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Monthly Archives: April 2010

Flying low

Friday, April 30, 2010

Almost eighty-three years ago, Charles Lindbergh took off from New York to attempt what had never been accomplished. Thirty grueling hours and 3,600 miles later, he landed in Paris. It was the first time a man had flown across the Atlantic. It was a risky venture — six lives had been lost in the previous [...]

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On my Amazon wish list: a web reading app

Friday, April 9, 2010

You’ve heard the old joke right? When mankind first went into space, the only computers available were used to control the spacecraft. And so, humans needed, you know, pen-and-paper. Unfortunately, pens rely on the downward flow on ink, which in turn relies on gravity, which isn’t a given in space. And so the Americans apparently [...]

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