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Monday, April 12, 2021
CONTEXT: Robin Hanson—Explaining Stylized UFO Facts: Panspermia Siblings, World Government, Moral Ideology, and Complexity Rot
In my last post I listed stylized facts that a theory of UFOs-as-aliens would need to explain. In this post I take my best shot at constructing a theory to explain them.
— Robin Hanson (@robinhanson) March 30, 2021
It isn't a pretty picture. https://t.co/467ywZ7TVR
Might millions of years of woke ideology, ever-increasing sclerotic regulation, and pervasive incompetence due to lack of competition explain the seemingly irrational behaviour of aliens responsible for the UFO phenomenon? Also see the earlier post, “UFO Stylized Social Facts”.
I continue to think they're dumber still: “Flying Saucers Explained”.
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CONTEXT: Toilet Technology: U.S. vs. Europe
“That's OK…there may be blood.”
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TRACKING WITH CLOSEUPS: SpaceX’s “Wet” Fleet Gives Up on Catching Falling Fairings
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THE HAPPENING WORLD: Asteroid 2021 GW4 Zips Through the Geosynchronous Orbit Belt
2021GW4 will also pass only 2000 km from the GPS III-01 sat and within 6000 km of AMC 18, ARSAT-2 and several of the Sirius XM satellites.
— Jonathan McDowell (@planet4589) April 12, 2021
Here are the orbital elements of the asteroid and a plot of its orbit courtesy of the JPL Small-Body Database.
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CONTINUITY: Sixty Years Ago Today—Yuri Gararin is First to Orbit the Earth
The film First Orbit, released in 2011 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the flight of Vostok 1, re-creates the mission with images from the International Space Station following Gagarin's flight path, with original mission audio and subtitles.
Here is a short film about the making of First Orbit.
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