I think the point is that if you’re going to get a degree in mechanical engineering, you need to study differential equation, and if you’re going to have a well-rounded education, you need to study some history. Both were a requirement in the past, but we’re moving more towards only the former being considered important.

The claim I was responding to was that one needs to go to college to get a "well-rounded education". I don't see why: the information is available for free online, and the value add of getting it by paying college professors to "teach" it to you is, IMO, highly questionable.

Not really constantly. For 20 seconds every 30 minutes or so when it changes what satellite it’s pointed at, plus longer outages throughout the day depending on satellite usage by other systems. This may be just a minute or so every hour on a high-coverage day, or it may include 15-minute outages occasionally at low-coverage times (typically when the crew are asleep)

That's not been my experience. Have you tried watching it for a full day?

Is stated in the linked article but in case anyone missed it: same creators as Apollo in Real Time

Awesome work! Surely a huge labor of love to dig up that much content out of the public domain. Congrats on the launch!

Wouldn’t the minimum be 51? 932 =54, but if the team batting second is winning after the top of the 9th then they don’t need to play the bottom of the ninth, so subtract 3? Not a baseball person.

I thought the same thing.

And if you have rain , they can call the game "complete" if the losing team had 5 half innings at bat. So that could be 28. Assume 27 outs and one home run by the home team.

Not for no-hitters, perfect games. The pitcher has to complete nine innings.

You are correct. I should have clarified that for this game, Cleveland was visiting Chicago, so they got to bat in the ninth.

> I wonder if there's information on how many passengers of the Mayflower were left-handed.

Probably 0% reported, considering the negative views towards left-handedness at the time.

Concur that it takes time (it took 2.5-3 years for me to open source github/nasa/coda), but in my experience at JSC it wasn’t red tape, but a lack of staffing in the export office. It seems reasonable to me that some amount of review be performed before something can be open sourced, and the effort wasn’t too much on my end. It just took a long time.

I release my work at JPL routinely. The process has been streamlined a LOT in the last few years, and now it usually takes on the order of a week or so.

Just to be clear this is one center’s first open source release. There’s open source from other centers at https://github.com/nasa and https://code.nasa.gov/

My daughters, in 2024, still hear “you’re a girl, you can’t be good at math”. My 10 year old is the best programmer on her school’s robotics team, but she hears words like these regularly and she’ll be told she’s not good enough throughout school. My 17 year old is a straight A student, triple varsity athlete, and talented musician, but in applying to colleges she’s repeatedly told me “I couldn’t get into $eliteSchool”. So maybe if there are 20k male and 7k female applicants, those are just the females who fought the societal forces telling them they can’t. Maybe there’d be 70k female applicants otherwise.

I know almost nothing about genetics or virology, but perhaps GP is saying the close proximity of genetic similarity allows viruses to mutate and infect people it otherwise wouldn’t. For example, say Person A had a virus, and under no circumstances would Person A ever infect Person C due to Person C being just barely genetically different enough from A. Then we put Person B into the mix who is “halfway between A and C” (quotes because that’s probably not precisely how genetics works, but I don’t know). The virus infects B, then mutates and infects C.