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There's a diagram for how long it takes a 'light-hugger' ship to travel various distances at 1-G acceleration. Shiptime is on the left, earth time is on the right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roundtriptimes.png

http://www.zitterbug.net/future/future815.html

What If Light Was Really Slow? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge_j31Yx_yk -- https://duckduckgo.com/?q=slower+speed+of+light&ia=videos&ia...

A game. "A Roblox alternative with no virtual currency and no ads."

The wording makes it sound like the system would normally only show you links for certain information, but if you fiddled with the numbers in the url it would display stuff regardless of whether you were supposed to see it.

The software industry is such a young field that we can still sit at the feet of the giants whose shoulders we stand on.

Villages in New Guinea, the Amazon, etc, the word you're looking for is 'cultures'.

Cultures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Pottery_culture & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamnaya_culture & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corded_Ware_culture & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people

Civilizations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Great_Zimbabwe & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_Empire & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilisation & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztecs

The reason we're talking about the recipe is because it's one of the oldest recorded recipes, which is because they had writing.

To an archeologist, 'civilization' refers to builders of walled cities inhabited by non-farmers with complex social sructure, division of labor, and usually some form of taxation. Highly moral hunter gatherers living in mud huts are not a 'civilization' in this context. Now you know.

There are stone tools half a million years old. Who do you think made them?

There was one analyst reading Pravda who noticed a lot of people were suddenly being promoted into positions held by members of a certain large clique, with no notice about what was happening to the former appointees.

After one of the nuclear treaties was signed, there was a guy whose photo was published in Pravda, shaking hands with Gorbachev; a different fresh photo of him shaking hands with Gorbachev every day for an entire month. He turned out to be the head of the ministry of strategic deception.

> they should be regulated to spend more profits on infrastructure

That is exactly what people have been lobbying the regulators for, but the regulators keep saying no.

Many dialects of English pronounce 'tr' as 'tr' and not tshr or chr. Likewise 'dr' is 'dr', although there are some that pronounce drink like "jrink".

In northeastern US, missile is anywhere between 'ill', and schwa 'ul', but not 'aisle'. "Hurled a miss-aisle" is sometimes heard in court.

Spelling reform was associated with the Abolitionist movement; they published the Wecli Fonetic Advocat in Sinsinati.

Almost 7200 nautical miles from Macau, China to Conakry, Senegal, west africa, through Suez. 8253 miles.

In passing, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Salopek is walking from Ethiopia to Tierra del Fuego, tracing the path of human migration out of Africa. Walking the coast, not a straight line.

You'd think that subjects who are institutionalized would not have this access problem.

"Did we know the mechanical affections of the particles of rhubarb, hemlock, opium, and a man, as a watchmaker does those of a watch ... we should be able to tell beforehand that rhubarb will purge, hemlock kill, and Opium make a man sleep; as well as a watchmaker can" -- John Locke (1689)

Jonathan Harris gave an interview where he described the suit-wearing stuntman Bob May as "A very strange individual, even by the standards of the 1960s. Whenever I said 'you bubble-headed booby', I wasn't talking to the robot."

151 kelvin at ambient pressure. Argonne Lab FTW. Midway between liquid nitrogen and dry ice.

It was also somewhat popularized by the navigator in the Star Blazers / Yamato series. Anime nerds FTW.

Apparently -tamo is a superlative, and 'gautama' means 'the one who has the most cows'.

There are reconstructed languages loosely based on proto Indo European. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambahsa ## https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantean_language ## https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uropi

Japan and Nepal prohibited immigration for centuries. France used to prohibit entry without a permit. The Sentinel islanders prohibit immigration in the present day. Was it illegal for them to do so?

You can buy rocks engraved with "Nothing Is Written In Stone". https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nothing+is+written+in+stone&ia=ima...

Bill used to be a magazine pinup boy. https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/bill-gates-ceo...

The accelerating Risset Rhythm is like the rising Shepard Tone illusion.

https://www.illusionsindex.org/i/risset-rhythm

https://cantonbecker.com/risset/

Cool. Looks good. But on Android Chrome the 'about' box covers the entire map, and the timeline slider is in the way too.

English: God gave us teeth; God will give us bread.

Lithuanian: Dievas davė dantis; Dievas duos duonos.

Sanskrit: Devas adadat datas; Devas dat dhanas.

An entertaining uplift story modeled after the 1-on-1 interviews part of Childhood's End. It's a hoot. ... About Tycho's Uraniborg observatory: "Your species' best habit began there. We are sentimental about instruments."

There are certainly some people with severe autism whose behavior is emotionally flat and they don't SHOW emotions much. But that's a far cry from not having any emotions. Explain the word 'Stoic' to him.

There's an unrelated cluster of unemotional traits associated with psychopathic disorders, but that's not autism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callous_and_unemotional_traits

The idea of what should happen is irrelevant, because we have not seen this "dense housing" actually materialize in US LVT jurisdictions any time in the past 100 years.

The township of the Fairhope Single-Tax Corporation near Mobile, Alabama was originally conceived as an artist's colony but is now occupied by families with a median income of $95K. Density is almost exactly 1 housing unit per residential acre. The feds have built 140 Section 8 subsidized units, but there do not seem to be any privately built high density tall apartment buildings of the type you want to see.

Can you point to an LVT place in the US where developers have chosen to build large numbers of actual NON-LUXURY high rise apartment buildings for the benefit of non-rich people? That would be a big newsworthy success story if it actually happened.

There are developers that make their money building high rise apartment blocks. Are any of them lobbying for an LVT so they can build more low cost housing?

An LVT results in new McMansions getting built on quarter acre lots and being taxed at the same rate as SFHs and trailers on quarter acre lots. It's the perfect way to allow rich people to buy out poor people and pay the same tax as poor people. Welcome to unintended consequences. Institute an LVT if you want, but don't expect low cost housing to spring up.