Senior research analyst, soon-to-be-former PhD candidate (or so I hope), perpetually curious professional nerd.
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The Future of Orion

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Dinosaur Cosmics
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marcrichter
5 days ago
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tbd
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JayM
5 days ago
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Hahaha.
Atlanta, GA

CrowdStrike

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We were going to try swordfighting, but all my compiling is on hold.
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marcrichter
123 days ago
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Oooh, reference to a classic! 🚀
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Eclipse Clouds

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The rare compound solar-lunar-nephelogical eclipse
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marcrichter
230 days ago
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Brutal... 😬
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Circuit Symbols

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A circle with an A in it means that the circuit has committed a sin and has been marked as punishment.
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marcrichter
457 days ago
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tbd
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JayM
456 days ago
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Ha!
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alt_text_bot
457 days ago
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A circle with an A in it means that the circuit has committed a sin and has been marked as punishment.
silberbaer
444 days ago
You mean, the Avengers tower has been... oh, what am I saying, it's Stark's building, of *course* it has.

Cuisine

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My connection to it goes way back, to my early days, when I was just a cloud of primordial hydrogen collapsing in the darkness of space.
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fxer
549 days ago
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I’ve always loved this chart of binding energy showing which elements can only make energy via fission, and which can only make it via fusion. With iron sitting right at the top like a bastard tyrant king

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/A-Lepine-Szily/publication/234065870/figure/fig1/AS:300141371248640@1448570687476/Binding-energy-per-nucleon-B-Z-N-A-as-a-function-of-the-mass-number.png
Bend, Oregon
diogro
547 days ago
Ha! I took intro physics with Alinka Lepine. Super nice lady.
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551 days ago
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My connection to it goes way back, to my early days, when I was just a cloud of primordial hydrogen collapsing in the darkness of space.

Paper Title

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CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT: The authors hope these results are correct because we all want to be cool people who are good at science.
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CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT: The authors hope these results are correct because we all want to be cool people who are good at science.
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