benjam47

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by benjam47 2y ago
You would think so, but I have not found a single person who wants to take me up on that.
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by benjam47 2y ago
I find this to be very familiar. I worked endlessly to be able to have no responsibility and endless freedom. My partner passed away several years ago now, and I still haven't filled that void. I'm not unhappy by any means, but mo
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by benjam47 2y ago
I was an early user of Starlink, starting with the original terminal (today I have the 3rd generation high performance terminal). Being in a very rural area in MT where there was never congestion in my cell and I have a very open view of th
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by benjam47 2y ago
Thank you for the correction, but are you sure that is accurate? I was definitely under the impression that although their position was normally updated by the ground (to the AGC, via their uplink capability), and the sextant was normally u
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by benjam47 2y ago
Today it is the same thing (part of an 811 call). In the distant past, it was a separate call. Around 2000 land owners are affected, and anecdoctally it seems to add a few days to a 811 response (~a week instead of 2-3 days).
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by benjam47 2y ago
Good question. They definitely do have launch control centers. All available information online does seem to indicate that is the case that the silos themselves are unmanned. My understanding is that there was some security on site, but tha
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by benjam47 2y ago
It is how Apollo navigated, although both the ground (via ground tracking) as well as the crew (via locating stars through a extant, and the Apollo computer having a database of the position of several dozen bright stars) could update their
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by benjam47 2y ago
I live several miles from a Minuteman silo in Montana, maintained by Malmstrom Air Force Base. The underground cabling between sites is also an interesting read ( https://minutemanmissile.com/hics.html ). Anytime I want to di
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by benjam47 2y ago
I don't consider it esoteric, but YMMV.
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by benjam47 6y ago
Ratio can't be negative, but ROI can. Positive ROI is the percentage of the ratio being 1 or higher. Negative ROI is the percentage of the ratio being less than 1. Or, from a "common sense" perspective, if I spent $1000 on ad