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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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134 How did the Apollo computers evaluate transcendental functions like sine, arctangent, log? Sep 27 '18
101 What makes Ada the language of choice for the ISS's safety-critical systems? Jun 3
76 Could “peak Apollo levels” of support have gotten NASA astronauts to Mars in the 1980's? Jun 20 '18
76 What can the KSP game actually teach about spaceflight and orbital mechanics, and what are its limitations? Aug 30 '17
75 Are there any satellites in geosynchronous but not geostationary orbits? Jul 19
65 Why vent $CO_2$ and $H_2$ waste products to space on ISS? Aug 7 '16
64 Is pinging the Moon with a laser as shown on “The Big Bang Theory” possible? Aug 16 '18
59 How much bigger could Earth be, before rockets would't work? Mar 9 '16
59 Which Apollo “mystery” was said to be finally solved by a better rendering engine? Feb 13 '17
58 Why didn't the Space Shuttle bounce back into space as many times as possible so as to lose a lot of kinetic energy up there? Apr 24
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