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Wednesday, December 16, 2020
CONTEXT: Starman Now Tailgating the Earth
A reminder that there's a car in orbit around the Sun. If you pause on today's date you can see we're being tailed. With some solar panels and science instruments it might have made for a convenient space probepic.twitter.com/7qUCyQoXcM
— James O'Donoghue (@physicsJ) December 16, 2020
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21:36
THE HAPPENING WORLD: Chang'e 5 Lands in Inner Mongolia (China)
Chinese recovery crews have arrived at the Chang’e 5 lunar sample return capsule after landing in China’s Inner Mongolia region. https://t.co/ToaS0qB6xC pic.twitter.com/m998YhTGXP
— Spaceflight Now (@SpaceflightNow) December 16, 2020
Chang'e 5 capsule pic.twitter.com/GZqh3QdIOS
— Jonathan McDowell (@planet4589) December 16, 2020
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18:37
CONTINUITY: UCLA's Mechanical Brain
UCLA's Bush Differential Analyzer appeared in two Hollywood movies: When Worlds Collide and Earth vs. the Flying Saucers. It was donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 1977.
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16:33
THE HAPPENING WORLD: Chang'e 5 Re-entry and Landing on the Earth—Live Stream
Stream is scheduled to start at 16:00 UTC on 2020-12-16.
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15:19
TRACKING WITH CLOSEUPS: Bitcoin: IRS “Setting the Trap” for U.S. Taxpayers
IRS is ‘setting the trap’ for bitcoin and virtual currency investors on 2020 tax form https://t.co/xdBRpr1ZzI by @JannaHerron pic.twitter.com/OkzLzrvSJ6
— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) December 16, 2020
No matter what country you live in, your country sees you as a milk cow. If things get tough for them [the political class], they will treat you as a beef cow.
In other news, today (2020-12-16), Bitcoin traded above US$20,000/BTC.
One word: Bitcoin.
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) December 16, 2020
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14:27