The NASA budget is such a small part of the overall United States budget that it's just short sighted to cut it, I'm sure there are plenty of other things that can be cut instead

I read an article either here on Slashdot or someplace else months ago that governments were begging Microsoft to extend Windows 10's life because the EOL date would cause over 240 millions devices that are in otherwise good working condition to be sent to landfills "prematurely". I'm sure in general governments don't want to pay for more support but likewise some are calling the end of Windows 10 an "ewaste apocalypse" with an estimated equivalent to 320,000 cars suddenly needing to be recycled: https://interestingengineering... or https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lgnetworksinc.com%2F... so I hope Microsoft has a change of heart and adds a couple years so that a slower migration to newer devices can take place.

I just don't understand what their strategy here is, it's been in the news headlines like "Intel loses 2.8 billion in another not great quarter" and "Intel records it's worst quarterly loss amid sinking PC sales" and "Intel reports largest quarterly loss in history" and yet they're coming out with new products but they won't be available for enthusiasts to build PC's with and AMD is doing a lot better and some articles claim "AMD continues to sell about 2 cpu's for every one Intel cpu sold" so how is this going to help them with their sales because it seems like a losing strategy to me?

That was my thought too, Apple didn't even let you change your default web browser until IOS 14 so they almost certainly mean "default search engine" so whoever wrote this really needs some help with the facts.

I saw it during it's original run on Saturday morning TV, it was really great and it hit the spot for Star Trek fans dying for more. Yes the animation was not that great but it was 1972 and they did it with as small a budget as possible but the stories were wonderful and we got most of the original actors plus Stanley Adams as Cyrano Jones, Roger C. Carmel as Harry Mudd and Mark Leonard as Sarek. And I don't agree that "it didn't catch on" because Star Trek fans loved it but it was on Saturday morning and that just wasn't a good time slot to try and pull in new viewers so not the fault of the show just how it was marketed and the time slot it was given.

Ok that makes a lot of sense, thanks.

A couple rounds from the jet fighters guns through the balloon would have had it settle to the ground, probably with it's payload intact. If it was spying I'd think that they'd want it intact for the NSA to examine.

Like someone else already said this should be a headline from 10-15 years ago

So very sad, he wrote so many amazing books and the one Star Trek book he wrote (#15 Corona) was superb.

Does the law make any provision for classic or historic cars? Here in the United States lots of people have "Historic" cars i.e. cars more than 25 years old but there are a lot of people with 1960's & 1970's cars (one of my best friends has two pretty valuable Shelby Cobra Mustang's) that are considered historic and / or collectable. It would be a real shame if they couldn't drive them anymore.

Every time this year I hear about how California and other states may have rolling blackouts because of the heat / air conditioning use and last year we heard about how the Texas power grid almost collapsed and yet the United States government is giving these things to other country's. And it just makes no sense to me why other countries get them but the U.S. doesn't when some states are in dire need.

It's actually more disturbing that they have no idea where all your data is than how much data on you they actually have.

A good friend of mine is from Maine (and she lived in NJ for a long time before moving to Florida) and she was not fond of the weather there although there are three different climate sections to Main, the northern interior, the southern interior and the coast. Northern Maine doesn't seem like a good location as it's in the mountains and weather can be really tricky with many days in the winter below 10 degrees and they get 7 to 10 feet of snow annually but that's an average and severe blizzards can happen. The southern interior is not as cold but still gets substantial snow and the majority of the population lives in the southern or coastal area. To me the weather just does not make good choice for a spaceport.

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It's a known medical fact that there is a percentage of people in the general population who get the flu but feel fine and have no symptoms, I seem to remember reading that some university was trying to identify why those people in particular could get the flu (testing positive) and yet not have any symptoms and see if there was a why to transfer that resistance to people who don't have it. So it's possible that those people or even a subset of them have the same resistance to Covid-19, that they catch it and yet have no symptoms.

Sadly it's a sign of the times, cerebral doesn't go over well these days but I love it for it's beauty and realism. my parent took me to see it in the theater in 1968 when I was 7 and it was just wondrous, I have it in 4K so I can watch it whenever I want.