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Full Reset
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This technology, on steriods, on a satellite .
Imagine you could just photograph a planet anywhere in the galaxy and just zoom in to see if there is anything interesting to see? ( , Earth Mark II, ...)
(Yes, I know an image would only reveal the past)
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Very nice, but that's an animation
Do you know the Sloan Digital Sky Survey?
SDSS
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V. wrote: that's an animation
It is a little more than an animation. Use your mouse, and you can zoom and rotate around. Use the slider on the left to zoom quicker. You can't change center as far as I can see, but it is pretty cool non-the-less.
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Excluding politics, sports and Albert Einstein, who are your biggest heroes?
One of mine is the late, great Dr. Stephen Hawkings.
Another, despite the fact that I don't actually care for iCrap products, is Steve Wozniak.
Note: I would have said Winston Churchill but politicians are excluded.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Good question, for me it's Isaac Newton, Bob Dylan, and my 7th grade math teacher Mrs. Thyme.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Yeah, there was a high school biology teacher, Mrs. Macartney, who made my high school days tolerable. I even got a chance to thank her, and tell her how much she meant to a bunch of us, before she succumbed to breast cancer last year.
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SeattleC++ wrote: succumbed to breast cancer last yea Sorry to hear.
SeattleC++ wrote: I even got a chance to thank her, and tell her how much she meant to a bunch of us That is awesome! I'm sure that lifted her spirits!
I not sure what happen to my teacher, but she gave me an appreciation of mathematics (up until that point I disliked it) that lead me to the career I now enjoy.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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The true Turing or simply someone pretending to be him?
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That's a rather mechanical response I think.
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Aye, 'twas pirated from a bot
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Hagar the Horrible.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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OriginalGriff
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I just knew someone would post that
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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I have no heroes as far as I'm concerned...
We're all just people.
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FFS, Sander, who do you look up to?! I think once you said you admired your father. Then you answer the post with "My father is my hero".
Millenials...
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Well, I guess I could make an exception for my parents.
They did pretty well for themselves and they've continued to support me for 31 years and counting...
If you can live with me for that long you're definitely a hero!
But no hero in the "traditional" sense, like someone amazing somewhere that I look up to and that I'd love to meet.
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(party pooper mode)
Seriously, I don't think I have one; I am probably become blasé.
I always wondered when such or such people die will I go down in the street at the funerals ?
There are many people I admire (couple of my friends, one or two politicians), but not enough for a hero status.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: I always wondered when such or such people die will I go down in the street at the funerals ? Exactly, like people crying because someone they never even met died, I can't imagine idolizing someone like that.
People know where they were and what they were doing when they heard Freddy Mercury died and they sat together with the family... Like he was just a singer!
Well, I guess he wasn't "just" a singer to those people (and he was more of an entertainer I guess, not a fan as you can see).
It's cool (and scary) that people like Freddy Mercury, or John Lennon, or Steve Jobs, can change lives by just being alive (or not), just not mine.
When it's an entertainer it's usually innocent enough, but the world's greatest mass murderers started out like that too.
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