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Alan Shepard and his Freedom 7 spacecraft after his successful 15-minute suborbital flight on May 5, 1961. We have more photos of this historic flight in tomorrow's edition of our newsletter, "This Week's Best Old Photos."
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#NASA #Space #Science #Education

Why would you trust your #data to the 'cloud'? Don't you know that #thecloud is a just a #fakename mostly for the servers of the #bigcompanies?

" #ZFS is commonly used by data hoarders, NAS lovers, and other geeks who prefer to put their trust in a redundant #storage system of their #own rather than the cloud."

An Introduction to the Z File System (ZFS) for #Linux
https://www.howtogeek.com/175159/an-introduction-to-the-z-file-system-zfs-for-linux/

On This Day In Space: Feb. 24, 1968: First pulsar discovered by Jocelyn Bell https://www.space.com/39251-on-this-day-in-space.html #space #science #astronomy #stem

> _“People who detest #prejudice, […] instead of trying to make differences go away, they accentuate them. How? By building group #identity. […] If you want prejudice to go away, don’t tell people to be proud of their identities. Instead, ask them to focus on our common humanity – the sense that our differences are ‘only skin-deep.’ If you must have a sense of identity, make it not proud but casual.”_

— #BryanCaplan

https://www.econlib.org/identity-causes-prejudice/

preview of the next edition of our newsletter, "This Week's Best Old Photos"

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Are you a #Python #programmer ? Do you need a #crossplatform #GUI #app ?
Have you checked the new #wxPython ? 😉

https://www.wxpython.org/

#physics #weather **Storm about to hit Toronto** You can see the full energy feed, as the cold collides with the warm.

Pointing out the problems in standard cosmology yet again:
https://tritonstation.com/2023/02/20/imagine-if-you-can/
#cosmology #astronomy

Initial press reports on the Titanic were encouraging. People were told that the damaged, but still floating ship, was being towed to the US and that all passengers and crew were safe. ...we have more photos in this afternoon's edition of our newsletter.
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#History #Photography #NewYork #NovaScotia #Media

The customer demo.

#software #programming #humor