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Comment · 5 months ago
Duplicate of my previous comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47887938)

  If I remember correctly, the habitable-ish cloud layers have super-fast winds that circle the planet once every 4 days or so. [0]

  [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_super-rotation
Comment · 5 months ago
Yeah, but communication is a two-way street. It might not matter to me that my words are unstructured, but it will to the person I'm writing to if they can't make head nor tail of what I'm saying, or worse, misunderstand it as being insulting when it isn't.
Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
Strangely enough, when I enter the "convergence point" book, my cursor gets an American flag, even though it wasn't American before. Has anyone else seen this?
Comment · 6 months ago
> Our telescopes actually need the (or at least an) atmosphere to function.

What about Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer, JWST, etc? As of my understanding, the only reason we haven't built radio and and other long-wave telescopes in space is because of their impractical size preventing them from being deployed in orbit.

> There are some classes of observatories, which you cannot build in space but which are still affected by satellites to some degree.

Examples?

Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
Is this the same guy who wrote Peoplewatching (Manwatching, I believe, is what it was called earlier)?
Comment · 6 months ago
Is this the same guy who wrote Peoplewatching?
Comment · 6 months ago
@dang?
Comment · 6 months ago
Almost certainly.
Comment · 6 months ago
Islam and Christianity are Abrahamic religions. But some societies are both very Christian and very anti-Islam, or vice-versa.

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