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hgaterms t1_jcqy79q wrote
Yes, but then when you get to your destination you discover that your 2 crewmates are dead and you have no memory of how you got there.
hgaterms t1_j7n4t6m wrote
Reply to I saw this dragonfly larva walking around so I set up my phone for a timelapse video by ikeosaurus
Larva? Isn't that a nymph?
hgaterms t1_j641jwp wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in NASA's Annual Day of Remembrance today, Jan. 26, honors the astronauts who died during the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. by clayt6
You mean the book "The Apollo Murders"? Where the crew of Apollo 18 have to land on the moon and stop the Russians from getting a rock.
hgaterms t1_j641d1x wrote
Reply to comment by alancake in NASA's Annual Day of Remembrance today, Jan. 26, honors the astronauts who died during the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. by clayt6
Gus got a raw deal. His Mercury capsule sank and everyone blamed him for the failure. Then he gets the Apollo 1 seat and burns to death in a fire.
hgaterms t1_j640j4p wrote
Reply to Obsidian handaxe-making workshop from 1.2 million years ago discovered in Ethiopia by rmaccr
> Dating of the material around the axes showed them to be from approximately 1.2 million years ago.
But that just means the dirt is 1.2 million years old. These axes could have been tossed into a hole that had 1.2 million year old dirt in it, and the axes themselves could have been made only 20,000 years ago.
hgaterms t1_j35514t wrote
Saudi Arabia is a shithole.
hgaterms t1_j2e2onp wrote
Reply to Friendly reminder bookshop.org exists. by smita16
How have I not heard of this before? I'm usually using thriftbooks.com or the used section of Amazon.
hgaterms t1_j2bjia9 wrote
Reply to comment by dustyceilingfan in What's the best audiobook you've listened to? by TheAres1999
Project Hail Mary is amazing. I've listened to it twice now.
hgaterms t1_j2bjcje wrote
Reply to comment by satanicluju in What's the best audiobook you've listened to? by TheAres1999
Came here to say Project Hail Mary.
And it's worth every minute of listening. It also won Audiobook of the Year
hgaterms t1_j2bj3t2 wrote
Reply to comment by SNAiLtrademark in What's the best audiobook you've listened to? by TheAres1999
I had to scour my local libraries to find the CD version that was RC Bray.
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Reply to comment by Nearby_You in What's the best audiobook you've listened to? by TheAres1999
Project Hail Mary straight up won "Audiobook of the Year." It's that good. Ray Porter is the GOAT of narration.
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Reply to comment by SweetCosmicPope in What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble's Surprising Turnaround? by koavf
I was just at the B&N store in my city, and the staff picks were all stuff that I already loved. It was nice to see that we were on the same page.
(The "staff pick" for Project Hail Mary had me giggling what they had written. I'm paraphrasing, but it was "best book I've read in a while and I would literally die for the co-protagonist." )
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Reply to comment by Steve_78_OH in Audiobook performers have set the bar too high. by Thatoneguy0311
That's award winning freaking wizard, to you mister! haha
hgaterms t1_j250iaa wrote
Reply to comment by open_door_policy in Audiobook performers have set the bar too high. by Thatoneguy0311
Ray Porter narrating Project Hail Mary is god tier.
Seriously. The book won Audiobook of the Year. It's that good!
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Reply to comment by AryaNunya in NASA mulls SpaceX backup plan for crew of Russia’s leaky Soyuz ship by jivatman
I would ask for asylum from Earth and just stay up there.
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Reply to comment by AWildDragon in NASA mulls SpaceX backup plan for crew of Russia’s leaky Soyuz ship by jivatman
"What's that? I didn't make that out. The plasma fire build up is about to make us LOS. Catch you back at the ground after we land, Russia."
hgaterms t1_j21low8 wrote
Reply to comment by i81u812 in NASA mulls SpaceX backup plan for crew of Russia’s leaky Soyuz ship by jivatman
We already had the movie in 1991 when when the Soviet Union dissolved and ended up stranding a cosmonaut on MIR.
hgaterms t1_j1ne6tj wrote
Reply to "It's a simple thing," says the 15-year-old who discovered asteroid GX13 | This finding was made after having participated in the March-April 2022 asteroid search campaign | Bolivia. by Balcacer
Wasn't this the start of Deep Impact? A teenager discovered an asteroid, and then it tried to kill us all.
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Reply to comment by longdustyroad in What are some techniques used in books that you just love for some weird reason by shorttompkins
I also love chapters that end on a cliff hanger.
hgaterms t1_j1fmnok wrote
Reply to comment by PatheticMutant in What are some techniques used in books that you just love for some weird reason by shorttompkins
As much as it pains me to say it, I agree with you.
The book is STRAIGHT TRASH, and not my jam. But if someone read it and they love it, damn who am I to shit on them for enjoying it?
I mean, I will shit on them, but not to their face. I believe in letting people enjoy their life. I'll be over here laughing, but also enjoying my own stupid shit too.
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Reply to comment by AmateurEverything04 in What are some techniques used in books that you just love for some weird reason by shorttompkins
Same with "The Martian." The amount of scientific accuracy research that went into that book is astounding.
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Reply to comment by PristineBookkeeper40 in Have books gotten more expensive? by syncomatic_columbia
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Reply to comment by Enlightened-Beaver in [OC] The Average Cost of Attending College in Each US State by malxredleader
That's the neat part, they don't.
hgaterms t1_j09e4i3 wrote
> is this just coincidence or is there something about how Porter narrates
I think it's coincidence. I'm currently listening to "The Apollo Murders" and Ray Porter narrates that too, but the protagonist (at least for the first half) isn't anything like Ryland or Bob. but the voice is making me think it is.
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Reply to comment by Triabolical_ in Hibernation, a closely studied option for extended space travel by LeMonde_en
You gotta have that coma resistant gene, yo