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  • reptar@lemmy.worldtoAstronomy@mander.xyz•The Path of Artemis II
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    3 days ago

    That is fucking awesome.

    Somehow I’ve not really paying that much attention, which is weird cause I’ve been on this reading marathon after not really reading since I was a kid, and it’s all sci-fi. Lots of space.

    That first orbit maneuver is so cool. Distances scaled correctly? I guess I just mean 1px in x and in y are equal? I’m often telling people the moon is quite far away. It would be even better with earth and moon diameter to scale.

  • reptar@lemmy.worldtoHistory Memes@piefed.social•ice to see youEnglish
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    3 days ago

    The winter of 1794–1795 was exceptionally cold, causing the Zuiderzee to freeze.[8] Pichegru ordered General of Brigade Jan Willem de Winter to lead a squadron of the 8th Hussar Regiment to Den Helder. De Winter had been serving with the French since 1787, and would later command the Dutch fleet in the disastrous Battle of Camperdown.

    Nominative Determinism

  • reptar@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Straight to jail.English
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    10 days ago

    The whole missile warfare game the tennis kids play was wild.

    And for some reason, Hal laying on the floor imagining the amount of food he eats in a year filling the room and just being nauseous about it (I think he was also dealing with quitting the Bob Hope), really got into my head.

    Man, I came across DFW when I was sitting in a very boring seminar at University of Illinois with my first smartphone in hand, enjoying the new ability to find something else to learn about while stuck there. No idea how exactly I came across it, but I read how cruise ship article and loved it. Started reading about him and was like, oh, this guy group up right here. And his parents are still here. It really caught my attention (again, boring seminar) and I was excited to read his stuff. I must have read some interviews of him or something.

    Hit me hard when I learned of his suicide. Such a chilling feeling when a good communicator, like one that is able to capture parts of your inner monologue so well, through writing, speaking, of music, takes their own life.

  • reptar@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Straight to jail.English
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    10 days ago

    Holy shit I totally forgot about that. I’ve been meaning to reread for years now but haven’t felt ready lol. I loved it but got to the end and was like, wait, what? I thought this was going to wrap back around to the beginning. Am I too dumb for this book?

    There was so many parts of that book that pop into my head randomly. I can hardly brush my teeth without thinking of Pemulis(sp?) passing out, and directly proper use of, floss after dinner at the Incandenzas (sp?). Tennis always had me thinking about it. Punts in football too. Selfie filters (the masks everyone starting having in their house for video calls.

    E: oh, and nevermind infinite scroll and the basis of the plot

  • reptar@lemmy.worldtoGreentext@sh.itjust.works•Anon is terminally lonely
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    21 days ago

    Very well put! I’m always impressed with thoughtful writing that is fluid and natural to follow as a reader. Just curious, do you write a lot?

    And on the actual topic, I’d add that observation of such feelings, and their relation to physical, mental, and social events and environment, is often an important starting point. I’ve been surprised myself at how much some pretty simple causality had been obscured by ad hoc constructions. For whatever reason, THC has been quite a tool for me to make those underlying foundations obvious.