StringJunky

Norway's disciplined passing and Haaland's accuracy may be the undoing of England, although they did hold it together after that red card and one man down.

That was the point about truths. Not everybody aligns with someone's truth, which may only exist for them. "My headache is painful" is true for me but not true for you.

As said by others, I would go along with the idea that facts are objective (have a broad consensus) and truths are subjective (derived from a singular or narrower consensus). Or put another way: a truth is what we feel ("It's beautiful") and fact is what we know (water boils at 100c STP). Not everybody will agree on the former but can on the latter.

From NASA: "On Feb. 11, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory temporarily suspended most science operations in an effort to reduce atmospheric drag and slow the spacecraft’s orbital decay. Halting these activities will enable controllers to keep the spacecraft in an orientation that minimizes drag effects, extending its time in orbit in anticipation of a reboost mission. “Normally, Swift quickly turns to view its targets — especially the fleeting, almost daily explosions called gamma-ray bursts — with multiple telescopes,” said principal investigator S. Bradley Cenko at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “Swift’s Burst Alert Telescope will continue to detect gamma-ray bursts, but the spacecraft will no longer slew to observe targets with its other telescopes.” https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/swift/2026/02/11/nasas-swift-mission-transitions-ops-to-prep-for-orbit-boost/

They have a common ancestor from about 12m years ago, I read earlier. They've diverged in behaviour since then. Ignoring the double entendre.

Very contemporary and visually descriptive mentally. I like that.

Yeah, true.

The definition of irony. Check his left ankle.

When I ask how much mass of P in 1ml of 30% phosphoric acid and get different numbers every time, it ain't thinking.

If spiders exist longer than humans, which will be the most advanced?

My understanding is that anything that can be measured is considered real.

Every change in velocity (speed and/or direction) requires energy. Each single change takes a piece of your finite energy budget and efficiency is never 100%.

Yes.

You need a thermoelectric generation from a nuclear source. That's what's available atm.