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We toured Italy for our honeymoon. My travel agent (that tells you it was a while ago) recommended Bolanzo, which was a great suggestion. While there we walked by the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology .. with Ötzi on display! I jumped at the chance to see him.
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I tried Miami, because I'm from one and have visited a few others. It said that in Santa Fe County, "Miami" probably meant "Miami, NM". Having lived in Santa Fe County, I know "Miami" by default means the one in Florida.I also tried Springfield, because Simpsons. I didn't know there was one in Florida. It says that people in Leon County (another place I lived) would likely know about it over the ones in the Midwest.Still, it's pretty good given the simple model used.
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It was an era when Courage and Character were more important than training and preparation.
When I moved to Sweden, one of my Swedish classes covered Örnen and Andrée's expedition. It's how I learned the Swedish word for trichinosis - "trikinos".
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I loved the presentation style! My recipe isn't that far off from authentic Ragusea style.
My problem with the suggestion of adding a few loose dark chocolate chips is that once the bag is open, the rest of the chips seem to simply disappear within a day or so.
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That's ... one way to slant it.
Sure, we don't have access to the same materials. (We're not going to use asbestos now.) And we don't have people with the same skills.
But we also have better materials and alternative skills. 10 years ago, Pratt & Whitney Aerodyne designed the F-1B (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketdyne_F-1#F-1B_booster ) based on the F-1 engine, but using a better design and more advanced construction techniques. The design estimate was an engine 15% more powerful than the most advanced Apollo-era engine, cheaper to build, and more reliable.
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovD0aLdRUs0 for the slant I prefer.
The reason why we don't send people to the moon is there's no good reason which justifies the cost, both in human lives and financial.
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Looks like I could stick my hand through the bottom and be able to catch a falling plate.
Maybe I should go there and try! Checking ... Err, no. At almost $5,000 and 30 hours of travel to fly to Xi'an it's rather out of my league. (I honestly didn't expect it to be *that* expensive.)
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There are plenty of people on Earth who want a sustainable city for inhospitable climates. Why not start there? Argentina pays a lot of money to keep their Antarctic colony going, for example. There's plenty of cheap land in our cold deserts, shipping is a lot cheaper, and survivability is rather higher, so I would expect sustainable cities here first, But of course, this is link is more marketecture than anything else. Sigh, I'm getting old and blasé.
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A problem with that interpretation of Giovanni Stanchi's picture is that Giuseppe Recco's Still-Life with Fruit and Flowers (ca. 1670, so essentially the same time as Stanchi) shows a much more normal looking watermelon. Stanchi's watermelon looks more like modern "hollow heart" watermelons, likely due to impropert pollination. (Of course I nearly only buy mass-produced store-bought fruit and veg so have little experience with produce outside of that conformity. I'm basing my opinion here on what I've read elsewhere, not personal experience.)
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The article says the proposed vehicle uses nuclear thermal propulsion, not nuclear pulse propulsion. I used the average distance to Mars, because the link refers to it as "on average around 140 million miles away". Mars 2020 is using low-energy Hohmann transfer orbit. A three month transit requires a higher-energy orbit, resulting in a shorter travel distance than a low-energy orbit. I don't know how much shorter. My goal was to show that the overall g-force could be very low, though I made the wrong assumption about how the engine operates. A longer trip needs less energy and less (integrated) g-force.
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