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[Mik]

Our insignificance is staggering.

[taiwan_girl]

@LuFins-Dad @Jon @George-K Somewhat similar to a guy named Stanley Jordan

Link to video

[bachophile]

@Mik said in Mildly interesting:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidseideman/2017/09/21/richie-ashburn-once-struck-a-fan-twice-in-the-same-at-bat/

And Richie Ashburn was an original met, meaning he was on the 1962 expansion franchise roster. Batted .306 and was the only met in the all star game. That year the Mets were 40-120.

[kluurs]

[Mik]

[kluurs]

@Mik Ain't math great?

[Mik]

Handy stuff, those numbers.

[Copper]

More pizza in half the slices.

[Copper]

[jon-nyc]

Think of the days before weather forecasting. When it started raining you had no idea if it was going to blow by in an hour or destroy your home.

[Mik]

People were far more vulnerable in almost any way you can think of.

[George K]

[mark]

Highest-Resolution Atomic Image Ever Captured

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-the-highest-resolution-atomic-image-ever-captured/?fbclid=IwY2xjawHelilleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHRao7eWFATvV2RJ7J6e6C4NyfatZ693_snvyZFTf0KzM16FsnHE5bzTBpQ_aem_ly4tdiFZ1HecKNnzFNOiZg

[jon-nyc]

That guy must be using an iPhone 17 prototype.

[jon-nyc]

@George-K said in Mildly interesting:

Interesting. Several times I dove to a bit south of the recreational dive limit, 130ft at least back in the day, but you don’t notice that transition with scuba gear.

[jon-nyc]

[jon-nyc]

American battleship USS Indiana (BB-58) arrives home after the war. Taken from the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco Bay, on 29 September 1945.

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

Isolation?

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:

American battleship USS Indiana (BB-58) arrives home after the war. Taken from the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco Bay, on 29 September 1945.

Man, how would you like to have to pilot one of those Kingfishers? That plane catapult does not look very long… That’s 0-60 in what? 60’? That looks rougher than taking off in a fighter on a nice long 700’ runway…

I assume they landed on the water and were hoisted back onto the catapults?

[jon-nyc]

I don’t know but I’ll bet Jolly and/or Bach do.