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I'm glad for this. It's as if some cosmic loose thread has been tied off.
Real programmers use butterflies
modified 13-Oct-21 10:37am.
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Look out for the Nexus...
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Watch out for the Borg - if they get him, the future is ... different.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I understand he'll be Shatnering the record for oldest person to reach space.
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To old-ly go... 
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Just his usual overacting
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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If that doesn't kill him, nothing will.
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He went up and came down again - safely! Yay!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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He survived!  I was worried about the g forces he would encounter during launch, given his advanced age.
EDIT:
But then again, since they didn't go into orbit, the rocket probably accelerated only to a few hundred miles per hour, so the g forces would not have been that bad.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
modified 13-Oct-21 11:44am.
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Pretty sure I saw 2230mph (3590 km/h) just before the booster shut off.
Also, pretty sure I heard somewhere that the meat bags in the capsule would see about 4g's - but can't find anything online to prove it.
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As Spock would say; "It is logical"
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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I was just sorry he didn't wear one of his Starfleet uniforms for the flight.
Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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I teach high school maths to a child, and yesterday, there was some spare time as it was raining outside, and he could not head back home. So, I opened my old book of math puzzles and gave him some puzzles. One puzzle is quite interesting, and is said to have occupied an acquaintance over a two-and-a-half hour train journey from Mysore to Bangalore, two cities in Southern part of India separated by about 150 km. The puzzle goes like this:
Four Fours
Express any number between 1 and 100 in terms of four 4s, and mathematical symbols, + - x / . .4-dot ! sqrt, etc.
For example,
1 = (4 + 4)/(4 + 4)
4 = 4 / sqrt(4) + 4 / sqrt(4)
12 = (4!/4) + (4!/4)
36 = (4!/4) x (4!/4)
45 = 44 + 4/4
100 = (4/.4) x (4/.4)
Can you attempt to fill in the other numbers from 1 to 100. Some numbers have non-unique solutions.
One challenge here is to find HTML symbols to express the numbers. For example, .444444... is expressed as .4-dot (with the dot on top) - so this fraction 4/9 is expressed as .4-dot, with only one 4 being used. Also, expressing square root needs a unicode symbol in HTML.
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I did this back in 1482 when I was at skewl.
We just got + - x / ! and sqrt.
4!/4 featured heavily, 4/.4 is just cheating
veni bibi saltavi
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imho, there is nothing of educational value in this puzzle.
By the way, i've been on that train (1976); scenery's too nice to miss.
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Did that route in a hired car in 2003. My VP of Engineering (a Sri Lankan Tamil) wanted to visit Chamundi's temple, so we made a day trip of it and also visited the Mysore Palace. Both impressive.
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Kind of unusual to hear a Canadian has done that trip, and that too by road!
I've never done it by road but I've taken the train, just once.
Cheers,
Vikram.
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I also did the round trip by road a few years ago, but in a taxi. I would never drive myself on those roads.
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More of recreational value, something like a mathematical excursion.
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A variant using the four digits, 1 9 7 and 2, in order, was educational to me. Took a few minutes to write a BASIC program to generate and evaluate random Polish notation expressions. The program took days to generate almost all of 1..100 on a time-shared mini-computer. When one of my kids had a similar assignment in school, I wrote the program again in C for modern hardware. Ran instantaneously.
That program taught me that computers can solve problems without human super-skills being needed.
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Amarnath S wrote: any number between 1 and 100
Presumably that means any natural number? If you had to express every real number, or even all the rational numbers, in that range, you'd need a much longer train journey! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yes. I meant natural numbers. Not rational numbers, that set may be countable but is infinite, or irrational numbers; that set is not even countable.
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16=4+4+4+4
88 = 44+44
2=4/4+4/4
4=4+4*0+4*0+4*0
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Last one - cannot use the number 0 in the expression.
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Ok
32=4*4+4*4
36=4!+4+4+4
56=4!+4!+4+4
76=4!+4!+4!+4
96=4!+4!+4!+4!
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