while allowing you to hand-fly things a la Orbiter or KSP. If you hand-fly a mission, then you've proven that the profile...
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    Software Unable to create D3D9 Symbolic Links on Linux + Wine

    Just out of curiosity, what's the exact error being encountered here?
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    Software Unable to create D3D9 Symbolic Links on Linux + Wine

    More to the point, your wine directory (and therefore Orbiter directory) will generally be in your home folder, which you own, so you don't need sudo. You're unlikely to break the system by creating a root-owned symbolic link in some subdirectory of your home directory, but it's simply not the...
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    Ba ba black sheep is a really weird specimen of poetry. It's got medieval/modern European style rhyming, old Germanic meter with four stresses per line and no pattern in the unstressed syllables, and a good amount of Germanic-style alliteration, but not in keeping with the usual rules about...
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    It's also about the most famous Shakespeare quote in English. 🙂 It kind of sounds wrong with anything more than "that is the question" to me, and I'm not really familiar with blank verse as poetry, so I don't have enough of a sense for how it's supposed to sound metrically to be bothered by the...
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    At intergalactic scales, velocities tend to be measured with respect to the rest frame of the CMB. For our neighboring galaxies, this is about 600 km/s.
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    For the meter, I guess?
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    Sine oder cosine, das ist die Frage... This has been your daily dose of cross-language humor.
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    The double meaning was selected with malice aforethought. :-)
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    "Refueling" might carry over by virtue of it being the most frequent propulsion related replenishment carried out, even if the substance loaded isn't fuel. Other than that, "remassing"?
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    It also does that weird "professional software" BS where it splits up its save/load dialogs between "save/load" for its native format and "import/export" for everything else (as I recall, it didn't used to).
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