Profile pic is from Jason Box, depicting a projection of Arctic warming to the year 2100 based on current trends.
There could be some maximum threshold or critical number where people’s discussions goes downhill, regardless of the infrastructure. So while the idea of splintering into new communities that share names and topics was initially a big concern with the Reddit migration, calling for a way to imitate a Reddit sole source, perhaps it’s better to allow diversification even if some things aren’t directly and timely shared.
James Horner nailed the starship motif. I enjoy the various other composers’ works as well, but Horner is my top for Trek.
Howard Shore for all the Tolkien work. His music alone will paint the image of Middle Earth in my head.
And Hans Zimmer has some stuff I love, like Time, but he did his best job imo for Dune.
How about 3/8 and just don’t come back?
This could have potentially happened to Apollo 11, had Armstrong not taken over manually to steer clear of the targeted landing site with some rough areas. Maybe it would have been just leaning and not a big deal, but at the time we had no clear idea what a real landing would end up like. And I would hazard a guess that even though we’ve done a lot over the decades, the polar regions of the Moon are still pretty unknown.
I got around to cleaning our outside unit last year, and didn’t think it would be a big deal as it looked pretty clean at a glance. Once I got the sheet metal off and started looking and spraying, good lord it was filthy. Now that it is near new again inside, I plan to just take the top off every year and do a regular rinse to keep that buildup down. I can’t say how much better it works now from numbers, but it has to exchange heat far more now than before from the sheer gunk I took off.
I never considered this, and I hope it’s not true.