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David the expat sez: "Stack Exchange Rocks!" so, let Stack Exchange be Stack Exchange.

My goal is to spend less time in my "...snow white cube containing only the bare necessities, a computer, and a large library of treatises, maps, and precise scale models*."

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How did the Apollo computers evaluate transcendental functions like sine, arctangent, log?
Sep 27, 2018
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What makes Ada the language of choice for the ISS's safety-critical systems?
Jun 3, 2019
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Are there any satellites in geosynchronous but not geostationary orbits?
Jul 19, 2019
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How much bigger could Earth be, before rockets wouldn't work?
Mar 9, 2016
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What can the KSP game actually teach about spaceflight and orbital mechanics, and what are its limitations?
Aug 30, 2017
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Could "peak Apollo levels" of support have gotten NASA astronauts to Mars in the 1980's?
Jun 20, 2018
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Why did it take so long to notice that the ozone layer had holes in it? Which satellite provided the data?
Jan 11, 2021
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Why vent $CO_2$ and $H_2$ waste products to space on ISS?
Aug 7, 2016
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Is pinging the Moon with a laser as shown on "The Big Bang Theory" possible?
Aug 16, 2018
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How is stacking oranges in 24 dimensions related to receiving and decoding signals from the Voyagers?
Jul 7, 2021
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What are ways that we can show 3D orbits and other 3D things in posts?
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"I’m voting to close this question because it belongs on Physics SE" is bad and here's why
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Do we need a canonical Mars Landings Are Real answer?
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Why edit other people's posts and undo their use of in-line links?
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Did the editing of this post go way overboard, like "six-sigma" overboard?
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What aspects of image preparation workflows can lead to accidents like Boris Johnson's No. 10 tweet's 'hidden message'?
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If a massive object like Jupiter flew past the Earth how close would it need to come to pull people off of the surface?
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Sun constantly converts mass into energy, will this cause its gravity to decrease?
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What's the physics behind XKCD #2027 (time between lightning flash and radio wave burst)?
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What does "Scientists rise up against statistical significance" mean? (Comment in Nature)

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