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SpaceX has unveiled the Raptor 3 engine, marking significant advancements in thrust, specific impulse, and mass efficiency compared to previous versions. The Raptor 3 boasts a thrust of 280 tf, a specific impulse of 350s, and an engine mass of 1525 kg. The SpaceX Raptor 3 engine has potential to exceed 300 tons of thrust ... Read more

Anabaptists and the Sword is a detailed look at the evolution of the Anabaptists and their ideas, focusing particularly on the earliest period and the Reformation. James M. Stayer is one of the foremost historians of the radical Reformation, and in his opening remarks he aregues that the Anabaptists were "the most important groupd of raicals" and that a "major historical problem about them is

The thing is, there's no category in Publishers Marketplace for Chapter Books. (To head the next question off at the pass, the only Children's categories in PM are: MG Fiction, MG NF, PB Fiction, PB NF, YA Fiction, YA NF, Graphic Novel and Fantasy. No I have zero clue why there is a separate "Fantasy" section, when most people, if it was a YA fantasy or a MG fantasy, would …

Sidewalks used to be wider — same location in NYC in 1906 and 2013: Lexington Avenue at 89th Street in NYC – by John Massengale (via) + If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need To Prioritize Dignity by Sean Hayford Oleary (Strong Towns) Why does walking feel so intuitive when we’re in a city built before cars, yet as soon as we return home, walking feels like an …

Here are two more installments of Everything You Need To Know About Saturday Night Live. This series is obviously done in cooperation with — and perhaps on assignment from — Peacock or some entity that controls or markets the series but it's still very informative. Here's their overview of Season Three… And here's Season Four… [...]Read More... from Today's Video Link

Ever wanted to sniff USB device communications? The usual path was buying an expensive metal box with USB connectors, using logic analyzers, or wiring devboards together and hacking some software to make them forward USB data. Now, thanks to [ataradov]’s work, you can simply use a Pi Pico – you only need to tap the D+ and D- pins, wire them to RP2040’s GPIOs, and you can sniff communication between …

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The British Museum has posted the above video about the Babylonian Map of the World, a nearly 3,000-year-old clay tablet inscribed with Akkadian script and a schematic map that is often called the oldest map in the world. The video, part of the Museum’s Curator’s Corner series, focuses on the discovery in 1995 of a missing section of the tablet, and what the inscriptions mean. Here’s the Museum’s collection listing …

Recent vs. 2008 and 2001 recessions. In the 2001 and 2008 recessions, the Sahm Rule (real time) threshold is passed when unemployment is rising mostly due to rising unemployment count (and not due to rising labor force). Figures 1 and 2 show the real time Sahm Rule measure (black line) vs. decomposition of contributions to change in unemployment rate. Figure 1: Real time Sahm rule indicator (black, left scale), and …

Woodsy and Fellow MoonbasersI was never really into collecting toys by Comansi and this one lone header bag of toys was sold off years ago.Fortunately, I still have the photos. Fess Parker was awesome as Davy Crockett and I remember watching him on Disney's TV show back in the '50s. Later he would star in the TV show 'Daniel Boone' which I remember as well.(Do you remember him as the …

July 2024. Royston. From St. Albans to Waterbeach via breakfast in Royston. If ever an English market town deserved the title “unheralded” it’s Royston, with much to be unheralded about. But in 2017, this was the site of the famed Wetherspoons Riots, when this chap kicked up a fuss over a faulty fruit machine. “The real drama came on the way back to the bar, where an Irish chap was …

Wordle Kitty is rumored to be the VP choice for the Dems. She is at the Carnegie Deli in NYC to meet the Republican VP candidate, to talk about a debate, but the Repub is a no-show! Weird. Meanwhile the press is having fun asking her embarrassing questions about a cat in the White House. They want to know if the WH has a litter box. What if she gets …

Today was pretty calm Saturday. It's supposed to be Winter, but here in Brazil that's just a word. It wasn't super hot, but I'd much rather have more defined seasons, meaning, I want cold weather in the Winter. I guess that's what happens when we screw our planet.Anyways, I went to a coffee shop today, I should've take pictures of the place but I didn't, but believe me, it was …