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Your loss.

I often think that. But at the end of the day, I stop dealing with those people and go home.

That's like a Voyage Home. Don't ever think that Star Trek isn't a part of space history. The engineers at NASA in the '70s and '80s were the students and kids that grew up watching it.

@Geonovast, I'm also not a big fan of crowds. About a year ago, I visited the National Museum of the USAF. It's well worth a trip, with a decent amount of space history*, and if you're into aviation history, even better. There were a fair number of people there, but it's large enough that it wasn't ever really crowded. It's worth it to see stuff like the only surviving XB-70, an X-15, an Apollo capsule, and more. If you're only going for space stuff, a day will be enough. We spent two, and it still wasn't enough time to give everything the attention it deserved. And if you get to Seattle, look up the Museum of Flight. They had a lot of Apollo 12 stuff, including Pete Conrad's propeller beanie. (Although, I didn't see the one plane I had really hoped to see.) *A lot of early stuff was joint NASA/Air Force operations, and there were a few Air Force astronauts. And on the military side, ballistic missiles and early space launch vehicles are really only separated by payload and guidance systems, so there's a nice bit of overlap.

It's before my time as well. Your post just brought it to mind, and I thought it was one of those bits of history that people should hear about. Even with it's local impact, you hardly ever hear about it in the area.

I would like to report a forum bug: It is impossible to like a post repeatedly. I am one of those that gets a bit queasy at heights. I'm fine in a plane. I just don't know if I could make myself get out of the plane, let alone let go of it. Yeah, but those guys have walls around them. They can't see the planet below them. (At least, I'd like to think that makes a difference.)

Somehow, while playing KSP, I opened a rift in time. I started it up, and a few minutes later, hours had passed. Seriously, I have two moments of "What just happened?". The first is the time I built a crazy rocket, launched straight up, and hit the Mun. My second is the mission I sent out a pod to the edge of Kerbin's SOI, and the deorbited it. I seem to recall it was an 86 day flight. Brought the pod back to a near-Mun apoapsis, near atmosphere periapsis, and barely had fuel to drop into an aerobraking orbit. Eventually managed to reenter the pod, no fuel, no control, nothing. Landed right off the coast of KSP. Closest landing I've ever managed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943_Surprise_Hurricane

You want cheating? My work address is 2101 E NASA Road 1*. *I don't care if they officially changed it to NASA Parkway. It'll always be NASA Road 1 to me.

It just looks weird, seeing one basic aircraft type on deck. I remember seeing the local ANG unit flying F-4s. Now, they've transitioned to drones.

I saw it in March. I've spent most of my life around the JSC Saturn V, as far back as my memory goes. Seeing one standing vertical was damn impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3dZl3yfGpc

Heh. There may be a little bit in my area.

If you understand what result you get for a certain input, you can figure out what is happening. That, and the only varying input if the f(number). Therefore, it must be modifying something, and x is the only thing left for it to modify.

By looking at the results, honestly. n is only redefined when you call make_incrementor(). f is assigned a new thing as defined by make_incrementor, with a value of 42 for n. f(0) returns 42 (0+42). f(1) returns 43 (1+42). I can see what it's doing, but I have no experience with doing this in Python, and I am a horrible teacher. Sorry I can't explain it any better.

The x is given a value in the two statements f(0) and f(1). The number in parentheses is what x is set to. It's defining a mathematical function f(x) = x + n. The n is defined in the f = make_incrementor(42) statement. Create function f, such that f is equal to the previously defined make_incrementor(n), with 42 as the value of n. make_incrementor is defined as x+n. Therefore, f is defined as x+42.

That just makes this part worse: (Of course, the galaxy wouldn't fall into civil war. That's pretty much what's going on in Episodes 4-6.)

I'll cook the bacon first, then use the fat to cook the potatoes.

It really did, and led to a lot of confusion because people in different places were getting different information. I'd hate to see it go back to anything close. At the very least all information should be released on the official site (here), and if they want to release it piecemeal to other places, go ahead.

Yeah. They post it somewhere where no one can reply.

Well, my "home page" is set up to several tabs, because that's what I want when I open my browser. Having to close 2 extra tabs every time I want to open a new tab would be a pain in the rear. Edit, for clarity: This a a vote for "options", not "Do it the way I want always!".

I'd never actually thought about it until I saw your post, but my father worked for NASA for more than half of its existence.

At the beginning of the month, the family went on an Alaskan cruise. Dark night, clear day, away from land. My father and I went up to the highest, darkest spot we could reach on the ship. One star. Maybe a planet. It was not really worth the effort.