danielmcdonald

Retired IT Worker. Politics, History, and Baseball addict - Weave the threads of your life together into whole cloth.

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@phwolfe940 Mighty rivers change course. Mountain ranges rise and settle. Deserts swell and icebergs shrink. Over the course of not decades or centuries. Over millennia.
Human life will likely pass.
If we keep treating the Earth like this it will happen sooner. Not a bang, just a whimper.

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@Kristinartz Don't know if he is underrated but Lindsey Buckingham. The guitar on "Big Love" is excellent.
But there are so so many of the past but someone should speak out for the recent phenoms.

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@rageinggranny @LucasSa56947288 haven't read any of the deets on the milataristic, terrorista attack plans. doubt there's any there there.

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@simongerman600 Thank you

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@gman5180 A whole lot.

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@that_darn @doggintrump Not worthy of anything. It is was it is.
The scrap heap of history continues to get piled high with this forgettable stuff.

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@CuriosityonX Vee ger

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@rageinggranny @james_xond 12 - Newspaper delivery (first attempt)
First W-2 wages 15 stockboy.

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@that_darn @MarcoFoster_ @GretaThunberg He really does not deserves any birthday wishes or regard.

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@BeschlossDC Yes. It was a fun holiday. Over a year of build up to it. Tall Ships sailing into NY Harbor.
We were young and had just starting off on our adult lives.
Didn't know as much history as I know now. Did not know anything really about life outside of the US. Now I can compare.

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@MbarkCherguia Check my previous posts. I am very proud of how many we had.

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@Irina_exh Easter SUNDAY, 1949.

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@TracesofTexas RIP Dr. Baker.

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@that_darn A peach is ripe and and ready to eat for about an hour, before that hour parts are hard and flavorless, after that hour an overly soft, slimy mess. It has been worth the gamble for the fifty or so times I bit in that one hour. But many disappointments.
No regrets.Understandable

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@nytimes RIP Mr. Hockney.

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@TracesofTexas It has a real skyline that is fantastic. Thanks

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@eorden Sporting events are a great comfort for a sad nation.

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@historyinmemes We made a lot of jokes about it in fifth grade History class. Thanks for the memories,

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@roombacito Two words. Dee troit. A tough lost I watched to see if you were going to do it again.

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@engineers_feed Thanks. The wonders of our world number far more than 7.
Thousands of people made it possible. And we have only just begun.

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Voyager 1 is 24 billion kilometers from Earth.

It communicates with us using a 23-watt transmitter.
Less than a refrigerator light bulb.

The signal takes 22 hours to reach us, traveling at the speed of light.

By the time it arrives, it's 20 billion times weaker than the power of a digital watch battery.

NASA's Deep Space Network picks it up using 70-meter dish antennas cooled to near absolute zero to reduce electronic noise.

The engineering required to hear a 23-watt signal from 24 billion km away is arguably more impressive than the spacecraft itself.

Launched 1977.
Still transmitting.
Still being heard.

We built something that works perfectly, 47 years later, in conditions no one has ever tested in.

That's what engineering for the long term looks like.